Movies that Deserve Blu-ray Treatment - Page 4

 Every movie deserves "Blu-ray treatment".

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Originally Posted by Xylon 

 Every movie deserves "Blu-ray treatment".

 

Yeah. If you rephrase it another way, you can see how absurd the question sounds to some of us-

which films deserve a low fidelity audio/video presentation?

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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce 

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Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino 



I've never understood this mindset.  Anything sourced from film can be improved by the higher video resolution of Blu-Ray.  If you don't think so, check out the A&E Blu-Ray release of Pride & Prejudice, which is stunning.  The Burns stuff needs to be remastered anyway.  The DVD set of The Civil War is very bad, with judder and other movement in the images, not to mention visible dirt and sound distortions owing to poor mastering.  It is actually painful to watch. 

I have written to PBS asking if there are any plans to revisit the Burns films and others of their documentaries.  I certainly hope so, because from what I've seen 16mm can yield astonishing results when properly transferred to Blu-Ray. 

Regards,

Joe

Pride & Prejudice was photographed in Super16 which has quite a bit more image area, and there for more resolving power.

Burn's documentaries mostly shot in standard 16mm which in reality has maybe slightly more resolving power than NTSC. I'm not saying that the image would not improve on blu-ray, but the improvement would very small. Just doing a new transfer of The Civil War might provide a huge improvement in the quality of that particular film.

Doug
 

This is being debated in another thread, but I remembered this: no matter what it was shot in, Burns documentary is BUILT for Blueray.   I think people forget the old days of laserdiscs and CAV... but how Burns filmed it doesn't matter as much for the huge amount of scanned reference material he has presented repeatedly on the web, at museums.. if someone undertook this project correctly, the ability to have branching menus with scans of the documents, full text material, etc..

This to me is what the extra space of Blueray could be built for.. just like I imagine a Bluray of his "Baseball" series that would allow "pop ups" showing player stats, references to books written by those interviewed, etc...

The ability to take these deep documentaries and convert them into bluray could result in stunning material that would be fantastic sellers, if not just for the home buyer, definitely for schools and educational organizations.   A complete reference of his materials with the documentaries?  Sign me up.

Almost Famous would be on my list as well.. wasn't this released on Bluray in another region?

Wim Wender's "Until the End of the World"  Epic edition - as presented internationally (5hr) is a fantastic work, and I'd leap at it.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

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Originally Posted by mattCR 

Almost Famous would be on my list as well.. wasn't this released on Bluray in another region?

 

Wim Wender's "Until the End of the World"  Epic edition - as presented internationally (5hr) is a fantastic work, and I'd leap at it.

 

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Matt, 

Almost Famous gets a domestic US release via Best Buy exclusive on January 30.   Mask of the Phantasm would be great though!  
 

Big Lebowski and I don't care if it's a port over from the HD DVD.

1980s

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Tron

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

The Wraith

1990s

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Dick Tracy

The Rocketeer

Class of 1999

2000s

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Boiler Room

Equilibrium

Running Scared (2006)

Next Friday

Friday After Next

I love Disney films. While Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs received the Blu Ray treatment, here are a list of Disney classic films that I think deserve Blu Ray treatment:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Swiss Family Robinson
Mary Poppins
Pete's Dragon
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
Aladdin
Old Yeller
The Parent Trap
The Black Hole
The Love Bug

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Originally Posted by OscarSegui 

I love Disney films. While Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs received the Blu Ray treatment, here are a list of Disney classic films that I think deserve Blu Ray treatment:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Swiss Family Robinson
Mary Poppins
Pete's Dragon
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
Aladdin
Old Yeller
The Parent Trap
The Black Hole
The Love Bug

That's a good list. Beauty and the Beast is already out and Lion King is coming this year, but I imagine all or most of these will come eventually. I'd also like to see from Disney (but I'm not holding my breath):

Song of the South (yeah, I checked the temperature in Hell today, and it's still nice and hot)

So Dear to My Heart

Treasure Island

The Shaggy Dog

Pollyanna

The Absent-Minded Professor

Son of Flubber

The Three Lives of Thomasina

The Happiest Millionaire

The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Escape to Witch Mountain

Freaky Friday (1976)

Midnight Madness (a guilty pleasure and a huge long shot, the DVD was from a source that was apparently good enough for Canadian cable TV in the 1990s and even had a TV logo!)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Never Cry Wolf

Return to Oz

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Honey I Shrunk the Kids

The Muppet Christmas Carol (uncut AND OAR, not either/or like the DVDs)

I also would love to see the three Jim Henson-era Muppet movies, of which Disney owns 2.

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Originally Posted by MatthewA 

That's a good list. Beauty and the Beast is already out and Lion King is coming this year, but I imagine all or most of these will come eventually. I'd also like to see from Disney (but I'm not holding my breath):

 

Song of the South (yeah, I checked the temperature in Hell today, and it's still nice and hot)

So Dear to My Heart

Treasure Island

The Shaggy Dog

Pollyanna

The Absent-Minded Professor

Son of Flubber

The Three Lives of Thomasina

The Happiest Millionaire

The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Escape to Witch Mountain

Freaky Friday (1976)

Midnight Madness (a guilty pleasure and a huge long shot, the DVD was from a source that was apparently good enough for Canadian cable TV in the 1990s and even had a TV logo!)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Never Cry Wolf

Return to Oz

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Honey I Shrunk the Kids

The Muppet Christmas Carol (uncut AND OAR, not either/or like the DVDs)

 

I also would love to see the three Jim Henson-era Muppet movies, of which Disney owns 2.

Re: Song of the South, Dave Bossert, recently said that they were going to do something about releasing it, and that they want to do it the right away. Yeah, I know that one would rather believe it when they see it, but it seems that this time, they wanna do it, especially considering that Michael Eisner, the man who held the most grudge against releasing it (stop me if I'm wrong on this one) is gone.

I wish I had a laserdisc player (I don't), so that I can purchase the Japanese laserdisc. Unremovable Japanese subtitles aside, it seems to be the definitive home video version. It also plays the movie in its proper speed, and I heard that you can't stand PAL speed-up. Neither can I.

Indiana Jones trilogy. We were told 2009, then 2010, now Star Wars is announced and no word on Indy.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan_Clarke 

Indiana Jones trilogy. We were told 2009, then 2010, now Star Wars is announced and no word on Indy.

Crazy isn't it - I don't know what's up with Lucasfilm these days. Why so slow in releasing catalogue titles which they KNOW will see extremely well? I'd buy these in a heartbeat even if it was just a straight HD transfer of the original 3 films with no extras! Just seems daft that Crystal Skull is available (it's like releasing Revenge of the Sith and then leaving the other two!!!), and the other 3 aren't! People are already selling bootlegs on Ebay which - I imagine - must be sourced from HD recordings from broadcast (?) so it would clamp down on all those as well.

Come on Lucasfilm!!!

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Originally Posted by Jonathan_Clarke 

Indiana Jones trilogy. We were told 2009, then 2010, now Star Wars is announced and no word on Indy.

I never saw Lucasfilm say that Indiana Jones was coming. It's not LFL's fault that losers make up lies about movies coming to Blu-ray. The current lie on Wikipedia says that it's coming in June 2011. No doubt that's wrong because you would have heard of it by now and because they're only going to release it in the fall to cash-in on the holidays.

As for how fast they're releasing their movies on Blu-ray, it took 6 years into DVD's life for Indy to come out and 7 years for the Star Wars trilogy so they're moving faster than they did with DVD.