The MGM "please re-issue these DVDs" thread. Post your lists! (1 Viewer)

[Ook]

I'd like to see an unrated US release of Swamp Thing with all the excised scenes.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

We are in dire need of a new release for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

The dated letterboxed MGM disc is a waste of shelf space.

 

[Ric Easton]

Honeymoon in Vegas in widescreen please!

 

[David (C)]

Tank Girl (1995) Please allow Rachel Talalay her director's cut.

 

[Eric Ten]

PATHS OF GLORY
RED RIVER
THE KILLING

 

[Jefferson]

1973 TOM SAWYER musical....widescreen this time, not pan and scan...and, naturally, anamorphic.

 

[James David Walley]

A decent reissue/SE of Heaven's Gate, preferably with Cimino commentary. (He was so vilified by certain critics and UA executives over this film, it would be interesting to hear his side of the story for once.)

A version of King of Hearts that doesn't look noticeably worse than the LD!

 

[Peter in HK]

"Showgirls" with Paul Verhoeven's commentary. :p

(He actually did commentary for its Dutch DVD)

 

[Brian Borst]

I don't think he did, actually.

My vote go to decent Special Editions of the early Kubrick films, Killer's Kiss, The Killing and Paths of Glory.
New HD transfers of Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi wouldn't be bad either (Naqoyqatsi is from a different distributor, so no trilogy box set, I'm afraid).

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

MGM,

At the very least could you please REPACKAGE "After The Fox" and "The World Of Henry Orient" ...

The 2002 releases are an eyesore and I can't bring myself to pick them off the shelf.

 

[ahollis]

There might be a small glimmer of light at the end of the long dark tunnel on re-releases and new releases from MGM. There was an article recently in the New York Times discussing the problems facing MGM and how it is trying to position itself into a producing and distributing company and not just a distributing company as it has been for the last four or five years.

The article stated that MGM will receive the last of the guaranteed payments from Fox from DVD sales this year and from now until the end of the distribution agreement, in another few years, MGM will receive only monies from the actual sales. It went on to say that Fox has lost about 15 million a year so far with the guaranteed payments. It would now be in MGM’s best interest to increase the number of their releases and dig deeper in the vault to push sales. I hate to say this, but MGM could have been holding back since they were guaranteed a certain amount. They need the money from DVD sales to fund not only their slate of 10 new films, but to help launch their new movie cable company with Paramount and Lionsgate.

 

[George Reis]

I hope you're right, as there's no Midnite Movies coming this year, and the rest of the year also seems pretty dead in terms of MGM library titles on DVD.

 

[AlanBrom]

It's ironic that this thread is titled "MGM The MGM "please re-issue these DVDs" since it doesn't seem like MGM is issuing anything as of late, especially titles never before on DVD. If they have titles coming out, I'd like to see a list. It seems like a plea to MGM is now a lost cause!? Prove me wrong MGM, I'd like to see a long list of upcoming Midnite movies or more westerns.

 

[Rick Thompson]

1. The Big Country. The current release is marred by, among other things, the "color correcting" of the copper wash over the opening credits into black-and-white. You see traces of it in the dissolves. Whoever did the transfer never checked against the original. By the way, the VHS version has the correct color.

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2. Goodbye Mr. Chips, the Peter O'Toole-Petula Clark musical version. The VHS was pan-and-scan, and there's never been a DVD. Oddly enough, there was a laser disk, letterboxed.

 

[Peter Neski]

last Tango in paris
King of Hearts
Heavens Gate
a MAD MAD(ect)World

 

[James 'Tiger' Lee]

Lifeforce (anamorphic)
Moby Dick (anamorphic widescreen)
She (1965) (MGM has r1 rights i think)

 

[Simon Caleb]

There I was searching for the best version of Tobe Hooper's 'Lifeforce' and what do I find? ugh non-anamorphic.

So, yes please MGM, 'Lifeforce' remastered, with the extended and theatrical cuts, and all the deleted zombie attack footage included in the preview print, missing from both released dvd versions.
And an extra or two would be nice...