I love this as a Charles Laughton character piece, and it's worth having just for his amazingly sly performance, but I can't say the plot holds up. I've shown it to someone who'd never seen it before, and they immediately saw through a key plot element that's supposed to be a surprise. Not much...
I keep slipcovers, and put J-cards and stickers and suchlike away for storage, but I give all the digital-copy slips to my local charity bookstore. Hopefully someone will appreciate those; I don't find them appealing, so am happy to give them away.
I usually watch the series straight through once, then keep it for reference (so I can go back and rewatch a specific episode or a specific scene when the mood takes me).
I enjoy the Fiennes/Watson/Hoffman parts of the film, and think they're worthy to stand alongside their equivalents from Manhunter. But I agree that Norton is miscast, and for me, Hopkins' performance finally goes over the ham line which he'd tiptoed right up to in Silence of the Lambs and...
As much as I've enjoyed his Falstaff and other roles, to me, he'll always be Fitz from Cracker first and foremost. That series is both amazing and incredibly tough going, and Coltrane's bigger-and-more-irritating-than-life central performance anchors it. RIP, Mr Coltrane!
I ordered Le Corbeau, Babette's Feast, and Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman on Blu-ray, and then got a $50 coupon, so went back to the storefront and ordered I Married a Witch, Kameradschaft, and Police Story/Police Story 2. A goodly and varied haul!
I'd love a 4K UHD release of La Cité des Enfants Perdus, a long-time favourite of mine, but I'm not interested in the opportunity to pay for the 10 other films into the bargain. I'll live with my Blu-ray edition until/unless Sony releases a standalone 4K UHD version.
As ever, I'm torn. I have a real love/hate relationship with this film. And the things I can't abide in it include Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and the entire revisionist long-lost-dead-love plot. Which is a pretty significant list of objections, honestly, so the film is always...
I still prefer the theatrical cut (as is often the case when Mann recuts his films). Just as with The Last of the Mohicans, I'd buy a Blade Runner-style 4K UHD set with both cuts, but not this one that includes only the revisionist cut.
I'm excited, but given that it's Kino Lorber I will wait for reviews rather than pre-ordering. Fingers crossed for this being one of their good releases.
The third film (which I still think of as Slightly Cheesed-Off Max Beyond Thunderdome thanks to Barry Norman) is my least favourite of the four, too, but de gustibus non est disputandem; I wouldn't begrudge anyone else their liking of it.
Lawrence of Arabia, plus the works of Kubrick, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Wilder, and Fincher that aren't already available on 4K UHD. (And no, I'm not holding my breath…)
I think Song is the weakest of the Thin Man films, but I'll still pick it up just to have that much more time spent with Nick and Nora. Glad WAC made it all the way through the series!
Since there's no mention of remastering or improvement, I will probably wait for this to come out and drive down prices for the existing Blu-ray set with the first two films. At least that way I'll only get one unwanted film.
I would happily buy a single-film release of Crocodile Dundee that...
Hunh. I passed on the first box because it had two films that didn't interest me (Gandhi, A League of Their Own) and one (Jerry Maguire) that I have no interest in ever seeing again. This one has five films that I love and one (Oliver!) that I've never seen but don't object to picking up. I...