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  1. Patrick H.

    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

    The previous film felt like more like an awkward reunion special than a further adventure of Indiana Jones. The Young Indy TV show from the 90s honestly contributed more to the character than anything in that movie. I'm sure Spielberg wishes to avoid a redux of that scenario, and if he and a...
  2. Patrick H.

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Discussion Thread (SPOILERS!)

    This is really, really interesting. Trevorrow is not a writer I have a ton of faith in after his last insanely terrible 'Jurassic' script, but I'll give him this...it looks like he was legitimately building off the threads of the previous movie rather than trying to walk them all back as Abrams...
  3. Patrick H.

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Discussion Thread (SPOILERS!)

    Oof...this was a tough one. I actually thought the underlying story/payoffs were fairly solid (if predictable, but that's kinda a given based on Abrams' previous work). But the writing here was flat-out terrible and the filmmaking itself abandoned all pretense of fitting in with this...
  4. Patrick H.

    Doctor Sleep (2020)

    I made a point to get out to see this over the weekend before it disappears from theaters and am SO glad I did. Even not having read the book, I instantly recognized a classic, sprawling King storyline where the horrors are both visceral and fantastical, and while the characters are all messy...
  5. Patrick H.

    X-Men: Dark Phoenix (June 7, 2019)

    Out of morbid curiosity I saw this last night in 3D and, in spite of the strong outer-space opening, was dumbfounded just how much it (literally) went off the rails. For something with lofty ambitions that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, it felt cheap and painfully obligatory. It had no...
  6. Patrick H.

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Non-Spoilers!

    Word from the industry folk over at Film Score Monthly is that Williams came down with a typical plane illness after he arrived in London to kick off that series of European concerts, and he'll be fine. Once he's recovered he'll just head home to L.A. He's been in great spirits at U.S...
  7. Patrick H.

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Terror (AMC) -- in Blu-ray

    I absolutely loved this show, but had a question regarding the final episode. I'm currently listening via stereo downmix (my surround system has been in storage since a recent move), and on the last installment the dialogue is barely audible and even the title music is completely missing its...
  8. Patrick H.

    West Side Story – Spielberg remake

    Indeed, little-remembered fact was that post on Jurassic Park was completely overseen by George Lucas at Skywalker while Spielberg was shooting Schindler's List in Europe. Hence Lucas being at the top of the "special thanks" list in the credits.
  9. Patrick H.

    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    I concur that Johnson is the most logical selection at this point...if he agrees he can just roll right into pre-production on the next one. I've been reading Guillermo del Toro's name a lot as well, which I could actually see. He's had tons of experience in films like this, is a skilled...
  10. Patrick H.

    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    Dammit, I should've put money on Trevorrow being fired! After the repeated directorial debacles on the standalone films, I just had a gut feeling after his latest indie tanked. My gut feeling now is they will try to retain Johnson (whose film must be pretty damn solid if it's survived this...
  11. Patrick H.

    Twin Peaks returns in 2016 on Showtime

    I'd avoided Fire Walk with Me for years because every friend who'd loved the show had told me to stay well away. I finally watched it in the run-up to the new series, and was absolutely floored. As someone who was more drawn to the Lynchian horror elements of the show than most of the quirkier...
  12. Patrick H.

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Pink Panther Collection -- in Blu-ray

    I was hoping the vertical stretch on the original 'Panther' would've been corrected for this release, but alas it seems not. This was one of many otherwise nice fresh transfers that MGM did of their vintage UA titles in the late 2000s were they could not for the life of them get the geometry...
  13. Patrick H.

    Kong: Skull Island (2017)

    Forgive me if this has been covered before, but aren't the skull crawler critters basically a riff on the two-legged snake-lizard thing that appeared (briefly) in the original Kong? I think it was the only creature from the infamous spider-pit sequence to remain in the film.
  14. Patrick H.

    Blu-ray Review A Monster Calls Blu-ray Review

    As someone currently experiencing (albeit as an adult) a situation not dissimilar to the young protagonist in this film, I found its tale almost overpowering in its emotion and honesty. I'm not afraid to admit that the ultimate revelation of the monster's nature and purpose moved me to tears...
  15. Patrick H.

    USHE Announcement: King Kong Ultimate Edition (2005) (Blu-ray)

    I don't remember exactly where, but in one of the Naomi Watts-runs-through-the-jungle sequences in the middle act there is an edit in the theatrical cut where the audio jumps abruptly. It's because a sequence from the extended cut was dropped out there, but they didn't branch it in a way that...
  16. Patrick H.

    USHE Announcement: King Kong Ultimate Edition (2005) (Blu-ray)

    It's a bummer they didn't re-author the film disc itself...there is a branching error in the theatrical cut that will now likely never get addressed.
  17. Patrick H.

    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

    Williams has been making comments in interviews and at concerts about slowing down his work for the past several years, yet he still seems more-than-game to tackle his legacy collaborations with Spielberg and Star Wars. Bridge of Spies was slotted to be done during a break in The Force Awakens...
  18. Patrick H.

    Criterion Press Release: Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

    Awesome news...knew Criterion would get this sorted. Now they just need to license The Big Country from MGM and fix the stretch on that transfer.
  19. Patrick H.

    Jurassic World (2015)

    I'm of two minds on this one: a) They obviously poured a ton of effort and heart into it to finally make a worthy sequel to the original film, and they largely succeeded. It's easily the second-best of the franchise, and recaptures a lot of the fun and magic of the first one. Many moments of...
  20. Patrick H.

    Blu-ray Review Escape From New York Blu-ray Review

    I think, as with 'Halloween', hardcore Carpenter fans are going to want both discs. Very different transfers each with pluses and minuses. Shout definitely gets the nod for the level of TLC that went into the extras, though.
  21. Patrick H.

    X-Men film FILING QUESTION

    I gotta say that finally seeing Days of Future Past actually all made this a little easier. If you're filing them chronologically via what happens in the main plot of the films, it goes like this: X-Men: First Class X-Men Origins: Wolverine (if you must - otherwise easily ignored) X-Men X2...
  22. Patrick H.

    Bullitt S.E. ?

    ^ Universal's QC is notoriously deficient. Video processing discussions aside, there are well-documented problems with improper edits, missing soundtrack cues/effects, and gereral curatorial sloppiness on a dozen major catalog titles I can think of off the top of my head. And a lot of these...
  23. Patrick H.

    TCM/Sony: The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray/DVD combo)

    I just got this in the mail this very minute after finally breaking down and ordering it last week along with some other titles to get free shipping during the TCM Memorial Day sale. It's the old DVD-case version. :angry: So, yeah, I'm watching this thread with extreme interest. I thought the...
  24. Patrick H.

    Godzilla (2014) Reviews/Discussion

    ^ This is actually a really good point I've yet to see anyone make about this one...I feel like older kids will LOVE this movie. Hell, I felt like an 8-year-old watching Godzilla climb up out of the water, charge up and breath fire, make eye contact with people on the ground, and give his...
  25. Patrick H.

    Bernard Hermann's "Torn Curtain" score

    While some of those Bond scores mentioned were definitely "off" the typical John Barry sound, in most cases they made their particular entries stand out a little from the norm (the merits of which can be debated). 'Never Say Never Again', though, IS really ridculously bad. Legrand was a...
  26. Patrick H.

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Raise the Titanic -- in Blu-ray

    I watched this last night for the first time ever (I'd been holding out for years for a quality presentation), and I gotta say, I really enjoyed it. I gather the novel is a far more colorful action/adventure, but I rather appreciated the more restrained "realistic" approach the film took. The...
  27. Patrick H.

    THE TERMINAL and AMISTAD May 6 2014.

    I suppose my fear is that the extended version was one of those things that was only assembled for Laserdisc 15 years ago, so they'd have to go back and redo all it from scratch for HD, and somebody will decide it's not worth the bother. Being a Spielberg production, though, I would be a bit...
  28. Patrick H.

    THE TERMINAL and AMISTAD May 6 2014.

    Dear lord, yes, I hope they've corrected the situation with the captions...that was aesthetically heinous. And I also hope any and all remaining Spielberg films make it to Blu-ray in short order. I agree that Munich and 1941 are likely candidates, but the latter had better be the extended cut...
  29. Patrick H.

    Rumor: Remastered Rocky and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on the way

    Just a heads-up: the Capitol TGTBTG release is NOT identical to the import. For the US version, they simply merged the tracks from the expanded release with those from their old album. The Italian one remastered all of it from scratch, sounds better, and the finale cue is a full minute longer...
  30. Patrick H.

    TCM/Sony: The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray/DVD combo)

    Outdated encode, lossy audio, sloppy packaging...but to me the real nail in the coffin is that they advertised a new commentary from Eddie Muller on this. But apparently it's the same Peter Bogdanovitch one from the DVD...and they didn't bother carrying over his video supplments. Ugh. I have...
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