I have the 40th ann edition and it always comes up with the resume screen, and goes back to exactly where I last watched.
I sample scenes more than I actually watch the film full through anymore, so I've put it in quite often and gotten this correct resumption every time.
I like the way plastic saint Luke is too good to get his hands dirty with anything too morally dubious, and hews to the horsepuck Jedi philosophy Yoda pontificates.
Good thing for him the most evil character in the first two films suddenly does a completely unmerited and unfounded 180 to save...
But the dark side of the force, which the powerful adversary next to him, who has been tapping into, and mastering it, for as long as luke has been alive, isn't powerful enough to cloud this nascent Jedi's thoughts and feelings?
For someone who was "not a Jedi" when he left Dagobah the first...
I have no doubt 9 year olds (and 7, 8, and 6 years olds) Loved the film and found it fully satisfying.
I was 16 and walked out of the first showing, first day extremely dispirited. By the end of the summer I loathed the film.
Screw the ewoks, my beef was that it dismissed or negated nearly every...
The UHD is Region Free. Only the Bd , which I have, is region locked.
And it's not that Rubinstein won't license it out in the US. It's that no company wants to pay the fee he is demanding.
This isn't 2004 and the SS releases have likely sapped some of the potential sales for it in the US...
SAG strike affected more than just film/TV production. Actors couldn't even approve their likenesses for toys- or in this case, new cover art. Hence the annoying splotches (I guess rationalized as a reference to the food fight scene).
This was held up for decades by pricey music licensing...
Looking For Mr. Goodbar *
Little Darlings*
Horrible Dr. Hitchcock
Phase IV
Paint Your Wagon
Conan The Barbarian/Destroyer
Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe
*strongly rumored, with pre-order beginning possibly this week
While I wouldn't exactly say I "love" it, I do consistently enjoy it quite a bit. I guess there are aspects of it I do actually love (the score, when preformed well, feels more muscular and vibrant to me for this than for the original, which I otherwise still like a lot).
I also had a similar...
Some of Tooze' own caps show more detail discernible on the Network (the striations visible on the bottom lip of the driver in the second set of caps are completely blurred out on the Criterion), so I find it curious he would say they probably exhibit the same amount of detail in motion if not...
Was planning to pick this up, so I'm glad to hear it's one of the "good" ones (master-wise) that Paramount handed off.
I've only seen it (in full) once or twice, but my impression was that it was a prime example of something being less than the sum of it's parts. Some of those parts are...
Just wanted to say I hope Brad is doing all right. I see he hasn't posted in almost two years.
We shared a lot of common interest in the B moves of a certain era. A short time span which doesn't get near the affection and attention that the era starting just a few years later does.
Seems like...
Always thought the Lester ID reveal (amongst many other bits) was contrived as all hell.
OMG! You're hand isn't burned from the split second it was in the flame?
Of course, neither was your sweater singed, and the hair brush wasn't a lump of melted plastic that you had to peel off your...
Yeah. The very first solicit they had for the set listed a mix of Bds and a DVD, so I assumed GGM wasn't getting a 1080p disc..
Then right up before release, the DVD seemed to be gone and it was all Bds. Not that they still couldn't put GGM in standard def on one- which is why I asked.
Thanks...
How would this Technicolor pop manifest itself? More saturation to the colors? A shift in their hues?
I guess ignorance is truly bliss, because in not knowing what I'm missing, I can simply enjoy what IS there.
And from the various screencaps I've seen of this, it sure looks like the wonderful...
Is that because, in those prints we saw in the theater, fine details in the image were being modulated from transmission through the glass lens of the projector, through the lens of the projection booth, across a great distance, before being splashed onto a screen?
Like some others here I...
Thanks for the review, Cap.
I saw it at the theater when it was released, and was taken enough with it to pick up the laserdisc when that came out.
In fact, it was one of the last LD purchases I ever made.
I never thought of it as noir-adjacent, let alone neo-noir, but I guess I can understand...
I went back and read the press release just now.
I didn't realize the '72 cut and Pioneer LD cuts were being put on a BD.
Those, moreso than the UHD aspect, was where my interest in this was.
Looks like it's a safe purchase after all- with the caveat that the LD version is unfortunately only SD.
Kino's slipcases are limited (up to 10,000 depending on the title, but most are printed around 5K, IIRC).
Since they just had a long sale where this was available at a good discount, they absolutely blew through all the slips.
They actually change the graphic on the product page when that...
I guess because of Paramounts "issues" over the years, I was startled, and very happy, when Shout unexpectedly announced Prophecy for the last quarter of 2019- along with another huge out-of-nowhere surprise, the '79 Dracula featuring the original theatrical color grading.
In keeping with the...
OK, which nerd is going to correct him?
In any case, thanks for the head's up on the PQ/AQ for this. Was a bit disappointed in the Doyle score (after the job he did with Murder...) but I'm open to the film as a whole.
Glenn Erickson (aka Cine Savant), who is self-admittedly not the go to expert for evaluating PQ of these things, still makes some interesting points in his rave over the PQ of this.
If the qualities of lighting are more accurate on the new Kino, and impart a better sense of time, that's kind...
However it was achieved, and whoever worked on it, the end result was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I also haven't heard of any strident pixel peepers chiming in on any issues with it ala Silence Of the Lambs, Halloween, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (:rolleyes:)...
Watching it again was just pure bliss.
SF's compression/encoding will be ? until the disc is actually in people's hands.
What is known at this point, is what a tremendous job Studio-Canal did with the "restoration" of this.
The Region B UHD was released a few weeks back and has gotten nothing but rave reviews.
I was OK with the...
I haven't been able to spot check the whole set yet, just the first several films.
Red Sorghum has issues. There are scattered shots that display wall to wall artifacts, bookending others that look quite nice- though I suspect the whole disc has been graded at odds with how it looked...
It much more like an hour long Mike Hammer. Only this time in color, with monsters, and a hairpiece for McGavin.
A smattering of location footage establishing shots mixed with a lot of Universal backlot and soundstage shooting.
McGavin's similar sardonic voice overs.
Parallel structure to a...
Pre-ordered it a couple weeks after it was announced.
I wasn't paying attention, thinking it was Severin's stab at some schlocky, US regional horror ala the Arrow American Horror sets.
When I got curious enough to red a thread about it, and saw what they were going after and the scope of the...