If you're really patient, just wait until it reaches $19.95 or even less. I'm amazed at some of the Blu-ray deals that Amazon has had recently. Some as much as 80% off retail!
I'm 58. But I can recall the theater, the time of day (it was a Saturday matinee) and even where I was sitting when I first saw Goldfinger with my best friend in the summer of 1965. It left that big of an impression on me!
Now... What was it that I had for dinner last evening???
Well, after you have had a chance (hopefully) to watch the new Blu ray of The King and I, I'm sure that you'll have an opinion of it. And I, as well as many others here eagerly await, and value your thoughts. :)
Not in the early years of laserdisc (1978 -1984). I still own the pan & scan, time compressed, CLV release of Star Wars, and too many others to name here.
When Criterion entered the picture in 1984, that's when things began to change for the better.
No Charles, I haven't watched The King and I since we sampled it that night. But i believe that I did notice the "blues" in some of the chapters that we viewed. But since it was the first time in a long while that I have watched the film, I had no recent memories with which to compare it to. And...
Techman707: Sadly, we all have an expiration date. I just don't know how I'd handle knowing what it is. I wish you all the best, and hope that we both live long enough to see Around the World in 80 Days on BD looking and sounding as good as Oklahoma! :)
And as Groucho Marx once said:
”Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west. And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.”
The only thing I have to add about the fantastic Todd-AO transfer of Oklahoma is that at the auction, when the head of the gavel breaks off and heads right towards the camera... I ducked! This is 3D without the glasses!