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Well this is going to create additional conversations concerning the Paramount Presents title choices. 
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Well, it's all-star schlock, but it has its fans. The older version wasn't very good IIRC, so it needs an updo.
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Well this is going to create additional conversations concerning the Paramount Presents title choices.
Yeah, I have already resigned myself to the fact that Paramount Presents! has nothing to do with their more prestigious line of releases. Elizabethtown was questionable. Rough Cut blew up any integrity that moniker could have had. Back To The Beach is just following up in the mud.
I would love to know what qualifies a film for Paramount Presents! over a normal release because I would hate to think that someone at the studio thinks this title rises to the cream of their crop.
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Friday The 13th on UHD and Back To The Beach on Blu-ray? Paramount keeps knocking 'em out of the park, baby!
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Yes! For the record, I may have negative remarks about the way they are marketing these titles but I HIGHLY commend them for doing a great job of combing their catalog and going after smaller titles. They have been releasing a nice handful of "A" and "B" releases each month.
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Also, for the record, I know I'm in the minority and neither this or F13 are particularly good.
I haven't seen Back To The Beach in decades/when I was a little kid and I get the feeling that when I buy this, it won't live up to my memories.
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I never expected this, considering how it was only released to DVD as a MOD, but I love this movie and how meta the humor was at a time when that was still a pretty nascent concept.
Maybe Paramount is finally coming around after Siskel and Ebert's shaming them for burying it, haha.
Maybe Paramount is finally coming around after Siskel and Ebert's shaming them for burying it, haha.
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Wow, "The best movie of its kind since GREASE."
The boys loved it. Thanks for that clip!
The boys loved it. Thanks for that clip!
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Dare I say, it works because it's smart enough to be clever and dumb enough to be fun. It would not be out of line in a triple feature with the likes of UHF and Gremlins 2, which are also movies I love.
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Well, I for one, am excited about this! Everyone is in on the joke and it's an affectionate send up of the Beach Party movies.
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I'm glad to hear that because I still love the old Beach Party movies but was afraid that this wasn't good.
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I have no interest in this film but I am grateful Paramount is releasing blu rays by themselves or leasing them to KINO rather than another Audrey Hepburn set. It seemed like Paramount had such a long dry spell where nothing except Star Trek, Mission Impossible. The Godfather, and Indiana Jones were released.
Yeah, add to this the To Catch A Thief flub, and lopping off extra features from the aforementioned Paramount Presents reissue, also Fatal Attraction, and Flashdance, plus releasing Best Picture winner, The Greatest Show on Earth without a full-blown restoration, leaving in the cue marks and residual dirt, with ZERO extra features, and, well, Paramount Presents is pretty much a line-up put out by someone who hasn't a clue what their asset management is like. Did anyone mention The Golden Child was also a Paramount presents release. Yuck!
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Based on Paramount farming out their titles to Kino, I suspect that making the decision to finally release their catalog on Blu-ray after all these years hasn't been a rousing success for the studio. In that case, I can understand (though I don't agree) the lack of money being put into restoring these titles for release.
I don't know how Warner does it in comparison. They put a lot of money and effort into their library of releases and quite frankly, I don't know how much better they are selling.
I think the bottom line here is that disc media has been in decline for over a decade. Some studios are still doing top-notch restorations. Other studios are just putting out what they have with minimal touch-ups. And one studio has just stopped releasing catalog titles altogether.
Agreed. Very sad. Very sad, indeed.
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It's better than the old Beach party movies, in my opinion. They were fun became they were thrown together, so it created a kind of informal ambience which was pleasant, like being at a dinner theater with a lot of acts on the bill. You didn't mind that some of it didn't work, for there was always something else that might. Plus you were there to see Annette. And the guest stars, like Buster Keaton or Paul Frees, were diverting. This is more or less the same, but has a bigger budget. The waves shimmer and shine. Also, it has more of a through line. It holds together better. It has a warmth and humor that's attractive. And Annette is simply wonderful, even better and more charismatic then she was as a teen. She has such style, poise and presence. She's also in on the joke and very funny. If you like her, you have to see this film. Whenever she's on the screen, all's well with the world. Frankie, unfortunately, is paunchy, and straining for effect. The film sags a bit in the third act, but then so did the original Beach Party movies. Besides, any movie that has Pee Wee Herman performing "Surfin' Bird" can't be all bad.
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I don't care what anyone says, I love this movie. One of the funniest movies of the 80s in my opinion. A great slice of nostalgia that's as much a send up as it is an example of the genre. Everyone is in on the joke and it's just oh so much fun, especially Bob Denver as Gilligan as a bartender ("I was on an island with a guy who could take a couple of these coconuts, a stick and a piece of string and make a nuclear reactor but he couldn't fix a two foot hole in a boat!")
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