Allen Hirsch
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Jan 29, 1999
- Messages
- 532
Thanks, Jeff - I KNEW I was leaving one baseball movie out that I had (but didn't have time to search for when posting) - and you nailed it, immediately .
(Especially since I have a soft spot for baseball movies - Sandlot will soon join 61*,
Don't forget 'Hardball' comes out in Feb! Great movie!
'The Sandlot' rules!
The transformers thing is comic books yeh, but it is the first based on old characters since the 80s AND later this year there will be a new show, currently titled "Armada" which will feature old and new characters alike. If that takes off it will mean the return of old characters/show in toy and DVD form
So it BEGINS April 2002, buy that comic everyone
Thank you; I'm there! My 3-year-old was quite excited by the posters and covers your sig links to! In fact, he cried when I closed the last window! :frowning:
I'll be SOOOO there!
Frankly, Fox hasn't released a subpar disc in a very long time, as far as I can tell.
Okay, I'll definately get back on-topic here and say a few things about this:
1) I tend to agree with the above statement in general. The Sandlot was an exceptional DVD at a super-low price! And the other recent titles I've bought from Fox are all sweet, too. BUT:
2) I am a tad concerned about this recent trend of taking 2-disc SE's and repackaging them as 1-disc items. First Patton (which was all I could spot yesterday as I "made the rounds"...the 2-disc version seems to be long gone), and now Cast Away, The Abyss, and Independance Day. Luckily, I've got all four of these, but what's next? Star Wars: The Phantom Menace? Or will it finally be something I don't have. Uh-Oh! I better run out quick and but up every 2-disc Fox title I might ever want...who knows if it will be there tomorrow? Note to Fox: not everybody who hasn't bought the 2-disc SE of something falls into the category of "if they haven't bought it yet, they must not want the special 2-disc version". There are still new folks buying into the medium for the first time, and they may want the 2-disc versions of these titles, too. Once you convert them, the SE's will be really REALLY hard to find, unless you plan to maintain stock on both versions and pump 'em out to the stores. Oh, but I forget: the stores hate stocking two different SKUs!
3) I've seen enough scuttlebutt around the 'Net lately - plenty of it right here at HTF - to realize that folks are getting defective discs (Moulin Rouge, Stealing Beauty both come to mind quickly) from Fox and that there hasn't been any really great customer service on these new issues like there was for, say, Cleopatra. No definately published "do this and we'll send you a fix" solutions this time, and MR's been out for a while now, right? Perhaps I missed something, but as you guys know I tend to visit around the sites every single day...I'd be surprised if one got by me. Maybe I just overlooked it since I haven't had the same problem with MR and I don't own SB yet (maybe not ever if the defect isn't fixed).
4) #'s 2 & 3 lead me to believe that Fox might be cutting back a bit due to the economy and all. If there's any substance to that idea, then this might just be the tip of the iceberg.
5) As I've noted elsewhere, Peter Staddon hasn't been around lately to say hello to us and maybe give us any encouraging words. AGAIN I WILL REITERATE THAT HE HAS *NO* REQUIREMENTS OR OBLIGATION TO DO SO...HE HANGS OUT AT HTF ON HIS OWN TIME, SO-TO-SPEAK, AND SAYS WHAT HE WANTS WHEN HE WANTS. But, even if he's just taking a post-holiday-rush vacation and can't get on-line because he's traveling, it just isn't reassuring to not have his feedback about the issues I raised above. I'm just a tad nervous, is all: we have watched WB go from the cream of the crop to the bottom of the heap very fast. I don't want to envision the same happenning to Fox, but anything's possible.
Is anything really, truly bad about Fox? No, I'm just being paranoid. But is everything perfectly peachs-and-cream? Nope. Nothing's perfect, as my wife is fond of saying.