So Bad They're Fun movies we still want on Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Worth]

Then CRW's post makes even less sense. CRW wants to own the Blu-ray and doesn't know it's been out for a decade?

That's always been one of my pet peeves. I'm amazed at how many posts there are asking 'why isn't x on blu-ray' when even the most cursory google search will reveal that the disc has been available for ages.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

That's always been one of my pet peeves. I'm amazed at how many posts there are asking 'why isn't x on blu-ray' when even the most cursory google search will reveal that the disc has been available for ages.

I agree. It's also strange that someone wants to own a movie enough to post about it... but apparently isn't interested enough to peek on Amazon.

Also: why isn't "The Godfather" on Blu-ray?

 

[mackjay]

TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) gets my vote. The Image DVD (now 20 years old!) does look very good however

 

[MatthewA]

I like bad movies that I used to watch on HBO over and over in the 80s. Kino has put out a lot of those, but I still need:

Midnight Madness
The Pirate Movie

Both probably unlikely because they're both owned by Disney. But I wonder if maybe one of these Disney will stoop to license out titles like they used to Anchor Bay. "Pirate Movie" is a Fox release, and I'll point out as we do repeatedly here, that they're not exploiting the Fox catalog that they paid billions for. I don't see endless Fox movies appearing on their streaming platforms. They might as well make money with some of these movies, somehow.

Midnight Madness has an HD transfer that has made its way to iTunes but not Disney+ or the movie club. It was one of the titles for the Anchor Bay licensing deal that also included the likes of two different cuts of The Happiest Millionaire, The Devil and Max Devlin, The Watcher in the Woods (albeit not restored to the complete original cut), and a bunch of other pre-1984 live-action movies, but with the same 4x3 analog composite transfer you probably saw on HBO (assuming it's the one that got the blink-and-you'll-miss-it VHS and Beta release circa 1985). When Disney finally reclaimed the film and re-released it — finally admitting to its Disneyhood after 24 long years of denial — they used the same old transfer there, too, with a silent Buena Vista International TV logo tacked on at the end!* Michael J. Fox came back to Disney multiple times after his later Family Ties and Back to the Future fame made it a "we knew him when" title. The Disney Studio Story spoke more highly of it than Leonard Maltin.

*The only time I've seen any logo attached to it.

 

[Capt D McMars]

Thankfully some of the WW films have been released onto BD. And with Robot Monster coming soon from 3DArchives/Classic Flix the doors seem to be opening for all of us that love these cheesy fun movies, that really deserve a break and be restored and added to the family of movies we watched on late night TV.
Here are some of my favorites in need of a Blu ray restoration:

 

[Capt D McMars]

Get yourself a copy of A*P*E. Enjoyably awful.

it's out on BD...

 

[TravisR]

Wasn't Monster A Go Go part of Arrow's H.G. Lewis box set?

 

[Capt D McMars]

The Mysterians - MGM/RKO US dub and cut. Colorful Toho spacemen fun from that great 50s era. As kids, we loved it.

Along with Tohos classic Frankeinstein Conquers the Word/The Gargantuans - I've seen bootlegged BD but nothing from Toho!! The BD from Toho may or may not have english sutitles...

 

[Capt D McMars]

Wasn't Monster A Go Go part of Arrow's H.G. Lewis box set?

Nope!!

 

[Capt D McMars]

Nope!!

 

[Edwin-S]

Never see the appeal of collecting and watching terrible movies. One watch of Battlefield Earth and Battle Beyond the Stars was enough for me.

As I see it, if I bother to spend money on it or re-watch it then there had to be something that I thought was good about it. The two examples I gave fall into neither of those categories.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Thankfully some of the WW films have been released onto BD. And with Robot Monster coming soon from 3DArchives/Classic Flix the doors seem to be opening for all of us that love these cheesy fun movies, that really deserve a break and be restored and added to the family of movies we watched on late night TV.
Here are some of my favorites in need of a Blu ray restoration:

That’s a good list - some of these I’d personally even give credit for being more than just cheesy movies. Something like Rocketship X-M I’d give credit to being a reasonably serious attempt at making a quality space fiction film at a time when such ideas were rare. It definitely shows it’s age but I think it was made in earnest. (Though I do like Destination Moon better.)

 

[timk1041]

Thankfully some of the WW films have been released onto BD. And with Robot Monster coming soon from 3DArchives/Classic Flix the doors seem to be opening for all of us that love these cheesy fun movies, that really deserve a break and be restored and added to the family of movies we watched on late night TV.
Here are some of my favorites in need of a Blu ray restoration:

Don't forget "The Hideous Sun Demon".

 

[battlebeast]

The Room with Tommy Wiseau

 

[Benoit Blanc]

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde.

 

[Capt D McMars]

That’s a good list - some of these I’d personally even give credit for being more than just cheesy movies. Something like Rocketship X-M I’d give credit to being a reasonably serious attempt at making a quality space fiction film at a time when such ideas were rare. It definitely shows it’s age but I think it was made in earnest. (Though I do like Destination Moon better.)

There are various levels of cheese, but all fall into the catagoy of ignored orphens, needing the attention and love to bring them back into the light of day!! Get them restored and onto BDs.

 

[Kent K H]

As I just watched World Without End on a beautiful Warner Archive disc the other day, I'm happy to see this thread resurrected like a monster in one of the movies it discusses. Thankfully in the last couple of years, we've seen some of these get called up to HD, including a number of the ones I mentioned. Anytime there's an announcement from WA, I check to see if any 50s sci-fi is on it. So far, the Giant Behemoth is about the only one I've regretted, haha.

Still waiting on that Cat Women on the Moon 3-D release, but if Robot Monster can get a restoration, anything is possible.

 

[Dick]

I don't know if these would count, but I'm still waiting to replace my VHS copies of
I WAS A TEEN-AGE FRANKENSTEIN and I WAS A TEEN-AGE WEREWOLF!

Call Susan Hart. And if you reach her, give her my love.

 

[Capt D McMars]

Don't forget "The Hideous Sun Demon".

and the comedic Revenge of the Hideous Sun Demon...a fun re-dialoged version...

 

[Capt D McMars]

Nope!!

although he was in this project, it'd not in that box set!!