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Re:THURSDAY Eagle Eye Challenge
By neal in Filmgaming
"Judge Dredd (2005)(1) Sly StalloneDemolition Man (1993)(2) Wesley SnipesBlade II (2002)(3) Ron PerlmanHellboy (2004)(4) John Hurt V for Vendetta (2006)(5) Hugo WeavingLord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)(6) Viggo MortensenA History of Violence (2005)(7) Both were nominated for Saturn AwardsThe Hulk (2003)(8) Jennifer ConnellyThe Rocketeer (1991)(9) Paul SorvinoDick Tracy (1990)(10) Eight of these movies have this in common: Comic Books/Graphic Novel as source material " [More]

Re:Criterion Newsletter Cartoons
By neal in Criterion Collection
"[quote user="Smooth_J"] I've been getting the newsletter for a few months now, and I'm usually perplexed by some of the cartoons. Last month said something about "Maxing it out", and now several films by Max Ophuls are planned for release. This months says: "Baby it's cold outside" with some small house-looking thing? I figured these cartoons merit discussion, and for the most part (from what I've seen) they go completely beyond me. [/quote] I know I'm late to the game, as always, but that cartoon is hinting at an upcoming release of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." " [More]

B1G1 Free Sale at Deepdiscount ...
By neal in Criterion Collection
"Just thought that the members of this group might be interested... Details here: DD " [More]

Re:Bargain Criterion
By neal in Criterion Collection
"[quote user="Smooth_J"]I just got the DVD, it seems allright but I've got a sneaking suspicion it's a bootleg (though the only discrepancy I found was the "Ampect Ratio"). I just saw something about somewhere else where people were analyzing it, and it almost seems as though everybody who owned one at this point either has a bootleg or the first version...who knows though. It plays fine, so I'm not all that upset. [/quote] Yeah. Like I said, I kept mine, too, as it had all of the right stuff on the disc and played fine. Here are the other issues I know about in some of the bootlegs (based on a list taken from another forum) In the insert: - 21 rows down on the inside left of insert - "anre" should be "are"- 12 line down on the inside right of insert - "itis" should be "it's"- Author name inconsistancy "Christ" vs "Chris" HAHA on inside right of insert- 2nd last line on inside right of insert - grammar error - "is on" should be "is an" Really, nothing that's too big a deal-- j ... " [More]

The Red Balloon

Re:Films that deserve the Crite ...
By neal in Criterion Collection
"[quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="leeroy711"] I've noticed the few foreign children's classics they have (The Red Balloon and White Mane) I'm wondering if they'll ever do any of the American movies I grew up watching like The Red Pony, Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows [/quote] I doubt Disney would ever release any of their films to them. Or have they done any Disney films before? [/quote] The Wes Anderson movies were Buena Vista. As for the original post-- The Red Balloon and White Mane were released by Criterion years ago on laserdisc, so they shouldn't have been much of a surprise. I don't imagine that their inclusion will lead to the inclusion of more "family-friendly" films " [More]

Re:Bargain Criterion
By neal in Criterion Collection
"[quote user="Smooth_J"] I checked the dude out and it seemed relatively legit...that does sort of suck though I'll be sure to look over it. [/quote] Yeah, I only know all this 'cause I got burned myself (on eBay) a while back. I think the color on the menu on my disc might be a little bit off, too, but the film plays fine and the extra features are all there-- so I ended up keeping the disc. " [More]

The Royal Tenenbaums

Re:Killer extra features
By neal in Criterion Collection
"I know I'm really late to the game here-- but I've just joined the group and have been reading through all of the old threads, so, I'll bump this one even though it's ancient. I'm pretty sure that the two versions of The Life Aquatic were a function of Criterion's licensing agreements with Buena Vista. (You'll actually find that most places, this is listed as a Disney/Miramax release.) This is the same reason that the MSRP on the Royal Tenenbaums and Chasing Amy is unusually low. As for the single-disc version of Brazil mentioned later in the thread-- that was a result of Criterion's creating a new, anamorphic version of the first disc of the set (the primary version of the film) and wanting to provide people who had already purchased the set an option for replacing the film itself without re-purchasing the entire package. " [More]

Dead Ringers

Re:Bargain Criterion
By neal in Criterion Collection
"[quote user="Smooth_J"] I just found brand new Dead Ringers on an Amazon seller for 16 bucks...usually goes for around $40 or $50, it was a great find. [/quote] It might not matter too terribly much (as the features and all of that should largely be the same), but Dead Ringers is one of the OOP Criterions out there where the market has been flooded with bootlegs. Given that the seller was selling this at such a discount, you might want to check your copy. If it's the same bootleg that been making the rounds for a few years, the most noticeable error will be that in the "Original Aspect Ratio" icon on the back of the case, it will say "Ampect Ratio" instead of "Aspect Ratio." There will also be a few grammatical/spelling errors in the liner notes that aren't there in the official release. I'm hopeful that you managed to score the official release on the cheap, but thought that you might want to be made aware of the bootleg issue just in case. " [More]

Re:Essays
By neal in Criterion Collection
"Last I heard from Criterion (indirectly), they had to remove them due to some technical glitch but planned to make them available again ASAP. This, however, was a few weeks ago. " [More]