Posts by Dan Average

Quote:Originally Posted by N.B. Forrest I felt so angry after having one of my favorite films f**ked up by Universal that I tried to email Dave Kehr at the New York Times to attempt to devote one of his weekly columns to this...

So wait, is this 3 discs or 4? I'm guessing two BDs plus a DVD. Everything from the five-disc set (three BD-25s plus two DVDs) could fit on two BD-50s, with room to spare. Of course retail is $25 higher anyway, thanks for the trinkets WB

Quote:Originally Posted by dvdmike007 I am saying the F's COMBINED with the violence...... They're extras. Somebody shouting "f you, you motherfing fers" while gunning folks down with a shotgun might put something into 18 territory,...

Quote:Originally Posted by dvdmike007 Not true, the film is border line 15 and a few F's would be all it takes A few Fs don't bring an 18 rating. This is even written into the current guidelines -- "frequent usage of strong...

Quote:Originally Posted by dvdmike007 Missing is the already recorded commentary track. The Uk version of the film is now a 15 rating, so the new extras look to be what has bumped it back up to 18. My guess is the rating is just a...

Quote:Originally Posted by dvdmike007 they do say approved transfers Which means what? Probably that they took the Universal transfer and let Gilliam/Soderbergh/whoever give it a quick going-over. It's been clear for years that...

Quote:Originally Posted by dvdmike007 Criterion also have new transfer listed for the other Universal titles The ones that were advertised as new transfers were the ones that, from all the evidence so far, had new transfers --...

September 18th BD/DVD releases: Welles' Macbeth (1948) George Cukor's A Double Life, with Ronald Colman (1947) Cyrano de Bergerac, starring José Ferrer (1950) ...and the odd man out, Sono Sion's Love Exposure (previously released by...

Criterion had to negotiate new BD licenses for The Last Emperor and The Third Man, but they didn't actually lose their existing rights to those. The DVDs had never gone out of print before the BDs were issued, except for the original DVD...

I wonder if the mainstream media sources that so dutifully parroted Universal's PR about "restoring" their classics for the 100th anniversary bash will follow up with reports on how generally pathetic these efforts have turned out so...