In a perfect world, I'd like a hybrid version. I think that some jokes in the extended cut fall a bit flat. Ideally, I would like the theatrical cut of the film but with the full dance number of the extended cut.
In a way, I'm quite happy the majority seem to hate it. I picked up the 2 disc Blu-ray edition in a Poundland store for just £2! When I got my PS5, it was one of the first 4K discs I purchased as it was only £5.
Liking the unpopular film has its advantages. 😁
I remember watching Tenet for the first time and giving up because the sound mix is rather odd, and I find it hard to hear what the characters are saying. A year or so later, I stuck on a pair of decent headphones and tried again. Watched it all the way through and absolutely loved it.
I'm also one of the rare people to actually enjoy Ghostbusters (2016)! The trailers had me worried, and I expected the worst to be honest.
Taken from the official AmazonMGM Twitter account.
Here's a fun piece of Hollywood trivia for you. In 1981, a movie called Great White hit theaters, and made over $18 million domestically, before being yanked from theaters when Universal sued the filmmakers for ripping off Jaws. The movie, which was one of the many Jaws clones released in Italy in the wake of Jaws's success, was directed by Enzo G. Castellari and was seen as an even more blatant than usual rip-off, with it centring around a seaside community terrorized by a Great White shark, whose mayor refuses to take the threat seriously -- only for a crusty old shark hunter to team up with a nerdy landlubber to save the day. Sound familiar?
In the years since they blocked it, the film, which was called The Last Shark in Europe, has once again become available, and now it's getting a fully-loaded Blu-ray from British Label Treasured Films. One important thing to note though, is that while the artwork has a reversible sleeve that allows viewers to choose between the titles The Last Shark and Great While, the American re-cut by Film Ventures, which was the one blocked, is not on the disc. This version of the film has a score by Morton Stevens which was very similar to what John Williams composed for Jaws, and might be one of the reasons Universal was able to get the film pulled. Nevertheless, the extras, which were revealed by our friends at Blu-ray.com, are impressive:
Sadly, the disc is REGION B-locked, but will work fine if you have a multi-region player. It drops on June 6th!
Here's the artwork:
There's a guy who sometimes pops up on my Instagram feed who is collecting just copies on VHS. Here's an article from last year : Experience: I own nearly 3,000 VHS tapes of Titanic.
Henry Cavill screen tested for Casino Royale back in 2006 as mentioned in the article, but he is too old now.
And not just because these auditions were found on a VHS tape that was found in a dumpster last month 😁, at the same time, there were tests with Sam Worthington, Rupert Friend and Anthony Starr.
The 4K Ultra HD of David Fincher's Panic Room arrives today. And while reviews by and large are praising the stunning transfer and color grading (there's even a special feature devoted to just that), some are pointing out other changes that only someone like Fincher would even bother to "fix."
As Film Twitter has been quick to point out, David Fincher has made some interesting -- yet very Fincher-esque -- changes to Panic Room for this 4K release. The two that are garnering the most traction and head scratches involve curtains and Coke cans -- and you just know these have been bugging him for 20+ years!
(I've included one example here. Visit the link for more examples via X\Twitter\Hellhole.)
As you can see, the original version of Panic Room has curtains that are a bit more casual, like pretty much any set you'd have in your home, whereas the 4K shows them more pressed and pristine (that is, very much how they would look in a modern Fincher movie). Other images go full product placement, with once-partly obscured Coca Cola labels now completely on display. And these are just two examples of what has been done to the Panic Room 4K; only more scouring will uncover Fincher's other changes.
Odd, sure. Unexpected? Hardly. David Fincher did similar things to the transfer of Seven, with those who have studied that transfer compared with the original theatrical version pointing out plenty of other examples of Fincher tweaking so-called imperfections, like a strand of Gwyneth Paltrow's hair or adding a door where there was once a curtain...This guy and his window treatments!
David Fincher is known to be a perfectionist and this Panic Room 4K is just the latest example. But he was pulling this sort of thing while filming, too, prompting a pretty amusing moment between the directors and his star. After one day of doing take after take after take, he asked star Jodie Foster which was best. Her response? "Honestly, you're a very sick man. There is nothing different between those last three takes." No word on if Foster has picked up her 4K of Panic Room...
Photos have appeared online of the first day of shooting the new Masters of the Universe film in London, with Nicholas Galitzine filming scenes as Prince Adam.
Apparently, this version of the story will have Adam on Earth not having any idea of whom he really is and will be taken back to Eternia sometime later in the story.
A leaked synopsis (if real) reads:
“10-year-old Prince Adam who crashed to Earth in a spaceship and was separated from his magical Power Sword—the only link to his home on Eternia. After tracking it down almost two decades later, Prince Adam is whisked back across space to defend his home planet against the evil forces of Skeletor. But to defeat such a powerful villain, Prince Adam will first need to uncover the mysteries of his past and become He-Man: the most powerful man in the Universe!”
When I'm away from home, I watch blurays with my laptop, an external BD drive and PowerDVD. You can only change Blu-ray regions five times but there are a couple of PowerDVD system files to delete and this resets the counter.
After researching, it seems Blu-ray drives are all region free but it's the software/firmware of the device controlling it that determines the region settings.
This does not apply to DVDs where the region settings is in the drives firmware but can be bypassed with things like AnyDVD I think.