DVD/BR Collector Thread for the Physical Media Enthusiasts

[jaedmc]

I've got I Come in Peace(Dark Angel) on blu too.

I was going to program a double feature of Rutger Hauer Goes Hunting with Split Second and Surviving the Game.

[Curt McGirt]

I wish I had Surviving the Game too. It's been on in an edited version recently and that's just unacceptable. 

EDIT: Oooo, speaking of Ice-T and '90s action, I just remembered I do have Trespass on DVD. Bill Paxton, Bill Sadler, Ice-T, Ice Cube, and even Tiny Lister! And a Hill/Zemeckis joint too, right when they were doing Tales from the Crypt. 

Edited September 17, 2020 by Curt McGirt

[Brian Fowler]

Now that's making me remember Surviving the Game from 94

[Control]

 

[Control]

[jaedmc]

Sweet jesus the features on that Tremors release:

SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS

• New 4K restoration from the original negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Ron Underwood and director of photography Alexander Gruszynski

• 60-page perfect-bound book featuring new writing by Kim Newman and Jonathan Melville and selected archive materials

• Large fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Frank

• Small fold-out double-sided poster featuring new Graboid X-ray art by Matt Frank

• Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproduction artcards

• Limited Edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Frank

DISC 1 – FEATURE & EXTRAS

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

• Restored DTS-HD MA original theatrical 2.0 stereo, 4.0 surround, and remixed 5.1 surround audio options

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• New audio commentary by director Ron Underwood and writers/producers Brent Maddock & S.S. Wilson

• New audio commentary by Jonathan Melville, author of Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors

• Making Perfection, a brand new documentary by Universal Pictures interviewing key cast and crew from the franchise (including Kevin Bacon, Michael Gross, Ariana Richards, Ron Underwood, Brent Maddock & S.S. Wilson, among many others) and revisiting the original locations

• The Truth About Tremors, a newly filmed interview with co-producer Nancy Roberts on the film’s rocky road to the screen

• Bad Vibrations, a newly filmed interview with director of photography Alexander Gruszynski

• Aftershocks and Other Rumblings, newly filmed on-set stories from associate producer Ellen Collett

• Digging in the Dirt, a new featurette interviewing the crews behind the film’s extensive visual effects

• Music for Graboids, a new featurette on the film’s music with composers Ernest Troost and Robert Folk

• Pardon My French!, a newly assembled compilation of overdubs from the edited-for television version

• The Making of Tremors, an archive documentary from 1995 by Laurent Bouzereau, interviewing the filmmakers and special effects teams

• Creature Featurette, an archive compilation of on-set camcorder footage showing the making of the Graboids

• Electronic press kit featurette and interviews with Kevin Bacon, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire

• Deleted scenes, including the original opening scene

• Theatrical trailers, TV and radio spots for the original film as well as trailers for the entire Tremors franchise

• Comprehensive image galleries, including rare behind-the-scenes stills, storyboards and two different drafts of the screenplay

DISC 2 – INTERVIEWS & SHORT FILMS (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE)

• Extended hour-long interviews from Making Perfection with Ron Underwood, Brent Maddock, S.S. Wilson, Nancy Roberts and creature designer Alec Gillis

• Outtakes with optional introduction and commentary by S.S. Wilson

• Three early short films by the makers of Tremors, remastered in high definition, including S.S. Wilson’s stop-motion horror/comedy classic Recorded Live (1975)”

[Control]

I want it even though I'd look at 1/5 of the features, tops.

I'm terrible for collector's editions that way. I have a fucking DVD special set of The Big Lebowski that comes with like a towel and some coasters I'll never use.

[Curt McGirt]

Woooooow. I haven't thought of Versus in years -- probably since it came out. That's, uh, been awhile. 

[Control]

 VERSUS is the one that ends with the world exploding, right?

[Curt McGirt]

I dunno. I think the first Dead or Alive does though. 

[Control]

7 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

I dunno. I think the first Dead or Alive does though. 

Yep. That’s the one I’m thinking of.

Which leads me to believe I’ve never seen VERSUS.

[Travis Sheldon]

If it's the Versus I'm thinking about the keywords would by suicide forest, spiders, gun fu, batshit crazy.

[jaedmc]

Vinegar Syndrome Black Friday pre-order is this weekend. 160.00 for the whole package, which includes BEASTMASTER, and a Giallo set.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/everything-black-friday-flash-pre-order

[Curt McGirt]

Thanks for the reminder, I still need to watch Fade to Black while it's on Shudder.

[Brian Fowler]

I own Tremors on Blu already. Talk me out of this.

All just ordered They Live and The Deer Hunter on 4K from Shout. Not sure if I'll have to wait until They Live is released in December to Deer Hunter or they'll ship them separately, but either way.

[Control]

I am unfamiliar with the 4K format. I assume I need a new TV (mine's a decade old) and a specifically 4K player?

[jaedmc]

3 hours ago, Control said:

I am unfamiliar with the 4K format. I assume I need a new TV (mine's a decade old) and a specifically 4K player?

Right. New player and New TV. It's been going for a 6-7 years now, but has been slow to gain momentum because streaming and seemingly negligible benefits. You'll see it as UHD or Ultra High Def. Streaming sites also have content in UHD or 4k but your ability to access that is determined by the consistency of your bandwidth among other elements. 

Like any format it can be hit or miss. You can see comparisons with bluray where the BR looks better or worse depending on the scene, so personal preference comes into play. Most movies are mastered or remastered in 4k first just to get the best picture they can and then compressed to the 1080p resolution, so you're already getting some small benefits of 4k.

Some of the major collector labels are just now dabbling in it. Criterion hasn't released any yet, despite many of their discs being mastered in 4k, and I don't think they have any plans to. Streaming in 4k on their service is probably the game plan if it becomes financially viable.

8k is already happening as we speak but is highly unlikely to ever become a physical format, so 4k is pretty much the end of the road for physical media.

As for the TV, UHD TVs are already pretty cheap, like sub 300 at Target. I've heard some people say you can't see the benefits until you get into the bigger screens like 55+ inches, but I don't know how real that is. 

I haven't sweated upgrading yet, though if three more bucks gets me a UHD disc + BR disc + Streaming Code, I don't see the harm in grabbing it now.

The optical disc option of the PS5 is a UHD drive so that might be how I end up upgrading next year or so.

[Control]

Thanks @jaedmc. That’s super helpful.

I pre-ordered BEASTMASTER and am also gonna order TREMORS. God help me. 

[Brian Fowler]

On my 50", cheap 4K set, the resolution doesn't make much of a difference, but the HDR is significant. The colors just look so much better.

And that's just with basic HDR, not HDR10 or DolbyVision. Because, of course, even when we don't have a format war, we somehow have a format war (TV and, I think, players, usually only support one of the two HDR+ formats, and ditto for the vast majority of UHD discs, but you can play the discs on any 4K set-up, just if you don't have the matching HDR+ formats, you'll know get regular instead of scene specific.)

Edited September 27, 2020 by Brian Fowler

[Curt McGirt]

I forgot, Coscarelli was looking for the missing Beastmaster, er, master. Did he ever find it? 

[Control]

32 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

I forgot, Coscarelli was looking for the missing Beastmaster, er, master. Did he ever find it? 

Not yet, it seems

https://www.whereisthebeastmaster.com/follow-the-trail

[jaedmc]

The VinSyn release is using the interpostive print which Coscareli says is "pristine". So for now this is as good as it's gonna get. 

[Control]

Pretty excited by my Mail for the next few months:

October - THE LAST STARFIGHTER 
November - BEASTMASTER
December - TREMORS

[clintthecrippler]

I know objectively you guys are writing other movie titles in your posts but ever since I saw this announcement the other day everything just reads "BLAH BLAH BLAH" to me

 

 

[Niners Fan in CT]

I ordered some 4Ks the other day from BB.  I got Goodfellas which to my knowledge this is the first release on 4K and all I had was the DVD.  I also got Mad Max: Fury Road which should look great and then of course I ordered Total Recall first time in 4K format.  Excited for that one,  it comes out in December.