Two classics being re-mastered (and classics in general discussion)
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, November 18, 2007 15:27
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Logan's Run and Outland coming Nov. 27th!!! I've been makin' due with the crappy '97 transfers (Outland being THE worst transfer of a major motion picture ever), so I, for one, am overjoyed!!!
Are y'all lookin' foward to these?
Any classics not yet in your collection you plan on gettin' soon?
Any not on DVD yet that you want?
Spotaisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Logan's Run and Outland coming Nov. 27th!!! I've been makin' due with the crappy '97 transfers (Outland being THE worst transfer of a major motion picture ever), so I, for one, am overjoyed!!!
Are y'all lookin' foward to these?
Any classics not yet in your collection you plan on gettin' soon?
Any not on DVD yet that you want?
I REALLY want to see 'The High Road To China' on
DVD !
It's a classic action-adventure aviation film
starring Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong , and
it's been inexplicably absent from DVD , a gross
oversight that should be immediately corrected !
Good news to find that 'Outland' is coming...
I think of that film frequently , because it also
mixed the space and Western genres , but in a
different way than Firefly...
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You got my hopes up and all, but Logan’s Run is not due out until 2010. I’ve been waiting for that for a long time. I saw the original as a kid and thought it was the greatest thing since Ding Dongs packaged in aluminum foil.
Outland I wasn’t so crazy about. Not sure why, I think maybe it was a much more adult film and I just didn’t get it back in those days. But now that I’m an adult maybe I would enjoy the new one.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
You got my hopes up and all, but Logan’s Run is not due out until 2010.
What's this then?
http://www.amazon.com/Logans-Run-Jenny-Agutter/dp/B000VAHR00
Can't wait Chrisisall
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Quote:You’re talking about the DVD release, not the remake.
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
You got my hopes up and all, but Logan’s Run is not due out until 2010.
What's this then?
http://www.amazon.com/Logans-Run-Jenny-Agutter/dp/B000VAHR00
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Logan's Run and Outland coming Nov. 27th!!! I've been makin' due with the crappy '97 transfers (Outland being THE worst transfer of a major motion picture ever), so I, for one, am overjoyed!!!
Are y'all lookin' foward to these?
Any classics not yet in your collection you plan on gettin' soon?
Any not on DVD yet that you want?
Spotaisall
Two great films. I think Outland may well find itself in my collection. Especially if there are some extras. I lurve me them extras. Logan's Run while enjoyable suffers upon repeated viewing (except for Miss Agutter).
As for other classics... Hmmm Are those Doug Mclure films out on DVD yet, remastered? Y'know :
At the Earths Core
Warlords of Atlantis
The Land that Time Forgot
&
The People that Time Forgot
I loved those films. I know they're cheesey by today's standards but they are hugely entertaining!
Also Omega Man and Soylent Green. They'd benefit from a bit of remastering.
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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
Outland I wasn’t so crazy about. Not sure why, I think maybe it was a much more adult film and I just didn’t get it back in those days.
Nah, it was probably that whole "Western set in space" thing it had going. That never works...
I love those movies! Thanks for the heads-up!
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Well, this week I'm upgrading to the Blu-Ray 3 disc edition of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I think I'll actually cry when I see the ships arrive at Devil's Tower or the (real) Stargate sequence in 1080p and a brand spanking new transfer.
But as in other sci-fi movies I'm waiting to be released or remastered on DVD, that's harder to answer. I have a fairly comprehensive sci-fi collection already. But I guess if Fox Home Video puts out Blu-Ray editions of PLANET OF THE APES (68) or THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, then maybe I'll upgrade then.
But one "classic" classic as in "shown regularly on TCM and introduced by Robert Osborne" is the only movie on the original AFI 100 list that still hasn't been released on DVD yet that should be is THE AFRICAN QUEEN. It's this old John Huston film with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. All I'm gonna say about it is that Joss must've been taking notes from this movie in terms of Mal and Inara. Their relationship pretty much echoes the one being Bogie and Kate in this movie.
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Quote:Soylent Green, also Nov. 27 (in the states, that is)
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Also Omega Man and Soylent Green. They'd benefit from a bit of remastering.
http://www.amazon.com/Soylent-Green-John-Barclay/dp/B000VAHR0U
But I've come to realize that the main reason I've liked Omega Man is due to Ron Grainger's (The Prisoner) music score; Will Smith's I Am Legend will definitely be a better movie.
Last man Chrisisall
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