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Originally Posted by nmycon

hey guys,

a lot of stores around me are starting to knock a lot of blu-rays down to $9.99 now. And not all of them are old MPEG-2s either, I got Beetlejuice, Major League and Collateral Damage last weekend for $10 each, none of those are in MP2 and all look fantastic considering what i paid (and what the normal price is)

i normally wait for deals, but sometimes i just pick up some $10 blu-rays of older movies that I never heard of when i was younger/never got the chance to see on DVD yet

these include Terminator (yes, i've been living under a rock) and Total Recall, both of which have become notorious for their "bad transfers"

i am not bashing either movie, i enjoyed both of them and would probably give each a 3.5/5 for PQ considering the age, budget and film quality

however, i was wondering if there are any of these cheap movies that i should be avoiding because a re-release is in the works... i know this happened with The Fifth Element, but that was only about 1 year after the original "mess" was released, it has been almost 4 years since Terminator and Total Recall were released (i remember someone saying a re-release of Total Recall would be out in september of 2006)...

thank you for anyone who took the time to read through all of this, and any replies would be appriciated

EDIT: also, i know that the UK version of Total Recall supposedly looks better than the US, but i dont have a credit card... also, is there any difference between the original US release and the 2007 Canadian Special Edition release?

Well, I know the Total Recall SE DVD looked horrible. Very noisey, and piss por detail, almost VHS quality. So I can believe the BD probably isn't much better if it wasn't properly mastered.