Any point in waiting for these to be released?

[kinko]

Hey all, this is my first post so please be nice.
I'm totally sold on BluRay and have decided to list my favorite 50 movies of all time and buy them one by one on what I figure will be the last physical format for video, this is quite a watershed as I never bought DVD's (or VHS for that matter).
My problem though is that there's quite a number of titles that are either region locked (I reside in region 2) or show no sign of being released at all.
Can anyone here have a look at the titles below coloured in RED and BLUE and let me know if think I'm wasting my time waiting for their release?
Many thanks:


AVAILABLE PURCHASED IMPORT ONLY STILL NOT ON BD


Kill Bill – Quentin Tarrentino

Death Proof – Quentin Tarrentino

Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg

There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson

12 Monkeys – Terry Gilliam

Evil Dead II – Sam Raimi

Memento – Christopher Nolan (Waiting for the re-issue)

Die Hard - John McTiernan

Predator - John McTiernan

Collateral – Michael Mann

Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle

American Beauty – Sam Mendes

Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis

Aliens – James Cameron


Akira - Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry

Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarrentino

Dune - David Lynch

Spider-Man 2 – Sam Raimi (Don't want the box set)

Mad Max – George Miller (Region Locked)

The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner (Region Locked)

Dawn of the Dead (Remake) – Zack Snyder

Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis

Gattaca – Andrew Niccol

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut – Trey Parker


Schindlers List – Steven Spielberg

Raiders of the Lost Ark – Steven Spielberg

Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson

Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones

Dancer in the Dark – Lars Von Trier

Dogville – Lars Von Trier

Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton

Before Sunrise/Before Sunset – Richard Linklater

High Fidelity – Stephen Frears

Airplane! - David Zucker

Star Wars (New Hope/Empire) - George Lucas (now has a release date)

Annie Hall – Woody Allen


The Bourne Identity – Doug Liman

Stranger Than Fiction – Marc Forster

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation – Jeremiah S. Chechik

Austin Powers – Jay Roach

The Thing - John Carpenter

Mulholland Drive - David Lynch

The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan

2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick

The Shining – Stanley Kubrick

Heat – Michael Mann

Children of Men – Alfonso Cuaron

Big Fish – Tim Burton

Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont

The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers

[chip75]

I'd imagine all the titles in blue will be out on blu at some point apart from Spider-Man 2. I'd get the Spidey set while it's cheap or you're going to have to wait a while. Finding Nemo should be out after The Incredibles so some time this year.

[pro-bassoonist]

[kinko]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

This one seems to be still only available on import, I've moved it to RED.
Thanks.

[Adrock]

I am just curious, but I am not sure I see the point of your thread. What is your alternative if they are not released? ....Just wait longer until they are?

[kinko]

Originally Posted by chip75

I'd imagine all the titles in blue will be out on blu at some point apart from Spider-Man 2. I'd get the Spidey set while it's cheap or you're going to have to wait a while. Finding Nemo should be out after The Incredibles so some time this year.

Thanks,
I know what you are saying about Spiderman Box set, I just can't bring myself to pay good money for the third installment! especially when I know that you can buy them separately in Region 1

[KingSimba]

I'd say most if not all of the titles you've listed in red or blue will be out some day on Blu-ray in the UK.

Finding Nemo is very likely to get a release late this year.

Punch-Drunk Love was once getting a release in the UK but for some reason got cancelled by Sony, which is who its distributed by.

As chip75 said, you may aswell get the Spider-Man box set if you really want Spider-Man 2, and then just sell the others if you want to.

Raiders of the Lost Ark along with the rest of the Indy trilogy will definitely be out some day, I would have said this year but I am not sure if George Lucas would release that aswell as the Star Wars Saga in the same year.

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is distributed by Warner in the UK, and not Paramount like in the US where its out now.
But I'd imagine Warner will eventually get to releasing it aswell.

Pulp Fiction is very likely to get a release one day, due to its popularity if nothing else.

As for the rest of your listed titles, they'll also get here.. eventually.

It can sometimes be a pain waiting though, theirs loads of catalog releases I would pre-order straight away if they got a UK release, and alot of them are already out in the US but I refuse to import, even if they're region-free.

[Adrock]

Originally Posted by chip75

I'd imagine all the titles in blue will be out on blu at some point apart from Spider-Man 2. I'd get the Spidey set while it's cheap or you're going to have to wait a while. Finding Nemo should be out after The Incredibles so some time this year.

I would also agree with Chip, though. Most of the ones that are not released yet, most likely will be, some of them are already announced for release in 2011.

[kinko]

Originally Posted by adrock41

I am just curious, but I am not sure I see the point of your thread. What is your alternative if they are not released? ....Just wait longer until they are?

Lately, I've found myself checking blu-ray.com, highdefdigest and my amazon wist list many times a week for announcements on these releases!
It's becoming a real bore and I suppose I'm getting a little frustrated at the slowness of the release schedule for Blu Ray in general (I'm just impatient)

So, I suppose the purpose of my thread is to gain an insight into the forums collective opinion on release schedules. For instance I had given up on many of the titles listed in blue but I'm heartened to hear already that chip75 thinks they are likely to be released at least some time in the future!

[Adrock]

Originally Posted by kinko

Lately, I've found myself checking blu-ray.com, highdefdigest and my amazon wist list many times a week for announcements on these releases!
It's becoming a real bore and I suppose I'm getting a little frustrated at the slowness of the release schedule for Blu Ray in general (I'm just impatient)

So, I suppose the purpose of my thread is to gain an insight into the forums collective opinion on release schedules. For instance I had given up on many of the titles listed in blue but I'm heartened to hear already that chip75 thinks they are likely to be released at least some time in the future!

I see. Your best bet is to keep an eye on both the US and UK (possibly other Region B sections as well, France, Germany, etc.) section of the forums, and also the News feed on the home page. Most news regarding upcoming releases are either posted in the News section of forum, or by individual users under the respective region or country the release will originate from. If you check regularly, you will find a lot of news about upcoming releases that way. Other than that, unfortunately the BD release wagon can be a slow one, hop on and wait with the rest of us.

[Bk_Tan]

Anniversaries. Check 'em.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by kinko

Thanks,
I know what you are saying about Spiderman Box set, I just can't bring myself to pay good money for the third installment! especially when I know that you can buy them separately in Region 1

I thinking you're missing out, you may enjoy the blu-ray more than the film/DVD. With the new series filming the studios may want to distance themselves by not re-releasing them separately giving the public time to forget about the third film.

It's not the worst film ever made, it ties up the trilogy and it has got a disc of extras. £8 each still isn't bad even if you throw Spidey 3 in the bin. Which would be a shame.

[Firstborn]

At the very least Spiderman 3 is a good demo disc for Blu-ray... the sand looks amazing, you can literally see individual grains of sand.... and... err.... Kirsten Dunst looks HOT in her short skirt and tights at the end.... or something

Watch it once, stick it on the shelf, ain't doing no harm there

[tuxqi]

I'm not sure why Akira is taking so long to be released here, but like others have said. they will all be on blu over here eventually.

[addyjones1234]

Spiderman box set is £13 at some places. I know at CEX you could get £5 each for the other two...

[kinko]

Thanks for the replys everyone.

It's good to hear that you reckon the outstanding titles will at some point see the light of day in Hi-Def, I just have to learn to be patient!

I suppose the reason for my frustration on these is that I know in the back of my mind that Digital Download technology is coming down the road and at the rate some of these titles are making it to market I'm worried the distributors won't bother with a physical release if DD is established by then.

With regards Spiderman, there seems to be a general consensus that the cheap box set is the way to go. I think I'll buy it and give the 3rd film as a present to someone I don't like.

[richieb1971]

By the time 2012 comes around peoples wishlists of catalog titles will probably diminish to less than 5 titles. I'm pretty sure by the end of this year we will see the big hitters all being released.

[huntauk]

I'm not 100% confident that all my favourite films will make it to the UK on Blu as they never even got a dvd release however titles such as Inferno give off some morsel of hope.

This year already sees 6 of my all time favourites on the calender: Thin Red Line, Platoon, Manhunter, Tenebrae, Dont Look Now and Once Upon A Time In America. With Lion King also a cert for October; and the Star Wars boxset and obscure gems such as Ashes And Diamonds announced I'm more thna happy waiting for the rest. Lets face it they only stagger the releases as the majority of us couldn't afford buying all the titles at once.

[kinko]

Thought I'd revisit this post, as it's now 1 year old, and see whats changed. At the time of posting I was quite frustrated by the slowness of studios to re-issue good movies to blu ray, but I think the significant changes to this list, in terms of the re-ordering, show that things aren't as bad as they seemed back in '11.
*caveat - some films previously in 'Import only' I went ahead and bought as they were region free. Evil Dead & Momento have been re-issued but these versions are region locked to U.S. and I'll wait for a UK release.

AVAILABLE IMPORT ONLY STILL NOT ON BLU RAY PURCHASED

There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
Akira - Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones
Star Wars (New Hope/Empire) - George Lucas

Spider-Man 2 – Sam Raimi (Individual release coming soon)
Mad Max – George Miller (Region Locked)
Evil Dead II – Sam Raimi (re-issue_Region Locked)
Memento – Christopher Nolan (re-issue_Region Locked)

Schindlers List – Steven Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark – Steven Spielberg
Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson
Dancer in the Dark – Lars Von Trier
Dogville – Lars Von Trier
Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset – Richard Linklater
High Fidelity – Stephen Frears

The Bourne Identity – Doug Liman
Stranger Than Fiction – Marc Forster
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation – Jeremiah S. Chechik
Austin Powers – Jay Roach
The Thing - John Carpenter
Mulholland Drive - David Lynch
The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
Heat – Michael Mann
Children of Men – Alfonso Cuaron
Big Fish – Tim Burton
Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont
The Matrix - Wachowski Brothers
Kill Bill – Quentin Tarrentin
Death Proof – Quentin Tarrentino
Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg
12 Monkeys – Terry Gilliam
Die Hard - John McTiernan
Predator - John McTiernan
Collateral – Michael Mann
Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle
American Beauty – Sam Mendes
Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis
Aliens – James Cameron
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarrentino
Dune - David Lynch
The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner (Region Locked)
Dawn of the Dead (Remake) – Zack Snyder
Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis
Gattaca – Andrew Niccol
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut – Trey Parker
Airplane! - David Zucker
Annie Hall – Woody Allen

[yeslek]

Originally Posted by tuxqi

I'm not sure why Akira is taking so long to be released here, but like others have said. they will all be on blu over here eventually.

I got a friend the Akira SB for xmas from amazon.co.uk...not sure why you think its unavailable
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Akira-Collectors-Steelbook-Blu-ray-DVD/dp/B004QOT098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328092604&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Akira-Blu-ra...8092604&sr=8-3

also, Pulp Fiction has been out for a few months now (there was a Play.com SB but I believe its been out of stock since xmas).
the ameray is still available though
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pulp-Fiction-Blu-ray-Uma-Thurman/dp/B005FE6ZLY/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1328092633&sr=1-2



EDIT - nvmd, you've just updated. lol