The Abyss 4K UHD (1989)

[Spearmint701]

My copy is supposed to be here Monday from Amazon, but has yet to ship, and now I see it is OOS. So I'm guessing it will not be here Monday.

[FingolfinFinwe]

Received Target pre-order today.

[JMDiaz718]

FYI - the Amazon copy came with one of those weirdly cut slipcovers. Like the one used for Prey.

[KcMsterpce]

Originally Posted by bluetuned

Cameron has always had a great eye for how far he can push vfx before it starts to feel fake. Not all directors do. Almost everything in T2 and Titanic still totally holds up these days as well.

He was conservative on its use in the 90s. The main reason, though, was time constraints and budget. It was expensive as heck to make T2 CGI effects, and it was so new and slow to produce that he had to be very selective on when to use it.

I don't know how anyone could say JC still has "a great eye for how far he can push VFX" these days. I mean, Avatar is an animated adventure that sometimes has humans in it.

[bluetuned]

Originally Posted by KcMsterpce

He was conservative on its use in the 90s. The main reason, though, was time constraints and budget. It was expensive as heck to make T2 CGI effects, and it was so new and slow to produce that he had to be very selective on when to use it.

I don't know how anyone could say JC still has "a great eye for how far he can push VFX" these days. I mean, Avatar is an animated adventure that sometimes has humans in it.

His tastes have shifted, but he's still one of the most notorious perfectionists in the business. You can't really argue that Avatar isn't incredible looking for what it is. Compare how Avatar looked against the Star Wars prequels. Both event films from cinema titans who could basically make something look as good as their imaginations wanted. The prequels look brutal in comparison.

Now you can certainly debate whether they're worthwhile movies or not...

[Shane Rollins]

The Walmart on the Black Horse Pike in Turnersville (in the giant shopping center with the McDonald’s) has squat of either title. They do however have more SteelBooks than you can shake a stick at, so if that’s what you’re into at least they’re there. But sadly no Aliens, no The Abyss, no True Lies.

The girl also gave me the same “making light of Walmart’s disorganization” shtick that they always give when something’s not in stock. Nothing like the Target answer, which is something I still can’t make sense of.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Tok

The whole point of these low cost items is to get people into the store. If you tell potential customers you don’t have it less potential sales on other items.

Precisely. It's a half-thought-out system. They're telling potential customers they don't have the item they're looking for and not to come in to look for it and while they're there maybe look around and buy something else, when they actually have it in stock, and maybe even multiple copies. Baffling.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

Okay, your store has one copy of the Abyss on the shelf & you place a pickup order. And in the time between then & when a picker goes to electronics to get the item, an instore customer picks it up and puts it in their cart. Now it's a nilpick, and they move on to the next item on their picklist, and your order gets canceled. So which one's worse: "this item not available for pickup order", or "there's one in the store so you can order it but oops, someone else got to it first"?

The one where the store lies to you and tells you they're not in stock when they may have up to 3 copies is worse.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by starmike

What is this spammy trend people are doing here where they feel they have to post the same thing three times (once in each thread)? Are people that desperate for attention?

I mean, I guess it's okay to say over and over how much you like it, but not okay to post over and over how much you don't like it?

[starmike]

Originally Posted by mar3o

I mean, I guess it's okay to say over and over how much you like it, but not okay to post over and over how much you don't like it?

I'm talking about how people copy/paste the same statement in three threads, good OR bad.

[bluetuned]

Originally Posted by kcmsterpce

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

What! Is this a common issue with this 4K Blu title?

No.

[Llrj67]

Originally Posted by Spearmint701

My copy is supposed to be here Monday from Amazon, but has yet to ship, and now I see it is OOS. So I'm guessing it will not be here Monday.

I pre-ordered this and Aliens months ago on Amazon thinking when I did that I would be reserving one of the copies they had on hand, but I guess it just meant that I was reserving the right to maybe get it at a later date since it says now that they will notify me when it’s available.

[Llrj67]

Originally Posted by mar3o

The one where the store lies to you and tells you they're not in stock when they may have up to 3 copies is worse.

This sounds like Best Buy but since they’re out of the business which store said they had them. They never showed available at any store nearby including B&N which surprised me.

[lfpeng]

Originally Posted by lfpeng

I pre-ordered from Amazon immediately when it became available with release day delivery. Just got a delayed e-mail with 3/16 delivery.

Shipped "early" with delivery tomorrow (3/15).

[HBAngel]

Abyss and True Lies were just delivered from Walmart. Regardless of the debate on the transfers, it’s pretty cool to actually be holding these in my hand. I wore the laserdiscs out in the 90’s.

Speaking of Laserdisc, I will never forget walking into Tower Records and seeing the Abyss SE boxest for the first time. Being that these were the ancient times before the internet, the release was a complete surprise. I had read the novelization months before the film was released to theaters, so I knew there was potential additional material that didn’t make the theatrical version. To have that much footage added back to a film was almost unheard of in those days. Despite being a starving student, I snapped that $100+ box set lickety split.

[buckeye1]

I received my copy of The Abyss about an hour ago. Earlier today I ordered Aliens and True Lies from Bull Moose, both listed as in stock so I jumped on both of them. Keeping my fingers crossed that both ship out and just ship out when they get more in stock since my credit card shows a hold on those already.

[Member-222782]

And all 3 shipped from Atomic

[PrestigeWorldwide]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

At least try it on your PS5. Even I have x800 m2 but I do count on my Panasonic players

Tried it on the X Series first, stuttered and skipped in the same spots without the annoying freezing for 10-20 seconds on the X800M2. Oddly enough, the disc played smoothly on the PS5. Still plan on exchanging the disc. There's some defect/damage if it's stutterinng on the Xbox as well.

[mdhaus]

I got my copy from Amazon yesterday...and as is typical with Disney and their insane decision to keep stacking the 4K disc in their packaging, my 4k disc has a really long circular scratch and a vertical scratch as well. I'm so done with that stupid company.....

Back to Amazon it goes.