The Abyss 4K UHD (1989)

[Ben_UK]

Originally Posted by OA-5599

I got this message from Atomic Movie Store this morning....

"We received notice from UPS today that the vehicle transporting our inventory has had a mechanical failure and our delivery of product has been moved to late evening of March 14. Customer orders with Ture Lies, The Abyss, and Aliens will now be packed when we receive Aliens on March 14 and will be at the post office for shipping Friday March 15."

This flick is truly star crossed hahaha! But, what's a few more days when we've been waiting years?

Maybe it will have to cross a war-zone too before you receive it?

[Jutty]

Originally Posted by WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW

Not to rub a little salt into anyone's wounds, but to rub buckets of sea salt in.... Walmart really came through for me fine this time. I actually got it back on Sunday (yes, Sunday delivery).

But to rub tons of salt into my own wounds.... yeah right as it hits 58:00 it bogs down..

I'm having some sort of issue at the 58 minute mark on the special edition also.,gonna have to get the disc exchanged... i also got mine from wallyworld !!!

[creon100]

I still don't have even an estimated shipping date on my Amazon pre-order. It would be less frustrating if they were even giving me a probable date range.

[paulboland]

Amazon order delivered.

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[Jutty]

Gald you got that nasty lil sticker off !!!

[stonesfan129]

Interesting. My Amazon order says arriving today by 10pm, but it doesn't even show shipped. Amazon Customer Service Chat just hangs up on me if I ask for a tracking number... I guess I will go through Walmart going forward. Why accept pre-orders if you can't meet day 1 demand? That's fraud.

[Croweyes1121]

Originally Posted by stonesfan129

Interesting. My Amazon order says arriving today by 10pm, but it doesn't even show shipped. Amazon Customer Service Chat just hangs up on me if I ask for a tracking number... I guess I will go through Walmart going forward. Why accept pre-orders if you can't meet day 1 demand? That's fraud.

My biggest issue with preordering from WalMart is there’s literally no mechanism to cancel a preorder. It’s happened to me multiple times. Of course, I ordered from Diabolik this time, which also doesn’t let you cancel for anything other than store credit…and it’s been sitting at “shipped” but just label created for over 24 hours. This is just the age we live in now that you can’t just drive to a store and get the darn movie. Sigh. I miss that.

[starmike]

Abyss and True Lies arrived. Aliens probably tomorrow.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by stonesfan129

Interesting. My Amazon order says arriving today by 10pm, but it doesn't even show shipped. Amazon Customer Service Chat just hangs up on me if I ask for a tracking number... I guess I will go through Walmart going forward. Why accept pre-orders if you can't meet day 1 demand? That's fraud.

Amazon does not guarantee release day delivery when you preorder, so it is not fraud. They don't guarantee delivery on any date for any order; they just give an estimate. I do not know of any retailer that makes such a guarantee.

I pre-ordered these from the Disney Movie Club and even they could not get them shipped by release day, yet alone delivered by then. Disney made no such guarantee, either.

I pre-ordered Wish from Walmart and it did not arrive by release day. This sort of thing is not unique to Amazon.

I order online from multiple retailers and delivery estimates are routinely missed; it's not fraud, but just an imperfect world.

[plissken99]

Well I made it through the entire DC last night with no problems on the ole Oppo. This is definitely the best I’ve ever seen this movie look. Most of the time the image is very pleasing and 4K looking. Sporadic shots look fuzzy and or overly smoothed, very mixed bag. We’ll just have to wonder what this could have been like with a true restoration.

Oh and the movie holds up great, still doesn’t feel its length. DC is the only way to fly though I intend to check out the TC at some point. I’d seen that first and wasn’t impressed, when the DC came out I became a fan.

The Dolby Atmos was fantastic, loud clear and overheads are engaged a lot. Mine arrived Tuesday from Amazon no problem.

[starmike]

Originally Posted by stonesfan129

Interesting. My Amazon order says arriving today by 10pm, but it doesn't even show shipped. Amazon Customer Service Chat just hangs up on me if I ask for a tracking number... I guess I will go through Walmart going forward. Why accept pre-orders if you can't meet day 1 demand? That's fraud.

LOL no it's not. It's amazing how people blame Amazon for things when EVERY retailer is having inventory issues.

[South Park]

Finally, I waited 10+ years for this...

[NYGiants Fan]

I don’t know how people are getting shipped/delivery notices, as it doesn’t even show as being in stock at Amazon. There is 1 listed as “Like New” for $50. I pre-ordered first day and all I get is “we’ll let you know when we have an estimated delivery date.” Won’t even waste my time trying to get any info, as anyone I could talk to doesn’t know anything anyway.

[yellowcakeuf6]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

If people have been waiting this long, they can wait a few more days. The irony is that people shun streaming for physical media, then do nothing but complain about getting films on physical media. Slipcovers, cover art, a delay in shipping etc etc etc. It;s boorish and tiresome, and people should learn what matters rather than just trying to be outraged over every little thing. Lots of entitlement and childish behavior for people finally getting what they want.

[traths]

I got an email notice of when True Lies will arrive but still no word on Aliens or The Abyss.

[-JKR-]

Originally Posted by lvri

A director is not here to give people what they want. Abyss and all the others are HIS movies, HIS creation. You have the right to not agree with his choices, to not like his movies, ... But no, he does not have to give what you want, because what you want is not what I want, or what others here want...

James Cameron wants his movies to look shinier and crisper? Alrighty then!

He pulled that off with the HD restorations of The Terminator and Aliens, as well as the unreleased ones for The Abyss and True Lies that used to float around several streaming platforms.

But he definitely should get his eyes checked first, and then go back to Lowry for his restorations instead of relying on AI.

Stuff like the T2, the first Avatar and True Lies remasters is truly unwatchable, REGARDLESS of what his intentions were.

THAT'S THE POINT.

[mjvmovieman]

I preordered The Abyss and True Lies from Target.

Abyss is scheduled for delivery today, True Lies will be on Sunday or Monday.

[yellowcakeuf6]

Originally Posted by stonesfan129

Interesting. My Amazon order says arriving today by 10pm, but it doesn't even show shipped. Amazon Customer Service Chat just hangs up on me if I ask for a tracking number... I guess I will go through Walmart going forward. Why accept pre-orders if you can't meet day 1 demand? That's fraud.

Sounds like it's time for a class action lawsuit.
Personally, I've got nothing to go on. My order hasn't shipped, and Amazon says it's still on track to arrive on time, whatever that may be, because I haven't been given a delivery date.

[mpengle]

Originally Posted by Croweyes1121

Nearing the 24 hour mark for "label created" on my Diabolik order. There's a special place in hell for places that say your order is "shipped" when they really just mean they've got it ready to take to the post office, but who knows when they'll get around to it. SO frustrating.

My order of these on Diabolik still says preorder/backorder and I order with them back in January.

[fkid]

READ BEFORE VIEWING: This comparison is for entertainment purposes only. In motion, this is definitely the best of the 3 recent JC discs. Some shots are much improved, while others only remind us of the potential this had, if it was done without any filtering/AI use, but alas, this is what we got. Colour grading was given a full HDR pass, but note these shots are SDR tonemapped and do not represent accurate HDR colour output. Sadly, the Dolby Vision metadata is just a lazy static brightness mapping, and seemingly added as an afterthought, but at least it's not SDR in HDR container. Actual HDR base layer ranges between approximately 100 and 650 nits, average of ~226, depending on the shot.

THE ABYSS - 1989 - PQ COMPARISON - HD OPEN MATTE WEB vs. UHD BLU-RAY (tonemapped HDR->SDR)