The Criterion Collection

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by llj

I said this a few months ago, but the next 5 or so years could be pretty rough on that front. A lot of the icons and celebrities we grew up watching as kids are collectively starting to hit "those" years now...people thought 2016 was an anomaly but these next few years might be like the 80s when a lot of the Golden Age Hollywood stars started passing en masse because they hit those twilight years.

"Twilight years" is one thing. Some of these folks are dying way too early. Miguel Ferrer was only 61 -- younger than me! And several others from 2016 were still in their 60s (David Bowie and Alan Rickman, to name three). Of course, most of these younger ones were from cancer.

[hoytereden]

Since the Arrow Region B release of Brute Force used "The HD master of Brute Force was created by the Criterion Collection". Does that mean it would require little or no further restoration to be released? Arrow released their BD in 2014 and the review is very positive on all aspects.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Of course, I'll also add that, since my mother is going through chemo treatment for breast cancer now, the deaths of celebrities/entertainers do not have quite the same punch.

I'm rather the opposite. As I just mentioned in a previous post, there are a lot of people dying at a fairly young age from cancer. I've known several people who have had cancer (some have survived, some not). Included in the ones who have not are both of my parents, and a great uncle who was one of my role models growing up. And I'm a survivor myself. So the cancer deaths of celebrities I admire hit hard.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I was thinking of this the other day when I bought tickets for the Duran Duran concert here in Atlanta in a couple of months. When one of the band members of Duran Duran inevitably passes away, I'm probably just going to close my doors and curl up in a fetal position in my living room for a couple of days. That band was basically my adolescence in a nutshell.

I was thinking the same thing when I bought ZZ Top tickets for their March appearance at the Houston Rodeo. I have always meant to go see them live, and I figured if I didn't do it soon, they would likely retire or one of the beards would pass away and the band would stop touring.

All of the bands I grew up listening to in the 1970s and 1980s are getting very gray now. I am also going to see Joe Ely next weekend. I last saw him in the late 1980s at a small bar in North Texas and I have never forgotten the manic energy and the hard-driving Tex-Mex and Texas Country Rock that wailed out of his guitar as he bopped around the stage and out into the audience. I suspect now that he is about to turn 70, he has slowed down considerably, but his music and his voice are still as good as ever.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by llj

I said this a few months ago, but the next 5 or so years could be pretty rough on that front. A lot of the icons and celebrities we grew up watching as kids are collectively starting to hit "those" years now...people thought 2016 was an anomaly but these next few years might be like the 80s when a lot of the Golden Age Hollywood stars started passing en masse because they hit those twilight years.

I thought about that myself recently. Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Christopher Plummer, Clint Eastwood, Max Von Sydow are just a few guys I grew up watching, all in their 80s now and some pushing 90. They're not going to be around much longer, which is a sobering thought.

[Knaldskalle]

Cheer up, guys. We'll have Justin Bieber around for a loooong time to come.

[Marlow]

Originally Posted by octagon

While you're browsing just be aware that Criterion's 50% flash sales are 50% off their MSRP and not 50% off their regular prices. It's still a great sale (esp since their free shipping threshold is a pretty reasonable $50 and you get a $50 coupon if/when you finally hit $500 in total purchases) but it can be a little jarring if you think titles they normally sell direct for $32 are going to be $16 during a flash sale.

Thanks. i figured that would be the case. I'm thinking the Zatoichi set will probably be $100 after the discount? I've been really tempted to just get it from Amazon

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by oildude

I was thinking the same thing when I bought ZZ Top tickets for their March appearance at the Houston Rodeo. I have always meant to go see them live, and I figured if I didn't do it soon, they would likely retire or one of the beards would pass away and the band would stop touring.

All of the bands I grew up listening to in the 1970s and 1980s are getting very gray now. I am also going to see Joe Ely next weekend. I last saw him in the late 1980s at a small bar in North Texas and I have never forgotten the manic energy and the hard-driving Tex-Mex and Texas Country Rock that wailed out of his guitar as he bopped around the stage and out into the audience. I suspect now that he is about to turn 70, he has slowed down considerably, but his music and his voice are still as good as ever.

I hear ya. One of my all-time top five bands is INXS, and I've been a fan of their music since 1983, when I was in fifth grade. I had a few chances to see them when Michael Hutchence was still alive, but I always missed out due to various reasons (college exams, etc.), and I kept telling myself that I would see them "next time." One day, though, there was no next time.
I did end up seeing INXS a few years back when they toured with J.D. Fortune at vocals, and it was a surprisingly good show, but it still hounds me that I never saw them when Hutchence was around.

On the flip side...

I wanted to see my favorite artist, David Bowie, in concert when he came to Atlanta during the spring of 1990 during my senior year of high school. I couldn't talk any of my friends into going with me, though, because they all said that they didn't want to see that (gay slur) in person. I ended up buying one ticket for myself, and I drove the two-hour trip to Atlanta alone to the concert. David Bowie put on an amazing show and played all of his most famous hits, since he was touring in support of a career-spanning box set. I had a great time meeting fellow fans around me at the show, and, to this day, that is one of my fondest concert memories.
In retrospect, I'm so grateful that I made the solo trip to that concert.

The point of all of this is to see them while they are around.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

Cheer up, guys. We'll have Justin Bieber around for a loooong time to come.

You're an evil human being.

[Lastyear]

Originally Posted by oildude

I was thinking the same thing when I bought ZZ Top tickets for their March appearance at the Houston Rodeo. I have always meant to go see them live, and I figured if I didn't do it soon, they would likely retire or one of the beards would pass away and the band would stop touring.

All of the bands I grew up listening to in the 1970s and 1980s are getting very gray now. I am also going to see Joe Ely next weekend. I last saw him in the late 1980s at a small bar in North Texas and I have never forgotten the manic energy and the hard-driving Tex-Mex and Texas Country Rock that wailed out of his guitar as he bopped around the stage and out into the audience. I suspect now that he is about to turn 70, he has slowed down considerably, but his music and his voice are still as good as ever.

Saw Joe Ely open for the Clash. He puts on a good show.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

Cheer up, guys. We'll have Justin Bieber around for a loooong time to come.

That really debunks that whole "Only the good die young" business.

[Jidaigeki]

Originally Posted by Jidaigeki

I just put in Sansho The Baliff and at 0:00:26 during the Daiei logo the are three small, evenly spaced white pixel lines that pop up on the right black bar for what appears to be just one frame.

I've never seen this before on any Blu Ray or DVD.

Does this appear on every copy or is there something wrong with my disc?

If anyone else has this Blu Ray your input would be greatly appreciated.

Is there anyone that can help me with this? I'm very OCD with my Criterions and this is driving me crazy.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by Marlow

Thanks. i figured that would be the case. I'm thinking the Zatoichi set will probably be $100 after the discount? I've been really tempted to just get it from Amazon

Should be just under $100, free shipping, no tax unless you're in NY or KY, and 99 loyalty points earned.

[llj]

Originally Posted by jayembee

"Twilight years" is one thing. Some of these folks are dying way too early. Miguel Ferrer was only 61 -- younger than me! And several others from 2016 were still in their 60s (David Bowie and Alan Rickman, to name three). Of course, most of these younger ones were from cancer.

Unfortunately, when you hit your 60s, it is right around the time when the common major health and disease issues really emerge.

Like someone mentioned, I'm more sad when a young person like Anton Yelchin dies. At least someone in his 60s has had time to make something of their careers. Someone in their 20s-30s dying is just damned tragic though.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by Jidaigeki

Is there anyone that can help me with this? I'm very OCD with my Criterions and this is driving me crazy.

I just checked and it was the same on my copy. So you don't have a bad disc.

[Harakiri41]

Originally Posted by Jidaigeki

Is there anyone that can help me with this? I'm very OCD with my Criterions and this is driving me crazy.

I popped in my BD of Sansho and noticed the same white bars, so you're not alone.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

That really debunks that whole "Only the good die young" business.

It always makes me wonder though, if a guy like Bruce Lee didn't die young. Like, had he lived would he have ended up doing shitty DTV movies during the 90s, or otherwise become a shadow of his former self?

[llj]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

It always makes me wonder though, if a guy like Bruce Lee didn't die young. Like, had he lived would he have ended up doing shitty DTV movies during the 90s, or otherwise become a shadow of his former self?

Could say the same for Marilyn Monroe. She died young and hot, an eternal sex symbol. What if she were allowed to age and went way past her physical prime like Liz Taylor did?

I find that a lot of people really look down on aging and decline. It feeds into the whole "eternal youth" mindset. In the end, people are ultimately shallow.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by llj

Could say the same for Marilyn Monroe. She died young and hot, an eternal sex symbol. What if she were allowed to age and went way past her physical prime like Liz Taylor did?

I find that a lot of people really look down on aging and decline. It feeds into the whole "eternal youth" mindset. In the end, people are ultimately shallow.

Besides porn, film is probably the shallowest industry. If you're old and decrepit, you'll have a pretty hard time continuing to get roles (worse so for females than males). But yes, I do feel humans are innately shallow.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by llj

Could say the same for Marilyn Monroe. She died young and hot, an eternal sex symbol. What if she were allowed to age and went way past her physical prime like Liz Taylor did?

I find that a lot of people really look down on aging and decline. It feeds into the whole "eternal youth" mindset. In the end, people are ultimately shallow.

I wasn't thinking so much about looks and physical appearance. It's just that when Bruce Lee died he was getting his career going in martial arts films. But after a few years, I'm sure he would have tired of that. So would he have quit films altogether, or expanded into dramatic roles, would he have given up acting and become an acclaimed director? He seemed to have a very artistic mind so I could have easily seen him earning praise as a director while maybe making the occasional foray into acting to pay the bills.

Or a guy like James Dean. I'm sure he would have lived the hippie lifestyle big time if he had survived into the late 60s.