The Criterion Collection

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Wasn't the original story from his daughter or something?

And the films cover art is so memorable and strong

Brilliant film

the whole movie is shot from the point of view of a little girl. if you watch it with that in mind much of the stuff makes actually alot more sense
its one of my favorite criterion "fun" movies.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

the whole movie is shot from the point of view of a little girl. if you watch it with that in mind much of the stuff makes actually alot more sense
its one of my favorite criterion "fun" movies.

Theres also a lot of imagery to represent the change from a young girl to a women - read read an article somewhere that goes into more depth - which when you look at it its pretty obvious lol

It is very fun but also does have those serious moments

When Kunfû fights the planks though... "This is ridicolous!" (or w/e the line was lol)

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by JeffTheMovieGuy

lol the aristocrats

One of the most bizarre things that I've ever seen. It plays like a Nickelodeon TV episode but with blood, nudity, eeriness, and just plain weirdness. lol.

I'm not gonna lie, I laughed quite a bit at it, especially the character of Kung Fu.

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

I thought Auntie's beau went out like a boss

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by iScottie

One of the most bizarre things that I've ever seen. It plays like a Nickelodeon TV episode but with blood, nudity, eeriness, and just plain weirdness. lol.

I'm not gonna lie, I laughed quite a bit at it, especially the character of Kung Fu.

That is what makes it so great is you can laugh at it. Its awesomely bad. The first time I saw it I laughed the entire time and by the end of the movie I had a huge smile from how campy it was. Ive suggested this to all my friends.

[Polaroid]

The girls in were perfect

Loved the cute chubby one bless her lol - then the well incident XD

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

The girls in were perfect

Loved the cute chubby one bless her lol - then the well incident XD

Its a toss up between Kung Fu and Harmony for me on cuteness and wife material.

I loved how the theme song kept playing over and over and over then you had Kung-Fu's musical cue which was just awesome!

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by JeffTheMovieGuy

Its a toss up between Kung Fu and Harmony for me on cuteness and wife material.

I loved how the theme song kept playing over and over and over then you had Kung-Fu's musical cue which was just awesome!

Omg and the Mattress rape! :O

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Omg and the Mattress rape! :O

Harmony was the one that ran into the piano from Mario 64.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by JeffTheMovieGuy

Harmony was the one that ran into the piano from Mario 64.

Ah yeah - I just got excited when I remembered the mattresses lol

Need to rematch now got all excited about it lol

The piano scenes are great

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Ah yeah - I just got excited when I remembered the mattresses lol

Need to rematch now got all excited about it lol

The piano scenes are great

When I did my unboxing video I actually started to hum that song

[Polaroid]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkl...tte_shortfilms

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[pro-bassoonist]

Red River Blu-ray



Hello Snicket,

I received the final version today. Below are some photos I've taken for you (and the community). (More photos in the review).

It is a rather large box set because the novel is included with the Blu-ray.

Have a wonderful weekend Snicket, and everyone else

Originally Posted by Snicket

What's the packaging like for this? I'm curious because of the novel.

Pro-B

[pro-bassoonist]

Our review will be up soon.

Pro-B

[Scottie]

Damn, that Red River case is HUGE.

Thanks for the pictures!

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Red River Blu-ray



Hello Snicket,

I received the final version today. Below are some photos I've taken for you (and the community). (More photos in the review).

It is a rather large box set because the novel is included with the Blu-ray.

Have a wonderful weekend Snicket, and everyone else







Pro-B

Wow what a great package! - is that first Bluray to get a book with it? I know DVDs had books with certain releases - but never for the Bluray version.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

is that first Bluray to get a book with it? I know DVDs had books with certain releases - but never for the Bluray version.

That depends on how you want to look at it. It's (at least as far as I know) the first Blu-ray (in North America, anyway) to have the novel packaged with it. There are certainly some Criterion packages that had hefty-enough booklets that they qualify as books (Seven Samurai and The Battle of Algiers come to mind). It's unfortunate that Criterion didn't include Walter Tevis's novel of The Man Who Fell to Earth with the Blu-ray -- it was in the earlier DVD release.

There are also Collector's Editions of some titles that actually include large format hardcover books. Some of the ones I have are The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, and Lawrence of Arabia.

Anyway, the closest thing I know of in terms of included fiction was a Target Exclusive edition of Jack Reacher that included a paperback of a Reacher novella.

[RandyK]

If Criterion upgrades Vampyr, hopefully they include the book that included the script and Carmilla like they did on the DVD.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by RandyK

If Criterion upgrades Vampyr, hopefully they include the book that included the script and Carmilla like they did on the DVD.

Just a guess, but they probably will. I have no doubt that it was long enough (a tad over three years) between when The Man Who Fell to Earth came out on DVD and Blu-ray that Criterion didn't have the license for another special printing of the novel. And being one of their first Blu-ray releases, they were probably being conservative with the packaging.

The Vampyr material is probably not in copyright ("Carmilla" definitely isn't' not sure about the script), so it wouldn't be an issue. And now that Criterion has a large catalog of Blu-rays under their belt, they can be more extravagant with the packaging.

(I just checked my copy of Vampyr. The book does cite a published source for the screenplay, along with a permission acknowledgment, so it's not in the Public Domain.)

[filmmusic]

Magnificent Obsession is coming on German Bluray (along with All that Heaven Allows) on May 22th.
Do you think it could be in Criterion's next announcement too?
I really hope so!!