The Criterion Collection

[javy]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

The first 2 Home Alones are great IMHO and they are my top favorite Christmas films along with many others of course.

When i was a kid i would play Home Alone over and over to the point my Aunt hid it from me. I still love it.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by javy

When i was a kid i would play Home Alone over and over to the point my Aunt hid it from me. I still love it.

Haha that's funny! Yeah they are great and I love part 2 even more.

[shadedpain4]

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me out? I was looking for the Criterion thread, and i thought I had saved the correct link, but it led here and no one seems to be talking about anything remotely related to Criterion.

It's too bad too, that was a good thread.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me out? I was looking for the Criterion thread, and i thought I had saved the correct link, but it led here and no one seems to be talking about anything remotely related to Criterion.

It's too bad too, that was a good thread.

Oh it still is. All threads discuss all different kinds of films.

[BagheeraMcGee]

Originally Posted by mja345

Best John Hughes film: "She's Having a Baby"

Just joking. It's not very good. But it does have one of the greatest trailers of all-time. Used to see it on the "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" VHS all the time when I was a kid." i thought that movie must be awesome based on the trailer, but, alas, it wasn't. But the trailer is badass.

Ah, yes, "Music From A Found Harmonium"! When that song was used in "Napoleon Dynamite", first thing I thought was, "Oh, they used the music from the 'She's Having A Baby' trailer and sped it up".

The other great John Hughes teaser was the "Some Kind Of Wonderful" trailer where it's basically nothing but Watts (or a drummer dressed up like Watts) drumming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ftMhYcEiA

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by Lyndor

crap, so the $61 copy of pierrot le fou i won on ebay was the DVD version(seller listed it wrong).

obv i'm going to open a case, but i might as well go for the studio canal version and save $40 right?

EDIT: Don't really expect an answer to this, i think the consensus IS the studio canal version. im just venting

I don't think that is the consensus. I've owned both and the CC has much better PQ.

next go around... that is, if you're going to get a refund, $61 is too much. you could probably do better.

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me out? I was looking for the Criterion thread, and i thought I had saved the correct link, but it led here and no one seems to be talking about anything remotely related to Criterion.

It's too bad too, that was a good thread.

as I was scrolling through the posts to catch up, I thought the exact same thing.

I actually hope that either Sixteen Candles gets released soon or that mja's theory is correct. (actually pulling for the latter.) one mention always seems to lead to discussions about everything 6 degrees separated from Molly Ringwald.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

It's too bad too, that was a good thread.

Meh, it was okayish.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by bsend

My understanding is that it's not very accurate to the actual Sid Vicious story.

Very few (if any) biopics are actually that faithful to the real story. Movies have to pick, choose, condense, and create drama to make the story flow in under 2 hours, and tell the best story possible, not the most accurate one.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

Very few (if any) biopics are actually that faithful to the real story. Movies have to pick, choose, condense, and create drama to make the story flow in under 2 hours, and tell the best story possible, not the most accurate one.

For a closer look at the Sid Vicious story, I recommend the 1994 memoir, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, by John Lydon (Johnny Rotten).

It's obviously told from one point of view, but it's pretty convincing and solid.

There's one moment in Sid & Nancy that I seem to remember and love, even if it is probably a dramatization moment. As Sid is playing one of his less-than-spectacular solo shows at a dive, Johnny Rotten is watching from a distance with tears in his eyes.

[Trekkie313]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I like that more and more people are realizing what a horrible character that Ferris is.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

I like that more and more people are realizing what a horrible character that Ferris is.

Yeah I just felt the film had so much more potential for it's concept and to be edgier as well. It belonged to a different director and writer IMHO. I'm also not a Matthew Broderick fan either so that didn't help.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

I like that more and more people are realizing what a horrible character that Ferris is.

I cannot support this assessment.

Ferris Bueller's agenda during the day, for the most part, is to help his friend, Cameron, and he accomplishes this in style.

He's a bratty teen in so many ways, but his heart is ultimately in the right place.

There is a lot about this movie that inspires eye-rolling, of course, and I've always theorized that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one reason why many poverty-stricken and malnourished third world terrorist types really hate Americans. Still, it's one of the happiest movies ever made, and I love it dearly. Besides, one could probably make the same accusation about Michelangelo Antonioni's "alienation trilogy", where we are expected to empathize with immaculate-looking bored socialites who all won the genetic lottery (Somehow, I always do empathize with them.).

I've never had a tragic life situation that was not at least partially alleviated by watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Better Off Dead, and Real Genius all in a row.



(...and yes. It does chap my tail that Real Genius is being released on a BD-R by Sony.)

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Oh it still is. All threads discuss all different kinds of films.

Hopefully they'll just merge the entire site into one thread.

[Scottie]

John Hughes was a hack. His films were bad, his characters were worse.

And I agree with everyone else. What the hell is happening to this thread?

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Hopefully they'll just merge the entire site into one thread.

I really do think you'll survive the discussions. You can always start a new one. Plenty of threads do it and have multiple discussions going on at the same time for whoever wants to participate in said discussions.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me out? I was looking for the Criterion thread, and i thought I had saved the correct link, but it led here and no one seems to be talking about anything remotely related to Criterion.

It's too bad too, that was a good thread.

You have stumbled into the Bizarro Criterion Thread. It is an unexplained anomaly that sometimes occurs right after Criterion's official announcements are made. It generally corrects itself after a day or so but some strains such as the Le Samourai virus may linger for an indeterminate time.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

I really do think you'll survive the discussions. You can always start a new one. Plenty of threads do it and have multiple discussions going on at the same time for whoever wants to participate in said discussions.

Someone did start a discussion. It was Riff Magnum.

Are you suggesting I start *another* Criterion thread?

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Someone did start a discussion. It was Riff Magnum.

Are you suggesting I start *another* Criterion thread?

No another discussion relating to Criterion on this thread

[jedidarrick]

My dad would be so proud to see all these people talking about Hughes films.

Speaking of, I want Sixteen Candles to be released before the year ends so I can get two copies: one for me and one for dad. Yeah he has the regular Blu but what Hughes fan WOULDN'T want to see a 4K restoration?

Some people may not like the idea of Criterion releasing teen comedies, but I'm okay with it. Criterion releasing Hughes or Heckerling tickles my fancy. I almost thought of the idea of them releasing Heathers, but most of the New World Pictures movies are being released by Arrow.