Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[Rich Pure Doom]

I have plenty of TT titles and I know their business model well, it's just that when you've budgeted a certain amount of money for some movies, and your cart shows up 10 bucks extra, it's a little annoying.

[Rich Pure Doom]

How long do you guys expect Nuremberg and Alcatraz to last? I might not be able to pick them up till end of next month.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

How long do you guys expect Nuremberg and Alcatraz to last? I might not be able to pick them up till end of next month.

With the exception of a few 80s horror titles, the quickest-selling TT titles were The Train and Rollerball. Both of these went two full months before going Out of Print. The "end of next month" is only a month away, so I would think you're fairly safe.

[Rich Pure Doom]

Thinking about pulling the trigger on this order:

Heaven Knows. Mr. Allison
Major Dundee
Man Hunt
Born Yesterday
Drums Along The Mohawk
Picnic

Any reason I shouldn't?

[oildude]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

Thinking about pulling the trigger on this order:

Heaven Knows. Mr. Allison
Major Dundee
Man Hunt
Born Yesterday
Drums Along The Mohawk
Picnic

Any reason I shouldn't?

You have excellent taste. I recommend all of those. PQ is very good, the roughest being Major Dundee, which still has a quality transfer and looks as good as it every will. The Major is one of my favorite westerns, a first class Peckinpah film with one of Charlton Heston's best if little seen performances. I just wish we could have seen it the way Peckinpah originally intended.

I am also a huge fan of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison. This was a blind buy that finally made me acknowledge I am a fan of Robert Mitchum. Deborah Kerr is quite good in her understated role as a nun. Outstanding film, one of John Huston's best in my opinion.

I have written a user review of Picnic under its database entry. I like the movie a lot.

Drums Along the Mohawk is first class John Ford, with an outstanding documentary as an extra. The cinematography and set piece scenes are frequently iconic, and could be blown up into movie posters, especially Claudette Colbert's scene on the hillside as she watches her husband's militia troop march off to war. The color looks gorgeous.

Not a dog in that bunch.

[Sukie]

I would love to see TT release The Thorn Birds

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Sukie

I would love to see TT release The Thorn Birds

Aside from that being a Warners title, I know that one of the heads of Twilight Time finds the accents in that hysterically funny and can't even keep a straight face watching the trailer, so I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

Thinking about pulling the trigger on this order:

Heaven Knows. Mr. Allison
Major Dundee
Man Hunt
Born Yesterday
Drums Along The Mohawk
Picnic

Any reason I shouldn't?

I have not seen Major Dundee yet, but all of the other titles are spot-on.

I echo what oildude said above about Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Drums Along the Mohawk, and Picnic.

Man Hunt is one of my absolute favorite Twilight Time titles, and it's a remarkable WWII-era call-to-arms from Fritz Lang.

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

Thinking about pulling the trigger on this order:

Heaven Knows. Mr. Allison
Major Dundee
Man Hunt
Born Yesterday
Drums Along The Mohawk
Picnic

Any reason I shouldn't?

I've got all of those TT Blu-rays, and all are well-worth seeing. PICNIC is one of my all-time favorites, and the others are films that may seem just okay on the first viewing but seem to increase in depth and interest each time watching them.

Some of that, of course, may be due to the high-quality HD image if the first time watching was just on TV or VHS, or even DVD. Story and execution may be important but the visual details and textures visible are far more important than average viewers satisfied with streaming, digital copies, and DVDs realize, contributing immensely to both entertainment and comprehension -- especially on a first-time viewing, but adding to the replay value as well.

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

Thinking about pulling the trigger on this order:

Heaven Knows. Mr. Allison
Major Dundee
Man Hunt
Born Yesterday
Drums Along The Mohawk
Picnic

Any reason I shouldn't?

It's easily over $100, so I would wait until the next signing promotion and see if you can snag a free film.

[pedromvu]

Just watched The Twilight Samurai and it is outstanding, even if the pace is slow i found it to be engrossing from start to finish, now i am really hoping to see the review of this because the streaming source i used had very bad quality, and it seems the dvd releases weren't that good either.

[anthonyls]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Just watched The Twilight Samurai and it is outstanding, even if the pace is slow i found it to be engrossing from start to finish, now i am really hoping to see the review of this because the streaming source i used had very bad quality, and it seems the dvd releases weren't that good either.

So the PQ was really good???

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by anthonyls

So the PQ was really good???

I meant it was pretty bad, so here is hoping the blu ray has a better source

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Just watched The Twilight Samurai and it is outstanding, even if the pace is slow i found it to be engrossing from start to finish, now i am really hoping to see the review of this because the streaming source i used had very bad quality, and it seems the dvd releases weren't that good either.

Originally Posted by anthonyls

So the PQ was really good???

What I got from his post was that he streamed it, and the quality was bad (I saw it on Netflix about a year ago, and I don't recall that the quality was particularly good). So he's hoping to see a review of TT's release.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

With the exception of Major Dundee, TT was testing out different price points when they first started. The Egyptian was priced at $39.95 where as some of the other titles were priced at $34.95. TT eventually settled on the $29.95 price point but any previous titles which were originally released at the higher price point retained that higher price.

Major Dundee is a bit different. Since it was a 2-disc set TT raised the price to $34.95.

Did all 3000 copies of The Egyptian sell at the $39.95 price? A relatively obscure movie like that selling out at such a high price point is pretty impressive. What was it about that movie that made it sell out like that?

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by jayembee

What I got from his post was that he streamed it, and the quality was bad (I saw it on Netflix about a year ago, and I don't recall that the quality was particularly good). So he's hoping to see a review of TT's release.

The first Samurai movie from that trilogy (Twilight Samurai) is not going to impress too much I'm afraid (unless they sourced from a better master than the Japanese HD DVD). It's softer than the other two, probably a 3.0/3.5 PQ. But it's so engrossing that thoughts of less than perfect PQ disappear pretty quickly. Still I'm hoping to be surprised.

[bruceames]

My latest order with the signed Salvador just shipped.

[cgurley]

Originally Posted by bruceames.

My latest order with the signed Salvador just shipped.

My order with the signed copy shipped, as well.

[erlinmeyer]

Originally Posted by bruceames.

Did all 3000 copies of The Egyptian sell at the $39.95 price? A relatively obscure movie like that selling out at such a high price point is pretty impressive. What was it about that movie that made it sell out like that?

It came with a magnet it's still on my refrigerator ... other than that it was at a time when the $5 and $10 BDs weren't very common, one of the first TT put out and had a great transfer. Don't regret paying $39.95 at the time and have watched it once a year since getting it.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by bruceames.

Did all 3000 copies of The Egyptian sell at the $39.95 price? A relatively obscure movie like that selling out at such a high price point is pretty impressive. What was it about that movie that made it sell out like that?

The film was a pretty big deal in its day - it was the bestselling foreign novel in the US until the 80s and an international publishing sensation - and it's one of the few epics that Fox never released on DVD themselves, making it the missing link in many people's collections.