Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[arcadeforest]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

They're definitely Saturday afternoon matinee type fare, very similar in tone to Jason and the Argonauts or 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Lots of your classic stop motion setpieces (the Kali fight in Golden Voyage being a particular highlight). John Philip Law and Patrick Wayne are both pretty wooden as Sinbad, but lots of great support from classically trained British actors plus the likes of Jane Seymour and Caroline Munro in the skimpy slave girl type costumes!

Hold on - 1970's Jane Seymour in skimpy slave girl costumes

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

roughly 4 weeks before release date.

Thanks. I hope I'll remember to order it in time.

[jetthead]

Originally Posted by arcadeforest

Hold on - 1970's Jane Seymour in skimpy slave girl costumes

Yes indeed!

[pedromc69]

Any word on if they got Labamba its from colombia .

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Anyone happen to receive THE DISAPPEARANCE yet? Curious on the transfer etc. I'm actually excited for seeing this film for the first time.

I got it and going to watch it in a few minutes

[krasnoludek]

Body Double seems to be sold out again on SAE.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by krasnoludek

Body Double seems to be sold out again on SAE.

Still plenty over at TCM.

[The Great Owl]

I'm hearing a lot of peripheral talk around the campfire about Krull being released as a Twilight Time title someday. Is there any additional clarification on this?

Krull came out during the summer between my fifth and sixth grade years in elementary school. I had the Marvel comic book based on the movie and the tie-in novelization by Alan Dean Foster. Sadly, I never did have a plastic toy Glaive, so I failed miserably at being an 11 year-old Krull über fan, but, believe me, I wanted to have one. I'm holding tightly to my Special Edition DVD right now, but I'll camp out to be the first in line for a Twilight Time preorder if that happens.

[rock, stone]

Originally Posted by jetthead

Yes indeed!

Hmm. Reassessing priorities...

[whiteberry]

I posted this The Blue Lagoon comparison in another thread but it bears reposting here because so many people wish Sony would release these movies rather than TT.

Theatrical Trailer

[Show spoiler]Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray


Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray

The Making of The Blue Lagoon Featurette

[Show spoiler]Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray


Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray

I'll take a TT blu ray over a Sony blu ray any day of the week.

[ROclockCK]

TT sellouts to date:

Christine (Blu-ray):
Feb. 15, 2013 - Feb. 15, 2013
< 1 Day (4.5 to 5 hours)

Night of the Living Dead '90 (Blu-ray):
Sept. 14, 2012 - Sept. 22, 2012
8 Days

Body Double (Blu-ray):
July 24, 2013 - Aug. 7, 2013**
14 Days**

Fright Night (Blu-ray):
Nov. 15, 2011 - Dec. 19, 2011
35 Days

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Blu-ray):
Apr. 13, 2012 - July 11, 2012
90 Days

Mysterious Island (Blu-ray):
Oct. 14, 2011 - July 13, 2012
277 Days

The Big Heat (Blu-ray):
Apr. 13, 2012 - June 21, 2013
435 Days (1 year, 2 months, and 9 days)

The Flim-Flam Man (DVD):
Aug. 9, 2011* - Jan. 28, 2013
538 Days (1 year, 5 months, and 19 days)*

Fate is the Hunter (DVD):
May 10, 2011* - Jan. 23, 2013
625 Days (1 year, 8 months, and 14 days)*

The Egyptian (Blu-ray):
July 12, 2011* - April 25, 2013
653 Days (1 year, 9 months, and 13 days)*

The Left Hand of God (DVD):
Oct. 14, 2011 - Aug. 3, 2013**
658 Days (1 year, 9 months, and 16 days)**


* Calculated from Release Date. Exact Pre-Order Date Unknown, so add approximately 30 days to the date ranges shown here.

** Sell out date on SAE. Also sold out on TCM within hours or days.

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Anyone happen to receive THE DISAPPEARANCE yet? Curious on the transfer etc. I'm actually excited for seeing this film for the first time.

The PQ was great over 4 out of 5 - the film didnt click with me. It had the right pacing/atmosphere but I found it to be rather dull in some stretches.

The ending came out of nowhere which was enjoyable. Some mild gore and a nice nude love making scene.

[ROclockCK]

No lump of coal in my stocking this Christmas...the remaining 2 Harryhausen Sinbad flicks, plus an inspired oddity like Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester and lensed by the late great Geoffrey Unsworth, with Ken Thorne adapted music.

"Fa. La. La. La. Lah!"

[Paul.R.S]

Originally Posted by dsman71

The PQ was great over 4 out of 5 - the film didnt click with me. It had the right pacing/atmosphere but I found it to be rather dull in some stretches.

I'm just curious what you do in a situation like this wherein you (blind?) buy a BD for more than average cost and you ended up, it sounds like, being less-than-impressed with the film and unlikely to watch it again. Will you keep it anyway? Trade it?

[dsman71]

Im weighing my options..all leading to trying to get some money back and buy something else !
At least the Sinbad films wouldnt be blind buys...
I honestly thought the Disappearance would click with me based on everything I read about it. I did give it some thought before the blind buy.
Usually the only movies I blind buy are the Warner Archive titles and Im not even doing that anymore unless its some kind of sale or a horror movie

[Sporkies]

Originally Posted by whiteberry

I posted this The Blue Lagoon comparison in another thread but it bears reposting here because so many people wish Sony would release these movies rather than TT.

Theatrical Trailer

[Show spoiler]Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray


Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray

The Making of The Blue Lagoon Featurette

[Show spoiler]Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray


Sony Blu ray

TT Blu ray

I'll take a TT blu ray over a Sony blu ray any day of the week.

I saw this in the other thread too. I have the TT Blue Lagoon, and it is indeed a gorgeous transfer that was worth every penny. I have to ask though, where did you get those other screencaps? Are you sure they weren't DVD screencaps that were mislabeled? Not only does it (obviously) look atrocious, but the framing seems completely bizarre and off, and the 1.33 pieces do not have black filling them out to 1.78 like would be on a Blu-Ray. The film caps themselves seem to come from a fullscreen release of the film. Something seems off here.

[SpartanIre]

Originally Posted by Sporkies

I saw this in the other thread too. I have the TT Blue Lagoon, and it is indeed a gorgeous transfer that was worth every penny. I have to ask though, where did you get those other screencaps? Are you sure they weren't DVD screencaps that were mislabeled? Not only does it (obviously) look atrocious, but the framing seems completely bizarre and off, and the 1.33 pieces do not have black filling them out to 1.78 like would be on a Blu-Ray. The film caps themselves seem to come from a fullscreen release of the film. Something seems off here.

Not to mention that TT does not do a thing with the transfers. The transfer in this case would actually come from Sony...

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Sporkies

I saw this in the other thread too. I have the TT Blue Lagoon, and it is indeed a gorgeous transfer that was worth every penny. I have to ask though, where did you get those other screencaps? Are you sure they weren't DVD screencaps that were mislabeled? Not only does it (obviously) look atrocious, but the framing seems completely bizarre and off, and the 1.33 pieces do not have black filling them out to 1.78 like would be on a Blu-Ray. The film caps themselves seem to come from a fullscreen release of the film. Something seems off here.

The caps are comparing the extras. The extras on the Sony blu ray are 480i 29.970 4:3 while the extras on the TT blu ray are 1080p 23.976 16:9. It's a huge difference in quality and the Sony blu ray doesn't have all the extras on the TT blu ray.

[Sporkies]

Originally Posted by SpartanIre

Not to mention that TT does not do a thing with the transfers. The transfer in this case would actually come from Sony...

That's true, but that doesn't mean that Sony couldn't have used and older transfer for one release and a newer transfer for another.

Originally Posted by whiteberry

The caps are comparing the extras. The extras on the Sony blu ray are 480i 29.970 4:3 while the extras on the TT blu ray are 1080p 23.976 16:9. It's a huge difference in quality and the Sony blu ray doesn't have all the extras on the TT blu ray.

Oh I see, I missed that the beginning film shots were from the trailer and not the film.

[Partyslammer]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

They're definitely Saturday afternoon matinee type fare, very similar in tone to Jason and the Argonauts or 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Lots of your classic stop motion setpieces (the Kali fight in Golden Voyage being a particular highlight). John Philip Law and Patrick Wayne are both pretty wooden as Sinbad, but lots of great support from classically trained British actors plus the likes of Jane Seymour and Caroline Munro in the skimpy slave girl type costumes!

Speaking only for myself, Harryhausen's last 3 films rarely have the magic any of his prior movies do for me. And I'm a pretty big fan, having bought the amazing 3 volume "Master Of The Majicks" books covering his career. I still have yet to buy Clash Of The Titans (I eventually will) and will get these two Sinbad films as a completest. I watched them both a few months ago when shown on Sony's HD channel after Harryhausen's passing and remembered that aside from his effects work, the movies (especially Eye Of The Tiger) lack the charm of his previous films right up to "Valley Of Gwangi."

So this will leave "First Men In The Moon" which from all accounts will see a Sony/Twilight Time issue in mid 2014 which means an isolated music track which I'm stoked for and finally Gwangi and Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (which has been shown in HD recently) both from Warner Bros and lastly One Million Years BC from Fox which has had a somewhat screwed up release history on dvd (it was missing a few short bits for the US release) since Fox did a "restoration" on it over 10 years ago.