Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

That's right. However, you might get lucky on an international release. Funny Girl has been released on Blu-ray in other countries. As far as a U.S. released is concerned, I'd say the chances are slim to none.

Funny Girl is a Sony release. Funny Lady is with TT and not available elsewhere. Yet.

[Yojimbo68]

So last year around this time SAE had a sale on select Twilight Time titles. Any chance of that happening this year?

[KilloWertz]

I'm used to it a this point and I'm not complaining, but even if there wasn't bad weather there, it's not like a lot of people would get their orders shipped on time anyways.

[Region_unlocked]

[gif originally posted by user "jscoggins" (or at least that's the first person I saw use it )]

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Region_unlocked

Is that you bluray_girl_fan?

[Region_unlocked]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Is that you blurayfangirl?

Na, LOL. Should I have credited the OP of that gif? I'm not too up on proper gif etiquette.

[schlock]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Maybe that's why I like them so much.

No flash ads, no 4000 popup, no 64 other ads popping up/under/around/through.
No mandatory video pops when you click from page to page. No screaming birds and other garbage on every single page. When I try to leave, I don't get 42 questions (do I really want to got to another page), do I want to fill out 30 surveys.

Click movies, you get movies. Click Twilight Time I get TT.

Best post ever.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Maybe that's why I like them so much.

No flash ads, no 4000 popup, no 64 other ads popping up/under/around/through.
No mandatory video pops when you click from page to page. No screaming birds and other garbage on every single page. When I try to leave, I don't get 42 questions (do I really want to got to another page), do I want to fill out 30 surveys.

Click movies, you get movies. Click Twilight Time I get TT.

Sounds like you're infested with malware and viruses.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

So last year around this time SAE had a sale on select Twilight Time titles. Any chance of that happening this year?

I suppose there's always a chance. Twilight Time gave 5 days warning last year: the sale started on March 19th, they announced it on Facebook on the 14th. The sale was on the account of their Third Anniversary in business. Whether they choose to do a Fourth Anniversary is anyone's guess.

The cynics among us figured that TT's criterion for selecting the 36 titles that were part of the sale was because they were slow-selling titles. Given that now, a year later, only 2 of those 36 are OOP (Steel Magnolias and Out Man Flint, with the latter going OOP only recently) seems to support the belief.

Anyway, if they decide to do another sale this month, I wouldn't expect them to announce it until it's just about upon us. They wouldn't want their customers to hold back ordering titles on the hope of getting them at a discount price.

Oh, and the sale started the same day as the April 2014 pre-orders. Since TT has moved their pre-order date from the third Wednesday of the month to the last Wednesday of the month, I wouldn't expect a hypothetical sale to happen before the 25th.

[atfree]

Originally Posted by Aclea

I'd second The Heroes of Telemark - the Columbia DVD master isn't ideal but it's infinitely better than the UK DVD which has ridiculous levels of edge enhancement - The Bridge at Remagen and The Victors - but only if it was the 175-minute European cut rather than the censored US general release version cut by half an hour that got released on DVD in the UK and turns up on TV there. There have been rumors of a restoration (possibly including one controversial scene with a child pimping his sister that was cut before the film's release), but the uncut version only turns up on extremely rare revival house screenings about once every decade or so.

I have a feeling we'll be getting The Bridge at Remagen this year, either via TT or Kino. It's been playing regularly on MGMHD, which seems to be a precursor to a BD release.

The Victors has played on Sony Movie Channel HD several times this year, but only in the US general release version. I fear that may be the version we ultimately get if, and when, a BD is released.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Maybe that's why I like them so much.

No flash ads, no 4000 popup, no 64 other ads popping up/under/around/through.
No mandatory video pops when you click from page to page. No screaming birds and other garbage on every single page. When I try to leave, I don't get 42 questions (do I really want to got to another page), do I want to fill out 30 surveys.

Click movies, you get movies. Click Twilight Time I get TT.

Well maybe you get movies when you click it or maybe you wait an hour while the sites crashes. Either one.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Well maybe you get movies when you click it or maybe you wait an hour while the sites crashes. Either one.

Well maybe just about every smallish DVD seller would crash as well if it had a promo for a free signed Fright Night. Silly to expect SAE to add server capacity for such a rare event that lasts only minutes.

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

So last year around this time SAE had a sale on select Twilight Time titles. Any chance of that happening this year?

I would guess yes. They're putting out more titles a month, and for every Fright Night there's at least 2 titles they release each month that probably haven't even fell below 2,000 yet. Like before I'd think it would be a sale of titles that aren't anywhere near 1,000 left.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

I would guess yes. They're putting out more titles a month, and for every Fright Night there's at least 2 titles they release each month that probably haven't even fell below 2,000 yet. Like before I'd think it would be a sale of titles that aren't anywhere near 1,000 left.

I would guess no. Maybe next year (5th year anniversary), but there is a balancing act between having sales to clear excess inventory and protecting the integrity of their business model. If they have another sale this year, then people will simply come to expect them and wait, rather than purchase movies they would have without that expectation. It happens all the time with other labels, and basically becomes a competition on who gets your money based on price.

People have a comfort level paying more for TT movies because they know they will not come down in price. Having an annual sale will undermine all of that. For example, I buy Criterion movies every 6 months only when they are on sale at Criterion.com. I know they will go on sale so I would feel foolish to buy them at the regular Amazon or Criterion price (unless I wanted it so bad I couldn't wait, which is very rare because I always have so many unwatched movies in my collection).

On the other hand holding inventory costs money, and over the years it can build up.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by bruceames.

Well maybe just about every smallish DVD seller would crash as well if it had a promo for a free signed Fright Night. Silly to expect SAE to add server capacity for such a rare event that lasts only minutes.

Then don't offer the promo. Seriously if everyone doesn't have a fair shot. I know the answer will be "whos cares they will sell out anyway and no customers are really going anywhere" and it's true but it's still crappy. If they ever end up selling them somewhere else for the same price then something could actually get done. And im actually one of the people that got in on the promo.

[Widescreenfilmguy]

How does "Then don't offer the promo" make sense? You lost me on this one

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Then don't offer the promo. Seriously if everyone doesn't have a fair shot. I know the answer will be "whos cares they will sell out anyway and no customers are really going anywhere" and it's true but it's still crappy. If they ever end up selling them somewhere else for the same price then something could actually get done. And im actually one of the people that got in on the promo.

Well having the promo is what reels me in to buy so many movies from them, so I don't think that's such a very good idea.

I did mention that Fright Night wasn't the best movie to offer, precisely because of that. It's selling for $75 on ebay and so it will be a feeding frenzy for scalpers. But fortunately this is a very rare occurrence to have the servers crash twice. It was very frustrating for everybody, but fortunately I was able to multitask and get some work done while waiting for pages to load.

The most frustrating part for me was when I got booted off the site after having it in my cart and having to log in again. I got confused when I couldn't see my cart and ended up added the freebie to my cart again. So then after logging in I noticed it was in my cart twice so I wasted 2 clicks and 5 minutes getting it back to where I was. That mistake cost me because I was only a minute late. Oh well, I'm over it now. Not the first time I screwed up on these and have it cost me. But I can't complain because I have won my share.

[murphywmm]

Originally Posted by RodChester

As long as it's still a title they have in stock at Screen Archives you should be ok. Get ahold of Screen Archives and they should take care of you.

Thumbs up for SAE's customer service! They are sending me out a replacement copy.

[jcs913]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Then don't offer the promo. Seriously if everyone doesn't have a fair shot. I know the answer will be "whos cares they will sell out anyway and no customers are really going anywhere" and it's true but it's still crappy. If they ever end up selling them somewhere else for the same price then something could actually get done. And im actually one of the people that got in on the promo.

The bold makes no sense, as there were only 100 or so of these, so it's inherently not fair. TT is the one that offered the promo, not SAE. If there is any fault here, it would be toward TT for not using a different distributor. SAE is just the distributor, like diabolikdvd is. I am quite certain that the same thing would happen to their site if a thousand people logged on at the same time to buy an item. These 'smaller' companies do not have, nor as I have stated, do not need a server that a company like Target needs. This was an hour long thing and frankly, this has happened before for about 15 minutes when Christine was up for pre-order. I would like to hope that people understand that SAE is not Amazon and things like this will happen when there is a rare offering and it is limited. Again, if you want to place any blame, it would be on TT, not SAE. But then again, why blame someone who is giving away an item for FREE...

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by atfree

I have a feeling we'll be getting The Bridge at Remagen this year, either via TT or Kino. It's been playing regularly on MGMHD, which seems to be a precursor to a BD release.

The Victors has played on Sony Movie Channel HD several times this year, but only in the US general release version. I fear that may be the version we ultimately get if, and when, a BD is released.

I fear that too. Though there should be some good extras available for The Bridge at Remagen at least - there was a half-hour promotional making of documentary The War Makers which dealt in part with the astonishing story of the film's production, and Robert Vaughn played himself in a BBC Radio play about the bizarre events (which might be too difficult to license) called Solo Behind the Iron Curtain. An isolated score would be nice as well, but that's only a realistic possibility if TT do it.

For those who don't know, after shooting in Germany or Italy was deemed too expensive, to keep the budget down the producers decided to film the WW2 epic in Czechoslovakia, with the Czech government even allowing them to blow up most of the town of Most. Unfortunately they chose to shoot in 1968, and the Russians spread the rumour that the film was a ruse to allow America to secretly send in troops and tanks and occupy the country and that desperate Czechs were begging the Russian army to liberate then from this American invasion - which, as humanitarians, they duly did that August, causing the film crew to bolt for the border in a fleet of 28 taxis and end up filming in Italy and Germany after all.