Kevin Smith high on Blu-ray, plans Chasing Amy BD

[Grubert]

Home Media Magazine

Filmmaker Kevin Smith has an idea for a special Blu-ray Disc edition of his film Chasing Amy. The film’s DVD was released by Criterion, which rejected Smith’s proposal for a 10th anniversary edition because Criterion does not double dip*. However, now that Criterion is releasing Blu-rays, Smith proposes adding new extras to that edition.

“For Chasing Amy’s 10th anniversary, we wanted to put out a fat DVD with a look-back documentary and this Q&A that we had shot a couple years ago with the full cast,” Smith said. “Now we’re going, ‘Hey man, let’s do it as a Blu-ray so it won’t be double dipping. It will be for people who want to own it on Blu-ray. So it’ll have everything that was on that first DVD plus all the extras we want to bring to it.’ But I haven’t heard word back on that yet.”

Smith also joked that his first film, Clerks, shot in black and white on a shoestring budget, should be the last of his films to make it to Blu-ray.

“Clerks on Blu-ray would be a total waste of Blu-ray technology, man,” Smith said. “That’s a movie that I don’t feel needs to be on Blu-ray until Blu-ray is the only format. Then, of course, I would like to see it be on there.”

Smith is a recent convert to Blu-ray. He did not want to rebuy his whole movie collection in a new format, until Paramount gave him a 103-inch TV and Blu-ray player.

“It is the most astounding television I’ve ever seen in my life, until recently they introduced an even bigger one,” he said. “This f***er is so big it looks like one of the small screens at the Beverly Connection. It’s really big, and it sits about five feet from the end of my bed, maybe even less. Maybe two, two-and-a-half feet. I lie down in bed when I watch TV, so you’re right on top of the screen. You’re no longer watching the movie. You’re in the movie.”

As an actor, Smith doesn’t mind seeing himself in high-definition.
“The first movie I watched on Blu- ray was Live Free or Die Hard, and I was really in that movie,” he said. “So I was able to stand next to myself on screen full length and be like, ‘Wow, I’m fatter.’ It was very, very cool. So I fell in love with Blu-ray. Now I’ve been rebuying all the stuff I already have but I don’t care because now I just want to get high and watch a Blu-ray Disc.”

* That's not quite true - they have double-dipped some titles, including Seven Samurai, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Brazil.

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[CheapChildren]

Originally Posted by Grubert

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* That's not quite true - they have double-dipped some titles, including Seven Samurai, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Brazil.

Amarcord
Third Man
Walkabout (about to be a new edition)
etc.

[MAPdead]

Would replace my Chasing Amy dvd with the blu ray also wouldn't mind seeing Mallrats released soon on blu ray.

[BLUE MYSTIC RAIN]

I tried ( but not too hard ) to get a part in Jersey Girl .

[SBrooks1]

Gotta love Kevin Smith

[jappler]

"I just want to get high and watch a Blu-ray disc".

I love it Mr. Smith.

[frankplastictrees]

Mallrats would be very good, but I love Chasing Amy almost as much so this would be very awesome.

[Eternalnow]

All I can say is: Kevin, hurry the f#%@ up and release Chasing Amy on Blu Ray!!!

[Lucy Diamond]

I JUST watched clerks II a couple of hours ago.

[Eternalnow]

Originally Posted by Lucy Diamond

I JUST watched clerks II a couple of hours ago.

You mean, like for the first time?

[AaronSCH]

Originally Posted by SBrooks1

Gotta love Kevin Smith

No I don't. And I don't. Overrated filmmaker to say the least.

[Adam_ME]

Wasn't Chasing Amy shot in 16mm? I don't know how much better it'll look on Blu-ray.


They better fix the framing issue in the train station scene.

[Eternalnow]

Originally Posted by AaronSCH

No I don't. And I don't. Overrated filmmaker to say the least.

lol, speaking of overrated look at your avatar.

[ricky tee78]

Originally Posted by AaronSCH

No I don't. And I don't. Overrated filmmaker to say the least.

i'll never understand why. But most movie-lovers actually HATE Kevin Smith. I'm in NJ so of course we all love him. Just read some of the reviews on rottentomatoes, most of them bash his style. For instance, look at Zach and Miri, and knocked up. 2 Seth Rogen movies with cast members from Judd Apatows Universe, Knocked up got a 91, Zach/Miri got a 64. but I will say I laughed ALOT more at Zach and Miri, and thought it was WAY more original,

I guess you just have fit-in with his style of humor. Which is often very sexual and crude.

[cydetrakd]

i hope all his movies come out on blu soon just saw the headline today and i am stoked. i just got done watching dogma again on blu last night been broke so its rotation time for my blus.

[Kynch]

Originally Posted by cydetrakd

i hope all his movies come out on blu soon just saw the headline today and i am stoked. i just got done watching dogma again on blu last night been broke so its rotation time for my blus.

Is it worth buying?

[Jmills]

I loved Chasing Amy. I'd love to see it on Blu! I'd also like to see Clerks 2 and Mallrats ASAP.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by Jmills

I loved Chasing Amy. I'd love to see it on Blu! I'd also like to see Clerks 2 and Mallrats ASAP.

Clerks 2 is coming out in February.

[Scorch]

Alright. The Chasing Amy BD Canadian release is a week and a half away. Amazon.ca has it on sale for $14 or $15 USD. That's a hell of a deal. Is it Region 1? I'm going to buy it if it is. I love the movie.

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B001RL4K2K

[jstutman]

Originally Posted by Scorch

Alright. The Chasing Amy BD Canadian release is a week and a half away. Amazon.ca has it on sale for $14 or $15 USD. That's a hell of a deal. Is it Region 1? I'm going to buy it if it is. I love the movie.

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B001RL4K2K

Looks like April 7th for R1 USA

Oh and Dogma is par with the DVD, so if you already got it, its just a matter of if you want it on Blu.