Ruthless People

[meremortal]

Originally Posted by Leonard Maltin

Yikes. Trash like "Dirty Dancing" gets 4k, but this hilarious movie can't even get 2K.

A lot of people might forget the cultural impact of the film. The soundtrack alone was 11x platinum and pretty much every time (I've Had) The Time of My Life plays in stores/restaurants or wherever a few women might sing along. There's definitely a nostalgia with this film and I'd imagine it's been a decent evergreen seller on dvd and blu. The movie was the first to sell over one million copies on vhs. It only had a budget of $4.5m and even then was expected to be a poor performer since it didn't go over very well with test audiences. Swayze had insane heartthrob popuarlity for this and Ghost and kind of surprisingly so considering was already in his mid to late 30s by this time.

[danny24]

Originally Posted by meremortal

A lot of people might forget the cultural impact of the film. The soundtrack alone was 11x platinum and pretty much every time (I've Had) The Time of My Life plays in stores/restaurants or wherever a few women might sing along. There's definitely a nostalgia with this film and I'd imagine it's been a decent evergreen seller on dvd and blu. The movie was the first to sell over one million copies on vhs. It only had a budget of $4.5m and even then was expected to be a poor performer since it didn't go over very well with test audiences. Swayze had insane heartthrob popuarlity for this and Ghost and kind of surprisingly so considering was already in his mid to late 30s by this time.

Yeah Dirty Dancing is a bigger movie than Ruthless People. I like Ruthless People better but the end of Dirty Dancing is classic. I bought the 4K UHD for that reason alone. Swayze and Grey were brilliant in it.

Disney needs to license this one out to a label that will put it on Blu-ray. Just sick of them sitting on classic films like this. They still make some money off of it since it's licensed if they ever choose to do so. They have so many unreleased classics the money they could make off of license fees alone for distribution are crazy.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Disney They need to hurry up and release The Ref on blu too.

“It’s just garnish.”

We watch that on VHS every Christmas. It will probably never come out due to both Disney and Kevin Spacey, which is a shame. The old DVD is still in print from Disney and will most likely get a run from Mill Creek.

[R0CK0X]

Originally Posted by figrin_dan

What about the dustbuster scene? Or the chief 'not killing' the prostitute?

I remember my mom and dad being in the room when I was watching the TV version as a kid:

Dad: What are you watching?
Mom: Ruthless People. They think he's killing that girl.
Dad: Uh-huh. And what are they doing instead?
Mom: Uhm...something else.

Love this movie.

[kevint1972]

I don't understand Disney's strategy for their Touchstone / Hollywood Pictures movies. They've released some of the best known titles themselves, they've licensed some to Mill Creek and Kino Lorber, but there's a lot of well known titles like this and Stakeout and even Three Men And A Baby, which are still unreleased. If they aren't interested in releasing them, why don't they just licence them? They can't all be waiting for James Cameron to approve the transfers.

[danny24]

Originally Posted by kevint1972

I don't understand Disney's strategy for their Touchstone / Hollywood Pictures movies. They've released some of the best known titles themselves, they've licensed some to Mill Creek and Kino Lorber, but there's a lot of well known titles like this and Stakeout and even Three Men And A Baby, which are still unreleased. If they aren't interested in releasing them, why don't they just licence them? They can't all be waiting for James Cameron to approve the transfers.

I don't get why either. Kino Lorber I am sure would love to release Ruthless People, Encino Man, Stakeout, Three Men and a Baby, Down and Out In Beverly Hills, What About Bob?, Can't Buy Me Love, Metro (Eddie Murphy) to name a few more wanted catalog. They got a whole boatload of them to license out if you also add in the Fox titles as well. It's hard to understand because they make some money off of it the label has to pay licensing fees. Maybe they just want you to pay to stream them.

[meremortal]

They have their own weird criteria and are basically squatting these movies now, which I don't get in most cases. Something like Stakeout isn't going to be shown on Disney+ in the US. I get that titles like the Pauly Shore movies are still probably good sellers on dvd. But I don't see why they wouldn't release them on blu or quietly hand them over to a boutique label. It's not like their brand will be diminished. They complain about streaming and then don't even offer their entire catalog on Disney+ or keep most of these catalog films around $17.99 for digital purchase.

[Borges123]

Not sure where to put this but why isn't this thread linked on the official page for this?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ruthl...Blu-ray/43068/

[fitprod]

Originally Posted by Borges123

Not sure where to put this but why isn't this thread linked on the official page for this?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ruthl...Blu-ray/43068/

Because the "official page" is user generated. Ruthless People has never been announced for release.

fitprod

[Shane Rollins]

While there’s inevitably more, the only Touchstone movie I know to be on streaming is The Nightmare Before Christmas, and that’s only because Disney decided TNBC wasn’t a Touchstone film anymore. Of the rest, some lucky ones made it to Blu-ray, but well over half are still stranded on DVDs.

Some, like The Ref, are a letterbox laserdisc transfer dropped on a DVD. So an awful transfer that was used to produce awful tapes and awful laserdiscs in the 90s was then used to create an awful DVD, and that awful DVD is still “the best” that’s out there in 2024.

Even more insulting, watch J. K. Simmons’ bit from the 2022 Oscars. They play a quick scene from The Ref, and it’s fully restored. It’s at least a damn good 2K master. Disney is not just sitting on movies, but superior finished transfers as well. The Ref was not a special occasion. There are inevitably hundreds if not thousands of other movies where restored transfers are just sitting there. Consider these same 20+ year old DVDs are still circulating, better transfers exist, and me and millions of others have poured lots of our hard-earned money into Disney, it’s a serious kick in the balls when they do this.

[danny24]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

While there’s inevitably more, the only Touchstone movie I know to be on streaming is The Nightmare Before Christmas, and that’s only because Disney decided TNBC wasn’t a Touchstone film anymore. Of the rest, some lucky ones made it to Blu-ray, but well over half are still stranded on DVDs.

Some, like The Ref, are a letterbox laserdisc transfer dropped on a DVD. So an awful transfer that was used to produce awful tapes and awful laserdiscs in the 90s was then used to create an awful DVD, and that awful DVD is still “the best” that’s out there in 2024.

Even more insulting, watch J. K. Simmons’ bit from the 2022 Oscars. They play a quick scene from The Ref, and it’s fully restored. It’s at least a damn good 2K master. Disney is not just sitting on movies, but superior finished transfers as well. The Ref was not a special occasion. There are inevitably hundreds if not thousands of other movies where restored transfers are just sitting there. Consider these same 20+ year old DVDs are still circulating, better transfers exist, and me and millions of others have poured lots of our hard-earned money into Disney, it’s a serious kick in the balls when they do this.

This sounds like a broken record after all these years. If they would just license their catalog out labels like Shout, Arrow, Kino Lorber, Criterion would love to do Blu-ray and UHD releases of some of their back catalog.

Of course it's the mouse were talking about here. Pretty sure $$$ signs are all they really care about. You want Ruthless People in 1080p, fine go pay $17.99 and stream it.

It's like they dont want the boutique labels to have these titles because they just want or think people will just pony it up and pay for the streaming versions.

I don't know why they won't license titles out but I hope they do at some point. Lots of great movies that would look better on Blu-ray and UHD and the boutique labels always have to pay licensing fees. Apparently though not good enough for the mouse.

[R0CK0X]

"You get urine injected? Why?"
"It promotes weight loss."
"Does it work?"
"YEAH, IT WORKS!"

I love this movie so much. Hopefully we can get a bluray in time for the movie's 40th next year.

[renegadeviking]

its $17 that streaming takes away like Tubi would under free account. This movie is on Tubi. at least hollywood released a dvd.