Blu Ray Choices Driving Me Crazy

[Pitman]

I bought a Blu Ray player last month, taking a chance that it would win the format wars.

As a died in the wool movie buff, seeing movies at their best video quality is very appealing to me.

However, I have to say that I am more than a little frustrated at the choices studios have made when it comes to what past or current movies to release on to Blu Ray. For every excellent movie, like a Memento or a Blade Runner or a No Country For Old Men, there seem to be about 20 to 30 times as many just plain bad movies released. I can't understand this.

I mean, it would be one thing if Blu Ray were an established format and every movie, bad or good, was getting released on it. But that's not the case. Does anybody think that the Blu Ray audience is going to build when forgettable or just plain bad movies like Arlington Road, Phone Booth, The Sixth Day, Flight of the Phoenix, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are released instead of true classics, critical and financial successes, and/or cult classics?

G.I. Jane? Really? THAT was an early Blu Ray release?

It drives me crazy when, with so relatively few Blu Ray discs out there now, studios are announcing titles like Mr. Magorium. But I can at least understand the desire to release recent titles on Blu Ray. Decisions to release Blu Ray titles such as Battle of the Bulge, Swordfish, or Twilight Zone: the Movie are just beyond me. How many people would prefer to see the 1965 dog Battle of the Bulge versus another possible Warners Brothers release such as The Matrix? Just curious.

I would like to think that the studios would concentrate more on getting "must have" Blu Rays on the market in order to grow it.