Beetlejuice 4K UHD (1988)

[heavyharmonies]

I saw this movie for the first time in the theater... in 1988... at a midnight show... on LSD.

Some might say that explains a lot.

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by Viking61

As reported in the steelbook forum, there will be a Best Buy exclusive 4K steelbook also. Release date 09/01/2020.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/beetlej...?skuId=6418806

I love these sickly looking colors.

How perfect for a story about “I see dead people”.

[Cholly]

Originally Posted by gkolb

I love these sickly looking colors.

How perfect for a story about “I see dead people”.

Love the inside but kind of hate the outside. Something about that carousel head just doesnt work with the rest of it to me.

[HAL9K]

I was excited until I realized it's not an actual book. LOL! I'll just grab the standard 4K.

[LordSummerIsle]

I love that steelbook art. It's very unique. Just wished I liked the movie. An unfortunate pass.

[5x10]

Instabuy

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by gkolb

I love these sickly looking colors.

How perfect for a story about “I see dead people”.

I see dead ambition and a dead loss

[scala]

Slightly off topic, but in general are the Blu Rays that come with the UHD releases same as/equivalent to the standard/current BR release discs or better than?

[hoejunter]

Originally Posted by scala

Slightly off topic, but in general are the Blu Rays that come with the UHD releases same as/equivalent to the standard/current BR release discs or better than?

Depends on the studio. Sometimes they’ll remaster a new Blu Ray disc and sometimes an old disc will be included

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by hoejunter

Depends on the studio. Sometimes they’ll remaster a new Blu Ray disc and sometimes an old disc will be included

I think it's mostly the old disc though. Studios rarely have a good reason to re-do the blu when they feel that the majority of UHD buyers are in it mostly for the 4K, and the existing blu master is mostly okay.

[buckeye1]

Pre-ordered. Couldn't justify spending $80 or more on a movie box set. The standard 4K is good enough for me.

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

Great news!
Saw the 4k DCP in the theaters the other year, looked good. Some of those glow in the dark colors looked amazing, really made use of the much wider gamut. Detail better too, although it won't be any sort of 4k detail champ, it is 80s film stock and lenses for this sort of film. But does look more natural and wide gamut usage should be really good. HDR might help a bit too but hopefully they don't go too nuts with it. Too often they force an unnatural master on old film when doing HDR (although stuff like MadVR can tweak it back to a mostly pretty beautiful, pretty natural look).

[flyry]

So excited for this and The Goonies on the same day. My childhood is back.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW

Great news!
Saw the 4k DCP in the theaters the other year, looked good. Some of those glow in the dark colors looked amazing, really made use of the much wider gamut. Detail better too, although it won't be any sort of 4k detail champ, it is 80s film stock and lenses for this sort of film. But does look more natural and wide gamut usage should be really good. HDR might help a bit too but hopefully they don't go too nuts with it. Too often they force an unnatural master on old film when doing HDR (although stuff like MadVR can tweak it back to a mostly pretty beautiful, pretty natural look).

Disagree, I thought it had a massive detail boost

[tacotrucks]

Originally Posted by gkolb

I love these sickly looking colors.

How perfect for a story about “I see dead people”.

I like the colors a lot but I'm 50/50 on the actual image choice. Like it's a cool visual but not really iconic to the movie.

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by NotASpeckOfCereal

I think it's mostly the old disc though. Studios rarely have a good reason to re-do the blu when they feel that the majority of UHD buyers are in it mostly for the 4K, and the existing blu master is mostly okay.

WB did it for the Batman films, re-encoded Batman Begins in AVC and gave it a DTS-HD track, The Matrix Trilogy, Unforgiven, The Shining, 2001: Space Odyssey, and prolly others as well. See no reason why WB wouldn't do a new remastered BD.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW

Great news!
Saw the 4k DCP in the theaters the other year, looked good. Some of those glow in the dark colors looked amazing, really made use of the much wider gamut. Detail better too, although it won't be any sort of 4k detail champ, it is 80s film stock and lenses for this sort of film. But does look more natural and wide gamut usage should be really good. HDR might help a bit too but hopefully they don't go too nuts with it. Too often they force an unnatural master on old film when doing HDR (although stuff like MadVR can tweak it back to a mostly pretty beautiful, pretty natural look).

Oh dear

[Dynamo of Eternia]

The Steelbook does look pretty cool. But it doesn't come with collectible chalk!

[hoejunter]

Originally Posted by Dynamo of Eternia

The Steelbook does look pretty cool. But it doesn't come with collectible chalk!

It's all about dat collectable chalk

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by jess1581

WB did it for the Batman films, re-encoded Batman Begins in AVC and gave it a DTS-HD track, The Matrix Trilogy, Unforgiven, The Shining, 2001: Space Odyssey, and prolly others as well. See no reason why WB wouldn't do a new remastered BD.

That you can name a handful of titles that did come with the blu being redone doesn't change the fact that MOST do not.

You seeing no reason for that does not mean that a reason doesn't exist.

Reason (I thought this was already said): COST. It's not free to make the new blu, even though they remastered the film for 4KUHD. They will if they think it's warranted from a sales standpoint (makes it more attractive).

Note: there may come a day when the 4K doesn't even come with a standard blu. It's already happening to some degree.