1980 Best Picture Ordinary People Blu-ray

[blurayGeo]

Thank goodness we're at least getting some kind of blu release, even if it is region B. I've been shouting about this film for ages. Now that Paramount has announced their Paramount Presents, line, we can dream of a North American release, maybe at least by 2030, right?

[LMFAObros]

Originally Posted by blurayGeo

Thank goodness we're at least getting some kind of blu release, even if it is region B. I've been shouting about this film for ages. Now that Paramount has announced their Paramount Presents, line, we can dream of a North American release, maybe at least by 2030, right?

It likely depends on if Paramount have remastered this and if they think that people will buy it. Them licensing it out to Shock Ent first is not a good sign as the master(that I watched on Aussie HD PayTV) looked worse than some of Paramounts early BDs and has stretching issues similar to that of The Truman Show

[BlueCotton]

Originally Posted by LMFAObros

It likely depends on if Paramount have remastered this and if they think that people will buy it. Them licensing it out to Shock Ent first is not a good sign as the master(that I watched on Aussie HD PayTV) looked worse than some of Paramounts early BDs and has stretching issues similar to that of The Truman Show

I'm sorry to hear that. Surely someone at Paramount has enough sense to treat this one with the respect it deserves. Crossing my fingers. With the announcement of 'Paramount Presents' saying they will have some theatrical re-releases, can we hope to see Ordinary People in theaters? With the Fathom Events showings setting the example, I was thinking about it again as this year is the picture's 40th Anniversary.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by larrys

I checked out sanity.com.au. ORDINARY PEOPLE is listed there. It is listed as a Region B release, so obviously you need a region free player. Total cost w/ shipping included: $23.58. It is listed at $14.99, but Sanity dropped the cost to $13.63 as I neared checkout. It is not yet listed at fishpond.com.au. I think I will wait to officially preorder until closer to street date. I want to see if Deep Discount or Amazon end up carrying this title. Although, I'm not sure if either one of them would have it cheaper than $23.58.

I just went ahead and preordered it (I have a region free player). Here's a direct link to it on Sanity: https://www.sanity.com.au/products/2...rdinary-People Edit: I also was charged AU$23.58 including shipping to the U.S., or US$13.61 without markup per XE; of course that can change before it ships.

Of the nine Best Picture winners not yet on U.S. BD, this is now the third one to receive a foreign release after The Lost Weekend (1945, UK by MoC) & Hamlet (1948, UK by ITV, other countries by ITV & others). (Kino Lorber is supposed to release The Lost Weekend here, but they haven't announced a date.) And it is by far the newest of the group; the next previous Best Picture still not on BD is Around the World in 80 Days (1956). And it's not for lack of HD masters; when adding streaming versions to the mix, the only Best Picture winner without an HD release is The Life of Emile Zola (1937).

[blurayGeo]

What's crazy is that, compared to those pictures (which many collectors weren't even alive for when they were released) Ordinary People is so extraordinarily not as OLD compared to those other films- it's literally an absolute disgrace that Paramount hasn't given this title the works- I though for sure they'd put together a package after Mary Tyler Moore died...and now, we're at the 40th anniversary, and still no word on a US Blu? Disgraceful- probably too busy re-issuing / repackaging RAGING BULL for the 20th time- hey, I'd get it if Raging Bull lost to ANOTHER STUDIO'S Best Picture that year, but geez- it's like Paramount forgot that THEY PRODUCED THE ACTUAL BEST PICTURE WINNER.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by blurayGeo

What's crazy is that, compared to those pictures (which many collectors weren't even alive for when they were released) Ordinary People is so extraordinarily not as OLD compared to those other films- it's literally an absolute disgrace that Paramount hasn't given this title the works- I though for sure they'd put together a package after Mary Tyler Moore died...and now, we're at the 40th anniversary, and still no word on a US Blu? Disgraceful- probably too busy re-issuing / repackaging RAGING BULL for the 20th time- hey, I'd get it if Raging Bull lost to ANOTHER STUDIO'S Best Picture that year, but geez- it's like Paramount forgot that THEY PRODUCED THE ACTUAL BEST PICTURE WINNER.

Raging Bull is MGM (originally a UA release), not Paramount. Still, it's disgraceful that this is the only Best Picture in over six decades not to appear on even regular BD in the U.S. -- especially since the Best Pictures two years either side of it (The Deer Hunter & Gandhi) are now both out on 4K BD, *and* Paramount has released some of its newer Best Pictures on 4K BD (Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Gladiator).

After receiving the Australian BD, I compared a couple of scenes pointed out by others and confirmed it came from the same poor transfer as Vudu's HDX streaming copy. (Comments in the AU/NZ forum.) Still, it can't be harder to restore properly than Terms of Endearment (won three years later) or even the Godfather trilogy (I & II won the previous decade), all from Paramount. And they certainly don't have the excuses WB has for the next-oldest non-BD Best Picture, Around the World in 80 Days -- first Best Picture shot in Eastmancolor, one negative in extremely rare 30-fps Todd-AO, was owned by Elizabeth Taylor personally prior to WB -- that make it almost inarguably the hardest one of all to restore for BD. (Tom Jones was in much the same boat till Criterion & BFI got hold of it.) But then Paramount is also sitting on The Greatest Show on Earth, perhaps not the easiest 1950's movie to sell but much easier to restore from three-strip Technicolor than later Best Pictures in Eastmancolor.

[blurayGeo]

Is there any way Paramount won't be getting to this, soon? Can a Best Picture please get a blu? Maybe even a Paramount Presents edition?