Sexy Beast (2000) (Limited to 3,000 Copies)

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Originally Posted by balthazar_bee

I don't know why people feel compelled to look back in anger about this. It's an ancient grievance directed at a guy who's been dead for six years. This business about licencing titles that "he had no business touching" seems very silly. I was there too, and frankly people were always a bit hysterical about Twilight Time. Clearly those "wounds" were deep. I missed out on some Twilight Time titles, like many people. But this idea that Redman lost his purity by not staying true to "his original intentions", ehhh I don't know.

Sometimes we who make up this niche market overestimate the demand for this stuff. All the King's Men, to use your example, was available long after it was released (I know, because I bought it during one of their frequent and substantial sales). Most of the other titles you've listed have received subsequent releases. Why do people hang on to a grudge like this? Who cares? As you say, the studios were under no obligation to give these titles to Twilight Time; they did it voluntarily. Why don't people direct any lingering bitterness at those studios? It's just weird, man.

I personally don't hold any bitterness. Like you said, the man and company are dead, the model never meaningfully caught on and a bunch of the major titles they put out have been reissued by other labels in abundance. Sony themselves saw fit to include All the Kings Men in their Columbia Classics Vol 5 set. It's all in the past now. I'm not even saying the hate was ultimately all that justified, the man's intentions were good, but the decisions made resulted in a lot of pissed off people back in the day. It just did. When I say Redman should've stayed in his lane with more obscure fare I'm not saying that in the sense that he was violating his principles in branching out. I mean pragmatically it was a bad idea because it overextended the model beyond what it was intended for and ended up souring a lot of people on the whole idea. As evidenced by the fact that they eventually produced 8,000 total units of "Fright Night".