terrible release announcements

[reginaroadie]

In regards to YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, I'm more excited for actually being able to see this at my local arthouse in April then I am of the actual Blu-Ray disc.

But I will agree that now that the format war is officially over, things are slowing down a bit and it is a little bit depressing. I was kind of on a buying high in Feb with LIFE OF BRIAN, the Kubrick Blu's, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, GONE BABY GONE and MICHAEL CLAYTON. In the next two months, I have only four titles (DOGMA, NO COUNTRY, BONNIE AND CLYDE and BARON MUNCHAUSEN) that I'm going to pick up, and only one of them is a title I'm replacing in my collection. Everything else is something I'm not interested in, or is just a "rent" for me. And the officially announced titles are ones I could care less about. It's the "rumored" titles I find more interesting.

Of course, what one person finds boring and mundane, other's may be excited to get. When I heard LIFE OF BRIAN was being released on Blu-Ray, that got me more excited than BLADE RUNNER, since it's not only my favorite Python film, but it's also IMHO one of the best comedies ever made. And while my enthusiasm was shared by some, other were going "what about HOLY GRAIL? That's a whole lot funnier." To me, this wasn't *****ing, this was just a sign of different people's tastes. And while everyone is waiting to see TRANSFORMERS on Blu-Ray, I was stoked about THE ROCK being on Blu, and that all the Criterion featurettes were being imported, since this was one of the few action movies in my collection, and arguably the only good movie Bay has ever done. So while I could give a shit about SHORT CIRCUIT on Blu-Ray, someone else might be counting the days till it's available.

But I think maybe around the summer, or even in April, that there'll be more news on bigger titles that we'd actually want to see in 1080p. And I'm eager to see if SERENITY, KNOCKED UP and HEROES SEASON 1 are some of the first Universal Blu-Rays announced.