What BD Announcement Would Absolute Floor You?

[Member-222782]

THE NEVERENDING STORY with packaging in the style of the book from the film, a Director's Cut with interviews with the cast.

WATERWORLD 3-hour cut without the cable TV edits (Jean Tripplehorn's ass didn't make the longer cut that was released on DVD)

FRIGHT NIGHT II on Blu-ray

And I'd like to wake up and realize the news that THE ABYSS won't be coming out until 2014 was just a terrible nightmare

[rkolinski]

After reading the below, I would say The Best Years of Our Lives.

MGM asked Marketing Research Industries to create a marketing proposal for the release of "The Best Years of Our Lives" on BD
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2007sprin...RS/Fdr2B_1.pdf

[Mr. Eddy]

I'd say I, the Jury (the '82 version) takes the cake as far a release I really want but never expect to happen, the only release on any format so far that I'm aware of is a VHS from CBS/FOX back in the late eighties. Runner-up would be David Cronenberg's Crash which did get a good DVD release but considering it hasn't been released anywhere on Blu-ray yet a U.S. release seems highly unlikely.

As far as recent announcements go, House of Dark Shadows was pretty flooring. I was expecting just a Warner Archive release as I figured they wouldn't think it would make enough profit for a Blu-ray release but thankfully I was proven wrong.

[Nailwraps]

-Original Theatrical Versions of the Star Wars Saga
-Phantasm
-Cats Don't Dance
-Disney Shorts
-Criterion releases of Brazil and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World

[amoergosum]

Criterion Collection >>> region free

[Guydowood]

Tombstone: Kurt Russel's Cut - Hollywood Legend has it when this movie was filming it went through several director's and Russell himself directed many scenes and it had a different tone/feel to it before George P. came on board.

Halloween 666: The Producer's Cut - sans a bootleg

3000 Miles to Graceland - When the film finished shooting, Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell disagreed about the way the film should feel. The studio let both stars edit their own versions which were then shown to test audiences. Russell's cut was more comedy oriented and focused on his character's relationship with Cybil (Courteney Cox) while Costner's was more action oriented.

M*A*S*H - The Complete Series

[melbye]

Arrested Development Seasons 1-3

[HelmutNewton]

The Devils (1971), uncut.

Until The End Of The World (1991), director's cut.

[arcadeforest]

I would have to say Song of the South. Besides that I would have to go with The Stoned Age. Love this movie but seriously doubt it will ever make it to blu-ray.

[yojoeski]

Originally Posted by KubrickFan

Since Criterion has released a multitude of Kurosawa movies on DVD, that last statement is absolutely bogus.

Furthermore, they release several titles every month, don't pretend they're being lazy by not releasing just what you want.

Did you not notice that the title of the thread asks about BLU RAY releases? And if it isn't laziness, or at the very least stubbornness, how do you explain acquiring a newly restored, near pristine print of Rashomon for a blu-ray release and then simply letting it sit for almost 3 years? This print was acquired at the very latest in 2010 and I've heard it may have been acquired in 2009. They are just letting this print sit somewhere and are doing absolutely nothing with it. Also, how do you explain that in 2009, they made the statement that within 12-18 months of the release of that god-awful AK 100 boxset, they would release Madadayo on its own? Here we are 2 1/2 years later and it hasn't even so much been mentioned for a standalone release. And of course let's not forget how they simply let Ran go back to StudioCanal less than a month before its release without even lifting a finger to try to retain the rights.

If it's not laziness then it's blatant arrogance and stubbornness and its basically something that seems to have occurred in the last 3 years or so because they never had any period of this length (well over a year, last release was July 2011 and if we get an announcement next month then it would be released in November which will be 16 months) without a release when they were releasing his movies on dvd. Honestly, I very seriously doubt we would have the ones we do had 2010 not been the man's 100th birthday. We might have Seven Samurai but I would bet money that we wouldn't have Yojimbo/Sanjuro.

Stuff like this along with their utterly laughable prices as well as their snobbish attitude that they exude and encourage in their fan base is the reason why whenever I do buy their stuff, I buy it from a private individual used. I own quite a few of their dvd's/blu-ray's but Criterion the company has never seen one dime of my money and that will not change and as I said it's mostly because of bullshit like this.

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by KubrickFan

Since Criterion has released a multitude of Kurosawa movies on DVD, that last statement is absolutely bogus.

Furthermore, they release several titles every month, don't pretend they're being lazy by not releasing just what you want.

Great point! Just goes to show:

You can please all of the people some of the time, or you can please some of the people all of the time.
Or some people are just never satisfied, period!

My BD annoucement shockers: 80's fantasy movies!

Hawk the Slayer
Krull
Sword and the Sorecer
Willow(US release)

[retablo]

Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring
Forbidden Games
Bergman's faith trilogy (Through A Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence)
Rohmer's Six Moral Tales
Twin Peaks complete TV series
The Shield complete TV series
A US release of the Herzog/Kinski box set
Anything by John Sayles

[retablo]

Originally Posted by yojoeski

Did you not notice that the title of the thread asks about BLU RAY releases? And if it isn't laziness, or at the very least stubbornness, how do you explain acquiring a newly restored, near pristine print of Rashomon for a blu-ray release and then simply letting it sit for almost 3 years? This print was acquired at the very latest in 2010 and I've heard it may have been acquired in 2009. They are just letting this print sit somewhere and are doing absolutely nothing with it. Also, how do you explain that in 2009, they made the statement that within 12-18 months of the release of that god-awful AK 100 boxset, they would release Madadayo on its own? Here we are 2 1/2 years later and it hasn't even so much been mentioned for a standalone release. And of course let's not forget how they simply let Ran go back to StudioCanal less than a month before its release without even lifting a finger to try to retain the rights.

If it's not laziness then it's blatant arrogance and stubbornness and its basically something that seems to have occurred in the last 3 years or so because they never had any period of this length (well over a year, last release was July 2011 and if we get an announcement next month then it would be released in November which will be 16 months) without a release when they were releasing his movies on dvd. Honestly, I very seriously doubt we would have the ones we do had 2010 not been the man's 100th birthday. We might have Seven Samurai but I would bet money that we wouldn't have Yojimbo/Sanjuro.

Stuff like this along with their utterly laughable prices as well as their snobbish attitude that they exude and encourage in their fan base is the reason why whenever I do buy their stuff, I buy it from a private individual used. I own quite a few of their dvd's/blu-ray's but Criterion the company has never seen one dime of my money and that will not change and as I said it's mostly because of bullshit like this.

LMAO ahh good ole speculation. Doesn't equal fact. Hyperbole doesn't become you, either, since Kurosawa has been pretty much the #1 guy at Criterion since they began... hence, he's the most represented director in the collection. Buy guess what? Those took years to come out, they didn't all get released the same day. I guess patience is lost on some people, yet complaining reigns high! i guess if you're truly fed up with their efforts (which you aren't), then you shouldn't buy they titles anymore.

[Seymour]

[Lsalas76]

La Bamba
Selena
Star Wars trilogy unaltered
Chicago Bears Greatest games 1985 Season
Thundercats complete series 80s(although I wouldn't mind having the new series on blu too)

[Mr. Movie Fan]

Oley Sassone's "Fantastic Four" from 1994.

[Another_Dude]

Iron Eagle


No sequels necessary.

[FrmPeru]

Rawhead Rex

[Dickieduvet]

Flesh Gordon

[Mark Dogg 250]

Green Street Holigans, US Release!! ... Everyday I check for all announcements, and whenever I see that Warner Bros. logo I get all excited, only to be continuously let down as WB continues releasing their other catalog titles!!