GoodFellas (1990) (25th Anniversary Edition)

[Majin Blu]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Having no new master is funny to you, how?
Like a clown funny?

It amuses me!
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[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

You constantly mentioning the shinebox makes me wonder how awesome it would be if a deluxe version of this 25th anniversary would be packaged in a shoe shine box packaging:

It would have to come with a print of this

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Vinyl's just had its best sales for 18 years in the UK, point being that people do still want physical media especially when there's a perceived increase in quality and more of a sense of ownership, like with the lovely gatefold covers and exclusive remixes and whatnot. Or perhaps we just have more hipster douchebags over here, I dunno.

I had read that Vinyl has been on the rise over here (U.S.) too. I imagine in addition to ownership, some of it is nostalgic and the collectible/classic feel of it all. In 30-40 years, we might be reading this about Blu-ray, ha.

[Axl Rose]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Having no new master is funny to you, how?
Like a clown funny?

where you going, you dizzy muthafu*ka you

[brian9229]

You jagoffs should really get back on topic.

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Having no new master is funny to you, how?
Like a clown funny?

It's funny, you know. There is no new master, it's funny, you're a funny guy.

[I KEEL YOU]

If Warner give us the same transfer, we all need to act like De Niro in this scene:

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

If Warner give us the same transfer, we all need to act like De Niro in this scene:

Someone should photoshop the blu-rays into his hands.

"NO REMASTER?!?! Warner brothers all those drugs are turning your brains into mush!!"

[wesslan]

Hoping for a new transfer and new hd audio but yes it's Warner.....

They are a very strange company since they have embraced Atmos on blu-ray that so very few can play but upgrading the picture quality on really really old movies seems to elude them

[Geoff D]

Yeah, but re-encoding the audio requires less intervention than re-encoding the video, never mind pulling the neg/IP and doing an entirely new transfer. Warners usually follow the path of least resistance.

[Pieter V]

Please send Warner Bros an e-mail stating we want to know the tech specs.

http://www.warnerbros.com/help/customer-service

My e-mail is sent. The more the better.

[I KEEL YOU]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yeah, but re-encoding the audio requires less intervention than re-encoding the video, never mind pulling the neg/IP and doing an entirely new transfer. Warners usually follow the path of least resistance.

1. A restoration and re-scaning is expensive and requires both money, time, skill and effort. It can be VERY expensive depending on the shape of the negative. But I'm pretty sure Goodfellas is in good shape.

2. A re-scan only requires some effort, but is still very doable. Smaller labels do this if the film is provided to them by the major studios. For example Arrow and The Burbs. If Arrow can do it with The Burbs, Warner not doing it with Goodfellas is beyond inexcusable.

3. A simple re-encode with a new codec and a higher bit rate of an existing master (which would help Goodfellas much more than other movies) is no problem whatsoever. I swear, if I was an employee in Warner's home video section, I would work overtime and do it for free, to show the consumers at least some respect.

I'm putting all my faith in Marty and will also hold him accountable if they give us the same faulty master again. He has the power to make them provide a better video transfer if he wants to, I'm sure of it. I've already mentioned the Spielberg-Universal example. And Scorsese would be a hypocrite if he didn't intervene, after endorsing the blu ray format with praise for its ability to showcase grain structure and his praise for the blu ray releases of The Searchers and such.

[I KEEL YOU]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Please send Warner Bros an e-mail stating we want to know the tech specs.

http://www.warnerbros.com/help/customer-service

My e-mail is sent. The more the better.

I already sent mine on a different Warner home page contact site, but I will also do it in the link you provided just to be sure.

[klauswhereareyou]

No remaster=no sale. I'll just stick with the two-disc dvd set I picked up years ago if there's no remaster.

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

I'm putting all my faith in Marty and will also hold him accountable if they give us the same faulty master again. He has the power to make them provide a better video transfer if he wants to, I'm sure of it. I've already mentioned the Spielberg-Universal example. And Scorsese would be a hypocrite if he didn't intervene, after endorsing the blu ray format with praise for its ability to showcase grain structure and his praise for the blu ray releases of The Searchers and such.

The problem with this is, Scorsese's a busy guy, he's probably not sitting at home watching his own movies on Blu-ray. Warner Bros. probably isn't going to tell him what the old disc looks like (and even if they do, who knows if the person who actually says that even knows what they're talking about), and so it's all dependent on whether or not he's going to ask to see it. I can believe they just call him and say "it's the 25th anniversary of GoodFellas, and we'd like to interview you," he says "all right," comes in one day, does it, and then doesn't think about it. As people who are really invested in Blu-ray, we know about Warner's many quirks, but I don't know if he has any reason not to just assume the technicians there know what they're doing.

[The Great Owl]

I still do not own Goodfellas on Blu-ray, despite having seen the movie about a thousand times.

This upcoming release might light that fire under my tail.

[slimdude]

I'm not going to rebuy Goodfellas for any reason because, I already have the digibook, (which I only paid $7.00 for it brand new) and that's good enough for me.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Please send Warner Bros an e-mail stating we want to know the tech specs.

http://www.warnerbros.com/help/customer-service

My e-mail is sent. The more the better.

Morrie, you'll get your tech specs. You just got to stop busting balls. You hear me? Everything's going be fine.

[I KEEL YOU]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

The problem with this is, Scorsese's a busy guy, he's probably not sitting at home watching his own movies on Blu-ray. Warner Bros. probably isn't going to tell him what the old disc looks like (and even if they do, who knows if the person who actually says that even knows what they're talking about), and so it's all dependent on whether or not he's going to ask to see it. I can believe they just call him and say "it's the 25th anniversary of GoodFellas, and we'd like to interview you," he says "all right," comes in one day, does it, and then doesn't think about it. As people who are really invested in Blu-ray, we know about Warner's many quirks, but I don't know if he has any reason not to just assume the technicians there know what they're doing.

Again, Spielberg is at least just as busy and he's been heavily involved with releases of Jaws, Schindler's List and others. And I'm not even saying that Marty should, like Spielberg, supervise the re-scaning process. He could make a simple request: Either release the movie properly or don't release it at all. And if he can't control what Warner release, he could at the very least refuse to appear in the new featurettes if Warner didn't oblige.

Besides, wasn't Marty directly involved with Criterion's Last Temptation of Christ release??



Isn't he involved with many restorations, like Richard III? Doesn't he have a whole friggin "World Cinema Project" on blu ray???



He'll make sure that an obscure Senegalese film from 1973 looks great on blu ray, but he doesn't have time for Goodfellas. Um, okay...

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I still do not own Goodfellas on Blu-ray, despite having seen the movie about a thousand times.

I bought the original blu release when it first came out and watched it once still not over the fact that now what has it been released 3 times on blu still that poor DVD quality audio and everything on a 25GB disc. The movie was / is always such a huge catalog title seller putting money into a better release seems like a no brainer.