First Blood / Rambo: First Blood Part II / Rambo III 4K UHDs (1982-1988)

[Daz_85]

I held off buying the remastered Australian set due to the framing issues of Rambo II and the over-brightness of III. I wonder/hope this gets corrected now.

[LoSouL]

Thanks for the info guys. I just want to know in case the UHD turns out to be another "so and so blu ray from wherever is still better" debatable situation.

Hopefully the UHD's are just everything they can be, and it'll be a moot point.

[ROSS.T.G.]

If these are great UHD’s these will be on heavy rotation in my theatre.

[cynatnite]

I can already see myself acting out every First Blood scene with the sound blasting. I'm gonna karaoke the song at the end of the movie.

"It's a long road when you're on your own".

[TheSweetieMan]

"They drew first blood, not me!"

[PipesDonatello]

"Whatsa matter Mitch? Don't you like water sports?! Bahahahaha."

[OutOfBoose]

"Don't push it. Or I give you a war that you won't believe it."

[reanimator]

"Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA."

Richard Crenna kills it with that line. Gets me every time.

[Sabre95]

Looks like when these release I'll finally watch these. Have never seen a Rambo film before.

[Geoff D]

"Nothing is over!! Nothing!"

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by Daz_85

I held off buying the remastered Australian set due to the framing issues of Rambo II and the over-brightness of III. I wonder/hope this gets corrected now.

You assume the framing is wrong on the StudioCanal remasters but every re-framed shot (some are identical framing) looks more correct and balanced.

And the "brightness" on III actually makes it look like a correctly exposed and photographed movie, instead of a dim mess of black crush.

But I don't know which is correct. We'll see how these new scans look, if indeed they are new.

[guachi]

This is Lionsgate, so you know it'll be a cheap Black Friday deal at Best Buy. Can't wait to pick them up at $10!

Heck, I even had Rambo 1 and 2 on my list of movies to get in blu-ray.

[ROSS.T.G.]

“Why are you pushing me”?

[s2mikey]

The first film is a bonafide classic thats watchable over and over. But, the rest.... dont work for me. Id buy the 1st film immediately but no way Im spending the money on the complete package with 3 "never going to watch ever" movies included. Ugh.

4K is pissing me off lately. Cant get all 3 Matrix films in UHD, only the first one. But you can get all the freeging Rambo films in UHD. Freeging wonderful.

They're gonna do this with Alien & Aliens too - force people to buy the utter garbage that is Alien 3 & Resurrection to get the first two. I wont do it.

[Geoff D]

I love Alien, Aliens and Alien³ and I've bought the POS that is Resurrection plenty of times in boxsets over the years in order to get my hands on those first three. Suck it up!

[Opips3]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I love Alien, Aliens and Alien³ and I've bought the POS that is Resurrection plenty of times in boxsets over the years in order to get my hands on those first three. Suck it up!

Crazy! No alien in Earth... I know where alive Far billion lights travel....

You're suckers!

[Fendergopher]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't single film releases been the norm so far for UHD discs? Even franchises like Harry Potter have had single UHD film releases even though there's a boxset available as well. Granted that's a whopping 8 movies, with a lot of tonal shifts across the different films, but still. Kind of anti-consumer to force people's hands if they want just one or two of the movies that are in a bundle though, but it's the studios' prerogative to sell their products however they want. It's also the consumers' prerogative to buy or not to buy any given product for whatever reason.

Does Lionsgate have a track record of not releasing single movies and forcing people to buy boxsets instead? I don't keep track of this stuff so I have no idea.

[LoSouL]

Originally Posted by Fendergopher

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't single film releases been the norm so far for UHD discs? Even franchises like Harry Potter have had single UHD film releases even though there's a boxset available as well. Granted that's a whopping 8 movies, with a lot of tonal shifts across the different films, but still. Kind of anti-consumer to force people's hands if they want just one or two of the movies that are in a bundle though, but it's the studios' prerogative to sell their products however they want. It's also the consumers' prerogative to buy or not to buy any given product for whatever reason.

Does Lionsgate have a track record of not releasing single movies and forcing people to buy boxsets instead? I don't keep track of this stuff so I have no idea.

We got a trilogy pack for Men In Black, The Mummy, and Jurassic Park will be the next one too. Then there's the Amazing Spiderman 1 & 2 + Spiderman 1-3 where only AMS2 got a solo release a long time ago. Mummy eventually released singles, but it took awhile.

There's a lot of series that had options, but a handful that haven't.

[RaynMan2142]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I love Alien, Aliens and Alien³ and I've bought the POS that is Resurrection plenty of times in boxsets over the years in order to get my hands on those first three. Suck it up!

Special Assembly Cut for ALIEN Cubed (Blu-ray disc version) is vastly superior over the Theatrical Cut.

Great if all are derived from 4K remasters. As others I would've imported the AU set but held off on it. Wonder if Lionsgate will re-issue the BDs to be BD50s and etcetera or if they'll use the initial BDs.

[OutOfBoose]

I don't know if I want to buy all of them. The first one is indeed a classic, but the sequels are just too much comic-booky superhero stuff, removed too far from reality and often borderline nonsensical.