An American Werewolf in London (1981) (Limited Edition)

[batman144144]

11:30am: Item Delivered, Front Desk/Reception/Mail Room

Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta attack a certain package....

[thegreatmutato]

Is this the greatest release of all time?

[RodChester]

Originally Posted by thegreatmutato

Is this the greatest release of all time?

No.

[sfmarine]

Finally getting a chance to watch this ...and what better night for it?

It really does look incredible.

[batman144144]

Happy Halloween to everyone! I know we've been waiting for this disc for what seems like forever. I bet a lot of us will be watching it tonight...

[MassiveMovieBuff]

I've watched my copy 4 times already since I got it on the 21st! Love this release!

[Shemp]

Originally Posted by Croweyes1121

Good grief, I just had to stop reading the booklet. Once the writer began to equate an interest in body horror films with Reagan’s anti-abortion stance, advocacy for marital sex, and “regressive rhetoric”, I had to go get some fresh air. Serves me right for thinking I could avoid politics in getting a freaking werewolf movie.

I'm growing very tired of this kind of overanalysis as well. It's first year film student stuff that's eye-rollingly pretentious. There's a current trend with indie label companies in commissioning special feature contributions from a new generation of "film historians" who over analyse every film they see and suck all the fun out of them. I am not the slightest bit interested in their personal readings of the films they write/talk about...just focus on the production history, trivia, etc and keep the academic analysis to minimum.

[Shingster]

OK all this criticism has got me curious: Who wrote the offending article?

[Dr. Phibes]

I got mine today only to realize I had accidentally ordered the standard version instead of the limited. I'm probably going to send it back and get the other version, or just wait for a better price for the standard release. $29 seems pretty high when the limited edition is only $5 more.

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by Dr. Phibes

I got mine today only to realize I had accidentally ordered the standard version instead of the limited. I'm probably going to send it back and get the other version, or just wait for a better price for the standard release. $29 seems pretty high when the limited edition is only $5 more.

Where did you order it from?

[Rick Grimes]

Originally Posted by yellowcakeuf6

Back in '81 that ending elicited yet another chuckle from the audience. This movie had a lot of WTF moments, and I mean that in a good way.

Clever ending. I love it. Up there with The Sopranos ending, for originality. Although that type of ending (upbeat music to downbeat ending), is often imitated, nowadays.

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by Shemp

a new generation of "film historians" who over analyse every film they see and suck all the fun out of them.

Um.. serious film analysis has been going on since the 50s, if not before.....Hitchcock, Bergman, Fellini etc. have been torn apart and looked at for sexual etc al. reasons forever... I have yet to read this booklet but personal and critical analysis of films is certainly not new.
FWIW, I often don't agree with these readings of films, but still find them interesting and will see the film in a new light afterwards....

[SpaceMind]

Watched this last night for Halloween and it's a fantastic release!

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by Shemp

I'm growing very tired of this kind of overanalysis as well. It's first year film student stuff that's eye-rollingly pretentious. There's a current trend with indie label companies in commissioning special feature contributions from a new generation of "film historians" who over analyse every film they see and suck all the fun out of them. I am not the slightest bit interested in their personal readings of the films they write/talk about...just focus on the production history, trivia, etc and keep the academic analysis to minimum.

I vote for jettisoning the pretentious academia entirely. Some of these essays read like you need a degree in Literature just to get past the analysis. I don't know why they even bother with booklets - blocks of text with very little in the way of photos or artwork to break the monotony works as a deterrent for me to even pick up the booklets, let alone read them. If they must do articles why not do a Mediabook instead? Large colorful photos and a gallery of international poster art is a much more pleasing physical extra than small booklets with even smaller walls of pretentious analysis.

[Dubstar]

for once the deleted death scene of the hobos by the Thames is described in detail by commentator Paul Davis - his whole commentary is fascinating. Arrow may have released the best special edition of the year with this release.

[Bobbyjoe766]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

for once the deleted death scene of the hobos by the Thames is described in detail by commentator Paul Davis - his whole commentary is fascinating. Arrow may have released the best special edition of the year with this release.

Also by Landis - the wolf would bite one of the men, taking the top half.

Looking at the injuries to the men in the porno theatre may give some clue as to what it did. I read on a forum once that the wolf attacked one of the men, mauling him on the hood of a wrecked car. In the film, there's a wrecked car near where the men are drinking and warming themselves.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Bobbyjoe766

Also by Landis - the wolf would bite one of the men, taking the top half.

Looking at the injuries to the men in the porno theatre may give some clue as to what it did. I read on a forum once that the wolf attacked one of the men, mauling him on the hood of a wrecked car. In the film, there's a wrecked car near where the men are drinking and warming themselves.

throwing the shredded lower half of the body back at us the viewer / the other two men -

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by gbm82

Um.. serious film analysis has been going on since the 50s, if not before.....Hitchcock, Bergman, Fellini etc. have been torn apart and looked at for sexual etc al. reasons forever...

No one said otherwise.

I have yet to read this booklet but personal and critical analysis of films is certainly not new.

No one's arguing it's new.

FWIW, I often don't agree with these readings of films, but still find them interesting and will see the film in a new light afterwards....

I think the point everyone's getting at is the stuffy no-fun-overly-pretentious reaching-analyses are getting annoying. Not that those are new, but this particular tryhard dare I say woke projecting is what I and others find annoying.

[amarster]

I'm so ecstatic my Barnes & Noble just got one Limited Edition in stock today..can't wait to watch it!

[BizCat]

I ordered this from Target but I didn't do my research, and their site blows. I think I ordered the standard set, not limited. Dang it.