#4K bluray

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[morganhopesmith1996]

I got this yesterday 😍

[emperornihilus44]

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

Vinegar Syndrome - The Keep

[tamara-kama]

I'm not absolutely sure this is real but if it is.. It'll be awesome! Fans have done a 4K remaster of this Mario Bros. anime movie but apparently an official version on blu-ray with Dolby Atmos is in the works! I'll definitely want this if it's real!

[maverickcalf]

Risky Business will be added to the Criterion Collection on July 23, 2024

[ryukang1995]

Hopefully, this can happen.

[fanfangoria]

Texas chainsaw Massacre 4K steelbook

[driver270]

Setting up my Mothers Day gift on the dining table Santa style before going to bed. Yes, my septuagenarian mother is a fan of a young adult book series. Do you wanna be the one to tell her that she can't be a fan?

[flojocabron]

02/18/25: Online movie order received! Target had a b1g1 half off sale last week and I did a late night order and used some gift cards to get it for less. But I could've sworn I ordered Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I must have touched the wrong one on my phone. Or chose the other one in the cart. Well, now I know what I'm ordering next time. I cant go wrong with any of these. Have a great week.

[autie-j]

Streaming is like: you have to pay a lot of money every single month, and we can take away the things you want to see whenever, and you won't get any cool extras

Physical media Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes release: one time payment and you own the movie forever, an entirely new way to watch the movie, commentary tracks, deleted scenes

[morganhopesmith1996]

My The Marvels Collection ♥️

[emperornihilus44]

[spryfilm]

4K Blu-ray Review: “A Bridge Too Far” (1977)

[randomdeinonychus]

It's my third favorite entry in the series, which was truly mind-blowing when I first saw it on VHS. I, too, am sad the dub will not be included.

I guess I will hold on to my Echo Bridge disc even if I do pick up this one, like I did with a few of the Showa entries that didn't have dubs.

I was a skeptic about Criterion releasing any post-Showa Godzilla movies on disc, but lo and behold, they're teeing up Godzilla vs. Biollante, my favorite movie of all time, for 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (or just plain Blu-ray) on March 18. The description:

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

New 4K digital restoration, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

New audio commentary featuring film historian Samm Deighan, host of the podcast Eros + Massacreand coeditor of the book Revolution in 35mm

Making-of program from 1993 featuring director Kazuki Omori and special-effects director Koichi Kawakita, among others

Short documentary from 1993 about the Biollante and Super X2 vehicle concepts

Deleted special effects

TV spots and trailers

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by science-fiction and horror film expert Jim Cirronella

Yes, this means they're skipping over The Return of Godzilla and not waiting until all the Heisei films are in their hands to unload them as another box set. I was surprised at first, but it makes sense. Biollante is the only Heisei movie Toho has released on 4K in Japan so far (with The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II joining it in June), and arguably the best-regarded. Toho's always going to prioritize the domestic market first, so this is Criterion's best shot at a new release during Godzilla's current swell of popularity.

I have mixed feelings, as is usual when any new English kaiju/tokusatsu home release is announced. I'm glad the movie is back in physical circulation; it's again become legendary as the most difficult Godzilla movie to find on home video for a reasonable price. Only one library in my county owns it, and that number is about to spike. It'll be a major visual upgrade to boot. The non-G54 movies in the Criterion Showa box set didn't have audio commentaries, so I'm glad they sprung for one this time. I'm not familiar with Samm Deighan's work, but I think she's the first woman to record an English commentary for a Godzilla movie.

But...

I saw the Criterion presentation of Godzilla vs. Biollante at the Dryden Theater in October, and the subtitles were... simply not proofread, or at least not proofread by anyone who should have a job in the field. "More typos than a Mill Creek Ultraman Blu-ray" was how I described it at the time. I believe Criterion is using a number of vintage (we're talking probably-shown-in-Hawaii) subtitle scripts for the Toho tokusatsu films they're made available on streaming but not on disc, and I dearly hope they show more care with the Biollante 4K.

There's also no English dub.

This suggests that Toho is now doing its best to bury all the pre-Reiwa Godzilla dubs, even the ones they commissioned themselves. I doubt Criterion will bother to include the film's English visuals either. So... the version of Biollante I rented from Blockbuster some 20 years ago, the version I grew up with, will just be completely erased from the latest-and-greatest (and last?) edition. Depressing stuff. The current incarnation of Toho migh be embarassed by those old dubs, but as an indignant woman in the Diet Building once exclaimed, the truth is the truth! And Biollante's one of the films I prefer to watch dubbed (for one, nobody can argue that the English the actors spoke on set was better than that recorded by the Hong Kong Players).

Lesser concerns: I'll have to double-check, but I think the making-of program and the short documentary were on the old Echo Bridge discs too. The trailers would be new, but, well, they're trailers. So potentially nothing fresh in the featurette department, certainly not a retrospective with surviving cast and crew. (Somebody get one of those done before we lose even more of them!) And I do feel bad for Ed Godziszewski, whose commentary for Echo Bridge was effectively pocket-vetoed by Toho and is now truly never going to see the light of day.

Bleh.