What Have You Bought Recently?

[pedromonkey]

just got Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes blu - not in a sale though, just really wanted it...

[RedEyeTheCylon]

Braved the sales today and managed to get from HMV:

Batman Anthology
Tremors
THX 1138
Forbidden Planet
Evil Dead 2
The Nightmare Before Christmas

[robertzombie]

What were the HMV prices like?

[RedEyeTheCylon]

Originally Posted by robertzombie

What were the HMV prices like?

Quite a few titles reduced to £5 and £6 (Tremors and THX 1138 were part of this offer) and a few box sets were reduced (Batman anthology was down to £15) but everything else was at it's normal price .My local HMV is fairly small so doesn't have a very big selection so there's probably better offers on in the larger stores.

[Scyther]

Originally Posted by oaxaca

Got CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH/THE SKULL off me old Ma for xmas!

Also ordered the following 2 Spaghetti Westerns:-



And these post-spaghetti westerns:

Yes! I'm always down for a Sabata flick, although this one is probably my least favorite of the trilogy.

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by Slippery Jack

Yeah...but the cover art sucks

Talking of FRANCE and DVD, I've ordered the rather awesome Home, with a rather awesome performance by Isabelle Huppert - can't wait to give this a second watch, quietly blew me away first time round . . .

Haha - yeh it does, but with used copies going for £29+ on Amazon, I can suffer not staring at the sleeve art.

[ReturnToZero]

Okey, this will be the last for the year. Now i will wait about a month when Di Leo Crime Collection and Rolling Thunder gets released on blu-ray

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by keirarts

with titles like this is as much about the source materials as anything else, blu-ray can improve the picture quality on most (not all) releases. But low budget horror like maniac cop and releases like it can only look so good. I've owned both the elite entertainment and synapse dvd's of maniac and trust me on this, arrows release is better but its as good as its going to get.

I can't quite agree with that. Unless we're saying that Blu-ray has a higher resolution than 35mm film? Well, that isn't the case, so I'd argue that in the cases where the film looks poor on Blu-ray, it's probably down to a poor encode. Just look at how good Evil Dead looks on BD, and that's from a 16mm source, not even anything approaching 35mm, and it looks stunning.

Old films can look spectacular on the format. If restored properly. It's probably a case of niche companies not being able to afford a full restoration rather than a case of 'this is as good as it gets'. It could be better, if the smaller companies had the time and money to do full restoration jobs.

I actually prefer the look of older films, where they actually look like films. New films just look like shiny pop videos, they lack realism and look like video games.

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

I can't quite agree with that. Unless we're saying that Blu-ray has a higher resolution than 35mm film? Well, that isn't the case, so I'd argue that in the cases where the film looks poor on Blu-ray, it's probably down to a poor encode. Just look at how good Evil Dead looks on BD, and that's from a 16mm source, not even anything approaching 35mm, and it looks stunning.

Old films can look spectacular on the format. If restored properly. It's probably a case of niche companies not being able to afford a full restoration rather than a case of 'this is as good as it gets'. It could be better, if the smaller companies had the time and money to do full restoration jobs.

I actually prefer the look of older films, where they actually look like films. New films just look like shiny pop videos, they lack realism and look like video games.

I totally agree.

Witchfinder General is from 1968, and it looks stunning on Blu-ray. Even Coppola's very cheap, Corman-produced movie Dementia 13 looks pretty neat on this format.

Greetings!

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Phurious

Haha - yeh it does, but with used copies going for £29+ on Amazon, I can suffer not staring at the sleeve art.

shiiiit, really? One of those I remember seeing going dirt cheap on numerous occasions but never bought . . .