Cult Labs

Go Back   Cult Labs > Cult Labels > Other Labels

Like Tree26040Likes

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11611  
Old 18th July 2017, 11:07 AM
Rob4's Avatar
Cult Acolyte
 
Join Date: Mar 2016
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by keirarts View Post
Some of the responses on Facebook are mental.

One person was complaining that Arrow were deliberately cutting extras. People tried to point out that all those bonus materials were liscenced by Scream factory and Arrow may not have been able to get the rights. On top of that, Arrow probably spent a lot of the budget getting access to the Negatives. Scream used the inter-positives which would have been a cheaper option but I'd rather Arrow spent the money on the film itself!
lol i saw this exchange also. he used the term 'stripped of extras' because the Scream materials were not included. the idiot shut up when some dude pointed out that the Scream release wouldn't have the new doc and therefore was also incomplete. personally i wouldn't be interested in the (redundant) TV version and i very rarely watch more than one audio commentary per movie. there is imho such a thing as supplement fatigue.
Reply With Quote
  #11612  
Old 18th July 2017, 11:22 AM
Justin101's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Liverpool
Default



Arrow announces on social media that The Thing is available from HMV, the HMV website crashes

holy moly
__________________


Triumphant sight on a northern sky

Reply With Quote
  #11613  
Old 18th July 2017, 11:38 AM
Seasoned Cultist
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin101 View Post
I might be the odd one out but I prefer it when labels do bespoke extras rather than all re-using the same ones.
If the extras come with the package (as is often the case with major studio licenses: if they produced the extras for a DVD, the chances are they'll be included), I'll happily recycle them on my own productions.

But if I have to license them separately, I treat them as I would all other potential content and decide whether it's worth what are always limited funds. Sometimes the rightsholder wants so much that the decision is made for me - for instance, on Eureka's Three Days of the Condor (I wasn't surprised, as it was very much in StudioCanal's interest for Eureka not to acquire their extras, as it would make their own conveniently Region B European edition unattractive to UK importers) - and at other times I genuinely don't think that the older extra adds anything significant to what's also going in the package. Or at least not enough to justify a fee that I think could be spent more effectively elsewhere.

My production mentor Roma Gibson always taught me that the worst sin you can commit is excessively overlapping material, and while it's often impossible to avoid some overlap (especially if you're licensing two separate third-party extras), it's good to keep it to a minimum.
Reply With Quote
  #11614  
Old 18th July 2017, 11:51 AM
Justin101's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Liverpool
Default

I agree with this, there are only so many anecdotes to be told, once you have heard them you don't need to hear them again!

I much prefer the meatier retrospective docs and visual essays than the old EPK extras that we used to get. Like the ones on the House and Phantasm box sets which span the multiple discs, the Phenomena one and the piece by Kat Ellinger on the Bird with the Crystal Plumage disc.

We need a nice Jess Franco collection with a brilliant career spanning 5hr doc
__________________


Triumphant sight on a northern sky

Reply With Quote
  #11615  
Old 18th July 2017, 11:58 AM
Seasoned Cultist
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin101 View Post
I agree with this, there are only so many anecdotes to be told, once you have heard them you don't need to hear them again!

I much prefer the meatier retrospective docs and visual essays than the old EPK extras that we used to get. Like the ones on the House and Phantasm box sets which span the multiple discs, the Phenomena one and the piece by Kat Ellinger on the Bird with the Crystal Plumage disc.

We need a nice Jess Franco collection with a brilliant career spanning 5hr doc
Someone accused Arrow's The Manchurian Candidate of being "lazy" when it came out. Not a bit of it - the fact is that the existing MGM-produced extras weren't broken so didn't need fixing. Why bother going to the considerable expense of arranging a brand new Angela Lansbury interview when she was more than eloquent enough in 2004? And obviously we weren't going to get a fresh John Frankenheimer commentary.

And I still added stuff to the package: an hour-long Frankenheimer doc and a crammed booklet. In fact, the second half of the booklet, about actual CIA-backed mind control experiments, was initially conceived as a video feature until I realised that the stuff being described was so hair-raising that it really needed extensive footnoting, so a text-based piece seemed more sensible.

(One thing I did drop, though, was the 5.1 mix. Christ knows why the US edition only featured it, but it was pretty much an object lesson in how not to do these things, with added "surround" effects so clunkily obvious that it really took me out of the film. Nobody seemed to have any time for it, and the DVD in particular was crammed to bursting, so it was easy enough to decide to omit it.)
Reply With Quote
  #11616  
Old 18th July 2017, 03:57 PM
SymbioticFunction's Avatar
Cultist on the Rampage
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Chichester, UK.
Default

Am hoping that extending the boxset run to 6000 copies, means that the Amazon price is quite likely to significantly drop. Surprised that some people are complaining about the quantity being increased but I guess that's the Internet for you!

"The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another." (quote from Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back).
Steel76, keirarts and bleakshaun like this.
__________________
PSN user name: suspiria-inferno
Xbox user name: suspiria742952
Reply With Quote
  #11617  
Old 18th July 2017, 05:15 PM
platostotal's Avatar
Cult Acolyte
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Berks.
Default

Okay so I spun the UK BD of The Thing and 2 things sprang to mind, 1 it looked very close to what I saw in the cinema back in the day (so quite good then) but... 2 there seems to be a lack of film grain, it's still a nice detailed picture tho, now if Arrow just transfer as 4K and don't filter at all we should have a 'Scream-Factory' beater, those of you on here with the SF release just how 'Blue' is the colour correction in some scenes, the screenshots look like far too much blue-tint IMHO, so now quite looking forward to seeing what Arrow can come up with.
keirarts likes this.
__________________
"Mama... this Cult Labs forum smells of death"
Reply With Quote
  #11618  
Old 18th July 2017, 07:16 PM
Susan Foreman's Avatar
Cult Master
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Childhood home of Billy Idol - Orpington
Default

The sale starts at noon tomorrow, and continues until the 31st July
keirarts likes this.
__________________
People try to put us down
Just because we get around

Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty
Reply With Quote
  #11619  
Old 19th July 2017, 12:27 AM
SymbioticFunction's Avatar
Cultist on the Rampage
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Chichester, UK.
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Susan Foreman View Post
The sale starts at noon tomorrow, and continues until the 31st July
Will be interested to see the Phantasm set price. Especially having finally paid 65 pounds for it, just 3 weeks back.
keirarts likes this.
__________________
PSN user name: suspiria-inferno
Xbox user name: suspiria742952
Reply With Quote
  #11620  
Old 19th July 2017, 08:13 AM
J Harker's Avatar
Cult Addict
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Deepest Darkest South Wales
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction View Post
Will be interested to see the Phantasm set price. Especially having finally paid 65 pounds for it, just 3 weeks back.
Depending on how reasonable they're gonna be the Phantasm set is likely to be the only thing i end up getting. I'm hoping it around the £40 mark but i reckon they'll be twats and drop it to £60 or something stupid.
keirarts and trebor8273 like this.
Reply With Quote
Reply  

Like this? Share it using the links below!

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



Our goal is to keep Cult Labs friendly. If you feel discouraged from posting by certain members' behaviour then you can e-mail us in complete confidence.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
All forum posts are contributed by members of the site; Cult Labs cannot take responsibility for all content posted on the site. If you have an issue with content posted on the site please click the 'report post' button.
Copyright © 2014 Cult Laboratories Ltd. All rights reserved.