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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 20 Jun 2013, 04:43 |
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hauntmedoitagain wrote: I never had a problem with the DVD boxes before I traded mine in for BDs, but what I never liked were the digipacks Criterion used for their early BDs like Chungking Express. They don't hold their shape at all. They indeed do not, I do like them but the spines *sigh*. I have Third Man, Chunking, Bottle Rocket and a few others this way.
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 20 Jun 2013, 05:01 |
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cefiro355 wrote: hauntmedoitagain wrote: I never had a problem with the DVD boxes before I traded mine in for BDs, but what I never liked were the digipacks Criterion used for their early BDs like Chungking Express. They don't hold their shape at all. They indeed do not, I do like them but the spines *sigh*. I have Third Man, Chunking, Bottle Rocket and a few others this way. For $5 each, you can order official replacement cases. http://www.criterion.com/shop_products/82-blu-ray-replacement-case-bottle-rocket
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 20 Jun 2013, 22:15 |
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rein-o wrote: is that what i have, or what they are making now?? the two i have in cardboard are: last year in marienbad and Repo Man. now RM just came out this or last month, it's cardboard with the clear plastic like a digipak. also in order to get disc 2 you have to remove disc 1 really bad design. i have some early ones like the first issue of solaris and that's in a normal 2 sided black plastic case with insert. I (also) have Last Year at Marienbad and Chungking Express, both of which have the packaging I was referring to. I didn't realize they had used it for Repo Man, I thought they phased it out when Criterion started using those nice, thick plastic cases like the copy of Solaris you mentioned. philburque46 wrote: I never knew about this. Too bad they don't have one for Marienbad, probably because they no longer have the rights to distribute it.
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 23 Oct 2013, 06:14 |
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They are indeed more expensive, msrp of $49.95 plus the G1/DVD Case size-which for people that don't care about the DVD is a rip honestly. nissling wrote: Last month, they announced that their upcoming releases will be dual format. If you ask me, that's a good thing as long as the editions doesn't get more expensive. To me, it's always good to have a movie on DVD because there are DVD-players everywhere and everyone can watch them. If you can watch a Blu-Ray, that's great, but if you for some reason would need the movie on DVD then it's good to have a dual format edition.
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 19 Dec 2013, 19:19 |
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Also, the Paramount DVD of "Nashville" is OOP but Criterion reissued it on DVD and Blu-Ray as they have no plans on reissuing it at the moment. The most complete DVD and Blu-Ray issue of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is the new Criterion release coming out.
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 15:49 |
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IMO, its just not as fun to collect criterion DVDs and BluRays.
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 11 May 2014, 06:52 |
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Criterion is pretty much meaningless compared to what it once was.
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 30 Jun 2014, 18:00 |
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hey substance, thanks for that, sort of happy and upset got some good stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise. ________________________________ the rein-o official signature:
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Post subject: Re: What do you think about Criterion today? Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 00:26 |
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thxguru wrote: Criterion is pretty much meaningless compared to what it once was. I can't agree with this. While it's clearly not the same thing it was, neither is home video in general. It sucks that their Bluray offerings are extremely sparse compared to the huge variety of stuff they produced on LD, I still love their new releases. The packaging is great, the menus are some of the least annoying out there, and the video quality is terrific. It's easy to look back at the 80s/90s stuff with too much nostalgia. Sure, Criterion were heroes when they released terrific versions of movies nobody else would release at all, but they also screwed up several releases, made some weird choices, and charged a huge amount of money for the stuff they did put out. They also, for some reason, released Armageddon: Special Edition #384 (1998) (Uncut) [CC1548L] which...come on. That's just...someone's going to burn in hell for that decision. To me, they are great now and they were great then. While the allure of home theater has been seriously tarnished, Criterion had weathered it better than anyone except maybe Bandai, but with what they charge for stuff it better be good.
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