Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays

[FrauBlucher]

That list is a fireable offense. Who exactly was asking for those?!

The bottom two added makes it better but still

[domino harvey]

From the Blu-ray forum

You would think Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost would be a strong enough seller to not be a double feature. That movie is my favorite movie- and a favorite from legions of other fans!

In case you wanted to read something more depressing than the list of this month’s releases

[therewillbeblus]

Do they just not like money? These lists often feel like kamikaze moves to sink their physical media operation

[knives]

I was going to say those Scooby movies still hold some massive cache. They’re going to sell really well.

[TechnicolorAcid]

These sure are movies I’ll give Warner that, I’m probably going to get War of the Buttons because that somewhat interests me and that’s more than I got from January’s announcements but this lineup is bordering on thrift store territory.

[therewillbeblus]

I was going to say those Scooby movies still hold some massive cache. They’re going to sell really well.

Yeah, I meant besides those

[Aunt Peg]

Well I have to admit I'm excited to see Idiot's Delight & Marie: A True Story make their Blu Ray debuts. I can get ride of my DVDs of those.

[The Curious Sofa]

I got Friendly Persuasion and The Nun's Story the other day, both old Sunday afternoon favourites. I watched Friendly Persuasion a couple of days ago. Still a good film, if a bit twee and more comedic than I remember, though the goose still slays.

The PQ is passable but didn't blow me away, it's not what I'd expect from a new 4K scan from the negative, which this has been reported as. To me it looks like a dated master, there's not much grain to be seen and the five star rating on Blu-ray.com is excessively generous.

I'm saving The Nun's Story, the better of the two, for the weekend with lowered expectations in regard to the PQ.

[pistolwink]

Harum Scarum is widely regard as the worst Elvis Presley movie, which is really saying something.

[nicolas]

I got Friendly Persuasion and The Nun's Story the other day, both old Sunday afternoon favourites. I watched Friendly Persuasion a couple of days ago. Still a good film, if a bit twee and more comedic than I remember, though the goose still slays.

The PQ is passable but didn't blow me away, it's not what I'd expect from a new 4K scan from the negative, which this has been reported as. To me it looks like a dated master, there's not much grain to be seen and the five star rating on Blu-ray.com is excessively generous.

I'm saving The Nun's Story, the better of the two, for the weekend with lowered expectations in regard to the PQ.

The Nun’s story looks atrocious according to the detailed reports over there: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... st22159510

Friendly Persuasion may have been excessively filtered and compressed to save space. Unfortunately the reviewer on the other forum doesn’t appear to notice the encoding issues.

[mhofmann]

Unfortunately the reviewer on the other forum doesn’t appear to notice the encoding issues.

I don't understand how one can not see the glaring encoding issues.
In almost every frame, grain breaks down into widespread macroblocks, the result of way too low a bitrate, probably in combination with non-ideal settings.

The Rain People is suffering from exactly the same issues and looks just as bad.

[The Curious Sofa]

I can confirm that The Nun's Story looks just as bad. Did the reviewer of both discs, Randy Miller III, just read the specs and not watch the disc, or what display do they watch their media on? Is he on crack? It cost me $66 to import two discs from the US and I bought these barebones releases on the assumption that they were brand new, state-of-the-art restorations, so if they are this useless as a guide for customers, what is the point of Blu-ray.com?

[nicolas]

I can confirm that The Nun's Story looks just as bad. Did the reviewer of both discs, Randy Miller III, just read the specs and not watch the disc, or what display do they watch their media on? Is he on crack? It cost me $66 to import two discs from the US and I bought these barebones releases on the assumption that they were brand new, state-of-the-art restorations, so if they are this useless as a guide for customers, what is the point of Blu-ray.com?

I can only assume that he thinks these films all look soft and hazy and have not too much grain, which is obviously BS. His babble about "generous" and "healthy" bitrates these releases supposedly have is as meaningless as Jeffrey Kauffman’s reviews of films shot on celluloid and his bias against grain. Randy Miller rated The Power of the Dog 3.5/5 because he didn’t like how the film was shot and mixed, which says it all unfortunately.

[yoloswegmaster]

August titles being announced:

Top Cat: The Complete Series
Boulevard Nights
Black Belt Jones
Three Little Words
Words and Music

[domino harvey]

August titles being announced:

Top Cat: The Complete Series

[soundchaser]

August titles being announced:

Top Cat: The Complete Series

This is the worst thing to happen in the United States in the last 24 hours.

[yoloswegmaster]

Is Top Cat really that bad?

[domino harvey]

It’s that it’s a product of a studio notorious for cutting corners and having cheap, awful animation… and it’s getting remastered in HD for some reason. As for the show itself, like all of these series, it’s a non-subtle ripoff of a contemporary sitcom, here Sgt Bilko

[domino harvey]

Words and Music and Three Little Words… there is no God

[ryannichols7]

glad Arrow and WAC agreed that all September disc budgets would be going towards MOC's Feuillade set ...

[Grand Wazoo]

I love Black Belt Jone so at least there's that.

[JSC]

Um... okay, Warners. Now how about Zabriskie Point or O'Lucky Man! or Savage Messiah?

[dwk]

O Lucky Man is, probably, with Criterion. Wouldn't shock me if they also have Zabriskie.

[swo17]

O Lucky Man is, probably, with Criterion. Wouldn't shock me if they also have Zabriskie.

Leaving only Hanna-Barbera movies

[Matt]

Words and Music and Three Little Words… there is no God

Words and Music does at least have Rodgers and Hart songs and a handful of good production numbers. Three Little Words has…Red Skelton and Arlene Dahl and “boop-boop-a-doop.”