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Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 9:37 pm**

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

The bottom two added makes it better but still

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 10:00 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 10:05 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 10:16 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 10:23 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 10:33 pm**

knives wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 10:16 pm 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

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2024 5:05 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2024 9:21 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Jun 02, 2024 10:07 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Jun 02, 2024 10:48 pm**

The Curious Sofa wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 9:21 am 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.

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2024 6:54 am**

nicolas wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2024 10:48 pmUnfortunately 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.

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2024 11:50 am**

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?

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2024 11:56 pm**

The Curious Sofa wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2024 11:50 am 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.

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:09 pm**

August titles being announced:

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:13 pm**

yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:09 pm August titles being announced:

Top Cat: The Complete Series

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:26 pm**

domino harvey wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:13 pm
yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:09 pm 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.

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:29 pm**

Is Top Cat really that bad?

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:31 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:49 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:17 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 5:06 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 5:17 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 5:48 pm**

dwk wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 5:17 pm O Lucky Man is, probably, with Criterion. Wouldn't shock me if they also have Zabriskie.

Leaving only Hanna-Barbera movies

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 6:31 pm**

domino harvey wrote: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.”

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