Cinema is not disposable entertainment. It is a serious artform with the ability to move people to tears, make people laugh, ask meaningful questions about ourselves and make us question reality.
Added My Fair Lady (1964) Fullscreen AC3 Laserdisc. Fullscreen Laserdiscs with AC3 are rare, and that’s why I bought this one.
Also added the 2008 UCE Blu-Ray of Casablanca (1942) and Criterion Laserdisc of Sling Blade (1996).
Gave the Skynet Edition of Terminator 2 to a friend (keeping the 2015 edition for my Blu-Ray copy)
Added The Polar Express 4K. Upgraded All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to a German Mediabook Blu-Ray that features an extended cut.
Also got two legit VCDs from 1999: The Sound of Music (1965) Filipino edition and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Hong Kong edition.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is the greatest film released in the year I was born, but Gladiator won Best Picture for films released that year.
Here’s what my Betamax collection looks like at the end of 2023.
It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.
Added Mean Streets (1973) Criterion 4K Ultra HD & The Last Picture Show (1971) Criterion 4K Ultra HD
Got my first VHDs as part of a lot that I mainly bought for The Thing (1982) and My Fair Lady (1964).
Added Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Warner Archive Blu-Ray, Forbidden Planet (1956) Widescreen VHS, Metropolis (1927) Masters of Cinema Blu-Ray, Coraline (2009) 4K Ultra HD, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) 4K Ultra HD, Oppenheimer (2023) 4K Ultra HD Steelbook, The Ghost Breakers (1940) Laserdisc, The Thing (1982) Japanese Laserdisc, Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) 4K Ultra HD and Cleopatra (1963) Blu-Ray to my collection.
Added 2001: A Space Odyssey UHD and Batman (1989) Digibook Blu-Ray to my collection.
Batman (1989) is the best live-action superhero film of all time. The costumes, cinematography, art direction and score are all incredible, and Keaton is the best live action Batman. I also love the reveal that the Joker killed Batman’s parents, making their relationship more personal than any other version.
Added The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Remastered Laserdisc.
Added Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Best Buy Exclusive 4K Ultra HD Steelbook for $40.
House of Wax (1953) is overrated and a step down from Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). Mystery of the Wax Museum was a unique film that had a strong female protagonist and a unique visual look that the remake lacks.
That’s a shame. The “nooooo” scene is cheesy but the scene where he walks on the Star Destroyer next to Palpatine is my favorite scene in the whole film.
Honestly, for ROTS the differences between my version and HAL’s aren’t huge and it would still fit with my episode 1 and 2 edits.
The changes in 1 and 2 are much bigger and different. ROTS is a pretty functional movie with some trimming and the deleted scenes added back in.
Does this mean the shot of Padme holding Leia on Alderaan is in this edit?
Added the following videos:
Gaslight (1940) 2013 BFI Blu-Ray
Casablanca (1942) 2006 HD-DVD
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 1994 Widescreen VHS
The Warriors (1979) 2005 UMD
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 2005 UMD
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) 2005 UMD
Charlie’s Angels (2000) 2005 UMD
XXX (2002) 2005 UMD
Sold the following videos:
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 2022 Criterion Blu-Ray
The Thing (1982) 2006 HD-DVD
Despicable Me (2010) 2017 4K Ultra HD
It is still worth collecting Laserdiscs and DVDs even in the current age where Blu-Rays and 4K are common.
HAL 9000’s edit has the best ending for Revenge of the Sith. It’s worth using his ending for your edit.
Now that there’s a physical version, this edit can be submitted to fanedit.org once it uses the discs as a source.
When you get around to making the updated version based on the physical discs, I would love it to have HDR.
JEDIT: Already posted this further back.
Added three Fox classics to my collection: How Green Was My Valley (1941) VHS, Titanic (1953) VHS and Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Blu-Ray
Added The Long Goodbye (1973) Kino Blu-Ray, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 2000 DVD and Scrooge (1935) VHS.
Added The Guns of Navarone (1961) 4K Ultra HD
Over on the 4K77 forums, Williarob digitized the US Letterbox LD trilogy as well as Fullscreen versions of Raiders and Temple.