Mark's Down On Your Syntax

I’ve been slowly but surely replacing my DVD collection with Blu Rays and nearly all of what I have has been released, or is available somewhere, in HD. There’s been a few exceptions though but every now and then I’ll find a title has been released in, for example, France or North America and I’ve been able to nab a copy.

I thought it would be useful to have a thread where we could make a list of titles we haven’t been able to find on Blu-Ray. Hopefully other members can let us know if something is available in their country or if a fan version has been captured.

I’ll start the list in the next post and add any titles to it as they are mentioned.

Apologies if a thread like this already exists. I’ve had a good look around and couldn’t see anything!

moviefreakedmind said:

Then again, in this canon he’ll leave his palace just to chat with a rogue smuggler. 😉

Perhaps he’d popped into town for a doctor’s appointment? He didn’t look quite himself that day.

Up until Episode VII somebody said, “What the?!” in every film. I’m pretty sure nobody says it in The Force Awakens. I always thought it was a fun little tradition. I wonder if it’ll happen again?

I personally think that Rogue One and the rest of the anthologies will distinguish themselves from the episodic films by not having a crawl. By not having a starfield background they can basically open anywhere they like.

My friend and I watched a movie sometime around 1992/3 and I remember the cover had a boy on his bike (which we decided was a good enough reason to rent it). The plot was about the kid being transported to a dream-like world that was made up of (it seemed like) bits of other movies. The villain was trying to steal the colour from the world, or something.

I’m reasonably sure the title was the boy’s name followed by adventure, or excellent adventure, or amazing adventure.

This has been niggling at me for a VERY long time. Any ideas?

EDIT: The villain also sang a song about stealing the colour!

I paid good money to see Batman V Superman, twice:

Lex really didn’t need to be a socially awkward Tourette’s sufferer but I’m assuming this is his formative period so I’m seeing the performance as deliberate and thought-through.

The rest of the Justice League didn’t need to cameo but that’s more a business choice than a narrative one so I’m taking it as a few more herbs sprinkled into the sauce.

Jimmy Olson certainly didn’t need to be a CIA agent but as he wasn’t called by name in the actual film and unless you read the credits you’d never know so I’m letting it go.

Many, many scenes needed more time to breathe but I’m hoping the extended ultimate fantastico cut will remedy that. But then again it’s a Zack Snyder movie so we might get even more heavily clipped scenes!

Everything else worked really well for me and I was not disappointed (I don’t watch trailers so I had no idea what I was in for.)

Overall… I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and I feel like it was money well spent, twice.

The popcorn was horrid though. VUE cinemas have destroyed my childhood (somehow).

TV’s Frink said:

RIC OLIE WAS THE BEST SOCK OF ALL TIME

RIP BUDDY

Handsome too.

I agree with you, the Japanese presentation seems like it would be best.

I just noticed somebody in The Force Awakens credits played by an actor called Morgan Dameron, and then I saw their character was named Commodore Meta.

Now that is meta! Twelfth time watching this and I somehow never spotted this before.

If it’s 10 months old Warbler then all the parts are still covered by the manufacturers guarantee. Find their website and explain what’s happened. It doesn’t sound like you did anything to provoke the breakdown (unless you WERE trying to feed it your dinner!)so there’s absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t offer to repair or replace it free of charge.

TV’s Frink said:

FIRST YOU GET THE MONEY

THEN YOU GET THE POWER

THEN YOU GET THE GLITCHES

Somebody get this put on a plaque at once… or at the very least a bumper sticker.

ray_afraid said:

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

The casual use of the word “snatch” to describe the ladies was a bit shocking though - it has a much coarser meaning in my country!

It has the same meaning here as there. They aren’t using “snatch” to describe the ladies themselves.

Phew! It did kind of take me out of the movie for a second (delicate soul that I am).

After 38 years on the planet with 34 of them having my ears prick up at the mention of the name George Lucas I’ve somehow never seen “American Graffiti”. Today I watched it for the very first time.

I knew it had good reviews, cars and lil’ Ronnie Howard but nothing else. I was blown away and was smiling from beginning to end. The cars, the dialogue, the actors, the colours, the humour, the soundtrack! The only thing I didn’t like were the unnecessarily depressing captions at the end.

I usually see a film at least twice before buying it to keep but I’m ordering the blu ray come payday! I can’t wait to watch it again.

I feel both sad to have missed out seeing this decades ago and also glad to still be finding something new and wonderful just sitting there waiting to be found.

Was that a young Harrison Ford in a cowboy hat?! Despite his jaw not looking wide enough that was a big surprise. I must’ve missed his name in the credits.

(The casual use of the word “snatch” to describe the ladies was a bit shocking though - it has a much coarser meaning in my country!)

George Lucas’ career really would’ve been something special if he’d spent it making movies as alive and fun as this one.

I’m a huge fan of anything MCU related but I honestly wasn’t terribly excited about the new series (even though Blonde Xena and the Englishman were two of my faves!) I hope they fold them back into AOS somehow because I’d like to see more of them. If they don’t, well at least the characters had a “proper” send off.

Gutted to hear Peggy’s been cancelled. Gutted. I really hope they give at the very least another One Shot to tie things together somehow.

Bloody Friday the 13th, pfft!

Probably going to be the official blu ray. I think I remember reading that team negative 1 were doing something with it but don’t quote me on that. More chance of somebody picking up the space-phone at Uncle Owen’s house than making contact with them though.

If TV’s Frink was a human who often posted on this forum who then became a machine who posted even more often on this forum then are all those others who have ever posted on this forum actually just smaller pieces of the whole? Whether looked at in macro or micro this forum is Frink, and now he is machine all those who post are merely contributing to the enhancement of HIS whole.

This was his plan all along.

I think we are all Frink.

I’ve recently bought blu rays of “Cliffhanger” and “The Lady Vanishes” (the original). I’ve been after both for a while and I managed to get them for under a tenner including postage!

Does anybody need help with their DVD region codes? I think you’re in the right place if you do.

Anybody?

echo

So many great things in the last Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

When you get lines like,

“What in the knievel?!”

“Swayze Daisy”

“Rasta-Hulk is your husband?!”

it really makes me glad I’ve stuck with this programme. The twist of Spoiler not really spoilering which resulted in Spoiler versus Spoiler at the end was brilliant. Very impressed with the entire series but these past few episodes have been such fun. I liked the little links to Civil War too.

One thing about the MCU in general though - will the Avengers ever find out Coulson’s alive? It’s been four years and he’s not really been keeping a low profile!

I’m a “trusted member” too.

I’ve been here a week.

But what if human Frink’s family had a couple of cloned human backups on standby in case the original perished falling from his desk or by accidentally plugging himself into an outlet or something?

That’d make sense.

I wonder if Ewoks are ticklish under all that fur, or if it’s too thick for them to feel anything?

The best thing to do is to ignore any fools you meet. Don’t dignify their negativity with your attention. They are absolutely everywhere in this world whether it’s in the queue at the supermarket or posting comments online, and they’re totally unavoidable.

I’m a new poster here myself, though I’ve been reading these boards for a long time. There’s been no shortage of twits who’ve come along to cause trouble of one kind or another over the years, but like an ice cube in coffee, Constable Zuvio’s career or Dolly Parton’s training bra - they weren’t around for long.

This site is, on the whole, a friendly and safe place to interact and not a place where evil cliques tend to form. If you bring positivity and humour to what you post then I’m sure you’ll find you get it in return. You’ll also get teased and disagreed with but that’s part of the fun too!

Leave all that nastiness behind. This is a great site where it won’t be needed and I, for one, welcome you.

“Right Beside You” by Sophie B. Hawkins. Takes me baaack.

Hehe, thanks Clutchins!

CatBus said:

The commentary was ripped from Laserdisc as a commentary-only track (no other audio), and can be merged into whichever audio mix you like. But that initial rip, how it came about, and if there were errors in the ripping process, or different versions for different LD pressings, I just don’t know. I think schorman did made the initial audio rip, but I’m not sure.

Thanks for replying, Catbus. That’s interesting nonetheless and hopefully somebody will be able to figure out where the error began someday. I can’t imagine there’s too many people who still have access to the laserdiscs now (although if ever there was a place where they might be, it’s here!)

Speaking of audio, the laserdisc commentary repeats a portion of itself in the last half hour of the film. Was this an issue in Despecialised or was it that way on the original laserdisc? That commentary is sparse enough, so hearing the same thing twice isn’t ideal!