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- First reviewDecember 20, 2018
- Last reviewSeptember 8, 2020
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![Batman: Under the Red Hood [Includes Graphic Novel] [Blu-ray] [2010]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/304b2327-370a-41e7-956a-951dd4939472.png)
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For Your Batman fan
on September 8, 2020
Posted by: FeoAmante
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I bought this Batman: Under The Red Hood for my nephew's Christmas present, then went and bought the Superman: Doomsday one as well and gave him that for Christmas.
Did I keep the Batman for myself? No, I just bided my time (Heh! Heh! Heh!) knowing he would try to complete the set and finding them all long sold out.
Then his birthday came and he unwrapped this! As with Superman, he loved the story and liked the movie, so it's a second win!
As before, the hardcover means repeated readings without pages falling out, plus he thinks it looks great on his dresser next to his Superman one.
Good gift!
What stops it from being great? Unfortunately as before, the discs are kept in sleeves against the page's surface instead of elevated cores like you usually get with disc cases.
Yes, I sprung for another double disc case when I found out, because he's a good kid.
Length of ownership: 322
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For Your Superman fan
on September 8, 2020
Posted by: FeoAmante
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I bought Superman: Doomsday / Death of Superman for my nephew's 2019 Christmas present. He loved the story and liked the movie, so it's a win!
The hardcover means repeated readings without pages falling out, plus he thinks it looks great on his dresser.
Good gift!
What stops it from being great? The discs are kept in surface scratchy book sleeves instead of elevated cores like you usually get with disc cases.
Yes, I sprung for a double disc BluRay case when I found out.
Length of ownership: 308
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5
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5
Ease of Use
5
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Same Blu-Ray, new steelbook
on September 8, 2020
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This review is about the steelbook, not the movie. If you cared nothing for the movie you wouldn't be reading this, right?
A while back, I bought the DVD Special Edition with largely lackluster extras, so I saw no reason to buy the BluRay which had the same DVD extras and nothing more.
Then this steelbook tipped me over. Yes, it's just the same old BluRay in a nicer steelbook package. Yes, I'm a fan. Shut-up.
Later on I bought the Arrow limited release of the 4K which has all of the extras Universal Pictures should have gave us in the first place.
If you have a 4K player or TV I'd buy the Arrow version, you'll love it. If you plan on holding onto your BluRay player for the foeseeable future, you still have the DVD (or no disc at all) and you don't care much about extras, go ahead and get this one.
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![Flash Gordon - 4K Blu-Ray [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/da696986-f618-4347-b137-74386d2ae8a4.jpg)
PATHETIC EARTHLINGS... WHO CAN SAVE YOU NOW? Super producer Dino de Laurentiis (Dune, Barbarella) brought Alex Raymond's beloved cartoon strip and the long running movie serial to the big screen with celebrated director Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Black Rainbow) at the helm, in a delirious space opera, where Flash is King of the Impossible! Merciless Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow) decides to wreak havoc on Earth in a moment of cruel boredom. Boarding a rocket as a means of escape, star quarterback Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones), Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) find themselves on Mongo. Taken prisoner Flash must save Dale from becoming Ming's concubine, avoid the amorous intention's of Ming's wicked daughter Aura (Ornella Muti) and unite the warring Kingdoms of Mongo. With endlessly repeatable dialogue, inimitable camp style, the sonic stylings of Queen and a delightful band of characters and actors playing them it's no wonder Flash Gordon has become one of the most beloved sci-fi spectacles of it's era with directors such as Edgar Wright, Taika Waititi and Seth MacFarlane paying tribute to it in their work.
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Extras We should Have Always Had
on September 8, 2020
Posted by: FeoAmante
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This is 35mm film to 4K. Is there noticeable film grain? Of course. Does it look better or sound better than Blu-Ray? Not that I can see or hear.
What makes this all worth it? All of the extras that Universal Pictures should have always included but never did.
Arrow finally gives the fans of Flash Gordon movie the respect it was always due.
At this price Arrow should have included a Blu-Ray, but this is single disc.
Length of ownership: 17
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![Dredd [Includes Digital Copy] [3D] [Blu-ray] [Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D] [2012]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9c96966b-b200-4e1c-8943-66f706169d99.jpg)
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I Judge Dredd
on March 22, 2019
Posted by: FeoAmante
from Houston, TX
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I never saw this in theaters. In fact, I vividly recall the lackluster movie trailers leading up to Dredd's release. They did nothing to compel me. Did little to separate them from the horrid 1995 Judge Dredd movie released 17 years earlier, and presented the movie with a poster that looked nearly identical to the 2003 Dare Devil flop.
Which means that it did poorly at the theatrical box office
Which is a real shame.
Karl Urban would never have been my first or tenth choice for Judge Dredd, but amazingly the man nailed the role. Urban / Dredd moves through a screenplay by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Ex Machina) as the embodiment of the legendary comic book Dredd of the futuristic dystopia, Mega-City One. At turns deathly serious, then darkly humorous, Urban's Dredd is full blown comic book hardcore grit, while never being self-mocking.
Director Pete Travis, both visually and in inspiring his actors, expressed the best he has ever committed to cinema with this. More than just the special effects, Dredd moves and flows with geysers of Thrills and Suspense.
Olivia Thirlby (Goliath - TV) as the psychic (Psy-Cop) newbie Judge Anderson, ably keeps pace with the nearly robotic Dredd.
Lena Headey (300, Game of Thrones - TV), as the superbad cruella villain, Ma-Ma, outshines her malevolent TV character by several orders. Ma-Ma's practically a human ED 209, only without the staircase and elevator issues.
Whip smart while never being too smart, Dredd embodies Britain's longest running comic book character with verve to spare.
Small wonder that home video fans who gave this a chance, have grown into an audience big enough to lose its "Cult" status.
SciFi fans are eating this up and the producers, as well as Karl Urban, are still wondering if they should give this another go.
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Worthy of 4K
on March 22, 2019
Posted by: FeoAmante
from Houston, TX
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Movies shot on 35mm film or less, like 16mm, reach their ceiling at Blu-Ray 1920x1080, to a max of 2K tops.
Even people who own grand spectacle movies from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to Ghostbusters note the obvious, gritty, film grain in Blu-Ray.
It only gets worse in 4K. The technology for digitally cleaning up the grain and bringing 35mm movies up to 4K quality isn't there yet as of this 2019 writing.
Except for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
So what made this movie the exception?
Stanley Kubrick's mania. He shot this on the best (read expensive) Eastman Kodak film stock available at the time and on a whopping large 65mm negative format. Before IMAX there was Cinerama and it demanded massive screens projecting 70mm positives that overwhelmed the audience beneath it.
On top of this, Stanley wanted an auditory spectacle that would match his image, and employed a 6 track separation stereo on the film stock.
Few theaters could handle such a tall order but Stanley was a perfectionist and correctly realized that the technology of the theatrical audio and visual of cinema would only get better with time. He wanted to stave off the moment - for as long as possible - when audiences would technically regard his movie as on par with silent black and white cinema.
In fact, Kubrick would have shot it in 3D if he felt the technology of his era was up to it.
The beauty of all of this is that we can own this classic - Kubrick's first Horror movie* - and enjoy it on a large 4K screen with pristine picture and sound.
*Science fiction Horror, he would go on to shoot his first Supernatural Horror, Stephen King's The Shining, over ten years later.
For the next 50 years, fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey, had to endure 35mm at arthouse theaters or worse, TV, VHS, or DVD quality.
No longer. Kubrick's visionary decision ensures that you can finally enjoy this movie in a way you have likely never seen, even in a theater.
Personally speaking, I was not disappointed.
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Great Movie, Missing Features
on December 20, 2018
Posted by: FeoAmante
from Houston, TX
THE EVIL DEAD is one of the extremely few movies that rightly justify a cinematic place of being both Great as well as being so Bad it's Great.
The acting from a gang of nobody newbies was largely weak, yet the gritty production values and the intensity Sam Raimi brought to the creation of a project that they worked so hard to fund - with more money than any of them had ever seen - makes THE EVIL DEAD a force to be reckoned with. Sam wanted grueling horror and he stopped at nothing to get it.
So why my two stars?
Because I adore this movie so much that I bought it with the full expectation that I would be getting the Bluray extras as advertised on this page.
To make sure I knew what I was getting myself into, I used the friendly help feature to chat with a BestBuy rep who assured me that the Extras, as advertised, would be on the disc.
She was misinformed.
You get,
All-New Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Sam Raimi, Producer Robert Tapert and Star Bruce Campbell
All-New Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Sam Raimi, Producer Robert Tapert and Star Bruce Campbell
You Don't get,
Discovering The Evil Dead
Unconventional
At The Drive-In
Reunion Panel
Make-Up Test
The Ladies Of The Evil Dead
Meet Bruce Campbell
Book Of The Dead: The Other Pages
Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
Discovering The Evil Dead
Unconventional
At The Drive-In
Reunion Panel
Make-Up Test
The Ladies Of The Evil Dead
Meet Bruce Campbell
Book Of The Dead: The Other Pages
Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
All of that, which is plenty, is missing.
However, you also get a fistful of trailer ads to other movies that you cannot skip (but you can FF through).
However, you also get a fistful of trailer ads to other movies that you cannot skip (but you can FF through).
This release is the cheapest, most bargain basement Bluray version of THE EVIL DEAD you can buy. If it wasn't for the forced advertising before the movie, I could at least give it a three. But being forced to deal with the ads every time I want to watch this movie is only extra aggravation, and who wants to pay for that?
If you can, buy the three disc Ultimate Edition DVD until someone better than Sony Anchor Bay releases a decent Blu / 4K.
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