Tony Block

will blow your mind!

Picked up a copy of this today at a B&M store with the initials BB!

A beautiful 16x9 transfer, though once or twice a tad too soft. Stilll the best this film has ever looked in a home video/laser/DVD format.

Furthermore, for Mono 2.0 audio the sound on this disc is very, very impressive. Howard Shore's score, the scanning sound effects, and the sounds that the scanners can hear, imperceptible to us lowly humans, are excellent. My only complaint is that a 5.1 soundtrack would have put this sucker through the roof.

Especially for $10.00 MSRP $14.99

Extras are minimal, but of note is the sole extra, a trailer which is British, and states before the trailer,

"British Board of Film Censors: an X trailer for an X film."

The Brits are extremely uptight about film violence. Sort of like how Jack Valenti and the MPAA are uptight about sex and full-frontal nudity!

A great film about corporate greed, corporate espionage, corporate warfare, people with special powers, and Science run amok! watch it as a double feature with the X Men, speaking of the letter X.

Finally, another great Cronenberg film out on DVD. you are ordered to buy it! You won't be disappointed! Now all we need is The Brood out on DVD and then I'll be in Cronenbergian cyborg/hog/ian heaven!

cheers, Tony Block

P.S. Scan together! Scan together!

P.P.S. Hint! Hint! I went to three B&M stores with the initials BB, and all three already had Dressed to Kill available for purchase. Furthermore, one of the three stores already had all the MGM Midnight Movies Sci-Fi & horror titles, 8 in all, which are streeting on the same date as SCANNERS available for purchase!
Naughty! Naughty!

The Pro

Well then its a good thing i pre-ordered it then eh? I recently got Rabid, Shivers, and a used copy of The Brood so my cronenberg collection is almost complete. All i need is the dvd of videodrome.

garmonbozia

The Brood isn't on dvd, is it?

The Pro

no its a used copy of the vhs

garmonbozia

since you seem to be even more of a Cronenberg fan than I am (I can't resort to buying vhs for anyone anymore)....and since you are a New Member....
do you have the Canadian version of eXistenZ?
It's a special edition. I got that one and sold the US release.

Check out what I wrote in this thread:
(you can get it online at any Canadian etailer)

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=110502

also see this thread:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...threadid=78316

The Pro

Actually, i saw it today at a store and was thinking about picking it up.

Tony Block

Here's a review comparing the Buena Vista and Alliance DVDs of eXistenZ.


cheers, Tony Block


http://www.dvdfile.com/software/revi...o/existenz.htm

The Pro

I just bought the alliance existenz for 17 bucks.

Jepthah

Where?

Tony Block

GOOD MOVE!


here's a review of Scanners from DVDauthority,

cheers, Tony Block

http://www.dvdauthority.com/scanners.htm

The Pro

That was at a cd-plus store www.cdplus.com in canada here. great documentary and comentary by cronenberg.

The Pro

and im hoping that my damn copy of the brood comes some day because thats the only cronenberg movie i havent seen(besides dead ringers which i dont really want to see). I watched rabid for the first time too yesterday. it reminded me alot of Dawn of the Dead and was pretty good.

garmonbozia

woah....stop......back up.... just my opinion, but you should really reconsider that one. I think that Dead Ringers is Cronenberg's masterpiece. I also think that all serious Cronenberg fans should own the Criterion dvd of DEAD RINGERS. It was my first Criterion purchase and is an amazing dvd. The extras are perfect and some are as creepy as the film. Just out of curiousity, why are you not interested in seeing Dead Ringers?
Not that it probably means much because different Cronenberg fans have very various favorites...but my top three favorite Cronenberg films are:
1. Dead Ringers
2. eXistenZ
3. Naked Lunch

The Pro

well then maybe i should rent it.

The Pro

My top three:

1.Videodrome
2.The Fly or The Dead Zone
3.Rabid or Scanners

Tony Block

My favorite Cronenberg film changes constantly, I don't really have one because all of his films are excellent, with the possible exception of M Butterfly, and I learn or see something different every time I watch one of his films.

www.mhvf.net

had a recent poll for favorite Cronenberg film and i voted for Videodrome, but I could have easily voted for

eXistenz
Crash
Dead Ringers
Dead Zone
The Brood
Scanners
Rabid

or

Shivers!

cheers, Tony Block

garmonbozia

if you do, I hope you like it at least half as much as I do. It might be one of Cronenberg's most normal films, but that doesn't make it any less disturbing. ("normal" as in deals with people and nothing supernatural....like Crash). But Jeremy Irons playing twin gynecologists is definitely his best performance (I easily forget that one person is playing two roles..)
If you do rent it, I suggest renting the Criterion dvd (not the nonCriterion dvd or a vhs or anything)...
the Criterion has some really great features....
http://www.criteriondvd.com/details.asp?spine=21
especially the scketches and drawings by Cronenberg...

The Pro

I went to rent it today and the shitty videostore didnt have it. ill have to wait till they show it on showcase i guess.

Max

I was disappointed there wasn't a 5:1 soundtrack on Scanners but overall I was psyched to get it. One of my all time favorites.

Videodrome is awesome too!

Cronenberg Rocks!