Scanners......
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Scanners......
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!
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!
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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.
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Originally posted by 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.
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.
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Originally posted by 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.
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.
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
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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
cheers, Tony Block
http://www.dvdfile.com/software/revi...o/existenz.htm
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Originally posted by The Pro
I just bought the alliance existenz for 17 bucks.
I just bought the alliance existenz for 17 bucks.
here's a review of Scanners from DVDauthority,
cheers, Tony Block
http://www.dvdauthority.com/scanners.htm
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That was at a cd-plus store www.cdplus.com in canada here. great documentary and comentary by cronenberg.
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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.
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Originally posted by The Pro
(besides dead ringers which i dont really want to see).
(besides dead ringers which i dont really want to see).
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
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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
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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
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Originally posted by The Pro
well then maybe i should rent it.
well then maybe i should rent it.
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...