I have the Breakfast Club on Criterion BD that I got a few years ago. If I didn't already own it, I would get the 4K.

I didn't look before ordering but I did have the previous Criterion BD. Oh well... It's one I definitely want in 4K. I have a friend who loves taking my older titles I have upgraded.

I'm a fan of John Hughes but Breakfast Club never connected to me. Maybe because I never attended detention. But FOMO is hitting but I'll resist.

Detention or not, you never connected with the depiction of all the high school cliques and labels, the phoniness, and the fact that you have no idea what you're doing or what you want?

I was going to say, detention wasn't really the point.

But I do like movies about high school cliques: Heathers, Pretty in Pink and Mean Girls.

Yeah, the detention was just a means to get five representatives of the high school cliques in one room for a day.

Network. Day 1.

did Eyes Wide Shut get delayed? i thought it was coming out this past Tuesday, but Amazon told me not till end of Dec.

It's out. It's just out of stock at Amazon.

I got in my preorder for the Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 4k on Amazon. At $34.99 it's the best price I've seen right now but they haven't given me a ship date yet as I'm guessing they probably have a ton of orders to fill for it before mine.

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Testament appears to be Blu-ray only, which seems dumb, considering they included the following in their description:

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Lynne Littman and director of photography Steven Poster, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

I mean, why? I am not going to buy this knowing that there will likely be an eventual 4K UHD release of this movie.

Wasnt the biggest fan of Killers of the Flower Moon but glad to hear it's getting a release.

Tsui Hark’s THE BLADE was a nice surprise. Kick-ass movie. That was one of the titles in Warner Archive’s original line of Golden Harvest on-demand DVDs, which ultimately went exactly nowhere after much talk from them, so maybe this is a sign WB is finally loosening their grip on that catalog after disappointing HK fans ever since that first run. I’d love to see various companies like Shout or VS give some of those titles a proper treatment. There’s quite a few gems in that catalog (along with some lesser stuff, of course). In fact, I’d think PEDICAB DRIVER is worthy of a Criterion slot if THE BLADE is!

I’d have preferred Silence, but KotFM is one I’ll definitely pick up.

Sometime after the Warner Archive folks talked up the idea of doing more HK titles, I believe something changed internally where they decided they were only going to release titles using in-house restorations. The criticism they received over their Drunken Master II disc may have been part of that decision, but that's mostly speculation on my part. WB have also since really opened the doors wide to independent labels licensing their titles. I imagine most of their HK catalog has been scooped up by someone or someones at this point. Either way, great to see the Blade finally see the light of day.

In related news, I saw someone at Arrow (James Flower I think) mentioned in an interview that next year they would be doing a HK box set that rivaled the Bruce Lee set they did a few years ago. It's hard to imagine what is left out there to release that's as high profile as Bruce Lee, but my mind immediately went to a 90's Jackie Chan set featuring his WB-held titles.

Are there any examples of films Criterion has released on Blu only (since they started doing 4k) that have subsequently been upgraded to UHD? I can't think of one. It's possible that the 4k master is SDR only and Criterion decided there wouldn't be any discernible difference between formats.

Wow, interesting. I hadn’t heard that. That would definitely be a treat, and long overdue as most of those have only been available in their American iterations. I’ve got HK editions of most of them, but old formats, bad subs, etc etc. At the same time, knowing the tendency of boutiques to release every Jackie Chan movie from his worst to his best in super-duper tchotchke-packed hard-box combo sets makes me wonder if those films will eventually get the same treatment to maximize profits. Unless gaining the U.S. cuts from WB required committing to a collection? Either way, it would be great to see them done right. And considering Arrow’s ongoing dip into the Warner / New Line catalog a set of those films does seem likely.

I forgot about DRUNKEN MASTER 2 being a WB disc, and I even have it! That’s definitely Criterion-worthy.

No thanks. Never, ever, ever, ever again on that one for me.

Happy about KotFM though.

You're all welcome.

I singlehandedly made the Testament release happen. I've been wanting to see it for a while. In September, I found a copy on laserdisc at a used record store, and figured since I couldn't get it on any other format I'd get the 12".

And of course, a new remastered version was just on the horizon.

I imported Killers Of The Flower Moon, but I’m definitely glad it’s getting a US release.

Obviously a tangent here, but why the distaste for that film in particular?

Lots of torture. Not my bag, baby. I really couldn't understand why anyone liked it, honestly. Pretty and well acted but exceptionally unpleasant.

I've been trying to pickup some of the New Line releases on DVD here and there, I would love a Criterion Blu box of that stuff, especially if they include the dubs and US cuts.



As for the new announcements, The Blade looks interesting and maybe Testament.