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Joe Molotov

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gizmo

WTF? I'm so confused. There is a new Puppet Master movie? And they are releasing that and the first film on BD? And it will run $70?

Gizmo

http://www.fullmoondirect.com/LIMITE...E41_p_371.html

Gizmo

Cool looking, but $70 for 2 BDs? Probably pass.

Gizmo

I dont think it comes with the other movies on DVD. Just some trading cards.

asianxcore

Can these films look any better than they already do?

Also I LOL anytime Full Moon talks about limited quantities

Gizmo

"Whoops! We pressed 18,000 instead of 1,800!"

islandclaws

Interesting, but I think I'm just fine with my gargantuan Puppet Master box set which has only had one film viewed from it one time.

Joe Molotov

I can't imagine paying $70 for any Charles Band production on any format no matter what kind of crap it came with.

Well, except maybe Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.

SterlingBen

You guys, nobody buys Full Moon at list prices, they wait till the half off sales, making it $35 for 2 blu-rays. Still a bit pricey, at least for me.

RocShemp

So the new movie takes place in the gap between the prologue and the film proper of the first movie?

joltman

Keep in mind, this $70 set includes the two blu-rays plus a bunch of 'collector's' crap. I would assume/hope they will be available to buy on there own for much less.

Cocacoladude78

Well, that was certainly a painful post to read.

With the list of Full Moon offerings since Paramount dumped them nearly two decades ago, I wouldn't be surprised if this was written by someone who actually worked for the studio. The movies are terrible!

The first Paramount Puppet Master film is marginal (maybe even the 2nd), but Puppetmaster: Axis of Evil is probably shaping up to be one of the very worst movies of 2010 -- much like nearly every other film in Full Moon production.

$70? Pass for me.

xfilekr

I highly doubt the original will look any better on blu. I doubt Band has any of the original materials. Probably a LD transfer, lol. Neat package though, don't care for the gimmicky stuff like stickers and cards. Probably get the SD as all my other FM stuff is SD.

asianxcore

"We found the last batch in a warehouse"

As KillerCannibal mentioned, I'm also happy with my SD set of the Puppet Master films. Probably won't upgrade

Gizmo

I didn't even know they were working on another Puppet Master film. The last one was some random clips from the films with Corey Feldman.

Joe Molotov

I don't think the Puppet Master mythos has been fully explored yet, there's still a lot of good material left to work with.

RocShemp

If a franchise ever needed a reboot it's this one. Or at the least a sequel that retcons every movie released after the second.

Although I enjoy the third movie (Toulon's Revenge) the best, the heroic portrayal of Toulon and his puppets in 3, 4, 5, and Retro Puppet Master go against the villainous portrayal of these in the first two movies. Puppet Master Legacy pretended to address this inconsistency when Toulon's motives were put into question only to then half-ass a twist where it's revealed the puppets want to die and hate anyone who is the Puppet Master.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Don't knock 'collector's' crap. Tons of people here cream their pants over a steelbook or go crazy if they can't find a slipcover or a few years ago when DVDs started to not have inserts anymore.

They were showing the first one in HD on one of the movie channels. Just need to track down someone that's seen it.

I saw the third one first and really liked it. First two were ok and any after the third kept going downhill. Not as downhill as Nightmare on Elm Street went but they both did the same thing of changing(ruining) the character(s) after they got popular.

The idea that the puppets don't want to live and hate their creator isn't a bad one. I mean they've been alive for a long time and forced to work as slaves, though I'm sure the execution of it didn't go off as well.

joltman

I didn't mean that in terms of anything for collector's, I have no problem with decent things like steelbooks, I specifically was referring to what comes in here. I mean, trading cards and stickers, really?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I never got why they call them trading cards when everyone gets the same thing.

As for me, I'm sure I'm in the minority thinking steelbooks are overpriced and don't really care about them. They're not bad but for me they aren't worth it unless I have no choice but to get it. I just have too many movies for something as simple as a case that can get dented easily and at some point start rusting, for me to appreciate.

RocShemp

That idea only works if we stick to Toulon's portrayal as an evil man cheating death at any cost, as seen in Puppet Master II. However, you also have to ignore the revelation in that same movie that the puppets were dying and needed Toulon to create more formula so that they'd live again.

Yes, the idea wasn't bad but only works if Toulon is evil and if the puppets hadn't gone out of their way to revive him.

This is like the Highlander franchise where you have to ignore major details in the previous films to make the sequels possible.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Plots for the most of them are just a blur to me. Except the third, which was the best. One of the things that bothered me about Retro was they had a blade one but it wasn't really created until WW2 and only because of that one guy.

RocShemp

Yeah, part 3 is the absolute best. Especially how Blade is introduced at the end. Very iconic moment.

Apparently the Retro versions of Blade, Six Shooter, and Pinhead were meant to be different characters altogether. Very lazy as it was a missed opportunity to present new puppets that would predate the ones we already knew rather than essentially recycling the same designs we've already seen.