OldBoy

good as in top tier or what?

OldBoy

I should get MH next week considering Koch Dune 4K took 4 days total.

OldBoy

Anyone get Flesh for Frankenstein? Any good?

Alan Smithee

It’s on order. Some good effects- I have a field-sequential VHS of it.

caligulathegod

I did not make up the story but it's hard finding decade old magazine articles, sometimes. The TV mentioned earlier was an OLED and might have been an attempt before giving up. The review even mentions it not being as bright as a negative. Regardless, it's regrettable they could not have worked it out and kept the format. I'm holding onto my Panasonic plasma with a death grip. Found a source for the electronics that I'm told are what typically die out.

Jay G.

You may not have made it up, but it's very likely you're misremembering, or the article itself was simply wrong. LG released 4K OLED TVs with passive 3D. I know, because I own one.

Here's an article making the reverse argument: that 4K OLED passive is the best 3D TV option:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-enter...-those-pixels/


https://www.techradar.com/news/4k-tv...hat-went-wrong
Here's what LG said the year they removed 3D from their OLED sets:
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.ph...&id=1484640539

Alan Smithee

But motion smoothing is a big selling point…

IDrinkMolson

Dune 3D USA Amazon $27.99 1/11/22


I used the Locker pickup promo to get $10 off

DVD Josh

Just had a Mila back to back 3D session - Monster Hunter and Resident Evil Final Chapter. Both movies were terrible in terms of script and plot but 3D definitely made them better. I would say both were about average in terms of 3D quality. Likely will not revisit either.

OldBoy

I didn’t like Final Chapter either. I’m more hopeful for Monster Hunter. I know it’s a dumb B movie from the wonder twins, but would seem to lend itself to. Would Mila work if not for being married to Anderson? I know Besson used her, but she barely spoke. Just gyrated. Which is fine. She was hot in Fifth Element. Most movies actually. Just most her movies begin and end with Resident Evil and forgettable suck.

Brian T

Happy to report the REVENGE OF THE SHOGUN WOMEN disc nicely lived up to my memory of seeing it at the Royal in Toronto a couple of decades ago as part of Kung-Fu Fridays. As usual, the 3D archive did a fantastic job with what had to be difficult elements. Color consistency is a little wonky in some scenes, often from one shot to the next, and the overall film – like so many Taiwanese martial arts shows of the 70's/80's – has such an abundance of neutral, drab earth tones throughout the sets and landscapes that you think might be faded film until you see green reeds poking out from all the dead brown ones, or bright pink, blue or green period costumes on many of the female extras within these backdrops. The story is what it is – women raped by bandits becoming nuns, as per custom, later sheltering the nearby townspeople and taking on the returning hordes with the help of a kindly doctor who's figured out the formula for explosives – but the 3D is a blast, with a wide variety of classical weapons thrusting into the room (with exceptional convergence, or whatever it's called) in a respectable number of fight scenes (not to mention the breasts that I mentioned way, way back in this thread appearing very, umm, well-rounded even if they're not dangling onto your coffee table, or as plentiful as I remembered). The choreography, not unexpectedly, is typical, rather orderly fwap-swish-fwap stuff of the era, so the 3D really helps. This disc contains only the English dub with a new (at the time), Carpetner-esque music score, not bad as such but both make me curious to see the film in its original Mandarin with presumably more-appropriate music, but that will never happen. This is a solid companion disc to Kino's earlier DYNASTY release.

The three bonus shorts also show 3D Film Archive's prowess at resuscitating materials that were on the edge of oblivion, although I wish more information about them was provide via introductory text-screens of some kind. They're all pretty low-brow: COLLEGE CAPERS has the best production values, and based on Dolores Fuller's instructions to the audience to put the red lens over their left eye, I assume this might have only been shown in anaglyphic format prior to this Blu-ray, so that's cool. It also has the best production value and performances, despite the vaudevillian 'panty raid' plot. PERSIAN SLAVE MARKET has three burlesque dancers doing very basic strip routines in front of a static camera, possibly going down to topless but the blown-out contrast on the surviving elements makes it difficult to tell. At first, TWO GUYS FROM TICK RIDGE seems to be some kind of promo short for "Optivision 3D" (credited to Pacific Film Industries) with movie producer "Harry" (played by editor C. David Graydon) showing his hick pal Wally from back home in Tick Ridge (Tom Latimer, but voiced by the instantly-recognizable Hoke Howell) footage from his newest production, which is actually an assemblage of random 3D clips (magician, bikini girl blowing bubbles, skiers, aerial shots of LA) some of which are clearly flubbed outtakes (like Jack Lalanne's step-daughter Janet swinging from rings at the beach and continually requiring assistance). None of the shorts are particularly memorable, but it's great to have them preserved. Hopefully the Archive has more like them in the pipeline, because there's a ton of them out there that haven't been seen in decades.

Jay G.

Not only was it previously only shown in anaglyphic format, the original negatives were lost, and all that existed was an anaglyphic print, so they had to work in reverse from that print to recreate the original right & left images for this Blu-ray. It's impressive work.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../posts/3175864

Brian T

Thanks for that! Even as I was watching it I had vague memories of them posting pictures of the work somewhere, but figured they put them on social media and didn't want to bother hunting. Should've remembered it was a Kickstarter update, considering I actually kept track of the progress all those months!

OldBoy

Got Black Widow and Monster Hunter within a day apart. Popping in MH tomorrow. We’ll see about when BW will show her face.

Jay G.

No, nobody knows. There's no industry insiders here, and even if there were, they probably wouldn't risk their jobs just to leak a Blu-ray 3D title early.

You don't need to ask, nobody's withholding information here because OldBoy hasn't asked yet. When it's actually known via announcement or news on some other site, someone's likely to post here about it.

Jay G.

That was remarkably civil; you have not seen me be nasty. And I felt it was called for because your posts sometimes drive me up the wall with your staggering unwillingness to educate yourself and learn from experience, and the lack of respect you treat others on this forum with your unreasonable questions.

We're not your dancing monkeys, your information tube to call upon whenever you have a question. We're not Siri. We're a community of people with similar interests, and for the most part, the same level of access to information. And yet you act like you're owed information, and we're obligated to supply it, such as when you ask a question, get no response, then ask again. If nobody answers one of your questions the first time, it's either because nobody knows, or nobody is inclined to answer it. Either way, nobody here owes you an answer.

When I've been helpful to you in the past, it's often me not knowing the answer when I read your question, but then I go and look it up, via this thing called the internet. Sometimes it's because I'm feeling helpful, sometimes it's because I want to know the answer myself, and figure I might as well share what I learn. Sometimes, as when you're nagging, it's just to shut you up, but then I'm encouraging the bad behavior.

I've bit my tongue many, many, many, many more times than I've called you out, especially since whenever I call you out it doesn't seem to amount to anything. You don't learn anything from them. If I've hurt your feelings, I apologize, but my goal isn't to hurt you, but try and wake you up to the realities of the world, some you seem to seem stubbornly resistant to acknowledge. If you don't like hurt feelings, then you should know how incredibly angry your posts sometimes make me, due to how much it seems like you're taking myself and others here for granted, to be called upon to retrieve the information you're too lazy to find yourself or to provide info anyone with an understanding of this forum and its members would have zero reason to expect.

Like, what, in your years of experience on this forum, thought that what you asked was a reasonable question someone on this forum would know and be able to answer?

Jay G.

I'm not saying you're intentionally doing it, but you're definitely conveying that impression some times, and it definitely wears at my patience. Perhaps my patience was a bit thin already the other day when I replied, but you weren't the straw breaking the camel's back so much as the 5 lb bale of hay. I can tolerated it most days, but not always, and my normal civility likely doesn't convey to you how often you can be annoying, as you're not hearing my deep sighs or seeing my eyes role before I respond.

As for "don’t always want to use head since I use all day," if that's the case, maybe you should do something more conducive to "brainless" participation, like watching a simple TV show or movie, or playing a video game, in those circumstances. Why do you think it's ok to come onto this forum and subject us to your brainless thoughts and questions? Why aren't you embarrassed you're presenting a known poor version of yourself to others, wasting their time and frustrating them?


I honestly don't know if you haven't figured this out on your own or not, but blu-ray.com has an incredibly thorough and up-to-date catalog of Blu-ray titles, even international ones, and pre-orders.

If you want to see if there's a 3D Blu-ray listing for a movie anywhere in the world, click on the "3D" over the search bar at the top, then click on the right side of the search bar and select "All countries." You can then search a movie title:


Or, you know, wait until someone posts about them here. People tend to be fast when news of a new 3D release arises. People in this thread want to talk about 3D Blu-rays.

clckworang

People have very often complained that Oldboy uses this community as his own personal Google. He has never seemed to care.

story

Jay gave excellent and kind advice that reflects a lot of truth. Whether you want to listen to it or not is up to you. But when people tell you they're tired of the way they feel treated by you and you write, and then delete, that you don't care, that's very unfortunate.

OldBoy

Enough. Please delete all posts, including mine that have nothing to do with this thread. Sorry. Thanks in advance.

OldBoy

Done. But, not entire point.

OldBoy

Anyone have Resident Evil: Final Chapter? Looks like it got good remarks. And $8 for 2D/3D combo in Vudu. No brainer seems. Good presentation?

The Cow

sigh........

Alan Smithee

There WILL be another Japanese "MovieNEX" edition for The Eternals, with 3D Blu-Ray and glorified 2D 4K. Would rather just go down to Target on release date and buy it, but better than nothing. Still need to find time to watch the whole Marvel series in order.

Jay G.

Amazon.jp link for the Japanese UHD/3D Eternals, although those outside Japan can't pre-order:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E3%82.../dp/B09N9DCSYB