New Poll: Invitation from Paramount
05-13-02, 12:09 AM
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I will choose Murder on the Orient Express. I saw this as a kid and absolutely loved it; I'm not sure I understood everything, but I really enjoyed it.
Then Wings if I can have two votes.
JC
Then Wings if I can have two votes.
JC
05-13-02, 12:09 AM
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Foul Play
Of the titles listed, "Foul Play" is the one I've been waiting for and will buy almost without question. My wife was just in a local production of The Mikado, and whenever I hear the opening notes of that Gilbert and Sullivan show, I think of Dudley Moore and "Foul Play."
-- Mike W.
-- Mike W.
05-13-02, 01:05 AM
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Murder on the Orient Express needs a Special Edition. It is the one film on this list that i feel has both the impact as a great film and the possibilty to be a very good SE, although most of these do merit consideration.
Foul Play could be fun in an SE, but not quite the same necessity.
Also, to repeat what a few others have said, I would love to see Major League on DVD. It is one that I have been waiting for, and as a retailer, I can say with confidence that there would be a lot opf interest in this as well.
Foul Play could be fun in an SE, but not quite the same necessity.
Also, to repeat what a few others have said, I would love to see Major League on DVD. It is one that I have been waiting for, and as a retailer, I can say with confidence that there would be a lot opf interest in this as well.
05-13-02, 01:50 AM
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My top Three:
1. Murder on the Orient Express - Definitely include some featurettes on Agatha Christie, as well as the life and times of Hercule Poirot. It'd be interesting to have some info on the real-life Orient Express as well. Deleted scenes, outtakes, and whatever else you can get your hands on. Pack this one to the hilt. I can't wait.
2. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter - One of my professors this semester is doing his doctorate dissertation on gothic horror films, and has been asking me if this film is available. I'll be able to tell him good news now, that it'll be released next year.
As with the Hammer films that have been released by Anchor Bay and the two upcoming discs by Warner Bros. please pack this one with great extras. As with Anchor Bay's Hammer discs, also please release this one Uncut. If you're gonna do a Special Edition catered toward horror fans, might as well do it right.
3. Foul Play - Big-time guilty pleasure of mine. Love Chevy Chase. It'd be great to hear a commentary with Chase and Goldie Hawn, as well as Chevy behind the scenes, and maybe some deleted scenes and outtakes. It'd also be touching if you could include a "Tribute to Dudley Moore" featurette on this disc as well. Make this Special Edition disc happen, please!
Thanks for asking us for our suggestions!
1. Murder on the Orient Express - Definitely include some featurettes on Agatha Christie, as well as the life and times of Hercule Poirot. It'd be interesting to have some info on the real-life Orient Express as well. Deleted scenes, outtakes, and whatever else you can get your hands on. Pack this one to the hilt. I can't wait.
2. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter - One of my professors this semester is doing his doctorate dissertation on gothic horror films, and has been asking me if this film is available. I'll be able to tell him good news now, that it'll be released next year.
As with the Hammer films that have been released by Anchor Bay and the two upcoming discs by Warner Bros. please pack this one with great extras. As with Anchor Bay's Hammer discs, also please release this one Uncut. If you're gonna do a Special Edition catered toward horror fans, might as well do it right.3. Foul Play - Big-time guilty pleasure of mine. Love Chevy Chase. It'd be great to hear a commentary with Chase and Goldie Hawn, as well as Chevy behind the scenes, and maybe some deleted scenes and outtakes. It'd also be touching if you could include a "Tribute to Dudley Moore" featurette on this disc as well. Make this Special Edition disc happen, please!
Thanks for asking us for our suggestions!
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05-13-02, 08:20 AM
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Murder on the Orient Express, definitely!!
In particular, what I'd like to see on this disc is a commentary or docu by a scholar/expert on Agatha Christie, or some other notable expert on the mystery genre. I'm sure there's a lot someone like that could add to my experience of the story, and the film. Special features that focus on the making of the film are great, but this type of subject-matter expert commentary can be very enlightening, as well.
Thanks!
- Bob Pierce
In particular, what I'd like to see on this disc is a commentary or docu by a scholar/expert on Agatha Christie, or some other notable expert on the mystery genre. I'm sure there's a lot someone like that could add to my experience of the story, and the film. Special features that focus on the making of the film are great, but this type of subject-matter expert commentary can be very enlightening, as well.
Thanks!
- Bob Pierce
05-13-02, 08:25 AM
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The Day of the Locust!
Yes! This is one of my all-time favorite films. I would love to see a nice wide screen version (and hopefully a trailer)
Yes! This is one of my all-time favorite films. I would love to see a nice wide screen version (and hopefully a trailer)
05-13-02, 08:55 AM
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Captain Kronos and the Hammer Films are my first choice.
Foul Play is my second (mmmmmm, Goldie Hawn).
Also, PLEASE do not release movie only versions of films, unless you're going to be selling them at a MSRP of $9.99 at Walmart.
You're ears must have been burning when you released Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan last year.... I had just seen the DVD box sets that MGM had been releasing for the James Bond Films and saw what DVD's SHOULD look like. At the same time I get in the Wrath of Khan. Mediocre soft picture, mediocre sound. A BAD painting of Khan as your "menu". Your "extra" involved "Chapter Selection".... whoopee. This dreck gives you a bad name. It seems like you are taking advantage and slapping ANYTHING together with Star Trek on it and watching the trekkers/trekkies snap it up. You redeemed yourself with ST:TMP last year, but this should be the FIRST DVD you release. Movie only versions should only be released two years later when you are trying to lure the WalMart crowd and the movie has long since left rotation on the PayTV channels (ie. what Fox is doing with Independence Day recently).
I buy 120 DVD's a year and I have been drifting away from the Paramount titles due to the "weak" offerings in the special editions department. If Anchor Bay can come up with extras, music videos, DTS-ES discrete sound, AND commentary, why can't a company with Paramount's resources do the same?
And if money is the issue, throw a big check at Spielberg and Lucas and get them to FINALLY release the Raiders of the Lost Ark trilogy in a definitive Special Edition. You'll need shovels to count all the cash that will generate.
Unfortunately, everyone has been spoiling us with these amazing special editions and we've come to expect them now.
I apologize for the tone of this rant, but I have been frustrated with the studios when they treat us as idiots. Give us a quality product and we will beat a path to your door. Don't give us one, and you'll be making excuses to the stockholders about a "down economy" or a mismanaged "marketing campaign" affecting demand for your product. We will never support VOD or another DivX on any significant level as we want to own a copy of a movie that doesn't have a meter attached like a taxicab. Go ask Circuit City about their DivX bill if you need further evidence.
But as a "cleansing sorbet" for this longwinded speech, thank you for soliciting our opinions. We may be tough out here in internet-land, but when you do it right we'll tell thousands of people. Hope to hear from you again soon.
Foul Play is my second (mmmmmm, Goldie Hawn).
Also, PLEASE do not release movie only versions of films, unless you're going to be selling them at a MSRP of $9.99 at Walmart.
You're ears must have been burning when you released Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan last year.... I had just seen the DVD box sets that MGM had been releasing for the James Bond Films and saw what DVD's SHOULD look like. At the same time I get in the Wrath of Khan. Mediocre soft picture, mediocre sound. A BAD painting of Khan as your "menu". Your "extra" involved "Chapter Selection".... whoopee. This dreck gives you a bad name. It seems like you are taking advantage and slapping ANYTHING together with Star Trek on it and watching the trekkers/trekkies snap it up. You redeemed yourself with ST:TMP last year, but this should be the FIRST DVD you release. Movie only versions should only be released two years later when you are trying to lure the WalMart crowd and the movie has long since left rotation on the PayTV channels (ie. what Fox is doing with Independence Day recently).
I buy 120 DVD's a year and I have been drifting away from the Paramount titles due to the "weak" offerings in the special editions department. If Anchor Bay can come up with extras, music videos, DTS-ES discrete sound, AND commentary, why can't a company with Paramount's resources do the same?
And if money is the issue, throw a big check at Spielberg and Lucas and get them to FINALLY release the Raiders of the Lost Ark trilogy in a definitive Special Edition. You'll need shovels to count all the cash that will generate.
Unfortunately, everyone has been spoiling us with these amazing special editions and we've come to expect them now.
I apologize for the tone of this rant, but I have been frustrated with the studios when they treat us as idiots. Give us a quality product and we will beat a path to your door. Don't give us one, and you'll be making excuses to the stockholders about a "down economy" or a mismanaged "marketing campaign" affecting demand for your product. We will never support VOD or another DivX on any significant level as we want to own a copy of a movie that doesn't have a meter attached like a taxicab. Go ask Circuit City about their DivX bill if you need further evidence.
But as a "cleansing sorbet" for this longwinded speech, thank you for soliciting our opinions. We may be tough out here in internet-land, but when you do it right we'll tell thousands of people. Hope to hear from you again soon.
05-13-02, 09:54 AM
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Day of the Locust!
Hello,
As an English professor who uses movies in the classroom, I strongly urge you to release a nice letterboxed edition of "Day of the Locust." Nathaniel West is one of the most important writers of American 20th Century fiction and has had a profound influence on current authors, especially J. G. Ballard. Paramount has made several excellent films of classic American novels, especially "The Last Tycoon," "Isands in the Stream," and "The Great Gatsby." PLEASE release these on DVD in 2003! High schools and colleges would all purchase these, esp. if they had some special features for use in the classroom. Also, what about "HUD" and "Once Upon A Time In the West?"
Thanks!
Jim
As an English professor who uses movies in the classroom, I strongly urge you to release a nice letterboxed edition of "Day of the Locust." Nathaniel West is one of the most important writers of American 20th Century fiction and has had a profound influence on current authors, especially J. G. Ballard. Paramount has made several excellent films of classic American novels, especially "The Last Tycoon," "Isands in the Stream," and "The Great Gatsby." PLEASE release these on DVD in 2003! High schools and colleges would all purchase these, esp. if they had some special features for use in the classroom. Also, what about "HUD" and "Once Upon A Time In the West?"
Thanks!
Jim
05-13-02, 10:39 AM
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Captain Kronos was the most unusual, and best, film in the history of Hammer Films. There are few better examples of the true effectiveness of 70s British Horror. I can think of no film more worthy of Special Edition treatment from this genre.
My DVD "want list" is waiting on very few films before I can consider it complete. Captain Kronos is one of those films.
My DVD "want list" is waiting on very few films before I can consider it complete. Captain Kronos is one of those films.
05-13-02, 11:16 AM
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Since I was a wee one, I've LOVED horror films and now, being a father of two and having no time to be able to watch many, I still love them. One of my fondest memories were of watching Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter at the local cinema. One of the best hammer "mod" films and would make a great special edition.
The others in no order would be
Foul Play - cheesy fun
Murder On the Orient Express - great cast and good acting.
also,
Do right by us Paramount and here's hoping that the next original Star Trek films especially Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country are as good as the package for Star Trek 1.
The others in no order would be
Foul Play - cheesy fun
Murder On the Orient Express - great cast and good acting.
also,
Do right by us Paramount and here's hoping that the next original Star Trek films especially Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country are as good as the package for Star Trek 1.
05-13-02, 11:59 AM
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Yesssssss!!!! Four flies on grey velvet !!! 
My votes would be:
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter and the Hammers
If....
and another one that was rumoured but is still missing: Roman Polanski's The tenant
My votes would be:
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter and the Hammers
If....
and another one that was rumoured but is still missing: Roman Polanski's The tenant
05-13-02, 12:23 PM
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Definitely Captain Cronos, The Hammer-films and Four Flies on Grey Velvet! And please consider releasing Phase IV, Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell, Lets Scare Jessica to Death, Student Bodies and of course Danger: Diabolik.
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05-13-02, 12:24 PM
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kewl what about...
'FOULPLAY' was a good movie, the rest of the list isn't that bad but what about 'SCARFACE' / Al Pacino(1986)
I've been wanting to buy that one for the longest...(need it in the rotation)[/SIZE]
I've been wanting to buy that one for the longest...(need it in the rotation)[/SIZE]
05-13-02, 01:02 PM
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Foul Play! Please!!!
Foul Play is a true classic and deserves to be given the special edition treatment. Why, you ask? Well for starters it was the movie that proved Chevy Chase could act. Plus it featured a not so well known Dudley Moore in a classic supporting part. Goldie Hawn's best comedic performance and let's not forget one helluva performance from Burgess Meredith and last but not least a great cameo by Billy Bart. What more do you want? How about an original Opera created just for the movie. That's right, the finale with the japenese opera was created just for the movie. I would really like to hear what Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn have to say about a movie that really helped both of their careers and definately is now considered a classic. Maybe a commentary from Chase and Hawn or how about a retrospective documentary. Well there is a lot of history to this film and a lot of really juicy tidbits to be found. This Title is a no Brainer.
Hey Paramount where are Urban Cowboy and My Grease Special Editions C'mon guys you really need to get on the ball.
Hey Paramount where are Urban Cowboy and My Grease Special Editions C'mon guys you really need to get on the ball.
05-13-02, 01:28 PM
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Hammer Gets The Nod
I would say that the Hammer films have the most demanding fans who would expect quality extras. As Captain Kronos is one of my personal favorites, I would love to see that film get special treatment on DVD.