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Speaker 2: Hey, and Happy Thursday Live with Brian Dembinski, a name
Speaker 2: you might recognize better as we can. Can you hear
Speaker 2: me Brian?
Speaker 5: Anything from you?
Speaker 2: You might recognize Brian as the Wonderment project in the
Speaker 2: chat Glad everybody is here. This is extra funny because
Speaker 2: Brian is a sound professional.
Speaker 5: I don't hear you, but I can fix that in
Speaker 5: the second.
Speaker 2: And your sound is very different than earlier when we
Speaker 2: tested this. Hello, we'll get this fixed sooner. I'm sure
Speaker 2: ethnical difficulties and your audio is very awkward. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: get this figured out. I am glad everybody's here. It's
Speaker 2: been a heck of a week. It is really really
Speaker 2: nice to see everybody. It's been a very busy week,
Speaker 2: so great to spend some time with everybody.
Speaker 5: Give me a second. I'm gonna just things so I
Speaker 5: can hear you real quick.
Speaker 2: We go okay, okay, I'll bring Brian back in in
Speaker 2: just a minute and we'll see what's going on. Brian,
Speaker 2: for everybody that does not know, is a as you'll
Speaker 2: see in the thumbnail, a laser disc enthusiast, and that
Speaker 2: is underselling it. We're going to find out why that
Speaker 2: is underselling it because he is one of the foremost
Speaker 2: collectors of laser disc in the entire us. On that note,
Speaker 2: if you want to know more about laser disc, think
Speaker 2: of your questions. He can answer pretty much everything. He
Speaker 2: is a master at valuing items, he is a master
Speaker 2: at tracking things down around the world and getting them
Speaker 2: for his collection. He's going after a couple of complete
Speaker 2: collections that we will talk about in a little bit
Speaker 2: as far as okay, Brian says, he can hear me,
Speaker 2: but he's also going to hear himself. All right, I'll
Speaker 2: bring him back in what happened Brian? We tested this, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and now your sound is very different than earlier too.
Speaker 6: I know I don't hear anything from you again, so
Speaker 6: I can I can. Yeah, it's very strange, very strange.
Speaker 6: Hopefully we can figure it out.
Speaker 5: If not, I mean, I'm doing it based on the stream,
Speaker 5: but I don't hear anything directly from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that is quite awkward. We'll figure that out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get into all of our regular stuff. And
Speaker 2: also Brian is going to cover his normal pickups, talk
Speaker 2: about the stuff that he collects, tell us about some
Speaker 2: laser discs and all of that. Uh, this is a funny,
Speaker 2: freaking question, Sibner. Simner says, foremost or as in one
Speaker 2: of the only four now they we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: because he he buys and sells a lot of laser discs.
Speaker 2: Are we good now no, okay, these silences, Okay.
Speaker 5: Well I don't hear you. So I'm gonna be right.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back, all right, So I'll carry on
Speaker 2: for just a moment, just so it's not super awkward
Speaker 2: for Brian for for me to talk about it for
Speaker 2: a minute. I'm gonna show a couple of pickups and
Speaker 2: the best one. Normally I don't make a big deal
Speaker 2: out of this, but I just got in the brand
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Speaker 2: know why. Something about it is like extra handsome this month.
Speaker 2: It came together really freaking great. Everything is really incredible
Speaker 2: in the hand some of our favorite articles that we've
Speaker 2: done yet until the next couple months, because man, we've
Speaker 2: got some big stuff on the way for everybody. Check
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Speaker 2: the Physical Media Advocate or checking this out every once
Speaker 2: in a while. I know it's a weird thing to
Speaker 2: hawk for myself because I normally don't do it, but
Speaker 2: this thing has grown leafs and bounds. What started out
Speaker 2: as a six page pdf is now a monthly fifty
Speaker 2: plus page publication that is going worldwide, available in four
Speaker 2: countries and getting people from all over the world, right
Speaker 2: every single month, and it is turning out to be
Speaker 2: something incredible. We are doing two really special things here
Speaker 2: soon that I can't wait to tell everybody about. Robert
Speaker 2: is asking any glitches on our end. Storm just passed
Speaker 2: overs in the last half hour, maybe in your area
Speaker 2: an hour or so. I just got a notification that
Speaker 2: it's about to hit Johnson County, so I probably got yeah,
Speaker 2: somewhere around an hour. We'll see you something like that, Brian,
Speaker 2: Are we better?
Speaker 5: There we go? Yeah, I see you, I hear you.
Speaker 2: Yay, And everything's yeah, all right?
Speaker 5: He perfect? Now, Yes that was strange. I yeah, everything's perfect.
Speaker 2: All right. We'll get to you just a second. Rafa
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Speaker 2: wrote a shit ton for the Physical Media Advocates. Thanks
Speaker 2: for doing that.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm pretty no problem. I just wrote one
Speaker 5: series of articles so far and hopefully I can continue.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it was all about Hong Kong cinema, really
Speaker 5: like a bit of the birth of it, but really
Speaker 5: like how it's second Golden Age Soka, like eighty six,
Speaker 5: the handover in ninety seven, and I sort of tried
Speaker 5: to take an economic perspective and work my way back
Speaker 5: and like how do they get the money to make
Speaker 5: these movies? How do they do it? And what came
Speaker 5: out of it? And then how did it die? But
Speaker 5: it was really long. It took me. I read a
Speaker 5: stupid amount of things, Like I was reading like vintage
Speaker 5: Hong Kong economic reports from the seventies all the way
Speaker 5: through like the nineties to try to figure out like
Speaker 5: where it all came from. It was fun, It was
Speaker 5: really good.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about laser dis tonight. Before we
Speaker 2: get into the heart of everything, why don't you share
Speaker 2: just the obvious questions here? How many do you have
Speaker 2: and what are you trying to collect with laser discs?
Speaker 5: How many do I have? I have just under seventeen
Speaker 5: thousand of them. What am I trying to collect with them?
Speaker 5: You know? In like the Grand scheme of things. I
Speaker 5: would love to get any movie released on laser disc
Speaker 5: across all continents. I don't quite have the bandwidth to
Speaker 5: do that. So, like my real thing is I'm trying
Speaker 5: to get a complete set of wide screen US laser discs,
Speaker 5: which you know, it's a little hard to put a
Speaker 5: finger on it because they released like like two thousand
Speaker 5: and one that got released like two or three times widescreen,
Speaker 5: actually four times, I think. So if you break it
Speaker 5: down out of that, like how many movies is that,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like it's in the eight or nine
Speaker 5: thousand range, and right now I'm missing just under two hundred.
Speaker 2: So I got to ask, because I know you tracked this,
Speaker 2: is there confirmed copy still in decent condition of all
Speaker 2: two hundred of those in the world, you know.
Speaker 5: Nottually you know, to be so honest, some of this
Speaker 5: stuff is I would say mostly yes, with a few caveats.
Speaker 5: So Thai Sang released a lot of laser discs in
Speaker 5: Hong Kong and in the United States, and in the
Speaker 5: United States here I didn't bring it. I don't think
Speaker 5: I have any with me right here. But in the
Speaker 5: United States. The main difference between a Thai Sang release
Speaker 5: of a laser disc and for the US and what
Speaker 5: they release in Hong Kong is basically just a white
Speaker 5: strip of paper, and so if I can't find it
Speaker 5: with the white strip of paper, I don't count it
Speaker 5: as the US release. And like that's a little bit
Speaker 5: of like a nebulous like do I really care deeply
Speaker 5: about a white strip of paper or not? But as
Speaker 5: many of that can find with the white strip of
Speaker 5: paper I have, and I have a lot of them,
Speaker 5: but they are like, of the two hundred I'm missing,
Speaker 5: probably sixty of them are these Tai Sang ones. And
Speaker 5: you know, they don't pop up that often because you
Speaker 5: would have had to, like you know, keep it in
Speaker 5: a sleeve more or less, because the white piece of
Speaker 5: paper is literally just a piece of folding paper that
Speaker 5: they cut and printed. It's nothing fancy. So like those ones,
Speaker 5: maybe maybe not. Everything else is like, yeah, there are
Speaker 5: a lot more laser disc fans than you would think.
Speaker 5: I think the main Facebook forum has like eleven thousand members.
Speaker 5: I think if you look in general, you know, there's
Speaker 5: probably a solid five six thousand people that spend laser
Speaker 5: disc often. Probably three thousand of those in the States
Speaker 5: they were incredibly popular in Japan and in East Asia
Speaker 5: in general, so there's a lot more than you would think.
Speaker 5: And it went on for a lot longer. I mean,
Speaker 5: laser disc basically lasted as long as DVD lasted, right,
Speaker 5: So it's not like it was a flash in the pan.
Speaker 5: It's just expensive and it was niche. So while DVD
Speaker 5: was cheap and broad, laser disc was like, laser disc
Speaker 5: was a thing that those who loved cinema, especially at
Speaker 5: the time got.
Speaker 2: There is a lot to go over on laser disc.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just had like fourteen questions pop up
Speaker 2: doesn't ask. But before we get into all that, I
Speaker 2: want everybody to have a chance just to think about it.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna get deep into laser discs after the
Speaker 2: announcements tonight. We're gonna go into like full blown nerdy
Speaker 2: side of things. So first let's get into some of
Speaker 2: our regular topics. What do you what are you collecting
Speaker 2: on on we'll say contemporary physical media.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I I'm like I'm slowing down a
Speaker 5: little bit just because of like sort of changing like
Speaker 5: my shelf space, my workspace, my everything space. But like
Speaker 5: I have a bunch of labels and types of movies
Speaker 5: that I really like, and so I try to stay
Speaker 5: mostly complete. So like just in the mail today watching
Speaker 5: I don't get my mail here. I have to get
Speaker 5: my mail somewhere else. But just recently I picked up
Speaker 5: from the mail the New Deaf Crocodile. I have all
Speaker 5: their releases. I love their stuff. This is gonna be cool.
Speaker 5: And then I recently went on a trip to Montreal
Speaker 5: with my family and I found a VHS so this
Speaker 5: erotic thriller dubbed in French. This is a movie called
Speaker 5: Matter of Trusts but dubbed in French. So that's kind
Speaker 5: of cool. And then when I'm out there, I always
Speaker 5: look for like weird DVDs, so this is like movie
Speaker 5: running out of time, early Harvey ar Bardem. And then
Speaker 5: quebec Qua has their own cinema that existed for a
Speaker 5: really long time. And in Montreal you can find a
Speaker 5: bunch of dirt cheap, so I bought some of that,
Speaker 5: like dollars a pop. And then I really like Arrow,
Speaker 5: and of course we don't talk about Hong Kong, so
Speaker 5: I got the New Arrow, Hard Boiled and Killers, and
Speaker 5: I really like Radiance, so I ended up getting This
Speaker 5: is Johnny Toe movie, another Hong Kong movie, Romances in
Speaker 5: the Air. That one me too. I love Johnny Toe.
Speaker 5: You know, he's another funny guy like you Can Talk.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to go into it now, but he
Speaker 5: like spans from the beginning of the second Golden Age
Speaker 5: of Cung cinema, and he's like one of the three
Speaker 5: or four that kept golling. So he really still has
Speaker 5: a presence and kind of cool. And I picked up
Speaker 5: The Matador very nice.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking about that one a little more and
Speaker 2: a little bit. I'm sure some exciting stuff from Radiance.
Speaker 2: They've had a few great months, for sure. A couple
Speaker 2: of things I wanted to show one. I know you
Speaker 2: big into eighty eight films. This is their newest one.
Speaker 2: This is the Angry River. Will note that they like
Speaker 2: change the quality the slipcover on this one. I know
Speaker 2: people are super into slipcovers. This one feels interesting. It's
Speaker 2: like a different material altogether, a little little more high quality.
Speaker 2: Possibly nice release. Well go USA. I've been wanting to
Speaker 2: check this one out. Beast of War. When they put
Speaker 2: out press discs, I'm much more likely to purchase these.
Speaker 2: They do a lot of b DRS. But Beast of
Speaker 2: War is supposedly pretty good, so I wanted to check
Speaker 2: that one out. You just brought up Arrow and some
Speaker 2: of their newest ones. We've got the Eye, This is
Speaker 2: a brain four K from them, which is supposed to
Speaker 2: be great. And then one that I've been wanting to
Speaker 2: see for a long time, wandering Ginza Butterfly. This is
Speaker 2: very nice looking release. Glad you got this one too.
Speaker 2: This is Miko Kagi stuff that people have been wanting
Speaker 2: to see in good, high quality for a long time,
Speaker 2: just like the last one I want to talking about,
Speaker 2: which is Full Moon's released of last Foxtrott and Burbank,
Speaker 2: written by partially John Carpenter. Very eager to see this
Speaker 2: one because I love John Carpenter. Although it's supposed to
Speaker 2: be pretty terrible.
Speaker 5: I've never I've never seen it. I've heard of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what about what you've been watching? Because you
Speaker 2: are kind of all over the place. Although we're definitely
Speaker 2: gonna get into erotic thrillers tonight, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah that I'll break that down a lot more a
Speaker 5: lot later. But yeah, so, I mean I do kind
Speaker 5: of watch a little all over the place. I really
Speaker 5: I really like this Buster Keaton set they got released
Speaker 5: a while ago, of all his short films. I get
Speaker 5: my chill, learn to watch Buster Keaton. And in fact,
Speaker 5: my littlest one who's four, will say that she only
Speaker 5: likes four movies and it goes like Zoolander, not Zoolander, Zootopia, Wicked,
Speaker 5: I can't remember when when I went. And then she'll
Speaker 5: say in Buster Keaton. So she and I watched a
Speaker 5: lot of Buster Keaton, but I will.
Speaker 2: Know who the younger kids are. I really wish she
Speaker 2: was saying zoo Lander.
Speaker 5: No, no, that's mistake. But I watched a whole bunch
Speaker 5: of these this week. Those are all really good. What
Speaker 5: if you never you can see one Week as a short.
Speaker 5: It's his first director short. It's great to really watched that.
Speaker 5: And then I watched work my way through this entire set.
Speaker 5: Uh this Jade said this, I don't like this movie
Speaker 5: at all, but this set is actually incredible. Like there's
Speaker 5: like if you want to work yourself through a movie
Speaker 5: and think completely about it, independent on whether or not,
Speaker 5: it's like a movie that you like. And one of
Speaker 5: the best sets I think in a long time they
Speaker 5: like works its way through a movie, Like you got
Speaker 5: to think about it from a production standpoint, from a
Speaker 5: cultural standpoint, it's really all there and it's really well done.
Speaker 5: So good job to you on that one.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wasn't going to call attention to it,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean a lot because obviously when a
Speaker 2: company like Vinegar Syndrome puts out a four Kids, everybody
Speaker 2: goes crazy over And then another company asked me to
Speaker 2: produce another release of that film. I'm like, okay, Like
Speaker 2: that's kind of tough because a lot of people already
Speaker 2: bought it. But I think there was still some stuff
Speaker 2: to mine there, and I think we pulled off some
Speaker 2: pretty cool things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the visual essay that is in here? Who did it?
Speaker 5: That one is really good?
Speaker 6: Chris so Neil probably, yes, Yes, that one.
Speaker 5: His is really good. A Freaking's Enigma. Yeah, that one's
Speaker 5: really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris is great at what he does. And then
Speaker 2: Michelle's is really really good on that one too, She's
Speaker 2: very talented.
Speaker 5: I liked all that. I mean, I had seen the
Speaker 5: Kids stays in the picture, so I didn't watch that again,
Speaker 5: but actually seen that a few times. But it's cool
Speaker 5: it's in there. I don't know why but whatever, it's kind.
Speaker 2: Of crazy to get it as a bonus in there.
Speaker 5: It's like whatever, it doesn't change the value you get
Speaker 5: in the box. Like it's like, yeah, here's another cool documentary.
Speaker 5: Why not? And then I watched only half of this,
Speaker 5: But I mean, I've seen the movie a bunch of times,
Speaker 5: but I watched the noir edition so so good. Like
Speaker 5: when we do talk about Erotic Eller is like, if
Speaker 5: you actually want to talk about what's actually a great
Speaker 5: movie Erotic earlier, this is like the only this is
Speaker 5: the only real five star one. This is like the
Speaker 5: best of the best one. There are a few others,
Speaker 5: I think our five star that I'll talk about, but like,
Speaker 5: independent of like my own quirks, that Last Seduction is
Speaker 5: incredibly good, and it was only because of like sort
Speaker 5: of a weird quirk and the Oscar systems of the
Speaker 5: year that Linda Farentino didn't get a nomination and everybody
Speaker 5: else sort of like god shushed aside. But it's a
Speaker 5: great movie. It's a great movie, and it looks amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will agree, it definitely looks great. They did
Speaker 2: an incredible job on that rest duration. I'm happy for them.
Speaker 2: As far as what I watch this week, I will
Speaker 2: say it's been a very short, heavy week for me
Speaker 2: this week. And I just want to employ everybody if
Speaker 2: you ever get some downtime or you're like trying to,
Speaker 2: I don't know, switch through a short night and you're like,
Speaker 2: I've got eighty minutes and I could find an eighty
Speaker 2: minute movie, but I don't know what to watch. Literally,
Speaker 2: pull up YouTube, pull up some of your discs. Check
Speaker 2: out some shorts. There are so many really great short
Speaker 2: films that don't see much beyond festivals and then a
Speaker 2: lot of times they're thrown onto a disc and forgot about.
Speaker 2: Some of these filmmakers literally spend more time on some
Speaker 2: of these shorts just to get attention to be able
Speaker 2: to make a feature, and then they're they're left there.
Speaker 2: They're never like paid properly. They usually they sink a
Speaker 2: lot of money to some of these shorts and then
Speaker 2: never recover from that. So check out YouTube, check out Vimeo,
Speaker 2: check out some of these streaming services. All shout out
Speaker 2: not one of my favorite streaming services because I don't
Speaker 2: really go to them all that often, but.
Speaker 5: I cant knaf my head set out.
Speaker 2: But I will say check out bloodstream TV. They've got
Speaker 2: some collections of short films from filmmakers that are just
Speaker 2: really eclectic and not something that you would expect to see.
Speaker 2: They've got some great stuff going on over there, So yeah,
Speaker 2: give them a shout out, some attention if you've ever
Speaker 2: considered that. Before we go into other stuff, let's talk
Speaker 2: about sound, because obviously tonight we're talking about LaserDisc. You
Speaker 2: are professional in lots of different ways surrounding sound. What
Speaker 2: do you do for sound?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a production sound mixer in New York City,
Speaker 5: so I work on movies and TV shows and anything
Speaker 5: in between. I've done sound for almost anything that you
Speaker 5: can think of, very very very little theater but a
Speaker 5: little bit, but basically any and everything that deals with
Speaker 5: sound for entertainment I've done at some point. Yeah, So
Speaker 5: anything related to sound and entertainment I can talk about
Speaker 5: I've done.
Speaker 2: What are What are some of the bigger movies or
Speaker 2: TV shows people might recognize that you've worked on.
Speaker 5: I was a production mixer for Severance the season one
Speaker 5: which was on Apple TV. We got a CIS Award
Speaker 5: nomination for that. I did this movie called The Secret
Speaker 5: Life of Walter Midti, The Amazing Spider Man two. I
Speaker 5: was the stunt unit mixer on, which is amazing. You know,
Speaker 5: I worked on a lot of reality TV shows, so
Speaker 5: I was a sound supervisor for Ink Master and Worst
Speaker 5: Cooks in America, and there's this the first season of
Speaker 5: Love and Hip Hop, I supervised and got that started
Speaker 5: Real Housewives in New Jersey back in the day. I
Speaker 5: supervised that. In fact, all of Bravo. If you or
Speaker 5: your loved ones like Bravo or you wish that they didn't.
Speaker 5: The reason why Bravo is sort of done the way
Speaker 5: it is is because in season three of Housewives in
Speaker 5: New York no I'm sorry of New Jersey, I sort
Speaker 5: of like introduced how you can multi track and do
Speaker 5: large cast events to them and that sort of I
Speaker 5: had to prove that it was doable to them before
Speaker 5: they would even sign off on it. We had just
Speaker 5: sort of done a version of it on Love and
Speaker 5: Hip Hop, but I proved that we could do it,
Speaker 5: and then, as far as I know, it was the
Speaker 5: first Bravo show that did live like in the field
Speaker 5: multi tracking. And now it's just like how every show.
Speaker 2: Is done standard.
Speaker 5: It's just the standard. But that's a lot. I mean
Speaker 5: that's a long time agoes twelve twelve years ago.
Speaker 2: Well, and I don't know how much you wanted to
Speaker 2: talk about it, but you've met miss Drew Barry Moore
Speaker 2: a few times.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I work on the right now. I'm the
Speaker 5: main thing I don't. I don't do as much anymore.
Speaker 5: I have two children and a busy partner, so like,
Speaker 5: I try to do a lot less, but I do
Speaker 5: still work on the Drew Barrymore Show as the I
Speaker 5: do the field pieces, so whenever they're not in the studio,
Speaker 5: I go out with them. We just went to Tennessee
Speaker 5: last week two weeks ago for a little thing we'll
Speaker 5: not actually air till next season. But yeah, so I
Speaker 5: worked with her. Whenever I see Drew, she gives me
Speaker 5: a hive. Hi, give me a hug, ask me how
Speaker 5: my wife's doing. So she's very nice, She's you know,
Speaker 5: she's cool.
Speaker 2: Ronnie's bringing up that you just did that my mom
Speaker 2: Jane Duck did my mom?
Speaker 5: Jane? Yeah, and I did. I'd done a lot of
Speaker 5: movies with this guy, Marshall Curry, who is a really
Speaker 5: good documentary filmmaker. On Netflix right now, they have The
Speaker 5: New Yorker at fifty we did that. It was a
Speaker 5: really good underseen one called street Fight. I didn't do that.
Speaker 5: He did that by himself. But then after street Fight
Speaker 5: he did Racing Dreams. It's about kids of race go karts.
Speaker 5: I think the DVD's dirt cheap, but it's a really
Speaker 5: really good movie. It's like almost twenty years old now,
Speaker 5: but I really like making that one.
Speaker 2: That's I think that one is streaming in a couple
Speaker 2: of places because I was just looking at that one.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: So lots of sound stuff if anybody has any questions
Speaker 2: about Sand for Brian, But one of the big things
Speaker 2: is you've got a couple of things that you can
Speaker 2: show us about Sand because you've got your sound rather
Speaker 2: through a mixer. Is that gonna work tonight?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think it was just a codec from the theater.
Speaker 5: I have a really old computer. That's why I think
Speaker 5: it was causing the problem. But yeah, so, like you know,
Speaker 5: I don't I can't hear myself, which is probably good,
Speaker 5: so I'm assuming and hoping it sounds good to everybody.
Speaker 5: But this this is how you would do a sound
Speaker 5: for an interview. So for the people watching on a stream,
Speaker 5: that's the microphone, and I made it so it's just
Speaker 5: out of frame and boom. So that's like if you
Speaker 5: were doing it documentary where you had a bunch of
Speaker 5: sit down interviews, this is how you would mic it.
Speaker 5: And this is more or less what it should sound like,
Speaker 5: I'm assuming. And then you're like, well, what's the difference
Speaker 5: between that and a camera mic. Well, camera MIC's gonna
Speaker 5: sound like this. So here's a mic that's about the
Speaker 5: distance that the camera would be. It's still pointed at me.
Speaker 5: It's still a pretty decent mic, but it's gonna sound
Speaker 5: a lot more open. It's gonna sound a bit more airy.
Speaker 5: It's also a shotgun mic versus this cardioid mic, so
Speaker 5: that might have a little bit of different sound. Again,
Speaker 5: I'm not one hundred percent sure what this stream is
Speaker 5: going to do to it. And then you say like,
Speaker 5: you know, well, what about if I have a love
Speaker 5: mic on? Well, I actually do. I wearing a love
Speaker 5: mic right now. And then there's the lav mic. So
Speaker 5: if you're like, what does the lave mic sound like?
Speaker 5: This is what a love is like. And it's you know,
Speaker 5: I'm hidden under my clothing so you can't see it.
Speaker 5: I don't, and it's like a smaller diaphragm. It doesn't
Speaker 5: really have quite the same fullness. A lot of people
Speaker 5: would say, also, you you lose any sense of space.
Speaker 5: And you know, a lot of times when I'm making
Speaker 5: a documentary, especially like a Talking Heads one, you say
Speaker 5: you want it to sound important and fall and big
Speaker 5: and like you're in the room with them, and so yeah,
Speaker 5: sure we can use the lave. But I think this
Speaker 5: mic sounds a lot like more like I'm actually in
Speaker 5: the room with you. It sounds a bigger, fuller more
Speaker 5: I call someone called the NPR feel to it, and
Speaker 5: so like a whole thing is considered, this is the
Speaker 5: mic I want to use. So that sounds like a
Speaker 5: simple demonstration.
Speaker 2: Some good comments, Yeah, people noticing lots of differences. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's a very interesting thing. Patty Boy wants and
Speaker 2: knows a sound good. How do you feel about Robert
Speaker 2: Altman movies?
Speaker 5: I really like Robert Alman movies. I there's not that
Speaker 5: many books classically written about like sound mixers and sound
Speaker 5: mixer techniques, because you know, more or less, it's like
Speaker 5: a technical profession. It's not it's not something that's like
Speaker 5: super fascinating unless you're really doing it. But there is
Speaker 5: a book that was written on a history of sound
Speaker 5: and sound mixers, and it plays over a lot of
Speaker 5: stuff and then they get to Altman and sort of
Speaker 5: in a sense, what he's doing, especially in things like Nashville,
Speaker 5: is crazy. Like you know, they had a truck that
Speaker 5: came in to do the twenty four tracks. It's on tape,
Speaker 5: so you know, they can only do I think at
Speaker 5: the time it's like twelve minutes, which is pretty similar
Speaker 5: to a mag but they're having to change. It's huge,
Speaker 5: giant and they would have a team of about I
Speaker 5: think nine people for Nashville, and yeah, they're really cool.
Speaker 5: What he did was amazing. That's a fun fact. I
Speaker 5: used to work at a rental house for a while
Speaker 5: in New York City and the last job we prepped
Speaker 5: was I prepped for them with them was Prairie Home Companion,
Speaker 5: and we did a sort of a version of that.
Speaker 5: We did forty eight tracks, and we sent it out
Speaker 5: to Minnesota, and uh, it was on disc like DVD discs,
Speaker 5: so you could only get about forty four minutes a disc,
Speaker 5: and it was like eight tracks, So there was what
Speaker 5: six of those stacked up, and so I bring it
Speaker 5: out there and we're installing it. The band played a lot,
Speaker 5: as far as I know, like they're supposed to hopefully happened,
Speaker 5: but the band played live the whole time. So all
Speaker 5: the music and everything, it's all done live. Everything done live.
Speaker 5: And I'm setting it up and we're like running through
Speaker 5: it and there showing the sound mixer and people are
Speaker 5: milling about, and I was like, it is, you know,
Speaker 5: as Altman here today, and they're like, oh no, he's
Speaker 5: not in today. We have his stand by, you know,
Speaker 5: if you have any questions. And I look over and
Speaker 5: I was like, stand by pt Anderson. And then indeed pt.
Speaker 5: Anderson had been hired as the DGA trainee as like
Speaker 5: the standby, because the studio was worried that all one
Speaker 5: was gonna die, and so if Almond died, he would
Speaker 5: have come in and finish the movie. Jeez. So I
Speaker 5: have a picture. Actually, about a year or so later,
Speaker 5: I met Altman at a Harry Belafonte benefit and took
Speaker 5: my stuff off and took a picture with him, which
Speaker 5: I almost never do. Very old Robert Altman in a
Speaker 5: very young me. Uh, I don't know, but I do
Speaker 5: like Almond Movies a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was what seventeen eighteen years ago something like that.
Speaker 5: I actually don't really know it. It was longer because.
Speaker 2: I slightly longer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is gonna be my twenty third I don't
Speaker 5: think I finished twenty three years of doing this in August,
Speaker 5: so probably about twenty two years ago. Jeez, twenty three
Speaker 5: years ago.
Speaker 2: Oh all then?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh when I met when I met him, when
Speaker 5: I met him for few year after, but very home
Speaker 5: companion was Yeah, twenty two, twenty three years ago.
Speaker 2: That's wild. So what was Uh? I don't think we've
Speaker 2: talked about that. What is your actual like first big
Speaker 2: studio sound gig that you got.
Speaker 5: Studio sound gig?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that tough question.
Speaker 5: I don't really The funny thing is I don't really
Speaker 5: know slash from I mean I did. I think it's
Speaker 5: probably the first. Well I did some days on that
Speaker 5: Sandra Bullock nine to eleven movie. Uh, do you know
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2: I remember it. I'm not gonna remember the time.
Speaker 5: I don't remember it's called either.
Speaker 2: So I did say the only nine to eleven movie
Speaker 2: I remember is right over me, fair.
Speaker 5: Enough whatever that if somebody in the Channel Now. But
Speaker 5: the Sandra Bullock Maximum Side Out nine to eleven movie.
Speaker 5: I had just gotten in the Union when they were
Speaker 5: making that and the guy, so when I was working
Speaker 5: at the rental house was the moment when like everything
Speaker 5: went from DAT tapes and analog tapes to digital multi tracking.
Speaker 5: So basically every mixer and their brother came in and
Speaker 5: I would sit down with them and talk to them
Speaker 5: about like what does this mean, what does this do?
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah blah blah. So when I left, I
Speaker 5: knew a lot of people, but I wasn't necessarily like
Speaker 5: I wasn't in the Union. No one was gonna high
Speaker 5: me street out of a rental house. But like I
Speaker 5: think it was maybe six seven years later when I
Speaker 5: got in the Union, I let some people know. And
Speaker 5: then the guy who ended up being my mentor, he
Speaker 5: was like, oh, come in for a week and work
Speaker 5: on a Sandra Bullock movie with me, and I was like, sure,
Speaker 5: no problem. So I get there and that was the
Speaker 5: first time I really worked with him, and it was fun.
Speaker 5: It was you know, interesting, He did a really good job,
Speaker 5: and you know, I did the week or whatever, and
Speaker 5: then I didn't hear from him for a while, maybe
Speaker 5: a year or two years, and he called me up
Speaker 5: and he's like, I'm going to go do a Secret
Speaker 5: Life of Waltermitty and Iceland and I need to take
Speaker 5: my cart and put it on a boat. And I'd
Speaker 5: been designing systems for lots of things for a long time,
Speaker 5: and I said okay, And so I would drive up
Speaker 5: every morning and you know, take his car depart and
Speaker 5: look through it and like kind of talk about like
Speaker 5: how we're going to break it into sections in order
Speaker 5: to put it on a boat. Then he had a
Speaker 5: lot of things he wanted to do too, so like
Speaker 5: it wasn't all my ideas, but just worked with him
Speaker 5: and eventually we like got his cart so it could
Speaker 5: break into three pieces and if we needed to week
Speaker 5: put on a boat. And then like a week into
Speaker 5: doing that, he's like, you know, why don't you just
Speaker 5: come to Iceland with me and do the movie. And
Speaker 5: I was like okay, So I was like sure, I'll come,
Speaker 5: and then yeah, then I went and did Walter Median.
Speaker 5: I only mixed the end, but I also did a
Speaker 5: lot of sound effects gathering, but he had to leave
Speaker 5: at the very end. I did like the last two
Speaker 5: or three days but I was the assistant, and most
Speaker 5: of the time on the studio movies, I was the assistant.
Speaker 5: I've only mixed a couple of bigger studio movies.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, I'm kind of curious about everybody in laser discs.
Speaker 2: So we put up a little pole. Do any of
Speaker 2: you have laser discs in your collection? Answer that question
Speaker 2: there in the chat. Love to hear about it. So
Speaker 2: laser discs, when did you start, Like, were you collecting
Speaker 2: back when they were No?
Speaker 5: I no, I didn't have any of that when I
Speaker 5: was a kid. But so I went to NYU for
Speaker 5: film school and the library used to have this cool
Speaker 5: thing where you could request a movie and they sort
Speaker 5: of like would play it in some random thing and
Speaker 5: you go and you put headphones on it would come on.
Speaker 5: But they had a ton of laser discs, and I
Speaker 5: had known that there were things like a commentary by
Speaker 5: Scorsese on Taxi Driver there wasn't anywhere else, and some
Speaker 5: Bond commentaries and stuff. So I would like put some
Speaker 5: of these on them, listen to the commentaries, because you know,
Speaker 5: I came to film really late. So when I first
Speaker 5: came to film, I sort of just started buying the
Speaker 5: Criterion DVDs. I was like a baseball umpire and there
Speaker 5: was a Borders bookstore, and not being Barnes and Noble,
Speaker 5: but Borders you can get like coupons. There'd be big discounts.
Speaker 5: So I basically have the first hundred Criterion DVDs that
Speaker 5: I bought as they came out. And that was like
Speaker 5: my pre film school film school, and so I just
Speaker 5: heard about some of these laser disks and whatnot. So whatever,
Speaker 5: I'm at NYU, and at one point they were like,
Speaker 5: we're gonna throw a lot of this away, and I
Speaker 5: was like what. So I took a whole bunch of them,
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh, this is cool. And then
Speaker 5: I started looking on Craigslist and it was a big
Speaker 5: change of this is like two thousand and two, two
Speaker 5: thousand and three, everybody was getting ready of their laser
Speaker 5: discs and they wanted DVDs. So I bought a little
Speaker 5: red wagon and I would like bring this wagon wherever
Speaker 5: I needed to or wherever I could, and I'd buy
Speaker 5: a laser disc for like fifty cents to a dollar apiece,
Speaker 5: sometimes less, and I'd haul them back to my place
Speaker 5: in Brooklyn, and you know, convinced my friends at they're cool,
Speaker 5: and I had like and I'd like a thousand and
Speaker 5: a half two thousand of them. And then at one
Speaker 5: point and the woman I was with for a long
Speaker 5: time and we broke up, and I was like, forget
Speaker 5: these laser discs, and I like got rid of almost
Speaker 5: all of them. I they had like two hundred left.
Speaker 5: And then when my older daughter was around four, this
Speaker 5: is like a year before the pandemic, I was like,
Speaker 5: I want to show where some movies because I actually
Speaker 5: took a real huge break from watching movies. I saw
Speaker 5: almost nothing from two thousand and seven to two thousand
Speaker 5: and seventeen, like almost nothing. I was just working, so
Speaker 5: I saw nothing. I watched nothing. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I want to show her some movies, and especially I
Speaker 5: was like I want to show with the Line King.
Speaker 5: But we didn't have any streaming services and I was like,
Speaker 5: I don't want to hear this crap. So I was like,
Speaker 5: I saw my laser discp play, Oh, buy a copy
Speaker 5: of The Lion King. So I bought a copy of
Speaker 5: The Lion King and then it just kind of snowballed.
Speaker 5: And then when the pandemic happened, It was crazy first
Speaker 5: of all, like I didn't have anything to do at all,
Speaker 5: Like my job was just gone. But I was doing
Speaker 5: a Warner Brothers pilot, so I got a very very generous,
Speaker 5: like almost too generous severance from Warner Brothers for a while.
Speaker 5: And my wife was still working and I had Maddie,
Speaker 5: so I was like, I do anything do? So I
Speaker 5: started looking at Facebook, Marketplace and Craigslist and people were
Speaker 5: cleaning out their stuff and getting really lasers. So I
Speaker 5: drove from New Hampshire all the way past Baltimore wherever
Speaker 5: I could, all the time, just picking up huge amounts
Speaker 5: of laser discs. And at first I thought it was
Speaker 5: just kind of fun and it was interesting. And then
Speaker 5: it was a huge lot near where you live, and
Speaker 5: I sent my brother to it and he went and
Speaker 5: bought it, and I was like, I want you to
Speaker 5: send me these twenty and you can sell the rest
Speaker 5: if you want. And then he looked it up on
Speaker 5: eBay and he was like what because he paid like
Speaker 5: three hundred dollars for I think he sold that for
Speaker 5: like seven grand jeez, and and he was like, oh shit,
Speaker 5: this is great. So yeah, so I would just give
Speaker 5: them to my brother who runs a big eBay store,
Speaker 5: and anything I didn't want I would sell, and I
Speaker 5: just kept buying more and more. Hey, it was a
Speaker 5: little bit of a problem. And then one day, like
Speaker 5: one day I was just again on them on Facebook
Speaker 5: or something, I think on Facebook, I saw somebody say, Hey,
Speaker 5: anybody like laserdist My dad just passed away and he
Speaker 5: had a laserdist rental store. And I said, I do
Speaker 5: like laser discs. I'm clearly they have a rental store.
Speaker 5: I'll buy it from you. And he goes, there's only
Speaker 5: one problem. I was like, what it's like, I'm in
Speaker 5: I'm in Indonesia, and I was like, that's not a problem.
Speaker 5: Ship it over. So I bought the entire Indonesian a
Speaker 5: laserdisk store. And it took me a year and a half,
Speaker 5: almost two years to go through it all because it
Speaker 5: was a mess. But shit, it's just like I had
Speaker 5: been kind of interested in Hong Kong movies and I
Speaker 5: kind of knew what he had, but not exactly, and
Speaker 5: I was just like, let's just see what it is.
Speaker 5: And so I didn't know most of what was coming.
Speaker 5: In fact, most of it wasn't even in the database
Speaker 5: I had to look it up and figure it out
Speaker 5: and try to go through the whole thing, and just
Speaker 5: tons of things that just don't exist outside of this,
Speaker 5: and I just thought it was this interesting little rabbit hole,
Speaker 5: and I just started exploring it more and more. And
Speaker 5: so that's sort of how happened. And I don't buy
Speaker 5: so much anymore for plethora of reasons. One, I'm a
Speaker 5: little busier. Two is, you know, the cheap deals are
Speaker 5: sort of gone, and there's a handful of people that
Speaker 5: snap them all up in the area now and I
Speaker 5: don't have like the drop it out diamond drive somewhere
Speaker 5: to get something. And also it's just a lot of
Speaker 5: work in My brother has a child now too, so
Speaker 5: it's like it is what it is. It sort of
Speaker 5: wound itself down. I do try to fill in holes
Speaker 5: a little bit now and then, but I don't really
Speaker 5: go after like buying a big collection of anything.
Speaker 2: Well, like I said, we'll have time for laser disc
Speaker 2: collection questions later. We're going to talk about a few things,
Speaker 2: like supplying laser disc cuts for physical meaty companies. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about some of the more rare items.
Speaker 2: Of course, that's one of the more common questions that
Speaker 2: we hear a lot. But the cool thing as we
Speaker 2: talk about some of these announcements, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about some of these and it's it's a lot funny enough.
Speaker 2: The first announcement that we're going to cover is going
Speaker 2: to be tied into some laser disc discussion. So let's
Speaker 2: talk about these announcements.
Speaker 5: First.
Speaker 2: Up coming from Imprint on June twenty fourth are all
Speaker 2: of these next slate that we're going to talk about.
Speaker 2: They are not available to pre order until May twelfth.
Speaker 2: This first one is Henry in June, and we are
Speaker 2: seeing a laser disc of Henry in June being held
Speaker 2: up by Brian already. Brian, why is this laser disc important?
Speaker 2: And why is this film important?
Speaker 5: I don't know if the laser disc is particularly important,
Speaker 5: but as a movie, this is the first movie that
Speaker 5: ever got released with the NC seventeen rating, So you know,
Speaker 5: if you want to do like a little Hollywood history,
Speaker 5: you know, the NC seventeen rating is sort of the
Speaker 5: NPA's reaction to the X and the X rating was
Speaker 5: started originally to sort of like shoehorn European cinema into
Speaker 5: a into an American audience and sort of let them
Speaker 5: know what it was, and then it sort of morphed
Speaker 5: over time to things like Midnight Cowboy and Last Tango
Speaker 5: in Paris, and then it morphed again into deep throat
Speaker 5: and hardcore, and you know, the hardcore companies they were
Speaker 5: basically took that one X rating and then you made
Speaker 5: a triple X. The MPa tried to sue and say, hey,
Speaker 5: you can't, you can't just steal a rating, and the company,
Speaker 5: the hardcore companies were like, yeah, we didn't. We made
Speaker 5: a triple X. You don't have a triple X rating.
Speaker 5: And so they were a little bit miffed about this
Speaker 5: for a number of reasons. I mean, one thing is
Speaker 5: you have to pay to get a rating, so not
Speaker 5: being able to submit and saying you've got a rating
Speaker 5: of triple X, you know, just sort of undercuts their
Speaker 5: whole arezoondetra scam, their whole scam. Yeah, so, like, you know,
Speaker 5: the X rating still actually continues all the way through
Speaker 5: the eighties, very little gets rated X, and then in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty nine, actually things like The Matador when it
Speaker 5: gets released in the United States, it gets an X
Speaker 5: rating and they're like, what, that doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 5: and then a bunch of upstart like film producers, like
Speaker 5: this little guy, Harvey Weinstein. He brings in a movie,
Speaker 5: what is it, The Baker the Butcher. I'm like blanket on,
Speaker 5: I know the cook, the Baker, the Butcher, the.
Speaker 2: Baker, his wife and love.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So he brings in that Peter Greenway movie and
Speaker 5: it's like a combination of like stunt slash pr slash
Speaker 5: actually wanted to. He tries to like sue the MPAA
Speaker 5: and say that you can't give it an X rating
Speaker 5: because you're basically like you're basically like defaming my movie.
Speaker 5: The thing gets sort of thrown out of court, but
Speaker 5: the NPA kind of sees the writing on the wall.
Speaker 5: A few months later, they come up with this NC
Speaker 5: seventeen and Henry and June becomes their test case. And
Speaker 5: like two more things about Henry and June, Like, first
Speaker 5: of all, it's the follow up movie by Philip Kaufman
Speaker 5: who did The Unbearable Likeness of Being, which is a
Speaker 5: very good erotic movie, and he made Henry and June
Speaker 5: thinking it's like not gonna be as controversial as The
Speaker 5: Unbearable Likeness of Being, So he was a little bit
Speaker 5: surprised that it got the NC seventeen rating, and when
Speaker 5: it did get the rating, the NPA gave it the
Speaker 5: rating based on two qualifications. One it said it had
Speaker 5: five distinct scenes of lesbian sex, okay, And the other
Speaker 5: thing is it had a still image of a woman
Speaker 5: being pleased by an octopus. So those were the things
Speaker 5: that got at the NC seventeen rating.
Speaker 2: The third thing was fred Ward and.
Speaker 5: Fred Ward bald. Fred Ward is weird. But I did
Speaker 5: watch this movie this week and it's okay. I will say, like,
Speaker 5: there's not much. There's no drama or story in it.
Speaker 5: It's really like more or less just the awakening of
Speaker 5: Anie nin and has she sort of like comes to
Speaker 5: terms with who she is by sort of having a
Speaker 5: bunch of sexual escapades. But there's not a like in it.
Speaker 5: But she's not really naked in it. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of a lot of the sex scenes are actually like
Speaker 5: somewhat off put in. So the main couple, Aniss and
Speaker 5: her husband to go to a like bordello to watch
Speaker 5: two women have sex, but it ends up being more
Speaker 5: grotesque than anything that you could consider kind of erotic.
Speaker 5: It's a little it's very strange it's okay movie. That's
Speaker 5: one I would say, like anybody curious, this is worth watching,
Speaker 5: worth a pickup.
Speaker 2: Very interesting. Yeah, this is one that I see doing
Speaker 2: probably pretty well for them. This is going to have
Speaker 2: special features that they have not confirmed what those are yet,
Speaker 2: so check that out. Next one is Killer, a journal
Speaker 2: of murder from nineteen ninety five from Imprint. This is
Speaker 2: a first time on Blu ray anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: This is going to have a new interview with James Woods.
Speaker 2: And look at that. We got a laser disc for
Speaker 2: that one too. This is crazy. I love it.
Speaker 5: Just happy I pulled them this week. So but finish,
Speaker 5: please finish, please finish.
Speaker 2: We've also got an interview with the director. We've got
Speaker 2: interview with the producer Janet Yang, interview with the author
Speaker 2: James Long. That's it as far as interviews, All brand
Speaker 2: new interviews though, including James Woods. But yeah, hit us
Speaker 2: with the laser disc.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what it doesn't have. It doesn't have
Speaker 5: a special audio commentary by the director, which is laser.
Speaker 2: Does stuck on the laser disc.
Speaker 5: So that's just kind of one interesting thing and I
Speaker 5: just wanted to point this out. So like not every
Speaker 5: movie is released all over the place. But you know,
Speaker 5: that's what it looks like released in the US, and
Speaker 5: this is really more or less a made for TV movie.
Speaker 5: That is I watched this today. It's more or less
Speaker 5: a made for TV movie that was good enough that
Speaker 5: they released it theatrically. This is by Spelling Film and
Speaker 5: Republic in the nineties. They're basically making stuff for TBSTNT, whatever.
Speaker 5: But they also released it in Japan, and look how
Speaker 5: different that looks. But if you think that's really weird,
Speaker 5: it's one of the weird, rare ones that got released
Speaker 5: in Indonesia. And that's how you know it's amaze for
Speaker 5: TV movie because most of these Indonesian releases are pre sold,
Speaker 5: so this was probably a pre sold item. So before
Speaker 5: they even made the movie, they sold home video rights
Speaker 5: to Indonesia and you could buy it on laser Just there.
Speaker 2: We just got three copies of Killer A Journal of
Speaker 2: Murder on laser disc on the show. That is incredible.
Speaker 5: So that's why sometimes I don't always know exactly what
Speaker 5: I'm getting. I just I mean, I know what I'm
Speaker 5: getting in a certain extent, but I don't know that
Speaker 5: movie until this week, and then I realized I had
Speaker 5: three versions of it.
Speaker 2: Let's see, Brendan is asking a question, but we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about this later, just so you know. He says,
Speaker 2: I want to try a legitist, but I don't know
Speaker 2: where to find a player. Brian will help you in
Speaker 2: just a little while. For sure. Let's continue on with
Speaker 2: some of these announcements because Imprint they are put I mean,
Speaker 2: I know you and I are fans of Import, but
Speaker 2: they are putting out a ton of stuff lately. Their
Speaker 2: third announcement for this group again, first time on Blu
Speaker 2: Ray Anywhere in the World. Victor from nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 2: pretty great cast on this one. We got Willing to
Speaker 2: Foe Sam Neil Simon Callo. This is gonna have a
Speaker 2: new audio commentary by Michael Brook. We get a new
Speaker 2: new interview with Bill Paxon on this one, and that's
Speaker 2: gonna be it. But that's pretty damn great to get
Speaker 2: both of those on one disc together. You need to
Speaker 2: show us a Lasier disc for Victory.
Speaker 5: And didn't get released on Laser disc. But it that's
Speaker 5: not really interesting. I do think this one seems interesting.
Speaker 5: I also say for the Killer, I don't like that
Speaker 5: movie's like it's basically like a serial killer movie. But
Speaker 5: you know in the in real life he like raped
Speaker 5: like a thousand men, killed twenty one people.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: He went over to Africa as part of like like
Speaker 5: a like a mercenary in which he threw like six
Speaker 5: locals to crocodiles for fun. He also bought a twelve
Speaker 5: year old girl and an eight year old girl. But
Speaker 5: in the movie The Killer, they kind of try to
Speaker 5: make him a bit of a hero, and so you
Speaker 5: get sort of like James Wood's like spouting a lot
Speaker 5: of nonsense.
Speaker 2: So you do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would not suggest I would not suggest that one,
Speaker 5: but this one looks great.
Speaker 2: I will say. One thing is when I saw this cover, obviously,
Speaker 2: like when you zoom in and really pay attention, it
Speaker 2: looks a lot like Willem Dafoe. This to me looks
Speaker 2: like a very grizzled Michael Shannon. And uh, never really
Speaker 2: notice how much Michael Shannon and Willem Dafoe look alike
Speaker 2: until this picture.
Speaker 5: It's crazy, all right.
Speaker 2: Next up is the Assignment again. First time, I'm blu
Speaker 2: Ray anywhere in the world. This is from nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: Let's see it that's a fun cover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't seen this one.
Speaker 2: Nice, nice movie. Eddie says, three copies and he doesn't
Speaker 2: like the movie. Yeah, he's addicted.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't matter. The thing is, it doesn't matter
Speaker 5: if I like it or don't like it. That's like
Speaker 5: not really that interesting. If if you want to save
Speaker 5: what's left of it, you have to save all of
Speaker 5: it in my opinion. So like, even if I don't
Speaker 5: like a laser if I don't like a blue ray,
Speaker 5: yeah I get rid of it or whatever. But like,
Speaker 5: if I don't like a laser disc, it doesn't doesn't
Speaker 5: devalue the thingness of that thing. So to me, it
Speaker 5: doesn't It doesn't really matter if I like them or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that one. Uh So the Assignment Aiden
Speaker 2: Quinn Donald Sutherland, Sir Ben Kingsley, we got a trailer
Speaker 2: coming on the disc and that's it was. There was
Speaker 2: there anything stuck on this laser disc?
Speaker 5: I'm kind of ye, there's nothing on a laser disc.
Speaker 5: I watched a little bit of it actually looked pretty interesting.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a Jackal movie, so like there's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it looked cooln Kingsley. Ben Kingsley again, plains a race
Speaker 5: that he is not.
Speaker 2: But whatever, it's kind of what you could make your
Speaker 2: career out of. Imprint, says inspired by the real life
Speaker 2: Hunt for the Jackal, This gripping spy movie from the
Speaker 2: Art of War filmmaker Christian Duquet stars Aiden Quinn, Donald Sutherland,
Speaker 2: and Sir Ben Kingsley. This is a yeah, fifteen hundred copies,
Speaker 2: like all of their regular leases that they do. Next
Speaker 2: up is The Trigger Effect from nineteen ninety six. You're reaching,
Speaker 2: so we must got that one too. Look at that.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 5: I got most of them the year I announced, so
Speaker 5: don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, all right. Ronnie wants to point out that
Speaker 2: Ben Kingsley is part Indian, so yeah, fair enough, all right?
Speaker 2: The Trigger Effect. This one is the directorial debut of
Speaker 2: the acclaimed screenwriter David Kepp. This is going to have
Speaker 2: on vintage interviews with Kyle maclauch, Elizabeth Shoe, Maroney, David Kepp,
Speaker 2: theatrical trailer, and more special features that they're going to
Speaker 2: confirm later. To be fair, it does not say more
Speaker 2: new special features, but I would hope that it would
Speaker 2: be something coming.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this movie's not bad. I go watched it this
Speaker 5: week as well. Like the first actually the first third
Speaker 5: you think like an erotic thriller is going to break out,
Speaker 5: and then it sort of changes and I'm interested in that,
Speaker 5: and then I really loses steam. The final the final
Speaker 5: thirty minutes is not good, but the first hour is
Speaker 5: quite good.
Speaker 2: I also I love Elizabeth Shoe. Yeah, she's great, She's
Speaker 2: always incredible.
Speaker 5: She's great. And some was Drummo Maroney in this movie
Speaker 5: really good.
Speaker 2: That's true. Speaking to good movies. Imprint on that same
Speaker 2: day releasing a four K Blu ray dual format of Bound. Now, Yes,
Speaker 2: Bound has been released by Criterion on four K here
Speaker 2: in the US, but this is going to be coming
Speaker 2: to Australia for the first time. It doesn't look like
Speaker 2: any of these extras are brand new. They're just poured
Speaker 2: it over from the previous releases, but they might have
Speaker 2: better encoding than Criterion. Let's see it. We know you
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 5: Well, this is the US one, and you can see
Speaker 5: they basically just took the VHS image and they stuck
Speaker 5: it on a laser disk. Boring, So why have the
Speaker 5: US one? You can see this original I worked from
Speaker 5: the Japanese one. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. Well, I oh that's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Japanese one is awesome, and there's no special watch.
Speaker 5: The same commentary is actually on this laserness that's around
Speaker 5: forever with the watchowskis and the actresses and actor.
Speaker 2: That was weird. It goes chaub for a second, and
Speaker 2: now we're back. Ronnie says, I'm drooling over these bound
Speaker 2: laser discs. Yeah, the Japanese one is incredible. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: kind of wish Criteria that used a version of that
Speaker 2: for their cover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually very cool. And the Hong Kong Laser
Speaker 5: just kind of uses a version of this too. Another
Speaker 5: reason why I like these multiple copies is a reversion,
Speaker 5: let's say, is that you can see how a movie
Speaker 5: is sold throughout the world in the moment. So in
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety what is nineteen ninety five, right six? In
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety six, you know, there's there's a cover that's
Speaker 5: made for a VHS and in the United States, nobody
Speaker 5: thinks to do anything slaps in the middle really the
Speaker 5: laser disc. But when they bring it to Asia, there's
Speaker 5: actually a different person in a different marketing team and
Speaker 5: a different whatever and they select a different style of
Speaker 5: imaging and a different style of cover, and they make
Speaker 5: it for their own market. And you know, you can
Speaker 5: tell what they're selling, what they're interested in, and what
Speaker 5: they care about. And I think that actually can be
Speaker 5: instructive in and of itself.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, kind of relevant. I was going
Speaker 2: to ask about this later, but may as well ask
Speaker 2: it now, especially because somebody in the chat is bringing
Speaker 2: it up. This movie's thirty years old. This came out
Speaker 2: thirty years ago ish on laser disc. We're facing some
Speaker 2: DVDs getting disc rut right now? Is there anything like
Speaker 2: disc rut for laser discs?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it gets complicated, but they do rot. It depends
Speaker 5: on where they're made, so they're really only about fifteen
Speaker 5: places a little more, maybe eighteen places than the world
Speaker 5: that ever made laser discs. The worst offender is there
Speaker 5: was a factory in Ohio called I'll think of it
Speaker 5: in a second, but whatever. The factory in Ohio used
Speaker 5: to be a furniture manufacturing plant and switched over to
Speaker 5: laser disc and their quality control was crap. So when
Speaker 5: you get their stuff, it tends to rot. The Japanese
Speaker 5: laser discs are usually made of They did have a
Speaker 5: couple of smaller ones, but one of two places, and
Speaker 5: they made great, great presents, and then the couple others
Speaker 5: in the United States were very very good as well.
Speaker 5: European laser discs, like the pow ones, they tend to
Speaker 5: rot a lot more often. And then when you look
Speaker 5: into East Asia, like some of those they rocked sometimes.
Speaker 5: But honestly, like if all you really care about is
Speaker 5: a picture quality, I would not suggest buying the laser disc.
Speaker 2: Understandable, although for a while laser discs, to be fair,
Speaker 2: were kind of the gold standard.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they look great. It just they looked very specific.
Speaker 2: Yes they do, and we'll talk about that. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about why they were even a format in a little bit.
Speaker 2: But that's not it for Imprint. Next up from them
Speaker 2: is from nineteen ninety three. We got a Bronx tail.
Speaker 2: This is one that has already come out elsewhere, so
Speaker 2: this is coming to Australia now. And now there is
Speaker 2: here a new interview with the star Catherine Narducci. There
Speaker 2: is some archival extras on here as well. There's all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff going on here. But let's see a
Speaker 2: Bronx too.
Speaker 5: So so when I would buy collections, Lord knows what
Speaker 5: they were, what would happen to them or anything. So
Speaker 5: I can't authenticate this. But this one's signed by Chas
Speaker 5: Pulmonary and Robert de Niro. So I bought that for
Speaker 5: about a dollar. I mean, if you think about what
Speaker 5: I sold, what I didn't want for, they paid me.
Speaker 2: To take this, right, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: So yeah, maybe that's why. Maybe that's them, But that's
Speaker 5: a brown chio. This is a very good movie. I
Speaker 5: like this movie a lot.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a good movie. I've not seen it a
Speaker 2: long time. I need to see it again. Great looking
Speaker 2: release from Imprint. This looks pretty dang exciting. Lots of
Speaker 2: extras here. Hopefull in Print encodes this one pretty well.
Speaker 2: They've been doing fairly great with their four k's lately,
Speaker 2: so I'll give them the benefit of the dead. Any
Speaker 2: of the thoughts on a Bronx tail.
Speaker 5: No, it's definitely worth watching. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 5: you should see it.
Speaker 2: Cool then how about Game of Thrones? November third in
Speaker 2: the US and Canada and then November two the UK.
Speaker 2: We are getting this fifteen year anniversary Steel Book Library
Speaker 2: collection from Warner Brothers and it's just it's just steel books,
Speaker 2: just four K steel books. All the discs are identical
Speaker 2: to every release that have always come out for this
Speaker 2: over the last fifteen years. Thoughts on Game of Thrones
Speaker 2: because I'm not gonna have a lot to say about it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I watched when it came out. I liked
Speaker 5: it last week the what's it after you played with
Speaker 5: John snow Kit something Kit Harrington? Yeah, I worked with
Speaker 5: him last week. He's the same height as me and
Speaker 5: I'm not very tall, so I was surprised. Very nice,
Speaker 5: very British. But yeah, it's I think it's one of
Speaker 5: those things that, like, you know, like when you think
Speaker 5: about like the Sopranos, like if you weren't watching it
Speaker 5: in the early two thousands, it seems like a chore
Speaker 5: to go back and watch not much now. I think
Speaker 5: Game of Thrones is kind of like that, especially if
Speaker 5: you don't like fantasy, and fantasy honesty is not really
Speaker 5: my thing. But I don't know why I just was
Speaker 5: into this one.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe i'd like it because I'm not into fantasy
Speaker 2: and I've not watched more than I don't know, forty
Speaker 2: seconds of this thing ever. Total.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you don't like it. You don't like it,
Speaker 5: no problem with that.
Speaker 2: I will say I breezed right through the Sopranos years
Speaker 2: after it played, and that was still great. All right.
Speaker 2: Next up, Flight from twenty twelve, getting a four K
Speaker 2: and blu ray release from Keena Lober on July twenty. First,
Speaker 2: we got a new audio commentary by Julie Krugo and
Speaker 2: Peter Hancoff, and there's also a new interview with Roberts
Speaker 2: Mechis on this, and then the screenwriter, John Getten's is
Speaker 2: on that interview as well. Any thoughts on Denzil's a
Speaker 2: mechas or Flight.
Speaker 5: I've never seen Flight. I think that's in that that
Speaker 5: Helsey on time when I didn't see anything. But I
Speaker 5: always like a good Denzel Washington movie. I'm not I'm
Speaker 5: sure Roberts Mechus has made anything good in a long time,
Speaker 5: but maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, not only that John Goodman's in this, which means
Speaker 2: it has to be a good movie. That's fun too,
Speaker 2: all right. Next up, we've got the second of the
Speaker 2: Keno Lober Britt noir collections that they're doing. This one
Speaker 2: is coming on June thirtieth, and this covers nineteen fifty
Speaker 2: two to nineteen fifty six. The Mighty Jack Hopkins takes
Speaker 2: center stage in this triple feature of this noir. We
Speaker 2: got an audio commentary for the film Home at Seven
Speaker 2: by Julie Krgo and Peter Hancoff. We at an audio commentary
Speaker 2: for The Intruder by Julie Kergo and Peter Hancoff. We
Speaker 2: an audio commentary for The Long Arm by Lawrence Lherman.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on those three films are British noir.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen any of them, but they're all interesting
Speaker 5: to me. I like these Kino sets. I actually I
Speaker 5: like most of what Keno does, but you know, not always.
Speaker 5: I just wish it was a little bit better. But
Speaker 5: I think they're usually interesting and they're cheap so it's
Speaker 5: easy to pick up when the sales are on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one will likely end up at you know,
Speaker 2: ten bucks towards And I mean, how do you complain
Speaker 2: about films that are pretty good?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Next up, we've got a June twenty third four K
Speaker 2: release from Keno of Hang Them High from nineteen sixty eight. Previously,
Speaker 2: this was done I believe by Shout on Blu Rays.
Speaker 2: Part of that Shout select collection. This one is going
Speaker 2: to have a new audio commentary by Steve Mitchell. We
Speaker 2: got an archival commentary by Lem Dobbs and Nick Redmond
Speaker 2: on this one as well. That is it other than
Speaker 2: a trailer? Hang them high.
Speaker 5: I know you don't like Eastwood, but actually think it's
Speaker 5: pretty good one. And the original Laser just looks really cool.
Speaker 5: They like painted art.
Speaker 2: That is pretty cool.
Speaker 5: It's a pretty violent movie. I like this one. This one,
Speaker 5: This one is not bad. It's like it's it's actually
Speaker 5: like a real it feels a little bit more like
Speaker 5: a spaghetti Western than a lot of his other stuff.
Speaker 2: Maybe I like it more than all right. Next up
Speaker 2: one that we know you don't have on laser disc.
Speaker 2: May twenty fifth, We're getting a Blu ray and DVD
Speaker 2: release over in the UK from light Bulb Films of
Speaker 2: Diabolic from twenty twenty five. This says, after suffering terrifying blackouts,
Speaker 2: a young woman returns to the religious compound where she
Speaker 2: was raised. As she unravels the dark secrets of her past,
Speaker 2: an ancient ritual unleashes the vengeful spirit of a cursed witch.
Speaker 2: I believe, and I know that you pay attention a
Speaker 2: lot to them. Wasn't this released by Umbrella as well?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think it was.
Speaker 2: Got it That's where I'm recognizing it from diabolic? Did
Speaker 2: did you pick this one up? Did you end up
Speaker 2: watching this?
Speaker 5: I didn't get this one. I really like Umbrella a lot,
Speaker 5: but the cost benefit of analysis of continuing to like
Speaker 5: Umbrella a lot sometimes like Pumps the Brakes a little
Speaker 5: bit on it for me, but they put out like
Speaker 5: they do just killer releases, but they're just gigantic.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's sounds expensive. Yeah, And that's I mean,
Speaker 2: the big thing. I don't remember if we covered it
Speaker 2: on the show just recently, just a heads up. Even
Speaker 2: if we did cover it, we may as well drive
Speaker 2: it in. Umbrella did raise their price for free shipping recently.
Speaker 2: It used to be one forty US and now I
Speaker 2: think it's two hundred US, and that's a significant difference.
Speaker 2: It used to be you could buy like a movie
Speaker 2: and a half and that would be enough for free shipping,
Speaker 2: and now it's I mean you got to get essentially
Speaker 2: three in pay like two hundred and forty dollars sometimes.
Speaker 5: I mean that being said, did you get the kids release?
Speaker 5: That is a crazy, crazy big.
Speaker 2: The looks I've got like the standard that they did.
Speaker 5: Look that is I mean, I really I'm a big
Speaker 5: pan of I remember seeing that in high school. So
Speaker 5: I saw that I was like, go for it. And
Speaker 5: it hadn't been out forever, so like, they really do
Speaker 5: a good job of mining like my childhood. I feel.
Speaker 2: Kids is your child I.
Speaker 5: Mean no, but it was like existed at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I had to make that comment. Somebody.
Speaker 2: Let's keep going. June twenty third from Wellgo USA, we
Speaker 2: got a Blu ray DVD coming of Dirty Hands from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. This will have a trailer on the
Speaker 2: disc and that is it. I just want to point
Speaker 2: out what I said at the beginning, well Go USA,
Speaker 2: you put out pressed discs of good films, people will
Speaker 2: continue to buy them. You do this BDR that is
Speaker 2: locked to Amazon and very expensive, You're gonna do a
Speaker 2: lot worse than normal. This is not a great move,
Speaker 2: and I hope that they go back to doing what
Speaker 2: they used to because Welgo has done some good stuff
Speaker 2: over the years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like, I have a handful of Wellgo things
Speaker 5: that I really enjoy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of Wellgo, the next thing June second, they're
Speaker 2: doing a blu ray and DVD of seven thirty one
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty five. If you recognize that number, it's
Speaker 2: because this is the Japanese Imperial Armies notorious Unit seven
Speaker 2: thirty one during World War Two that was also the
Speaker 2: subject of a couple we'll say notorious films are okay,
Speaker 2: three notorious films before this, known as the Men Behind
Speaker 2: the Sun trilogy. This says, based on the true horse
Speaker 2: conducted by that Japanese Imperial Armies Notorious Unit seven thirty
Speaker 2: one during World War Two. Under the pretense of science,
Speaker 2: prisoners are used for inhumane and tortuous experimentation in developing
Speaker 2: bacterial and chemical weapons order to organize and pascifize fellow prisoners.
Speaker 2: A man witnesses the harrowing corruption and suffering in the camp.
Speaker 2: The long suppressed war crimes and horrific experimentation remain one
Speaker 2: of humanity's darkest moments of depravity. This is a wild
Speaker 2: looking trailer. I think people should watch the trailer because
Speaker 2: it looks crazy. Anyways, going to our next one and
Speaker 2: it blacked out, that's really weird. Thanks Instagram for failing
Speaker 2: me in this moment. What is our next one? Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess it doesn't like that post. Let's just carry on.
Speaker 2: That's weird. Why is it not showing this one random post?
Speaker 2: What is this? All? Right? Anyways? Fast Forward Fast Forward
Speaker 2: is coming on Blu Ray in the US from Alliance.
Speaker 2: This is from nineteen eighty four and it's coming as
Speaker 2: part of the Retro VHS collection. It's literally just a
Speaker 2: Blu ray and a slipcover that's made to look like
Speaker 2: it has a VHS in it. There's not gonna be
Speaker 2: any special features on these discs whatsoever except maybe a
Speaker 2: trailer sometimes. Flash Forward is a Sydney Poatier film, and
Speaker 2: we've got a laser disc for this one. Oh that
Speaker 2: is a much better cover.
Speaker 5: I didn't get to watch it, which I'm a little
Speaker 5: bummed out. That was my next one, but I ran
Speaker 5: out of time.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah that I like that art a lot more.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this one?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2: From what I hear, this is awful. Anybody that chats
Speaker 2: see this one.
Speaker 5: Doesn't surprise me. This is like way past Sidney Platiers,
Speaker 5: you know, prime as far as having any power and
Speaker 5: ability in.
Speaker 2: Right right, nineteen eighties was not the boon for what
Speaker 2: the direction. June thirtieth, we got the same thing coming.
Speaker 2: We've got you light Up My Life from nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: seven coming as part of this retro VHS collection. This
Speaker 2: one is a Joel Silver film with D. D. Cohn.
Speaker 2: Do we have a laser disc for you?
Speaker 5: Light Up my Life doesn't exist on laser disc?
Speaker 2: Understandable. I kind of not surprised in any way that
Speaker 2: it does.
Speaker 5: It's like a little bit before so like seventy e's
Speaker 5: when it starts, which I guess we'll talk about later.
Speaker 5: So if it's released in seventy seven and it has
Speaker 5: like nobody who cares about it, you're not going to
Speaker 5: get a laser disc release, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. All Right, Let's go to our
Speaker 2: next one, which all of a sudden, Allian's pumping out
Speaker 2: these retro VHS collections. June thirtieth. They're now doing White Palace,
Speaker 2: the Jason Alexander, Susan Sarandon and Kathy Bates starring film
Speaker 2: with of course the uh magnet for erotic thrillers mister
Speaker 2: James Spader and I hear a laser disc. Oh look
Speaker 2: at that same cover. Nice?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the same This movie is actually pretty darn good.
Speaker 5: Would I would give this a lot more credit than
Speaker 5: it has. It's like a May December movie where like
Speaker 5: Susan Sarandon's forty three when she's actually forty three, and
Speaker 5: James Spader plays a twenty seven year old he's actually
Speaker 5: twenty seven, and she's sort of like a poor waitress
Speaker 5: from the wrong side of the tracks and he's a
Speaker 5: rich Jewish guy from the right side of the tracks.
Speaker 5: And will they get together? Will they not? It's a
Speaker 5: little cheesebally at times, but especially like the first half,
Speaker 5: they really go for it and it's pretty darn good,
Speaker 5: and James Spader is like always doing something interesting. I
Speaker 5: think it's absolutely worth a watch. Well you know you
Speaker 5: want to buy it? I don't know, but it's definitely
Speaker 5: worth watching.
Speaker 2: Is it actually erotic with that cover?
Speaker 5: I mean there's a lot of nudity in it. I
Speaker 5: don't know if that matters how much Susan s random
Speaker 5: Nu did you did you want? Because there's a lot
Speaker 5: of it?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's get our names, budd Well, that's
Speaker 2: always a good thing. June thirtieth, the next from that
Speaker 2: Alliance line of retro VHS collection, We've got Cold Steel
Speaker 2: from nineteen eighty seven. The face you recognize there is
Speaker 2: Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad. Of course, we've got Sharon
Speaker 2: Stone in this one as well. We got Brad Davis.
Speaker 2: This one sounds pretty damn good. LAPD Detective Johnny Modine's
Speaker 2: world is shattered when his father's brutally murdered. Determined to
Speaker 2: avenge his father's death, Johnny puts his career in a
Speaker 2: sanity on the line in an all out effort to
Speaker 2: bring the killer to justice, But his road dissatisfaction is
Speaker 2: littered with some very familiar in deadly characters, and he
Speaker 2: soon discovers that the death was anything but random. Hit us.
Speaker 5: So this is the Hong Kong release, which is the
Speaker 5: only place that got released on laser disc. I really
Speaker 5: like how they put Sharon Stone in there. And now,
Speaker 5: why would you think that this would get released in
Speaker 5: Hong Kong in nineteen ninety in nineteen ninety two, Why
Speaker 5: would that be? I have no idea, But maybe it's
Speaker 5: because they keep putting her everywhere else tire up. But
Speaker 5: she has like one sex scene in the movie. It's okay.
Speaker 5: The real thing about this movie, it's kind of interesting,
Speaker 5: is that it's directed and written by Dorothy N. Puzo Puso,
Speaker 5: Mario Puzo's daughter, and the Imprint released it with nothing
Speaker 5: on it as well, which was too bad. But it's okay.
Speaker 5: I liked it. I didn't love it. I liked it.
Speaker 5: There's two cool car chases and the final fight is
Speaker 5: pretty cool. Little little Wonky.
Speaker 2: Better than some of the movies that we've got releases for.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, no, It's definitely worth a watch.
Speaker 2: All right. Next up June thirtieth, we get a Blu
Speaker 2: ray and DVD coming in the US from movie of
Speaker 2: last year's film, The Mastermind from Kelly Wrhi Cart saw
Speaker 2: this one in theaters. Did you happen to catch this
Speaker 2: one last year?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I saw it on movie I thought it was
Speaker 5: pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I like this one a lot. I know
Speaker 2: that it was semi devisive a lot of people. I
Speaker 2: think the people that like Kelly Reichart really liked this.
Speaker 5: He does the same movie. So if you don't like
Speaker 5: Kelly Recoy, why are you watching the same movie again
Speaker 5: to see?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's great. For some people, it's just too
Speaker 2: slow and not enough happens. But man, it's just so
Speaker 2: well made. It's fun. You're long for a fun story.
Speaker 2: And Josh O'Connor man, he had a hell of a
Speaker 2: year last year. Dude can act.
Speaker 5: He's great. He's really great. It's definitely worth checking out.
Speaker 2: I agree. Rumor is right now. By the way, if
Speaker 2: you're a format stickler or something like that, the rumor
Speaker 2: is Movie is putting out a four K of this,
Speaker 2: but only in the UK, not in the US, which
Speaker 2: kind of an odd choice, especially from a company like
Speaker 2: Movie who's not necessarily doing super well with everybody right now.
Speaker 2: So people don't like movie.
Speaker 5: People don't like movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had some investment money that was found out
Speaker 2: to be from some dark places.
Speaker 5: That makes sense, fair enough.
Speaker 2: Next up, finally getting a four K release in the
Speaker 2: UK after it already had one here in the US.
Speaker 2: We got Studio Canal putting out a four K of Rush.
Speaker 2: This one is from twenty thirteen and this will be
Speaker 2: on June twenty ninth. This will have deleted scenes, the
Speaker 2: real story of Rush and a race for the Checkered Flag,
Speaker 2: the making of Rush. I had never seen this one.
Speaker 2: I gotta admit not a huge Ron Howard fan. For
Speaker 2: a lot of movies bad, not good.
Speaker 5: Not good. I don't see this movie, but I would
Speaker 5: not choose to spend my time with Ron Howard and
Speaker 5: almost any way, shape or form. Although my kids loved
Speaker 5: the stupid live action Grinch movie, and I know why
Speaker 5: you love it. They love it so much. I see
Speaker 5: it lived four times every holiday season. It's nuts.
Speaker 2: Carry's fantastic in that movie.
Speaker 5: But I guess, but it's not the Jim Carrey I remember.
Speaker 2: I agree. I also, for some reason, I enjoyed Eden
Speaker 2: last year, and I can't really say why. The one
Speaker 2: with the swing and yeah, it's it was all right.
Speaker 5: I mean he's a component director. He's just not any
Speaker 5: I don't think it's any fun.
Speaker 2: Well, he is the most vanilla directory.
Speaker 5: Oh god, yeah, yeah, god.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about some films that already have multiple releases.
Speaker 2: June twenty second, we're getting a collector's edition four K
Speaker 2: steel book in the UK from Anime Limited of the
Speaker 2: Dark Crystal from nineteen eighty two. They're also doing just
Speaker 2: like a standard four K steel book, where you just
Speaker 2: get the steel book itself, but if you want all
Speaker 2: of the bells and whistles with this thing, you can
Speaker 2: check it out. It's got a double walled rigid box,
Speaker 2: inner steel book packaging and a sixty four page art book.
Speaker 2: With this, it will have additional bonus blu ray disc
Speaker 2: with extra feedures all that fun stuff. But of course,
Speaker 2: at the same time they're also doing Labyrinth and essentially
Speaker 2: identical style packaging. It's the same steel books that have
Speaker 2: come out previously. Nothing new on that front. None of
Speaker 2: the extras are going to be new, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: these have blazer discs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the dark crystal Japanese one, it's really cool.
Speaker 2: Interesting is that? How rare is that one?
Speaker 5: I don't think it's crazy rare. This is an old press.
Speaker 5: This is like, this is not going to be like
Speaker 5: the best looking one, but the cover is really great.
Speaker 5: And then just this one is not really worth a
Speaker 5: ton of time thinking about. But you notice they never
Speaker 5: really change his Labyrinth cover. Yeah, so it makes me
Speaker 5: believe that there's like some reason that this guy has
Speaker 5: to be somewhere dead center on the cover. So that's
Speaker 5: why it never changes. So anytime you get Labyrinth, you
Speaker 5: always have that on the cover.
Speaker 2: Yep, there's got to be some sort of you know,
Speaker 2: not only just contract of him, but obviously he can't
Speaker 2: approve another likeness. He can't sign off on anything. The
Speaker 2: estate probably doesn't even want to consider signing off on
Speaker 2: any of it. So yeah, we're kind of stuck with it.
Speaker 2: And I believe if I remember right, that Labyrinth one
Speaker 2: is Drew Strusan.
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 2: I think so it It certainly looks like it at.
Speaker 5: Least right, it does look like it. I mean it's
Speaker 5: not bad art. It's just the same one for forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for everything forever. Eddie says, Japanese lazer covers were
Speaker 2: the best to let my last Starfighter framed. Nice, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a beautiful It's a beautiful one. That is
Speaker 5: that one is becoming more and more valuable, so keep it,
Speaker 5: especially if you have the Obie. If you have the
Speaker 5: Obie as the side strip, if you get I believe
Speaker 5: the Obie on that is shiny foil, so you have that.
Speaker 5: If you have the Shiny Foil Obi, you got a
Speaker 5: lot of You got some good money there.
Speaker 2: Nice all right? Next up, July seventh, g Kids and
Speaker 2: Shout are working together on a Blu Ray release of
Speaker 2: All You Need Is Kill from twenty twenty five. I've
Speaker 2: heard this is very great. Have not seen this? This
Speaker 2: will have a director scene breakdown on the disc director
Speaker 2: and cast pre screening, discussion, storyboards with director commentary, art gallery, teasers,
Speaker 2: and trailers. That being said, again, if you're like a
Speaker 2: format whrror or somebody that loves steel books, ge kids
Speaker 2: in Shout have been sort of like leaking or pre
Speaker 2: listing some of the Blu ray releases and then listing
Speaker 2: a four K on some of their titles and maybe
Speaker 2: within a couple months doing like a four K steal book.
Speaker 2: So you might want to hold out on this. This
Speaker 2: isn't going to be super limited, but if it's one
Speaker 2: you're after, just keep an eye out. They technically haven't
Speaker 2: even announced everything for this month. This is just one
Speaker 2: that came out early, so we can keep an eye
Speaker 2: out for more on that one. Have you seen this one?
Speaker 2: I'm assuming not.
Speaker 5: No, I haven't seen it, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Next up, one more of those retro VHS releases,
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight's Sunset is coming on June twenty third
Speaker 2: from Alliance. This one says it's nineteen twenty nine. Tomics
Speaker 2: has been cast to play the legendary law man why
Speaker 2: at Earp. Trouble is Earp has been hired as a
Speaker 2: technical expert on the film, So the Old West and
Speaker 2: the New Hollywood Colyde becoming a vivid backdrop for a
Speaker 2: shocking murder mystery. This one has James Garner, Bruce Willis,
Speaker 2: Blakekeek Edwards, Kathleen Quinlan. Do we have a laser disc
Speaker 2: for some Yeah?
Speaker 5: You do have a The Sunset?
Speaker 2: Nice it's the.
Speaker 5: Same cover because they did again they just stuck their
Speaker 5: the vhslasers. I haven't seen this, but this looks actually interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I honestly think this could be fun. It's like really
Speaker 5: late Blake Edwards.
Speaker 2: So and very early Bruce Willison.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Picture a little bit of old man movie in
Speaker 5: some ways, but like sometimes they're fun, I will say,
Speaker 5: though rarely a director's last movies are the good are
Speaker 5: the good stuff?
Speaker 2: But you never said? But true unless they die out expectedly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or it's cooperrect right true?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 5: Well, I guess he died unexpectedly.
Speaker 2: That's true. I guess I was wrong. I forgot there
Speaker 2: was one more we got. Nineteen eighty four's Love Lines
Speaker 2: also coming to this Alliance retro VHS. This is on
Speaker 2: June twenty third. I have to think this one at
Speaker 2: a leisure.
Speaker 5: Does it does not. Unfortunately I thought it would too.
Speaker 5: I was certain it did, but it did not.
Speaker 2: Interesting, very interesting. Yeah, I've never seen this movie. Fun
Speaker 2: cover on this. Have you seen this one? No?
Speaker 5: This looked I was like actually hoping they had a
Speaker 5: lectend just to see it because it looked interesting.
Speaker 2: Nice. Uh, yeah, this is one I'd be curious to
Speaker 2: see if anybody in the chat I seen. I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear some feedback on that one's cut.
Speaker 5: Like, if those are all priced decently, I think a
Speaker 5: lot of those movies are worth checking out. I think
Speaker 5: they're interesting things.
Speaker 2: So here's the problem. When Milk Creek was releasing these
Speaker 2: and it was all you know, the sony titles they were,
Speaker 2: they were able to be got for like twelve bucks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2: These are now listed on all the third party retailers
Speaker 2: right now for twenty seven ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's crazy for a Bearbones Alliance Blu ray with
Speaker 5: a retro VHS slipcover.
Speaker 2: And that's it. That's crazy dollars, Brian.
Speaker 5: That's not I was thinking there maybe sixteen seventeen dollars.
Speaker 2: They popped up for pre order on Amazon and it
Speaker 2: said twenty seven ninety nine. I went, okay, it's Amazon
Speaker 2: pre order, that'll drop, It'll be at most you know,
Speaker 2: it's been a few years, Okay, seventeen ninety nine, eighteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine, something like that, and then on third party
Speaker 2: of retail, Atomic has it for twenty seven ninety nine.
Speaker 5: That's rough.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry these are not worth twenty seven to ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Especially because noways seen these movies, these are all things
Speaker 5: are so deep and like an archive of an archive
Speaker 5: of an archive.
Speaker 2: And it's great. Some of them have have not been
Speaker 2: released on Blu Ray before, so that's exciting. But my goodness,
Speaker 2: not Oh gosh, that's that's a lot of money for these,
Speaker 2: all right. Warcraft from twenty sixteen is getting a ten
Speaker 2: year anniversary four K steel book on June sixteenth from Universal.
Speaker 2: Nothing new on the disc, just the exact same disc,
Speaker 2: ten year anniversary steel book. I'm not a warcraft guy,
Speaker 2: you're not a fantasy guy. Is this a movie you've seen?
Speaker 5: No? No, it's a no, I've never seen this.
Speaker 2: From what I hear, is not terrible, but it also
Speaker 2: supposedly clued in on a possible sequel, and then it bombed,
Speaker 2: so they did nothing with it so a little open ended. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next up, speaking of odds, Stinking nineteen sixty two is
Speaker 2: to Kill a Mockingbird getting a four K steel Book
Speaker 2: on June sixteenth. Again, had already been out on four K.
Speaker 2: This is not like a brand new premiere or anything
Speaker 2: like that. I just this has to have a laser disc. No,
Speaker 2: it does? It does?
Speaker 5: It does? I didn't actually bring it. Could do to
Speaker 5: a small mix a bit. It actually has a special
Speaker 5: edition laser disc and it's part of what's called the
Speaker 5: Signature series of laser discs from Universal, and most of
Speaker 5: the special features actually are on the laser disc. The
Speaker 5: big old gatefold and had a bunch of stuff, but
Speaker 5: I forgot it and I didn't bring it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's too bad. That's sorry. You shared three copies
Speaker 2: of one thing early. You're ahead of the game. I
Speaker 2: got com nineteen ninety six is a racer. We had
Speaker 2: talked about this one coming to four K steal Book. Well,
Speaker 2: they also revealed that it will be getting a standard
Speaker 2: four K. Those are both coming on June sixteenth in
Speaker 2: the US. That'll be June fifteenth in the UK. This
Speaker 2: will have new special features. We got reinventing the modern
Speaker 2: action hero, the Evolution of Arnold, and then nineties action
Speaker 2: thriller Reimagined. I'm hearing the sound of a sleeve.
Speaker 5: Look that's the Japanese one. Yeah, somebody was asking in
Speaker 5: the chat, does about rot? So the classic edition or
Speaker 5: a classic laser just that tends to rot? Is the
Speaker 5: US edition of a racer almost always is rotted. But
Speaker 5: the Japanese one plays perfectly and has a better cover. Anyways,
Speaker 5: But I would say this movie did not need a
Speaker 5: four K for most of it, although some of them
Speaker 5: might look good, but the visual effects are going to
Speaker 5: look rough.
Speaker 2: Yeah they are unless they spent way more than they
Speaker 2: definitely did not know.
Speaker 5: They didn't do it for X Men.
Speaker 2: They're never going to do it for a racer, right
Speaker 2: Zepam is talking about this artwork? Good lord, this artwork.
Speaker 5: Eh, yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 2: But the really bad photoshop.
Speaker 5: I saw the what the special edition one had a
Speaker 5: different artwork?
Speaker 2: Right? The seal book looks pretty nice, very very green. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that one looks decent at the very least. Yeah, it's fine,
Speaker 2: It's not certainly not bad.
Speaker 5: I kind of like this movie, though, to be honest.
Speaker 5: I put it on this morning when I was biking,
Speaker 5: and I have no real complaints about it. It's exactly
Speaker 5: it's like Arnold at the height of Arnold, Like if
Speaker 5: you like Schwarzeneger movies, so you basically like all those classics.
Speaker 5: Then you get a racer and then went at the
Speaker 5: end of Days and then the sixth Man, sixth Day,
Speaker 5: and then it's all over. So like it's not so bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I like Arnold quite a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm into it. Lionsgate Limited had some announcements this week
Speaker 2: May nineteenth that they are doing a four K Blu
Speaker 2: ray dual format of Ginger Snaps. This is just the
Speaker 2: first film from two thousand. This is number thirty nine
Speaker 2: in their vestro On video collection, which means this is
Speaker 2: the second four KUHD from vest On, the first being
Speaker 2: the substitute. This will have a lot of the legacy
Speaker 2: special features from the previous second Site release. The lions
Speaker 2: Gate Limited new extra will be called the Packed Ginger
Speaker 2: Snaps Forever. There is the second site that Brian's got there.
Speaker 2: This is the inside sleeve art which is the original poster,
Speaker 2: and then another new copy of the new art. I
Speaker 2: gotta admit not a huge Ginger Snaps guy never loved
Speaker 2: this movie. Any thoughts on this for you?
Speaker 5: Oh, I like this. I only saw the first one,
Speaker 5: but the first one I think is pretty good. I
Speaker 5: actually saw it in the theaters. You said it's kind
Speaker 5: of in two thousand, but I remember seeing in two
Speaker 5: thousand and one. But maybe maybe I am wrong, But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I think I saw in New York. But anyways, I
Speaker 5: thought the first one was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's certainly the best of the
Speaker 2: three by far, I am. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I should be surprised. Vestern On has been quite
Speaker 2: lazy lately, but I am surprised when Second Site already
Speaker 2: had a trilogy Blu ray out and it did very well.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised they didn't just do four K
Speaker 2: on all three of them, because that would have enticed
Speaker 2: a lot more people to buy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm surprised too. I wonder what the I wonder
Speaker 5: what did they shoot?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 5: And three?
Speaker 9: Are?
Speaker 5: Like? What years do come out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Those, I mean they had to have been fairly
Speaker 2: quick after that.
Speaker 5: Do I have it right here? I could love? I
Speaker 5: wish I could look. I'm old and I need glasses.
Speaker 2: I have a feeling the third one was probably not
Speaker 2: on film.
Speaker 5: The thing is also if they get into that hairy
Speaker 5: area where everybody just has these two KDIs it's like
Speaker 5: there's no you can't do anything.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. At least put them, you know,
Speaker 2: put the four K of the first one and put
Speaker 2: a blu ray of the next two. Yeah, tes true,
Speaker 2: because I don't think the second and third one I've
Speaker 2: had blu ray releases in the States, although I may
Speaker 2: be not remembering anyways. This is not the only lines
Speaker 2: Gate Limited release this month. We also have Hearts of
Speaker 2: Darkness from nineteen ninety one, the documentary about Apocalypse Now
Speaker 2: and the making of this is. Those two releases, by
Speaker 2: the way, are coming from lines Gate Limited on May
Speaker 2: nineteenth on. This is just all of the legacy special
Speaker 2: features for a film that a lot of people call
Speaker 2: a special feature. The lines Gate Limited extras. They've got
Speaker 2: lots of documentaries on here. They've got a visit to
Speaker 2: China's Maw Country from nineteen ninety six, Circle of Memory,
Speaker 2: code Eleanor Croppola introduction CODEA thirty years later making a
Speaker 2: Marie Antoinette. Francis Ford. Coppola directs The rain Maker on
Speaker 2: the set of CQ Making of the Virgin Suicides for short,
Speaker 2: and they'll be on this one primarily. And I'm hearing
Speaker 2: a sleeve again. Do we have something for this?
Speaker 5: Sorry, I should move my microphone.
Speaker 2: No, you're good, You're good.
Speaker 5: That's the laser disc. I actually love this movie. I
Speaker 5: sort of balked at the cost of the UK one,
Speaker 5: but I might get this one. That's if it's not unreasonable,
Speaker 5: because this is a super If anybody's interested in what
Speaker 5: it's like to make a movie, especially like seventy eight
Speaker 5: seventy nine, that is great. Yeah it was really great. Yeah,
Speaker 5: nothing but praise for that movie. Five star movie.
Speaker 2: I also just love documentaries about making movies. They're always
Speaker 2: at least fun, although sometimes not very good. All right,
Speaker 2: next up, King of Not very Good. June twenty third,
Speaker 2: we got a blu ray coming from Sony of I
Speaker 2: Know What You Did last summer the complete series. This
Speaker 2: was an Amazon original show that they did about five
Speaker 2: years ago. I saw the remake of the movie last
Speaker 2: year and hated it. And from what I hear, this
Speaker 2: is better than the movie that came out last year,
Speaker 2: but still bad. Any thoughts. I'm sure you did not
Speaker 2: see this.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't see this. I do like the first
Speaker 5: two movies.
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, the first two are fine, they're they're okay. Next,
Speaker 2: we got a weird one here June twenty third, we
Speaker 2: got a Blu ray coming from Decal here in the
Speaker 2: States of Julia du Carnot's Alpha from this year in
Speaker 2: the US last year in the UK. Wanted to remind
Speaker 2: everybody when I posted this that Curzone just recently released
Speaker 2: this in four K and the US isn't even getting
Speaker 2: a pressed Blu ray. This is going to be a
Speaker 2: mod Blu ray. This is a bad choice. I don't
Speaker 2: understand why they're essentially telling everybody, yeah, we don't care,
Speaker 2: just go buy the UK version. This will have an
Speaker 2: interview with the director on it and a ta are
Speaker 2: in a trailer. I have not yet gotten to see
Speaker 2: this one. Is this one that you've been able to see?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't seen it, but I have a couple
Speaker 5: of friends who saw it, and they were actually kind
Speaker 5: of pushing me to see it at the end of
Speaker 5: last year. They were like, this movie is great. They
Speaker 5: thought it was like, really like the kind of movie
Speaker 5: that I would like. So I'm assuming that means it's
Speaker 5: like somewhat dirty, somewhat subversive, a little bit dark, but
Speaker 5: very French, I think, but I would hope.
Speaker 2: So have you seen all of our other stuff? All
Speaker 2: both of them?
Speaker 5: Noah, I think the only two others, right, I saw
Speaker 5: one of them. I'm trying to remember what were the
Speaker 5: titles again, because I know I went to the theater
Speaker 5: with them. Yeah, it doesn't matter, but yeah, that looks interesting.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that movie looks interesting. It's too bad.
Speaker 5: I got a crap release in the States, but totally interesting.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's right, I got the UK one. We're good.
Speaker 2: We also had an exciting week because we got Manda
Speaker 2: Macabre announcements. All of these are going to becoming mid June.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be for pre order on It's gonna be
Speaker 2: live on Thursday May seventh at ten am Pacific, one
Speaker 2: pm Eastern. And I love Mondo MiCab Broa. Do you
Speaker 2: have an ongoing history with Monta micav Robrian. Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, all those I have, like I don't know fifty
Speaker 5: of them or so nice? I think I don't I
Speaker 5: think you actually, I think no, it was I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: There's a DVD that they put out of Indonesian action movies.
Speaker 5: So I bought that one and then I think it
Speaker 5: was actually your show. One of the early times I
Speaker 5: watched or listened to an archive episode where that you
Speaker 5: were talking to the Mondo people, and I was like, huh,
Speaker 5: And then I looked them up and then I basically
Speaker 5: pre order every time they come out because there's like
Speaker 5: some of them I haven't loved, but they're always interesting
Speaker 5: and they're always weird, and they're done with love. You
Speaker 5: can tell like their try like even when there's not
Speaker 5: many a special features, you can be like, oh, this
Speaker 5: is what they could get or this is what they
Speaker 5: could figure out. And I think they're I think there's
Speaker 5: only like one that I really didn't.
Speaker 2: Like so interesting. Yeah, I I can only think of
Speaker 2: maybe three that I like. I actively disliked every single one,
Speaker 2: though I've enjoyed watching. They're a blast. This first title
Speaker 2: is interesting because I don't think they've done this before.
Speaker 2: We've got a limited four K release coming and a
Speaker 2: limited Blu Ray release coming. The four K release is
Speaker 2: gonna have a slipcover and a black case, and then
Speaker 2: the Blu Ray release is going to have a red
Speaker 2: case like they always do. The four k's limited to
Speaker 2: twelve hundred copies, blu rays limited to five hundred copies,
Speaker 2: and they're all going to be limited, hand numbered or
Speaker 2: not hand numbered, but individually numbered like they always are.
Speaker 2: And this first title is The Blood Rose from nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: This is one that they had released previously on DVD,
Speaker 2: so this is an upgrade for them, going up two
Speaker 2: separate formats. This is a movie that I need to
Speaker 2: watch again. It's been a long time, but I remember
Speaker 2: enjoying it. At least we got a new four K
Speaker 2: restoration from the original negative. We got an interview with
Speaker 2: the producer on here, interview with Hubert and George Bauman,
Speaker 2: interview with the cinematographer and memories of Claude Muloau by
Speaker 2: Brigitte la Hey, archival interview with d DA Philip Girard
Speaker 2: French and US trailers, publicity parade of Steel's posters and
Speaker 2: video sleeves, some radio spots. And then if you buy
Speaker 2: the limited version you get the slipcover. If you get
Speaker 2: the four K release, reversible sleeves, set of art cards,
Speaker 2: full color booklet with writing on the film's production history,
Speaker 2: and they are numbered copies. The Blood Rows. Have you
Speaker 2: seen this one.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, none of these I've seen, but looks
Speaker 5: interesting to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've not seen any of these either, that is
Speaker 2: for sure. One of these, though, is gonna be really
Speaker 2: fun to talk about. Yeah, the Devil's about to leave
Speaker 2: AMC plus, thanks for shouting that out. Good movie. Everybody
Speaker 2: should see the least one.
Speaker 5: I love The Devil, that movie.
Speaker 2: That movie rocks well. And I don't normally rumor monger
Speaker 2: on he or anything like that. Rumor is we might
Speaker 2: finally be hearing about an actual decent physical release of
Speaker 2: that here pretty soon, so amazing. I sure hope that
Speaker 2: rumor is is panning out to be true.
Speaker 5: I've actually started watching a lot of Ken Russell movies recently.
Speaker 5: I first, I don't think I like them, but I
Speaker 5: really grown on me. He is a very like singular
Speaker 5: style that, you know what. I respect the fact that
Speaker 5: he's doing something different. So yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2: The the flashy fever dream that he pulls off on
Speaker 2: almost every single movie is always fun and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a good time. We like hearing the purring though
Speaker 2: you don't have to mute It's okay.
Speaker 5: I didn't. I didn't want to bother my cat was
Speaker 5: yelling for me, so I can call my cat and
Speaker 5: she comes. My cat has one eye, oh and she's old,
Speaker 5: and so usually at this point of the night she's
Speaker 5: she's on top of me, and she was confused why
Speaker 5: I wasn't in my spot, in one of my two spots.
Speaker 5: So I called her up and she sits on my lap.
Speaker 2: Nice all right. Next up is from Monna Macabre. Still,
Speaker 2: we got Morbo from nineteen seventy two. They had revealed
Speaker 2: previously that this was coming. We've got the art here
Speaker 2: and the reverse of the sleeve. This one is supposedly
Speaker 2: the Pretty Great. This is a film that a lot
Speaker 2: of people have been waiting for for a long time.
Speaker 2: This will be region free. We got a brand new
Speaker 2: four K restoration from the original negative. You got the
Speaker 2: English or Spanish audio on this one with the English
Speaker 2: subtitles profile in the Career of Anna Belan. We got
Speaker 2: an interview with the Citrus Film Festival director Angel Sala
Speaker 2: about the film, audio commentary by Rod and Troy from
Speaker 2: the Nashy cast. And then if you get the limited
Speaker 2: you get a reversible sleeve with new art by Justin
Speaker 2: Coffee on the A side and the original ad art
Speaker 2: on the b set of art cards, full color bookt
Speaker 2: new writing in the film by Spanish film expert Ishmael Fernandez.
Speaker 2: And this is going to be limited to a thousand copies,
Speaker 2: only a thousand. You have you heard about this one
Speaker 2: before the announcements?
Speaker 5: I don't think there's only one of these I had
Speaker 5: heard of, and it's not this one?
Speaker 2: Is it the party hat censored one?
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to talk about that one.
Speaker 5: I know a little bit about that movie.
Speaker 2: Next one up is part of their Greek collection. This
Speaker 2: is number six in that collection. We've got a double
Speaker 2: feature of Lust in the Swamps and Secret of Sinful Athens.
Speaker 2: Both of these are from nineteen sixty six. They are
Speaker 2: going to have on the disc. This is a region
Speaker 2: free disc. We got a new two K restoration on
Speaker 2: both from the original negatives Greek language track with the
Speaker 2: optional English subtitles. Tribute to Zeta Apostolau remembering a Neestis
Speaker 2: Vlahos ser v leJOS archival interview with the Nestis as well.
Speaker 2: Greek poster presentation was Jacques spor trailer for Secrets of
Speaker 2: sinfl Athens, a tribute to Achless Janakis. I guess Greek
Speaker 2: is maybe the only thing I'm worse than French. We'll
Speaker 2: see exploitation films of DaCosta carry on sinful Athens publicity parade,
Speaker 2: and then the limited one will have revers will sleep
Speaker 2: each highlighting of one of the two films, a set
Speaker 2: of art cards, full color book that with new writing
Speaker 2: about the films, and this will be only limited to
Speaker 2: one thousand as well, like the last one, kind of
Speaker 2: a low print run. But I get it. The last
Speaker 2: few things that they've done like this did not sell
Speaker 2: super well. It took a while to sell out, so
Speaker 2: this is interesting. Any thoughts on the ease.
Speaker 5: I honestly think it's impressive that they sell a thousand,
Speaker 5: like you're really like pulling. I think it's because they
Speaker 5: have a really loyal fan base. Do I bet you
Speaker 5: they sell five to six hundred almost no matter what.
Speaker 5: And then let's sort of like managing the rest, because
Speaker 5: you know, they're a bit of a brand in a
Speaker 5: vinegar syndrome way, but a much smaller version of it.
Speaker 5: And I feel that they like are true to what
Speaker 5: they want to be and it's like you're the into
Speaker 5: it or you're not. And if you're into it, you're
Speaker 5: gonna go for it, and if you're not, you know
Speaker 5: they don't care.
Speaker 2: Move on. That's true. That's true, all right here it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you did center with the party had hilarious.
Speaker 2: So from nineteen eighty nine, and funny enough, I didn't
Speaker 2: center this. Mondo posted it like this. Mondo posted this
Speaker 2: cover art. This is Marquis from nineteen eighty nine, and
Speaker 2: the censoring that you see here precariously placed because under
Speaker 2: this party hat is a wooden dog and it's it's
Speaker 2: quite apparent what it is. So this says. Films don't
Speaker 2: get much wilder than this one. The bizarre French satirical
Speaker 2: Phantasmagoria Marquis making his US Blu ray debut. Imprisoned in
Speaker 2: the best Steel for a minor act of blasphemy, the
Speaker 2: marquee navigates lust, censorship, and the chaos of pre revolutionary
Speaker 2: France through his wild imagination. He escapes into scandal's tales
Speaker 2: he writes down on scraps of paper, but the idea
Speaker 2: of a real escape begins to take shape when his
Speaker 2: cellmates start planning their breakout to join the revolution movement
Speaker 2: beyond the bastile walls. This truly astonishing film, loosely based
Speaker 2: on the life of the notorious Marquis de Sade, is
Speaker 2: like nothing you've ever seen before. The characters in the
Speaker 2: story are all animals, dogs, cows, hens, rats, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But this is not animation. The cast are played by
Speaker 2: real actors, especially created life sized heads of whichever animal
Speaker 2: they are portraying. The Marquis is a cheery spaniel, the
Speaker 2: naive Justine is a heifer, the dominatrix Juliet is a mayor,
Speaker 2: and the head of the notorious Bestille prison is a
Speaker 2: sexually rapacious cockrell. And as though that wasn't enough, the
Speaker 2: Marquis's constant companion of this grim prison cell is his
Speaker 2: oversized talking penis, which pops out of his trousers told
Speaker 2: long conversations with them about the state of the world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a video store in New York called
Speaker 5: Kim's Video and they I love the way that they
Speaker 5: were organized things. And they would organize like it was
Speaker 5: a decade country director and then some genre. But they
Speaker 5: also had in their French section just Marquis de Sade.
Speaker 5: So there was like Justine and what is the other
Speaker 5: ones that bl Underground put out? There was another one uh,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, what is it? The philosophy of the boudoirs.
Speaker 5: But anyway, they had a bunch of different monkeys and
Speaker 5: they had this I believe it was on VHS and
Speaker 5: I didn't have a VHS player there, but I remember
Speaker 5: picking it up, reading the back and being like, is
Speaker 5: that dog talking to his dick? And that's all I
Speaker 5: knew about it?
Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, this is uh, this is special. So
Speaker 2: this one, by the way, is going to be region free,
Speaker 2: brand new two K restoration from the original negative on
Speaker 2: this French audio with optional English subtitles, Audio commentary with
Speaker 2: the cast and crew, A making a featurette the creation
Speaker 2: of Marquis Faces Beneath the Masks, a trailer and image gallery, storyboards,
Speaker 2: telecat video. We've got a reversible sleeve, full color booklet
Speaker 2: about the film's production history, limited to a thousand, like
Speaker 2: this is this is the must of must must buys.
Speaker 5: That's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Cannot wait. This is what was right the film with
Speaker 2: the talking penis like you can know what you know?
Speaker 5: What's really funny? This is getting a blu ray before quills.
Speaker 5: Philip Kaufman's two thousand and one Marquis de Sade adaptation
Speaker 5: is getting a blu ray.
Speaker 2: Take that, Craig. This would have been such a fun
Speaker 2: deaf crocodile release.
Speaker 5: Hilarious.
Speaker 2: Uh there's a commentary by the dog's penis of cinema farce.
Speaker 2: That would have been great. Staying in a staying in
Speaker 2: character for a whole commentary played by a dog's penis.
Speaker 2: My goodness, Yeah, this is this is incredible all right,
Speaker 2: So that is Marquis. That's mono reminder all of the
Speaker 2: we'll be going up for pre order. I did not
Speaker 2: include the information there. Pre Order for these will be
Speaker 2: on Thursday May seventh at ten am Pacific and one
Speaker 2: pm Eastern, so check that out. Set your alarms. Hopefully
Speaker 2: they don't sell too quick. Speaking of selling too quick,
Speaker 2: I have a feeling this one is going to go
Speaker 2: fairly quickly. We've got from New Way Video in Australia.
Speaker 2: They are doing Takashi Mike's wild breastfeeding movie Visitor Q
Speaker 2: from two thousand and one. Still kind of amazing. Instagram
Speaker 2: has let me keep this cover up without censoring it.
Speaker 2: There's a little bit of nippleage kind of slipping through
Speaker 2: the visitor Q. Have you seen this one?
Speaker 5: Yes on it. I saw it in the theater. It's
Speaker 5: the Yes, yeah, I had seen audition and then I
Speaker 5: believe it came like I was at an Asian film fest.
Speaker 5: I believe it was like the next day they showed
Speaker 5: Visitor Q been two thousand and one, right, yep, two
Speaker 5: and one. Yeah, yeah, the next day this stuff Visit
Speaker 5: your Cue and I was like, so those are the
Speaker 5: first two Teshikimiki films that I saw, and I was like,
Speaker 5: this guy is insane. And then I saw a few
Speaker 5: more and then I kind of I didn't see it
Speaker 5: any for a long time. But it's I think it's
Speaker 5: shot on MiniDV too, is it not?
Speaker 2: It is, Yeah, this is not going to be like
Speaker 2: truly high definition.
Speaker 5: It's to be honest, if you're going to do a
Speaker 5: mini DV film, you might as well just make it
Speaker 5: blu ray. Like that's as best as it's gonna look.
Speaker 5: It's never gonna look better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is a brand new transfer from the
Speaker 2: original master tape. They have cleaned this up. Speaking of
Speaker 2: this playing in a theater, I will say this has
Speaker 2: not been illegally allowed to be shown in a theater
Speaker 2: in the US for over twenty years. At this point,
Speaker 2: the rights have not been allowed to play here, but
Speaker 2: I can say we might be talking about this playing
Speaker 2: in theaters again here soon. We'll we'll, we'll bring that
Speaker 2: up again soon. On this disc we got a new
Speaker 2: interview with Takashi Mike. We got a new video introduction
Speaker 2: by filmmaker and story and Andrew lev Old. We had
Speaker 2: a new descent into digital hell Visitor Q then and
Speaker 2: now in appreciation h my friend mister Ron Peterson Han
Speaker 2: new Distorted Disturbance, the Radical Digital Aesthetics of Viser Q,
Speaker 2: visual essay by Joe Hike and Bottom. And then we've
Speaker 2: got a booklet with new essays by Amber Key, Michelle Kisner.
Speaker 2: New slipcover artwork which is really great on this by
Speaker 2: Sean Longmore. The inner art is really great. To New
Speaker 2: Way Video, John, just bravo. You're doing incredible work. Proud
Speaker 2: to be associated with you in any way. You are
Speaker 2: crushing it out there. Cannot wait to show the world
Speaker 2: what the rest of this year's releases are gonna be
Speaker 2: from you. You are doing very very good. Gary is
Speaker 2: asking his New Way Video going to do love exposure soon? Yes,
Speaker 2: yes they are, and it is the complete version that's
Speaker 2: still never been released. It is longer than any version
Speaker 2: that you've seen out there legally yet, and it will
Speaker 2: be coming later this year.
Speaker 5: That's when it's like four hours, right.
Speaker 2: Even longer. Oh yes, stay tuned for that. We'll be
Speaker 2: hearing about that soon. Next up, we got some indicator announcements.
Speaker 2: We've got July twentieth in the UK, July twenty first
Speaker 2: in the USA, Blu Ray coming a Full House from
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty two. And this is not your uncle Jesse's
Speaker 2: Full House. This is Michael Simon as May Gray. We've
Speaker 2: got Raymond Rouleau as when we've got some problem streaming
Speaker 2: to twitch. Oh no, something happened. That's all right, we'll
Speaker 2: survive on this disc. We've got a four K restoration
Speaker 2: from the original nitrate negative. We got original mono audio.
Speaker 2: We got Michael Simon from nineteen sixty four Old Rouse
Speaker 2: Award winning short film Portrait of the Great French Actor
Speaker 2: Image Gallery. We've got a limited edition exclusive booklet new
Speaker 2: Essay by Eric Smouten, archival profiles of the director and writers.
Speaker 2: And then we've got this is the first time it's
Speaker 2: been on Blu Ray in the US, so be limited
Speaker 2: to four thousand copies. I've not seen any of these
Speaker 2: French sort of thrillers. Is this your sort of genre?
Speaker 5: I actually do like these movies. I haven't seen Full House,
Speaker 5: but they made an of them, Like you know, it's
Speaker 5: a French who coined the film noir stuff and they
Speaker 5: kind of like ripped it off a bit later and
Speaker 5: did their own thing. And this one, I don't know.
Speaker 5: The Belmondo ones are really the ones I like more.
Speaker 5: They just sort of have like they're very much like
Speaker 5: a film noir but very French. I don't know if
Speaker 5: that really if you can really circle that square. But
Speaker 5: they're they're fun, they're good, they're interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I indicator.
Speaker 5: Indicator almost always delivers as well. Like there's another company
Speaker 5: that's rare that you go, yeah, that wasn't very good
Speaker 5: or very interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree, And not to mention they pretty
Speaker 2: much always crush it on special features. They are really
Speaker 2: great on that side. All right. Next up, we've got
Speaker 2: same dates, same territories Stavisky from nineteen seventy four. This
Speaker 2: one looks just as great. Another one that people have
Speaker 2: been kind of clamoring for for quite some time. This
Speaker 2: is gonna have a four K restoration from the original
Speaker 2: negative The Guardian interview with actually that's not that's from
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. Got it anyways, all kinds of archival
Speaker 2: stuff that they found and threw on here. Limited edition
Speaker 2: exclusive booklet with contemporary production reports by Jonathan Rosenbaum, an
Speaker 2: analysis of Stephen Sondheim's score, an overview of critical responses,
Speaker 2: and film credits. So nothing new on this disc, which
Speaker 2: is interesting. Kind of surprised.
Speaker 5: I've heard of this movie before. I haven't seen it,
Speaker 5: but I actually heard it's a very good movie.
Speaker 2: I had as well. This is I think one of
Speaker 2: the two that I had heard of in this batch,
Speaker 2: the last one being this one. La Travesty La Travis
Speaker 2: de la Traviste. Yeah, this is nineteen eighty eight and
Speaker 2: again same dates, same territories, all that fun stuff. Any
Speaker 2: thoughts on this one. I feel like you've probably seen
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 5: I have seen this one also, this I mean, you
Speaker 5: just kind of announced after I had came back from
Speaker 5: my laser cave, so I have this on laser disc.
Speaker 5: They got released in Japan, which does mean you either
Speaker 5: need to you need to do a thing where you can,
Speaker 5: and the Japanese subtitles into English with your Google phone
Speaker 5: or are your phone. We'll have a wife that speaks
Speaker 5: French and willing to translate it with you. Luckily, one
Speaker 5: of those two things where it's well for me. And
Speaker 5: we watched this movie during the pandemic. It's good. It's
Speaker 5: a very good movie.
Speaker 2: This one has a visual essay by Alexander Heller Nicholas
Speaker 2: on this exploring the film's themes of gender and power.
Speaker 2: And we've got a new booklet on here with a
Speaker 2: new essay by Georgia Humphries, excerpts from the film's press
Speaker 2: kit and an overview of critical responses, so that visual
Speaker 2: essay is the only new thing on this one as well.
Speaker 2: So kind of light on new stuff, but all kinds
Speaker 2: of archival stuff. Not too bad. And honestly shout out
Speaker 2: to Hilton, this is absolutely true. Would be surprised if
Speaker 2: Keno doesn't release all three of these at some point
Speaker 2: or no, I forgot this is a US release as well,
Speaker 2: So yeah, indicators got both, so Keino will likely not
Speaker 2: put these out ever.
Speaker 5: Well, I would suggest anybody interested this is of the three,
Speaker 5: this is the one that I would say pick up nice.
Speaker 5: If you're only gonna get.
Speaker 2: One, hey, you may have heard of this film before.
Speaker 2: Evil Dead Too coming to Blu Ray in Hungary in
Speaker 2: May from a brand new boutique distributor called Gehenna Films.
Speaker 2: They are putting this out and there's going to be
Speaker 2: English audio on the disc as well, of course, because
Speaker 2: it's an English film. But I don't normally cover films
Speaker 2: unless they're English friendly. The bonus features on this disc
Speaker 2: are not going to be English friendly unless they are
Speaker 2: in English already. They are going to have Hungarian subtitles
Speaker 2: and those might be burned in not sure though. We've
Speaker 2: got two different options here. Both of these are digibooks.
Speaker 2: We've got exclusive artwork by a very famous Hungarian artist
Speaker 2: on the first one and then the original Graham Humphrey's
Speaker 2: art on the second one. Now the hard part here.
Speaker 2: Even though these will be region free releases, these are
Speaker 2: only allowed to be sold in a few European countries
Speaker 2: outside of Hungary, like the Czech Republic, Greece, Slovakia, Romania,
Speaker 2: Slovenia or Croatia. But some third party retailers and some
Speaker 2: amazons might pick these up at some point. So if
Speaker 2: you're like a diehard Evil Dead collector, you might want
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on this one. However, this might
Speaker 2: be a little more difficult to pick up at some point.
Speaker 2: Do we have an Evil Dead two laser disc?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean again, this is all after I left
Speaker 5: the laser Cave, but when you want to speak of
Speaker 5: like things that are difficult to pick up, So the
Speaker 5: Evil Dead laser disc Evil Dead Too got released by
Speaker 5: Elite and if you see this big pipehypesticker, it says
Speaker 5: blood red laser disc. So this was one of the
Speaker 5: only laser discs that was ever released blood red.
Speaker 2: Whoa, that's pretty red.
Speaker 5: But you know what's crazy about this is that you
Speaker 5: have to remember not every laserst player is but the
Speaker 5: same and a lot of people had lasers players that
Speaker 5: were all the way back.
Speaker 9: From like nineteen seventy eight. So they got this thing
Speaker 9: and they released it, and they got endless complaints that
Speaker 9: it wouldn't play, So then they released it on a
Speaker 9: standard I have that one too, but that's the blood
Speaker 9: red one.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 5: I was going to show that later in an oddity
Speaker 5: of laserness, but when that announcement came up, I was like,
Speaker 5: you know what, why not?
Speaker 2: That's super cool? All right? So that was the Evil
Speaker 2: Dead Hungarian release that I got announced. Eureka happened to announce today, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, the weird timing the end of the month,
Speaker 2: which means we're getting Aero announcements tomorrow. A lot of
Speaker 2: those have leaked already, but Willed is not going to
Speaker 2: talk about the Aero announcements next week, so sorry Will So. Eureka.
Speaker 2: July twentieth, we were getting a Blu ray in the
Speaker 2: UK as part of their Masters of Cinema collection of
Speaker 2: Laurel and Hardy the Silent Years from nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 2: This set contains liberty You're wrong again, that's my wife,
Speaker 2: big business, unaccustomed as we are, the silent version, double Whoopee, Birthmarks,
Speaker 2: Silent vers and Bacon Grabbers, and a Gora Love Silent version.
Speaker 2: This is a wild looking set. Eureka has been doing
Speaker 2: great stuff on these Laurel and Hardy stuff and it
Speaker 2: is a very solid looking set. This is going to
Speaker 2: have an O card with a slipcase featuring new artwork
Speaker 2: by Scott Saslow, which Scott was just on the show
Speaker 2: and I forgot. I need to email him as soon
Speaker 2: as I get off of the show tonight. We got
Speaker 2: a book of new writing sorry, newly written notes on
Speaker 2: each film by writer and comedian Paul Merton, and a
Speaker 2: new essay on frequent Laurel and Hardy collaborator James Finlayson
Speaker 2: by Silent cinema expert Chris Grosvener. I just ruined all
Speaker 2: of those names, so sorry. We've got ten eighty HD
Speaker 2: presentations on Blu Ray from two K restorations by Blackhawk Films.
Speaker 2: We've got scores all over this. We've got new commentaries
Speaker 2: by a handful of individuals. There's lots of stuff on here.
Speaker 2: New doc by David Karen's and Fiona Watson, alternate music scores,
Speaker 2: lots of stuff Laurel and Hardy. I imagine you're likely
Speaker 2: a fan of Laurel and Hardy.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I love them. Some of my kids so
Speaker 5: big business crushes with the kids. It's basically about Laurel
Speaker 5: and Hardy. They try to sell Christmas trees in the
Speaker 5: summer and it does not go well. I've been waiting
Speaker 5: for them to release the Music Box. Anybody who has
Speaker 5: small children and wants to try to get them to
Speaker 5: watch something classic. It's on YouTube. It looks great on YouTube.
Speaker 5: The music Box is twenty two minutes of amazing, just
Speaker 5: simple comedy. These two guys try to haul a piano
Speaker 5: up a flight of stairs, and that's basically the whole thing.
Speaker 5: But I my kids love that thing. I showed it
Speaker 5: to him so many times.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I'm just laughing because a moment ago, when
Speaker 2: I got noticed that my Twitch account it was having
Speaker 2: trouble streaming there. I just got an email saying my
Speaker 2: Twitch account has been suspended, and I think it was
Speaker 2: because of the visitor cue cover whoops, too much nipple,
Speaker 2: which is hilarious. Because I'm still up on YouTube.
Speaker 5: I have two things I got to try to remember
Speaker 5: to slightly censer for you when we get later in
Speaker 5: the day. Oh no, oh, not terrible, but does I
Speaker 5: just realized that after you said that I'm a visit
Speaker 5: a q nipple thing, I hadn't thought about it beforehand.
Speaker 2: Understandable, all right. Next up is same date we got
Speaker 2: July twentieth. In the UK, We've got Beast Unleashed. This
Speaker 2: is from nineteen fifty five nineteen fifty six. This is
Speaker 2: from the Eureka Classics line. This is the Beast with
Speaker 2: the Million Eyes and the Beast of Hollow Mountain, two
Speaker 2: of the most entertaining films among them, presented together in
Speaker 2: the spirit of their science fiction double features from the
Speaker 2: nineteen fifties. This is going to have a limited edition
Speaker 2: booklet with new writing by the genre film expert Christopher
Speaker 2: Stewartson that will be on special effects artist Paul Blasdel
Speaker 2: and The Beast with the Million Eyes and a new
Speaker 2: essay by film journalist Sean McGee on Weird Westerns and
Speaker 2: The Beast of Hollow Mountain. Reversible sleeve. We've got terre
Speaker 2: from Beyond the Star's new interview with the science fiction
Speaker 2: expert Mark Bold on The Beast with the Million Eyes
Speaker 2: an alien invasion cinema on the fifties. New interview with
Speaker 2: the critic Kim Newman on The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Speaker 2: and the surgeons of dinosaur films in the fifties. Any
Speaker 2: thoughts on this era of film, Brian, This.
Speaker 5: Is something I really don't know much about. Like I'm
Speaker 5: always interested in learning more, but these are Excuse me,
Speaker 5: the fifties monster movies are. I never watched them when
Speaker 5: I was young, and I haven't watched many since then.
Speaker 5: The only ones I know some of the Ray Harry
Speaker 5: Howsen stuff, but that's like sort of where my knowledge
Speaker 5: sort of falls apart.
Speaker 2: See that's about it for me. I've never dove deep
Speaker 2: into many of these other ones. No next up though,
Speaker 2: one that I am I'm kind of excited about. We've
Speaker 2: got July twentieth, the Blu Ray coming in the UK
Speaker 2: from Eureka from their Masters of Cinema line of into
Speaker 2: the Forest folk Tales at DIFA, which might sound sort
Speaker 2: of familiar to you because Brian held up earlier the
Speaker 2: Deaf Crocodile release of Difa fairy Tales that we just
Speaker 2: put out through Deaf Crocodile that has five films in there,
Speaker 2: but there's only a couple that are going to be
Speaker 2: crossing over, or maybe it's three. I think it's three
Speaker 2: that are crossing over, or no, it's only two that
Speaker 2: are crossing over in this Eureka set. And so there's
Speaker 2: kind of a lot of reason to pick up both
Speaker 2: if you're into this era and folk tales and all
Speaker 2: this fun stuff. Because I hope Craig is okay with
Speaker 2: me saying, because I believe he's already said it on
Speaker 2: the podcast, there's not, as far as I'm aware of,
Speaker 2: plan to do any of these other ones by Deaf
Speaker 2: Crocodile anytime soon. And just for the record, Eureka Deaf
Speaker 2: Crocodile did not plan this together. Deaf Crocodile didn't know
Speaker 2: that Eureka was doing this until they announced it. It
Speaker 2: was not worked on at the same time. So this
Speaker 2: Eureka set is going to have The Devil from Mill Mountain,
Speaker 2: The Singing Ringing Tree, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, and
Speaker 2: The Devil's Three Golden Hairs. This is going to be
Speaker 2: a limited box set. It is going to be limited
Speaker 2: to two thousand copies, limited sixty page book with a
Speaker 2: new essay by Sebastian Hi to check. New notes on
Speaker 2: each film in the set by Sonia Frezia Keen and
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Ward, plus the Brothers Grim stories that inspired The
Speaker 2: Singing Ringing Tree, rumpel Stiltskin, Literal d Riding Hood of
Speaker 2: the Devil's Three Golden Hairs. All five films that will
Speaker 2: be from DEFA Restorations. We've got the original German soundtracks,
Speaker 2: optional English soundtracks for The Singing Ringing Tree and The
Speaker 2: Devil's Three Golden Hairs. We've got optional English subtitles, brand
Speaker 2: new translations on those. New commentary on the Devil from
Speaker 2: Mill Mountain by Michael Brooke, New commentary on rupel stiltskined
Speaker 2: by Sam Goff, Fairy Tales The Nightmares, New interview with
Speaker 2: Bob Fisher, We've got Defa in the Devil, New visual
Speaker 2: essay on the depiction of the Devil, and folk tales
Speaker 2: from the Brothers Grim to Difa by Mary Going. The
Speaker 2: Magic Scissors, a short silhouette animation. We've got Sleeping Beauty
Speaker 2: was a Beautiful Child, another short that was a puppet animation,
Speaker 2: and then we've got the Wolf of the Seven Little
Speaker 2: Goats from nineteen ninety and that is a short cutout animation.
Speaker 2: This sounds really cool.
Speaker 5: I'm going this is like, you know, the Deefa stuff
Speaker 5: is one of those things that I had heard about
Speaker 5: a lot, mostly just like in random film books, but
Speaker 5: like everything was more or less unaccessible, and I think
Speaker 5: there was a big DVD set that was released, maybe
Speaker 5: like I don't know, like fifteen years ago, maybe more,
Speaker 5: probably more, maybe more. And I had seen a couple
Speaker 5: of them, but I the one that I had seen
Speaker 5: were more like uh, like policy Atacchi, but like the
Speaker 5: German version, I think there's a name for them, Yeah, creamies.
Speaker 5: I had seen a couple of Crimis. Uh, they were good.
Speaker 5: I like them. But I'm really looking forward to I'm
Speaker 5: kind of amassing a bunch of DEFA movie and I
Speaker 5: want to try to do it all in like a
Speaker 5: big sit down, go through and I just got to
Speaker 5: be a book or something about this too that you
Speaker 5: can like watch along with. Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 5: I don't have it, but I'm sure it's just somewhere
Speaker 5: that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. DEFA has done a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: First off, tons of movies. Yeah, so many movies.
Speaker 5: A ton ton tons they were I mean they were
Speaker 5: releasing it for captive audience. It's just like well like
Speaker 5: Hong Kong was making a ton of movie. Well that's
Speaker 5: his life. But they have their own I guess Quebec,
Speaker 5: like Quebec makes all these movies because they're making them
Speaker 5: for themselves, so they know they have a built in
Speaker 5: audience and they're all going, So you can make a
Speaker 5: movie for six hundred thousand dollars and make money because
Speaker 5: you know you're gonna get that many people to go
Speaker 5: see it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's coming through my sound, but
Speaker 2: I did want to say we are in the middle
Speaker 2: of a giant hill storm outside, so that got good good.
Speaker 2: That makes for a good microphone.
Speaker 5: Then also I'm a sound mixer. I can't hear anything.
Speaker 2: That was it for this week. I do have a
Speaker 2: few things that I did not get to post, so
Speaker 2: I'll be sharing those are the next twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: but coming out next week. In case you forgot incredible
Speaker 2: four K release of Interspace from Arrow. We got Moneyball
Speaker 2: four K coming from the studio. In that one, all
Speaker 2: of the Vinegar Syndrome stuff is going to be shipping,
Speaker 2: of course. Soldier four K with Kurt Russell from Arrow.
Speaker 2: We've got Throw Mama from the Train four K from Keno,
Speaker 2: The John Singleton Hood Trilogy for k K from Criterion
Speaker 2: Private Benjamin finally on Blu Ray from Warner Archive. Something's
Speaker 2: got to Give coming to Blu Ray. We've got The
Speaker 2: Grapes of Death four K from Indicator, A Living Dead
Speaker 2: Girl four K from Indicator, Conquest four K from Cauldron
Speaker 2: finally shipping, Tiger on the Beat one and two four
Speaker 2: K from shout Dust blenty four K from Lionsgate, Captain's
Speaker 2: Courageous from Warner archive. We've got star Dust four K
Speaker 2: getting re released, getting set from seven is shipping Abbott
Speaker 2: and Costello. Hold that Ghost four K from Keno, The
Speaker 2: Can from seven. We've got Highest to Lowest from A
Speaker 2: twenty four coming out next week on four K. Aerosmith
Speaker 2: from Wurner Archive. George Stevens, a Filmmaker's Journey, the newest
Speaker 2: four K from Warner Archive is coming out next week.
Speaker 2: King Richard and the Crusad from on Archive, Voices from
Speaker 2: Beyond four K, the Fulchy film coming from seven. We've
Speaker 2: got twenty thousand Years and Singh Sing from one archive,
Speaker 2: crack Up from one archive. We've got Cold Storage four
Speaker 2: K coming from Goldwyn Meyer next week. The Man who
Speaker 2: Reclaimed his head from Keino that adventure Cars Adventure calls
Speaker 2: Carl may at CCC from Eureka. Jack the Ripper four
Speaker 2: K from Cauldron, which I will, you know, very cautiously
Speaker 2: optimistically recommend as a wonderful entry into Jess Franco. Also
Speaker 2: some self promotion, since Will and I are on the
Speaker 2: commentary on now One. Check it out So Young, So Lovely,
Speaker 2: So Vicious from RaRo Video. We've got Nightlife from Keno,
Speaker 2: Larber Patchwork four K shipping from terror Vision this week,
Speaker 2: which heads up that they did put out another update
Speaker 2: today that Gator Bait should be very soon. Their last
Speaker 2: couple of box sets that they were waiting on is
Speaker 2: all about to be shipping in the next I think
Speaker 2: one should be ready next week, one the following week,
Speaker 2: and then hopefully Gator Bait the week after that, which
Speaker 2: it's finally time only a year after it was announced,
Speaker 2: which is wild. We got Student Confidential shipping from Severn.
Speaker 2: The Nashville Standard Edition from Paramount is shipping as well.
Speaker 2: That Monogram Mattine Volume two from Warner Archive of shipping.
Speaker 2: There's some nipples I need to hide. Creep tapes season
Speaker 2: two from Shutter. Let's see North See is Death Sea
Speaker 2: from Severn. Hunters of the Golden Cobra from Severn. That
Speaker 2: is the bulk of it, though. What are you after?
Speaker 2: Next week? Is Innerspace, a movie near and dear to
Speaker 2: your Heart.
Speaker 5: I like Inner Space. I think I pre ordered it
Speaker 5: from Amazon, I from Arrow, but I don't definitely remember.
Speaker 5: I have a laser disc That's why I saw it last.
Speaker 5: I also really like Private Benjamin. I don't know if
Speaker 5: other than the Vinegar syndrome stuff. I don't think there's
Speaker 5: a ton on there that I was like crazy after,
Speaker 5: but there's a lot of interesting things that again I
Speaker 5: just sort of have to. I'm managing my managing, managing
Speaker 5: my spending a little bit better these days.
Speaker 2: Understandable, understandable. Silent mandible wants to know when is the
Speaker 2: last group of Vineger syndrome drop shipping. I got mine,
Speaker 2: so now I.
Speaker 5: Don't think I even got mine, although I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's indicative of anything.
Speaker 2: I got mine two or three days ago.
Speaker 5: I think, Uh yeah, I only pick of my mail
Speaker 5: once a week.
Speaker 2: So understandable. All right, So now deep dive into laser discs.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about all kinds of stuff, including ironic thrillers.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about some of the rare ones.
Speaker 2: Where do you want to start? You want to you
Speaker 2: want to start why laser discs were important or why
Speaker 2: they were sought after?
Speaker 5: Uh? Sure? I mean is there any did you did
Speaker 5: you call any like questions that people want before I
Speaker 5: get like going or a ry.
Speaker 2: No, let's dive into that for well, and maybe first
Speaker 2: of all, just what is a laser disc? For those
Speaker 2: that have never actually held one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's good. So a laser disc is the same
Speaker 5: size as the record, so it's twelve inches, and it's
Speaker 5: the same technology behind it is what's on a CD,
Speaker 5: so it's etched a small piece of metal smashed between
Speaker 5: two platters. But the great thing to me about a
Speaker 5: laser disc, more than anything else, is it's the last
Speaker 5: analog format. So while it's read by a laser, it's
Speaker 5: the last video analog format that existed. It's four eighty I,
Speaker 5: but you can actually blow it up pretty good to
Speaker 5: four K. I mean, within reason. It doesn't look like
Speaker 5: a four K, but I've used a lot of fancy
Speaker 5: players and scalers and I make it look decent. But
Speaker 5: the sound, after a certain period of time becomes digital,
Speaker 5: so it's CD quality sound with an analog video, and
Speaker 5: it makes it for a very like specific feel. It's
Speaker 5: not really it doesn't look at all like the VHS,
Speaker 5: which I think looked like crap. I don't actually quite
Speaker 5: understand the VHS thing. I mean, if it's the only
Speaker 5: way you can see them, would be great. But VHS
Speaker 5: is two forty I, so this is double the resolution
Speaker 5: of that, and they were made for a really long
Speaker 5: time the first one was Jaws, made in nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 5: and the last one, at least the last English one,
Speaker 5: was The Cell released in Japan, made in two thousand
Speaker 5: and one. So that's an incredible, incredible span and an
Speaker 5: incredible breadth of cinema that entered and exited through laser disc.
Speaker 2: Really really interesting time, and there's a lot of these
Speaker 2: things that laser disc are the only place to get,
Speaker 2: not just films but special features. Obviously, this is the
Speaker 2: first time that we were able to get audio commentaries
Speaker 2: for Criterion, Lots of stuff that we can dive in
Speaker 2: on that. What next, What is the best way that
Speaker 2: you want to sell the lasers story?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think I think if you want
Speaker 5: to like talk about the format and like what makes
Speaker 5: it special, I think the thing to think about is
Speaker 5: going back to that breadth and scope. So from seventy
Speaker 5: eight to two thousand and one, it's an incredible amount
Speaker 5: of time, I mean, twenty three years, and as far
Speaker 5: as what gets released on laser disc, it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 5: So the early stuff, the very very early stuff people
Speaker 5: collect that to me, it's not super super interesting. But
Speaker 5: you start around nineteen eighty two and in the US.
Speaker 5: It really ends in two thousand and you get like
Speaker 5: anything and everything. I mean, they release silent movies, documentaries,
Speaker 5: they release action movies, they release classic movies, they release comedies,
Speaker 5: they release tons of stuff. And eventually we'll get into
Speaker 5: what they kind of only released on laser disc, which
Speaker 5: is not only but they the best quality of it
Speaker 5: is on laser disc, which is erotic thrillers and why
Speaker 5: that is true. But from there, you know, in the eighties,
Speaker 5: it sort of starts out and it's just like, you know,
Speaker 5: laser disc is competing with Beta, which is competing with VHS,
Speaker 5: and Beta loses because they won't do porn, and VHS
Speaker 5: is like poor me up, bro, and then laser just
Speaker 5: sort of sees this and I was like this porn idea,
Speaker 5: and so they start to do porn movies as well,
Speaker 5: so you know, they keep along that and you know,
Speaker 5: you can track porn through laser disc almost up to
Speaker 5: the end. But whatever, that's a whole nother side topic.
Speaker 5: But you know, so they have this niche market and
Speaker 5: it's people that want really the highest quality possible, and
Speaker 5: they want and the breadth of movies possible. So as
Speaker 5: you know, Beta loses and everybody's like VHS looks like crap.
Speaker 5: They're like, oh yeah, but I have like this high
Speaker 5: quality system. I want to be able to make something
Speaker 5: looks nice. They get a laser disc player, and lasers
Speaker 5: are expensive when they first come out, Like you know,
Speaker 5: the Criterion edition of You're saying King Kong with the
Speaker 5: first commentary, it's like one hundred bucks, one hundred bucks
Speaker 5: of nineteen eighty dollars, which is like what two hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty dollars, So if you're talking about like, oh Man,
Speaker 5: twenty six dollars is expensive for a deaf rocketile release,
Speaker 5: like two hundred and fifty bucks for King Kong. It's
Speaker 5: crazy pants. But you know, they're the collector's market and
Speaker 5: their niche here. But along with all of that, there's
Speaker 5: a kind of a crazy thing that happens is that
Speaker 5: as the mid eighties progresses into the latedies into the nineties,
Speaker 5: the Asian economic miracle happens, and Japan, Hong Kong, they boom.
Speaker 5: Money is just coming in like crazy. And in Japan
Speaker 5: they love karaoke, and what's a great way to do
Speaker 5: karaoke lasers. Now they have a laser dis player and
Speaker 5: turns out, what else are they like? Movies? So they
Speaker 5: are selling movies hand over a fist, Like I can't
Speaker 5: get pressing numbers on everything, but I know the minimum
Speaker 5: pressing on a Lasiers has to be five hundred, and
Speaker 5: I think most things get pressed about a thousand. In Japan,
Speaker 5: there are like twenty thousand copies of Showgirls on laser disc.
Speaker 5: Like it's just massive, massive, massive, massive. And the breadth
Speaker 5: of movies that they're releasing in Japan is just astounding.
Speaker 5: They're releasing French films, Japanese films, American films, and you
Speaker 5: can just find all this other stuff. And now when
Speaker 5: you get back to the States, you know, along with
Speaker 5: your Hollywood movies and whatever, laser discs are also kind
Speaker 5: of entering a niche video store realm, and what niche
Speaker 5: video stores want and porn, and along with porn is
Speaker 5: like things that aren't quite porn. So it's the erotic thriller.
Speaker 5: So erotic thrillers start getting released like crazy on laser disc,
Speaker 5: and you know, we can talk a little bit, well,
Speaker 5: we'll talk a little bit more about erotic thrillers in general,
Speaker 5: but what's interesting to me about them is they're basically
Speaker 5: the nineties version of a film noir. They roughly like
Speaker 5: roughly hew them. They would start like with Fatal Attraction
Speaker 5: and end with Showgirls. That's like the Hollywood aspect of them.
Speaker 5: The DTV direct to video ones really start with like
Speaker 5: Night Eyes, which is in nineteen ninety, and it ends,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, it doesn't really end for a
Speaker 5: long time. It doesn't end to like the mid two
Speaker 5: the early two thousands, but those are really junkie. It
Speaker 5: kind of dies around the same time Showgirls dies. It
Speaker 5: really dies when the Internet comes in. It does ninety eight,
Speaker 5: ninety nine. But they make five hundred of them, just
Speaker 5: like they make five hundred film noirs, and their plots
Speaker 5: are very similar to a film noir, except it's twisted.
Speaker 5: So in a film noir, you'll have a man that's
Speaker 5: undone by like one of his actions are oh, an
Speaker 5: action of a femme fatale. Here, it's really all about
Speaker 5: the woman and what she wants and how her life
Speaker 5: gets upended by her like search for fulfillment. And there
Speaker 5: are a lot of interesting things that are written about it.
Speaker 5: In fact, there's only three books. I could show them
Speaker 5: if you really want, but there's only three books written
Speaker 5: about around it thrillers. All three of them are interesting
Speaker 5: and they sort of the best one. Ruth Dan Williams.
Speaker 5: Ruth Williams. She makes this sort of the point that
Speaker 5: erotic thrillers are a lot like musicals. Like MGM musicals,
Speaker 5: they have like these overall structures that then get interrupted
Speaker 5: by dance numbers, except these dance numbers are sex scenes.
Speaker 5: So you have this structure of like a woman searching
Speaker 5: for fulfillment, but then it gets interrupted as she you know,
Speaker 5: I sech with a bunch of people. So that's what
Speaker 5: I like about that. And in laser disc in general,
Speaker 5: you can just find all kinds of stuff. Like when
Speaker 5: I would go around and just buy whatever came up,
Speaker 5: you would never know like what some of this things,
Speaker 5: these things are, and it's just.
Speaker 2: Like, uh, yeah, it's a it's an interesting period and
Speaker 2: there are lots of these movies that now can literally
Speaker 2: only be got on later.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So so let's so how you make a laser disc.
Speaker 5: So a laser disc needs so if all these all
Speaker 5: these erotic thrillers are shot in film, So they're shot
Speaker 5: on film, but it's this era where they're editing on
Speaker 5: tape and the way that they edit it on tape,
Speaker 5: and I'm not one hundred percent perfect on the exact
Speaker 5: technical thing is they're more or less like striping it
Speaker 5: with time code. They're cutting it linearly, and then they
Speaker 5: sort of do it conform. They don't cut the negative,
Speaker 5: but they do a conform to the negative, and they
Speaker 5: do that conform and then they bring it on into
Speaker 5: a version of a telesiny. The telegienity turns it into
Speaker 5: a positive, and then they put it on a tape.
Speaker 5: And the tape they put it on is called a
Speaker 5: D two master tape, and the quality of a D
Speaker 5: two master tape is, you know, basically the same as
Speaker 5: a laser disc. So if you get something that's struck
Speaker 5: from a D two master tape of an erotic thriller
Speaker 5: and you get it on laser disc, that's basically the same.
Speaker 5: And then when they released it on DVD, you're like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: that's for ADP or whatever, but it's not. It's basically
Speaker 5: the exact same and it's just compressed, and the DVD
Speaker 5: compression is not that great, so it really if you
Speaker 5: have a nice quality of the l it's never really
Speaker 5: going to look any better. And I'm not positive, but
Speaker 5: my deeply held belief is all of these negatives are
Speaker 5: in the trash. They're all gone, because what would happen
Speaker 5: is that company that did the video editing, offline video editing,
Speaker 5: they would store the negatives at a lab, and that
Speaker 5: company has gone out of business. That lab has gone
Speaker 5: out of business, and if you didn't come and claim
Speaker 5: your negatives, they all went in the dumpsticks straight the trash.
Speaker 5: So they're all gone. I mean, you might find one
Speaker 5: or two here there, but and there are a couple
Speaker 5: that got to release. There's one I'll get to eventually
Speaker 5: that I know got to release in a few places,
Speaker 5: which means they cut the negative. So if they cut
Speaker 5: the negative, that means it's a print somewhere. And if
Speaker 5: there's a print somewhere, you can maybe make a blu
Speaker 5: ray out of it. But these are basically all gone.
Speaker 5: This is just all forgotten media.
Speaker 2: Well, not only films, not only special features. There's also
Speaker 2: a lot of laser discs with cuts that are exclusive
Speaker 2: to the laser disc release that are not on other releases.
Speaker 2: And you've actually been kind of solicited from some of
Speaker 2: these boutique labels to supply some laser discs to be
Speaker 2: used for some of their releases. Yeah, share, share some
Speaker 2: of what you've been able to help provide to people,
Speaker 2: what you've been solicited for stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me grab those out because we're going to
Speaker 5: go out of That's good, I mean.
Speaker 2: Oops.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I have provided releases. Oops, I don't know
Speaker 5: that wasn't already. You did have my proper order. I
Speaker 5: just didn't remember. So I have. I have like made
Speaker 5: scans for a handful of people. And one time this
Speaker 5: guy who really wouldn't identify himself came over and was like,
Speaker 5: I want a scan of this this New York Chinatown.
Speaker 5: And he only knew that I had it because I'm
Speaker 5: the only one in the world that has it. And
Speaker 5: he was like, Oh, I need this scan for a
Speaker 5: Blu ray I'm doing. I can't tell you what it's
Speaker 5: for or anything. I was like, whatever, I don't care.
Speaker 5: So I made a scan and then that eventually got
Speaker 5: released and cut in to this vinegar syndrome release of
Speaker 5: these Hong Kong fine too, this New York Chinatown. So
Speaker 5: that's my laser disc. Whenever they talk about the laser
Speaker 5: disc they're printing for it. And then for you and
Speaker 5: the terror Vision folks. I scan Gator Bait two. I scanned,
Speaker 5: I ripped Gator Bait two, which is actually a rough
Speaker 5: movie but quite fun and I can't believe you guys
Speaker 5: found a negative for it. I'm pretty excited to see that.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie because it is. It is a
Speaker 5: dirty movie, but it is a hilarious movie.
Speaker 2: I still can't believe that we got the German VHS
Speaker 2: that's longer than anything else than any of us have
Speaker 2: ever seen, which is wild. And the footage is not
Speaker 2: like it's not great in additional footage, but the fact
Speaker 2: that we have it is just truly incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the whole idea. Is you kind of archived
Speaker 5: the whole release of these things.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: And as far as like things that don't exist anywhere
Speaker 5: else here, I have a few cool things. So this
Speaker 5: this I just like a lot. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 5: it a couple of times. It is called Hollywood a
Speaker 5: Celebration of the American Silent Film, and you're like, oh, whatever,
Speaker 5: this big box set of early silent film documentary, So
Speaker 5: that can't be that interesting. But this was an early
Speaker 5: made for HBO documentary and all these images and all
Speaker 5: the films they don't have the rights for anywhere else,
Speaker 5: so you can find this on YouTube, but this is
Speaker 5: the own that there's a VHS, but this in the
Speaker 5: VHS is the only release that'll ever be as the
Speaker 5: physical media, and this basically chronicles from the birth of
Speaker 5: cinema all the way till will Sound comes in and
Speaker 5: it's it's crazy, it's beautiful. It's like Kevin Barlow or
Speaker 5: Brownlow did it, and it's I think it's like twelve hours.
Speaker 5: It's really long.
Speaker 2: So that's ours, damn.
Speaker 5: So that's pretty cool. And then some things more people
Speaker 5: might know, so dumb and dumber. The only way to
Speaker 5: see the original version and wide screen is on this
Speaker 5: laser disc because for whatever reason, they only release this,
Speaker 5: not even director's cut. It's like the TV cut and
Speaker 5: they release it all the time, and I don't really
Speaker 5: know why, because the original one is so much better.
Speaker 5: And if you look at the what they do in
Speaker 5: the TV cuts last director cut is they make them
Speaker 5: so much meaner and by the end you don't really
Speaker 5: like them as not so much fun and then a
Speaker 5: little more esoterically, maybe not too crazy. The Wizard of
Speaker 5: Speed and Time is kind of this crazy kind of
Speaker 5: cult movie. And that's the US laser disc and that's
Speaker 5: pretty cool. But what's really crazy is the Japanese one
Speaker 5: is about nine minutes longer. And this is the only
Speaker 5: way to see this geez.
Speaker 2: And this is cover too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this goes for a stupid amount of money.
Speaker 2: Well is it time to talk about that? For what
Speaker 2: most modern sales for laser disc go for, like what
Speaker 2: the rare ones get and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: What are rare ones get? So you know, if you're
Speaker 5: talking about like a normal laser disc these days, you
Speaker 5: sell them for like five bucks, maybe less like three bucks.
Speaker 5: Like if you want to watch like Jade, like Jade
Speaker 5: on lazerness, like five bucks. Something like The Wizard of
Speaker 5: Speeding Time on that Japanese one is like three hundred
Speaker 5: dollars at least.
Speaker 2: Geez.
Speaker 5: And then if you want to talk about something really crazy,
Speaker 5: I'll drop a few. I didn't bring the big big one. Actually,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you a few more so, like something like
Speaker 5: somebody mentioned the Matrix. So most I don't care about
Speaker 5: unopened media, and I especially don't care about open laser
Speaker 5: disc with the exception of super popular movies that are
Speaker 5: unopened are starting to fetch crazy prices, so the Matrix.
Speaker 5: I sold an unopened copy that I bought for three
Speaker 5: dollars almost instantly locally for six hundred bucks cash, and
Speaker 5: I probably undersold it. I'm pretty sure if I had
Speaker 5: it today, I could sell it for nine hundred. What
Speaker 5: it's it's because people are starting to grade them like
Speaker 5: comic books and put them on slaves, but only super
Speaker 5: popular movies that are unopened. I had an unopened Fight Club,
Speaker 5: which is a rare Japanese one, that I sold for
Speaker 5: like three point fifty, and I'm pretty sure the same
Speaker 5: guy put it on eBay for seven and I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's still there, but he'll probably sell it.
Speaker 5: So that's that. And then the really really really late
Speaker 5: stuff like Arnold's the Sixth Man, Sixth Day, Sixth Day,
Speaker 5: or the sell which are the stuff that's released right
Speaker 5: at the end, are like multiple thousands of dollars apiece,
Speaker 5: and if you can find one and you're not gonna
Speaker 5: you're not gonna here's the thing, You're not gonna find it,
Speaker 5: So it doesn't matter that it's worth a lot of money,
Speaker 5: you're just not gonna come across it. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: that they just didn't sell many of them, and then
Speaker 5: the the stores returned them and they went in the
Speaker 5: dump because something like the cell. I think the known
Speaker 5: copies are like thirty four of them, so that's probably
Speaker 5: like about how many sold.
Speaker 2: Jeez, that is just insanity.
Speaker 5: And then uh uh what dice k that's the guy.
Speaker 5: That's the guy who likes Criterion right yep, so I
Speaker 5: was during the pandemic. I was like streaming dice Gase
Speaker 5: videos in the background. What a soothing, lovely gentleman he
Speaker 5: seems to be. And at one point he was like, oh, this,
Speaker 5: this and this, and then it's like, this was the
Speaker 5: hardest thing to get in my collection, and it's this
Speaker 5: it's the Prince of Tides, And you're like, Prince of Tides,
Speaker 5: Why is this the hardest thing to get in your collection? Well,
Speaker 5: it's because it's the Prince of Tides and the Prince
Speaker 5: of Tides one nine. Criterion printed them, had them all
Speaker 5: ready to go, and then Barbara streisand pulled them, either
Speaker 5: because she didn't like the essay because when it got
Speaker 5: re released it's a different essay or something she said
Speaker 5: on the commentary. She didn't like the way it got
Speaker 5: edited together, and I'm not one hundred percent sure why,
Speaker 5: but this one has a slightly different commentary and a
Speaker 5: slightly different essay on the back, a slightly different cover,
Speaker 5: and they were never officially released, so you'd have to
Speaker 5: get them from Basically, the story goes is about one
Speaker 5: hundred of them slipped out because the Criterion gave them
Speaker 5: away at their Christmas party, and then a few days
Speaker 5: later she decided she didn't want to release it and
Speaker 5: she pulled them all, so that one was a little
Speaker 5: harder to track down nikes.
Speaker 2: Anyone wants to know if you ever got to HD
Speaker 2: LaserDisc Muse, do you know what that is?
Speaker 5: I do so. Muse is a format that's ten thirty
Speaker 5: five I. It was only released in Japan. You need
Speaker 5: a special decoder in order to get it. They released
Speaker 5: about fifty movies and they also released about fifty background
Speaker 5: videos of fish, so you can watch fish in glorious HD.
Speaker 5: I have like seven of them. For a while, you
Speaker 5: could pick them up at semi reasonable prices, but they're
Speaker 5: pretty crazy. I do have Back to the Future, which
Speaker 5: is pretty cool, and I have I told a couple
Speaker 5: of them. I'll be honest, it's a lot of work
Speaker 5: to get it to come out. And it's it's cool ish.
Speaker 5: I would say, oh, I have close encounters and I
Speaker 5: have et It's just it's just a lot of work
Speaker 5: to get it to come out. I think if you
Speaker 5: like really dedicate yourself to like that's the thing you
Speaker 5: want to do, that's fine. But also because of the
Speaker 5: way the format is, the subtitles are always in the picture,
Speaker 5: even if even if it's like two three five. So
Speaker 5: I just sort of it just got expensive and I
Speaker 5: fell out of it. For me, it was more more
Speaker 5: niche than I even am. But it's a good question.
Speaker 2: Niche.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty niche.
Speaker 2: So seventeen thousand laser discs, there are many that you
Speaker 2: and I have talked about that you are literally like
Speaker 2: the only known owner of a film on a laser disc.
Speaker 2: Tell us about some of those.
Speaker 5: The only known owner ones. Okay, well, I know I
Speaker 5: brought one more that I know. So I was going
Speaker 5: to talk about this a little bit more in the
Speaker 5: Erotic through all the time, but I do it now.
Speaker 5: So there was a DVD release somewhat recently by the
Speaker 5: Cinemax thing of Ultimate Taboo, and then people were complaining like, oh,
Speaker 5: what is this Ultimate Taboo. It's like it's all cut
Speaker 5: and it's all weird, there's no ultimate whatever. Well, this
Speaker 5: is an Indonesian laser disc and it is longer by
Speaker 5: about six minutes than the DVD release because this is
Speaker 5: not the Cinemax cut. This is like the original cut
Speaker 5: that they again pre sold to pre sold to foreign markets.
Speaker 5: And actually this movie is pretty interesting. It's directed by
Speaker 5: Paul Thomas, not Paul Thomas Anderson, but but Paul Thomas.
Speaker 5: He was a porn actor and director, but he also
Speaker 5: made a bunch of softcore movies. But what's more interesting
Speaker 5: is it's written by Penny Anti, who's like, uh, sort
Speaker 5: of a feminist writer critic and and really weirdly, it
Speaker 5: stars well Kim Dawson did it, but also the woman
Speaker 5: who's in now I'm blank, and of course the one
Speaker 5: who does a workout of video terror vision did it.
Speaker 2: Yep, Lena, quickly, I think that's it.
Speaker 5: I believe it. Now I'm gonna make sure. But the
Speaker 5: other the other woman who's in it basically plays her
Speaker 5: job in the movie for absolutely no reason, is a
Speaker 5: clown for children's birthday parties. So every now and then
Speaker 5: she comes back from work or she's going to work
Speaker 5: and she's dressed up as a clown. I don't know,
Speaker 5: but it's actually quite it's quite decent for what it is.
Speaker 5: I like that one. I'll give it. I give it
Speaker 5: a pretty high readon. That's like, that's the only one
Speaker 5: those that exist as far as known. Same thing with
Speaker 5: the Hong Kong Chinatown.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you got this one. Eddie wants to know
Speaker 2: if you've got Dragons Layer Dragons.
Speaker 5: Let you mean those are the games, right? So Laser
Speaker 5: just also made games, so they made like early computer
Speaker 5: video games. I have gotten them and I have sold
Speaker 5: them all because I don't really play any video games,
Speaker 5: and anytime I get a video game one, it just
Speaker 5: goes right out. So I have gotten it twice actually,
Speaker 5: and I have sold it both times.
Speaker 2: I feel like I want to track down a copy
Speaker 2: just to have for the Don Bluth collection. Is there? Wait?
Speaker 5: Did is there? He animates something over.
Speaker 2: That he did? Yeah, he did most of the In fact,
Speaker 2: I think he did like all of the animation, or
Speaker 2: his studio did something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, they exist. They're really expensive now of course,
Speaker 5: some of those games sell for about a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Never mind, I don't need to find it.
Speaker 5: Think. I think the dragons Layer one goes like more
Speaker 5: than two hundred dish. I don't know, but I haven't
Speaker 5: sawd him in a long time.
Speaker 2: All right, not as bad, but still bad. Okay, erotic thrillers?
Speaker 2: Why why is the laser disc era so important? And
Speaker 2: tell us about it? Because gosh this we have talked
Speaker 2: about erotic thrillers on laser discs for countless hours together.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Sorry, I'm gonna skip some stuff. I had a
Speaker 5: whole thing, but I am going too long, so let
Speaker 5: me really get going. Okay. So yeah, so like erotic
Speaker 5: thrillers for the DTV market, they really started nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: with Night Eyes. And Night Eyes is directed by jag Mundra,
Speaker 5: who you might recognize from Hacker Lantern and he comes
Speaker 5: up with this movie. And what's important is it has
Speaker 5: Andrew Stevens and Tanya Roberts, who wasn't that seventies show
Speaker 5: I think, right? Yeah, yeah, so this is the first one.
Speaker 5: This thing is made for like a million bucks and
Speaker 5: makes like thirty million dollars, never gets a theatrical release.
Speaker 5: It just makes thirty million dollars selling VHS's laser disc
Speaker 5: rentals pay per views, and so it storre starts a rush,
Speaker 5: and then like a year later after that made someone
Speaker 5: I think it's a year youg and a half later
Speaker 5: they basically make the exact same movie, call it Night
Speaker 5: Eyes two. But now we have Shannon Tweed, and I
Speaker 5: mean Shannon Tweet is in a few movies before this,
Speaker 5: but now we have Shannon Tweed doing this, and then
Speaker 5: if that's not good enough, they'll just make it again
Speaker 5: Night Eyes three, and now it's Tweed and her sister.
Speaker 5: Her sister plays the other one, Tracy Tweed, and this
Speaker 5: is and Andrew Stevens starts directing these. So now Andrew
Speaker 5: Stevens directs this, and then a few years later, try
Speaker 5: one last time. We have Night Eyes four. I only
Speaker 5: have this Singapore release which is slightly cut, but whatever,
Speaker 5: and they do it one more time. And if you think,
Speaker 5: oh this Andrew Stevens guy, he is like a B actor.
Speaker 5: He becomes a bit of a B director and a producer.
Speaker 5: But then he gets involved in I'm going to say
Speaker 5: his name wrong something gallery or gallery or whatever. But
Speaker 5: he ended up working with this company that sort of
Speaker 5: makes vanity projects in Hollywood, like The Whole Nine Yards.
Speaker 5: Do you remember that that's basically a Hollywood vanity project
Speaker 5: that he helped produce. And his mom was a famous
Speaker 5: be actress as well, so she's around for a long time.
Speaker 5: So anyways, he's sort of a peripheral Hollywood player and
Speaker 5: he wrote a book about the business of making movies,
Speaker 5: and he still like gives lectures about making money in
Speaker 5: Hollywood and all this stuff. But he's one of those
Speaker 5: guys that really cashed in on the whole thing. And
Speaker 5: he's fine. He's an okay actor. But I al would say,
Speaker 5: if you were going to get started, Night Eyes is
Speaker 5: a pretty good way to get started. It basically like
Speaker 5: it's super simple. It has all the tropes, but like
Speaker 5: Andrew Stevens runs a company that does security systems, he
Speaker 5: sets one up for a rich guy. The rich guy
Speaker 5: has a hot wife, and then he ends up sleeping
Speaker 5: with the hot wife. And it's the same movie.
Speaker 2: Every single time, as one does.
Speaker 5: But there's a lot of there's a lot of interesting
Speaker 5: things that are happening within it, but it's the same movie.
Speaker 5: And then of course you have Shannon tweeted there's a
Speaker 5: whole ton of these. Uh, and this one I really
Speaker 5: like a lot called Scorned and Scorned. Basically Shannon Tweed's
Speaker 5: husband commits suicide because his boss is a jerk. So
Speaker 5: she becomes like the nanny for that family and very
Speaker 5: hand that Rocks the Cradle style. At first, she seduces
Speaker 5: them and then tries to kill them all. So, if
Speaker 5: you liked Hand the Rock the Cradle, but you really
Speaker 5: wanted more sex boom, Scorned hand it Yeah, yeah, Hand
Speaker 5: the Rock.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 5: And then if you thought it was good the first time,
Speaker 5: I don't worry. They made it again Scorned too. It's
Speaker 5: at this time. Uh, this time it's a professor and
Speaker 5: as a student, But it's basically the same movie and
Speaker 5: they're both actually quite good. Another weird Laser Disc only
Speaker 5: thing is this movie Crush Crush. So the Crush is
Speaker 5: Lisia Silverstone and Oh Carrie Always. And the thing that
Speaker 5: makes this only available on laser disc is it says
Speaker 5: from the moment the fourteen year old Darien met Nick
Speaker 5: Well in the movie, they say her name all the time.
Speaker 5: It's Darien, Darry and Dari and Darien Well. She was
Speaker 5: quite upset about this, and she sued them and said,
Speaker 5: you don't have the rights to use my name in
Speaker 5: this because based on a true story, and she won.
Speaker 5: So every release after this Laser disc her name is
Speaker 5: Adrian And all they did is dub over Darien with Adrian.
Speaker 5: It doesn't really change the movie, does it. But it's
Speaker 5: kind of interesting interesting. And then if you really want
Speaker 5: to get into the the erotic earlier, there's there's really
Speaker 5: only one person to look at. Like I say, you
Speaker 5: watch a little tweet, you watch night Eyes, and then
Speaker 5: almost nothing else matters. You just want to Gregory Dark
Speaker 5: because what Gregory Dark does fucking fucks like he is.
Speaker 5: He is the Kubrick of these and to an extent
Speaker 5: that is so impressive and you like can't even imagine it.
Speaker 5: So he was bumming around La he likes, shoots some
Speaker 5: music videos here and there. He gets a job editing
Speaker 5: a sort of a documentary about porn, and he's like,
Speaker 5: what is this? I could do better? And he starts.
Speaker 5: He makes a few movies here, he makes a few
Speaker 5: movies there. He's getting better. His early ones are okay,
Speaker 5: and then he comes across and he makes Secret Games.
Speaker 5: And Secret Games is Jade. It's Jade, except the woman
Speaker 5: is really enjoying it. So basically like this woman she's
Speaker 5: a board housewife and she decides to become a high
Speaker 5: class call girl and then all this stuff or whatever ensues.
Speaker 5: What's also kind of amazing is her husband is Billy Drago,
Speaker 5: if you like a little b movie reference. He is
Speaker 5: very much a dick in this movie. But that movie
Speaker 5: is great. And what great Dark does so much better
Speaker 5: than everybody else is he really leans in to the
Speaker 5: erotic part of the erotic thriller without just making it
Speaker 5: like Paul Thomas about the sex scenes. So he takes
Speaker 5: these plots that are like very film noirri or very
Speaker 5: much like a Hollywood movie, and then he really ups
Speaker 5: the sex and he films it in a way that
Speaker 5: is like at least heteronormatively, like visually pleasurable, Like it's
Speaker 5: meant to look good. It's not like it's not meant
Speaker 5: to be fumbling or it's not meant to be like
Speaker 5: Henry in June when like you know, they go to
Speaker 5: the bordella and just sort of like this is this
Speaker 5: does not work, none of his themes A I sort
Speaker 5: of liked that they lean in and they go for it,
Speaker 5: and then of course after he makes the first one,
Speaker 5: you gotta do it again. It's up. This time you
Speaker 5: switch it and now instead of the woman, it's the
Speaker 5: man who's an artist, and he has to go investigate
Speaker 5: a bordella to see what it would be like. And then,
Speaker 5: just because you know worth the first time, let's just
Speaker 5: remake the first one and call it three. So this
Speaker 5: is a kind of a trope for then all of it,
Speaker 5: and then and then after that he makes a pair
Speaker 5: of really good ones. Mirror Images is great. It's really great.
Speaker 5: It's basically like, you know, these two sisters. They're twins,
Speaker 5: ones like frigid and one sort of wild, and then
Speaker 5: one one's married to a senator I think, and the
Speaker 5: other is just sort of like she's like a rock star.
Speaker 5: And then they get into all sorts of shenanigans. But
Speaker 5: it's actually played by two different people. In this original one,
Speaker 5: Julie Strain is in it. And then of course that
Speaker 5: word works so well. Then remade it again, but this time,
Speaker 5: and this is where he really nails it. He remakes
Speaker 5: it with my absolute favorite erotic thriller actor, Shannon Worry.
Speaker 5: She she's like brings everything that he does to the
Speaker 5: end degree nice. So while a lot of the other actresses,
Speaker 5: like you know, they might have been nude models or
Speaker 5: penthouse playmates or somewhat actors or whatever, they never could
Speaker 5: really act act They were like decent, but they're like
Speaker 5: a little stilted, kind of like I think Tweeds a
Speaker 5: little stilted. Shannon Worry came from off Broadway, classically trained background.
Speaker 5: She's in like some bad Cigall movie or a couple
Speaker 5: other things, bumming around, and then ends up in his movies.
Speaker 5: And she is great, Like, she's so great. I don't
Speaker 5: really do this often, but I ordered an autograph of her.
Speaker 5: She's also in Me, Myself and Irene, and I got
Speaker 5: her an autograph of her just because I think she's
Speaker 5: awesome and she really brings it to the degree. And
Speaker 5: then this all is really taken to the best. So
Speaker 5: if you're into these erotic thrillers and you're enjoying it
Speaker 5: and you're like, oh, this Gregory Darko guy's cool, and
Speaker 5: this Shannon Worry is interesting, this is the movie to
Speaker 5: see called Animal Instincts, and Animal Instincts puts it all together.
Speaker 5: In the perfect movie. You got this woman who whose
Speaker 5: husband is a cop, and she's bored and he's like
Speaker 5: only soda so interested in her, and they decide to
Speaker 5: place a personal ad for men or people to come
Speaker 5: over and have sex with her while he watches on
Speaker 5: a closed circuit camera, and he really gets off on this,
Speaker 5: and then the relationship blossoms and they love each other
Speaker 5: even more. But then some other people, nefarious people, find
Speaker 5: out about the whole scheme and will it bring him down?
Speaker 5: And will it won't? For this movie great, this is
Speaker 5: like this is another one that's like a real five
Speaker 5: star movie from me. And one of the crazy things
Speaker 5: about why this is a five star movie is not
Speaker 5: only was it directed by Great Darko, it was shot
Speaker 5: by Wally Fister, who went on to shoot most of
Speaker 5: Nolan's movies until they had a falling out. So this
Speaker 5: is where Wally Fister got to start, is he got
Speaker 5: to start making these erotic thrillers and Animal Instincts. Animal
Speaker 5: Instincts was cut so like the negative was cut. It
Speaker 5: was released in Germany and Japan on screen. So and
Speaker 5: then they remake it again, of course, and they remake
Speaker 5: it again and this time she's on her own and
Speaker 5: it's basically the same movie, but it's almost just as
Speaker 5: good and then they make it a third time, but no,
Speaker 5: Shannon worry. And this is at the end of Greg
Speaker 5: darktor A's aroundic thriller career. And this is an angry,
Speaker 5: angry movie about like how all of his life has
Speaker 5: been a waste and there's like a blind man who
Speaker 5: can actually see and how this whole thing is a farce.
Speaker 5: It's basically like Greg Darko yelling at everybody, saying, like
Speaker 5: you all a bunch of posers. I don't like you,
Speaker 5: and why do you even buy my movies? And they're
Speaker 5: gonna make these again. Yeah, And that's the end of
Speaker 5: his ironic thrillers. So that, I mean, I have more
Speaker 5: things that I could share, but that's like a decent start,
Speaker 5: and feel free to interrupt and go from there.
Speaker 2: Well, the other thing I said we were going to
Speaker 2: talk about later is something that you helped me with
Speaker 2: actually is a players for anybody interested in laser discs.
Speaker 2: In his twenty twenty six what do we do about
Speaker 2: players because obviously we're not manufacturing brand new players every year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no more players. The last actually players were
Speaker 5: made and around two thousand and nine because they were
Speaker 5: combo players for a little while and Pioneer service them
Speaker 5: for a little after that. But yeah, getting players nowadays
Speaker 5: is tricky. So certain parts of the players are easy
Speaker 5: to fix. There's a bunch of rubber bands in them
Speaker 5: that you can replace. There's some things called a grip
Speaker 5: rain that you can replace. The laser, if it dies
Speaker 5: is pretty much dead, and then there are some of
Speaker 5: the gears that you can grease up and get back
Speaker 5: to working. You know, it's mostly a mechanical mechanism, and
Speaker 5: then it's the laser, so you know, people can fix them. Honestly,
Speaker 5: most of the time the lasers don't die, so you
Speaker 5: can get them fixed. Now if you live in a
Speaker 5: big city like New York or LA or Chicago, you
Speaker 5: can usually find them within driving distance on Facebook marketplace list.
Speaker 5: You know, really, for what a starter is going to do,
Speaker 5: any laser dis player that works is great. The funny
Speaker 5: thing is you go up and up and up in
Speaker 5: laser discs players, it gets incredibly expensive. And what you're
Speaker 5: looking for is your signal to noise ratio. Because you remember,
Speaker 5: you have an analog format, so you're not using any
Speaker 5: digital outs, and the low end players, the signal to
Speaker 5: noise ratio will be something like fifty seven fifty eight
Speaker 5: TB And what that really means is how much you
Speaker 5: signally going to get before your blacks become a mess.
Speaker 5: And fifty seven fifty eight is like pretty low. It's
Speaker 5: about as low as it gets. Most of them are
Speaker 5: in the sixties. And then when you get to the
Speaker 5: upper upper end ones like when the guy's talking about
Speaker 5: the news players, which is all that I use because
Speaker 5: I'm crazy. You have to get those from Japan. You
Speaker 5: have to be really careful how they come in, and
Speaker 5: then you have to you know, you have to get
Speaker 5: them worked on, then tweaked, and then you might get
Speaker 5: about seventy four seventy five dB signal the noise ratio.
Speaker 5: And when you do that and you put it through
Speaker 5: a nice scaler and you put it through a nice
Speaker 5: projector and you get a decent image, it's not terrible.
Speaker 2: No So can't find them really, especially not brand new.
Speaker 5: I mean you can, you can, you can, You're not
Speaker 5: in brand new, but you can get them places. But
Speaker 5: when you buy them on eBay, for the most part,
Speaker 5: people stick it in a box and they send it
Speaker 5: to you and it's they always come broken. It's really, really,
Speaker 5: really hard to ship a Lasers player. If you're gonna
Speaker 5: ship a Layers player, you buy an eBay, you gotta
Speaker 5: tell them I need you to put it in a box,
Speaker 5: and I need you to put a bunch of pmies
Speaker 5: in a box. Put it in that box, put more
Speaker 5: fomis in that box, make it super tight. Then take
Speaker 5: that box, wrap it in bubble wrap, put a bunch
Speaker 5: of homies in another box, put that box in a box,
Speaker 5: and then send it to me. And that's really the
Speaker 5: only way they'll survive.
Speaker 2: And if somebody is going after one. What is the
Speaker 2: expected price to pay in twenty twenty six for a
Speaker 2: natury level pleasure displayer?
Speaker 5: I think the more or less the cheapest ones you're
Speaker 5: going to get that work about one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 5: I think if you want something like that's a little
Speaker 5: more medium, I would expect to pay about two hundred
Speaker 5: fifty dollars. You don't actually need an s video out.
Speaker 5: The best thing to do is to use the yellow
Speaker 5: the composite out and then put it through anything else,
Speaker 5: any modern system, because because again you have an analog
Speaker 5: format and a composite is going to send out two
Speaker 5: things illuminance and chrominans. The Y and C, and so
Speaker 5: you need a comb filter that separates out that yn
Speaker 5: C S video does it in the player, but the
Speaker 5: player is thirty five years old. Anything that you have
Speaker 5: now is going to have a better comb filter than
Speaker 5: that thirty five year old player. And if you get
Speaker 5: some really fancy things, and actually if you get a
Speaker 5: receiver from around twenty ten twenty eleven, those are the
Speaker 5: best comebe filters around and you can get those really
Speaker 5: really cheap, which see what I use for most.
Speaker 2: Of my stuff, And you smell laser discs quite a lot,
Speaker 2: so I.
Speaker 5: Don't The cell is like, is like a little bit
Speaker 5: nebulous because what I really do is I just drop
Speaker 5: them off in Kansas near you, and my brother takes
Speaker 5: care of all of it. But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 5: do privately sell here and there, but I haven't privately
Speaker 5: sold much in years. Most of my really high value
Speaker 5: stuff is gone that I have doubles of, so that's
Speaker 5: he's just like selling the chum. He did sell a
Speaker 5: Friday the thirteenth, three this last week for like one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty bucks, so that's not bad.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we talked a couple of the exclusives earlier.
Speaker 2: What are some of the more well known things that
Speaker 2: are stuck on laser disc. I know, the one that
Speaker 2: I was going to bring up is the original scream.
Speaker 2: The only way to see that uncut is still on
Speaker 2: laser disc.
Speaker 5: Yes, Screams on laser discs, I mean, and more and more.
Speaker 5: I don't actually quite know what it's like laser disc
Speaker 5: exclusive as far as like features and whatnot. I mean,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of commentaries that didn't get poured over
Speaker 5: for various reasons, like I think even like I was
Speaker 5: saying the Sixth Day, But there's also The Sixth Man,
Speaker 5: which I think it's like a basketball comedy. Ye, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: and it had an exclusive commentary.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Robert wants to know, in regards to shipping, how
Speaker 2: many discs do you have they get destroyed due to
Speaker 2: poor shipping.
Speaker 5: I've had a few. I did have Trauma's Mother get
Speaker 5: destroyed and shipping, and it took me about six years
Speaker 5: to find another copy.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was like ten times a price. It
Speaker 5: happened sometimes. Honestly, it doesn't happen a ton since I
Speaker 5: stopped getting mailed to my house. The ups people that
Speaker 5: hold it for me are lovely and they're my friends,
Speaker 5: and they seem to keep it very nice, so I
Speaker 5: go there.
Speaker 2: Nice anymore. Oh yeah, Patty boy, I think somebody else
Speaker 2: would ask about this. The Double oh seven canceled audio
Speaker 2: commentary at Laser disc.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have all those. Those are all in the Criterion.
Speaker 5: So if you're looking for the three Double oh seven commentaries.
Speaker 5: They released the lasers just twice. It's like, I don't
Speaker 5: remember the adapt number. Sixty nine, seventy and seventy one
Speaker 5: are the spine numbers, and they also release them with
Speaker 5: an A, so it's like sixty nine A, seventy A,
Speaker 5: seventy one A. All the a's have no commentary. All
Speaker 5: the non a's are gatefold and they do have the commentaries.
Speaker 2: Interesting. And then Roger Rabbit, who framed Roger Rabbit, the
Speaker 2: original Natty animated version, is there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I have that, But I also have the
Speaker 5: best of Roger Rabbit animations. These are the three original shorts.
Speaker 5: I think maybe these have come out eventually, but for
Speaker 5: the longest time, these are the only ways to see these.
Speaker 2: M that's super cool.
Speaker 5: And then if you want another really really inappropriate animation,
Speaker 5: just because I know you love animation, this is incredibly
Speaker 5: hard to find. Oh damn, I won't say what the
Speaker 5: I won't say what they call it in uh on
Speaker 5: the DVD. There is a DVD that released, but they
Speaker 5: don't use this title. They use a slightly different one.
Speaker 5: But this is a this is a very weird movie.
Speaker 5: And this is the only one I've actually come across.
Speaker 2: Of it actually street fight and the cover art is great.
Speaker 2: That is incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very cool. There's also a ton of people like, like,
Speaker 5: the other fun thing that you can find semi exclusive
Speaker 5: to laserness is be action movies. So I really like
Speaker 5: this movie. I watched it. So this is only released
Speaker 5: in Indonesia called Supervites, but it's made in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5: But it's by a Hong Kong director. He had just
Speaker 5: come over. He didn't even speak any English. And it's
Speaker 5: basically about this guy who wants to be an MMA
Speaker 5: fighter they don't really quite call it then, and he's
Speaker 5: got to like take on all these other super fighters
Speaker 5: and this like terrible guy that just tries to drug
Speaker 5: him all up. But that's what documentary is a documentary.
Speaker 5: It was mixed by a colleague of mine, so I
Speaker 5: the credits and I was like, holy shit, I know
Speaker 5: this guy. So I called him up and I was like, hey,
Speaker 5: I can't believe you met you mix like the best
Speaker 5: movie ever super Fights, and he's like, don't talk to
Speaker 5: me about that, and he like, he's like, it was
Speaker 5: a bad time in my life. I don't want to
Speaker 5: discuss it.
Speaker 2: So oops.
Speaker 5: But but fair enough. I mean he's actually he's a
Speaker 5: much more famous than I am, very famous tomes it,
Speaker 5: so he doesn't really want to talk about super Fights.
Speaker 2: Nice? Nice, all right? Any other any other laser just
Speaker 2: questions from the chat? Yeah, I can't think of much else.
Speaker 5: I'll dropped like two more things and I'll let you go.
Speaker 5: So Trauma also released a ton of stuff on laser disc.
Speaker 5: They did, so this is Troma's war. Their covers are
Speaker 5: awesome on laser disc.
Speaker 2: This is one I would not be surprised at all
Speaker 2: if this was a vinegar syndrome four K eventually.
Speaker 5: I hope. So this is a fun movie. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: that's a very cool one. And then people like to
Speaker 5: talk about like going complete on an actor or an actress.
Speaker 5: But the only way to go complete when Pamela Anderson
Speaker 5: is with naked souls from an Indonesian laser.
Speaker 2: Disc, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: And then if you really want to go deep and crazy,
Speaker 5: so many people might know some of these had come
Speaker 5: out recently, but our good friend Cynthia Rothrock had a
Speaker 5: bunch of random Hong Kong ones. So this is a
Speaker 5: Prince of the Sun, which I don't think has come
Speaker 5: out yet.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 5: And then Vinegar Syndrome released the Writing Wrongs cut of
Speaker 5: this is a weird cut called Bloody Mary Bloody Mary Killer,
Speaker 5: but they released it eventually on their Writing Wrongs. And
Speaker 5: then just because you're like, oh, Cynthia Rothrock, she's such
Speaker 5: a great action actor. I wonder what else she could do. Well,
Speaker 5: she was in an erotic thriller called Fatal Passion.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 5: So if you ever want to see Cynthia rock Rock
Speaker 5: acting an ironic thriller, you gotta find this Indonesian laser disc.
Speaker 5: So good luck.
Speaker 2: Take that to a can and get Cynthia to sign
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 5: I've never been I'd be interesting. I wonder if she would.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we get a question, what's your favorite obscure
Speaker 2: Hong Kong laser disc that you have?
Speaker 5: Well, look at that great question. This was made me
Speaker 5: my I wrote about this in the articles because I
Speaker 5: love this movie so much, called All of a Sudden.
Speaker 5: You can find it now nicely done on the Internet archive,
Speaker 5: but I didn't know that at the time. This movie
Speaker 5: is amazing. It's basically like who done it? So it
Speaker 5: starts off with like a naked woman who falls out
Speaker 5: of the sky and lands on the car, and then
Speaker 5: it's sort of a cop and an investigation and kidnapping
Speaker 5: and it's all the salmon lamb and it's is cat
Speaker 5: to be But this is like, this is like as
Speaker 5: the handover is happening. So this is like the end
Speaker 5: of a Cat three movie, the a Cat three era
Speaker 5: and the start of a brief period of a bunch
Speaker 5: of Cat two b things. But this one is great
Speaker 5: all of a Sudden, there's one hundred percent we're seeing
Speaker 5: And then I also really like this movie. But everybody
Speaker 5: knows this one, but I think this is called the
Speaker 5: Naked Killer. This is the Taiwanese Lazerness. And I don't
Speaker 5: know everything about what's cut, what's uncut, whatever you want
Speaker 5: to call it. But as far as I know, this
Speaker 5: is about as uncut as it gets. I mean, maybe
Speaker 5: there's other stuff. I'm not sure, but I'm telling you
Speaker 5: watching this is plenty of uncut for me. I love
Speaker 5: this movie as well.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't remember. Do we go over this?
Speaker 2: What what is the most valuable one that you owned?
Speaker 2: Do you know that? Answer? Off hand?
Speaker 5: I do know, but that's okay. I mean there there,
Speaker 5: there are there, there are like I own several that
Speaker 5: are worth over one thousand dollars Jesus, yeah.
Speaker 2: Any any titles off hand?
Speaker 5: I mean the Prince of Tide sells for a thousand books. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 5: the sixth the sixth Man, the sixth Day. I actually
Speaker 5: made a really nice There's a guy in Germany who
Speaker 5: collects erotic thrillers as well, and I actually sent him
Speaker 5: because I at first this is actually what I was
Speaker 5: gonna talk about. But this is called the Pamelet principle
Speaker 5: too seduce me. He couldn't find it at all, and
Speaker 5: I accidentainly found two on purpose maybe, and I used
Speaker 5: that in a bunch of other erotic thriller things to
Speaker 5: sort of bargain down the price. And I got that
Speaker 5: for I think a reasonable price, one hundreds of dollars
Speaker 5: and it's worth like two grand.
Speaker 2: Not too bad. I actually wanted to know the answer
Speaker 2: to this one too. Gary wants to Was there ever
Speaker 2: three D on laser disc?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So in Japan they released three D love Making,
Speaker 5: so you can watch with your three D glasses some
Speaker 5: really bad like blurry people do different positions to is
Speaker 5: you can learn. There's also an American roller Coaster three D,
Speaker 5: so you can put on your three D classes and
Speaker 5: be the POV of a roller coaster, which is the
Speaker 5: most nauseating thing. Uh. Those are the two that I
Speaker 5: know off of hand. No, there's another one. There's one
Speaker 5: movie I think too, but not Flesh for Frankenstein. But
Speaker 5: there's a couple. There might be one or two movies,
Speaker 5: but I know those dudes.
Speaker 2: It's that's so specific. Not Flesh for Sprinkenstein. All right,
Speaker 2: that's got that's interesting, the three D on laser disc.
Speaker 5: Huh all right, yeah, I'll say one more thing. What
Speaker 5: we're sort of in the Hong Kong thing. One one
Speaker 5: thing when I'm buying a lot of Hong Kong movies
Speaker 5: is uh, like things just pop up, so like, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever this is, it's just some movie. You look at
Speaker 5: the back it says it's Cat three, it's called Club Girl,
Speaker 5: and you're like, okay, what in the world is that?
Speaker 5: So you go on Letterbox, it doesn't have a review.
Speaker 5: You go on the IMDb, there is no review. You
Speaker 5: go on Hong Kong Movie Database and it'll say nothing.
Speaker 5: So this movie it's just here, and that's like it
Speaker 5: like whether that's good, whether that's bad. You know, I
Speaker 5: saw most of it. It's a little boring. They made
Speaker 5: a lot of these. So they made a lot of
Speaker 5: these dramas that are sort of about we would I
Speaker 5: guess they translated as club girl, but really what it
Speaker 5: is is sort of like you want to go to
Speaker 5: a bar or a nightclub and have a pretty lady
Speaker 5: interact with you, and so you sort of pay them
Speaker 5: for their time and you feed them drinks. So it's
Speaker 5: a drama about that. There's not a lot of but
Speaker 5: you know, there's a lot of those kind of styles.
Speaker 5: So you just find these things that just disappeared. They're gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Robert was pointing out something I've only fan of
Speaker 2: Laser disc a matter of degrees with Ari Gross and
Speaker 2: Tom Sizemore W T. Morgan. I'm sure you've got that one.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 5: I mean, I can look, I don't know. Fine, note
Speaker 5: off the top of my head. I only have so
Speaker 5: much in my head.
Speaker 2: That's true. Eddie wanted to know if you had DTS titles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have almost all of them. I'm missing I'm
Speaker 5: missing four, I.
Speaker 2: Believe, not too bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have all the U I have all the
Speaker 5: Japanese ones, and I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I'm
Speaker 5: missing four. I don't know if I have a matter
Speaker 5: of degrees. Although my internet's really or my US really
Speaker 5: slow because we've been streaming for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. On that note, Uh yeah, Paul had this question earlier.
Speaker 2: I forgot to ask. Did they do TV shows? Not
Speaker 2: TV movies, but TV shows?
Speaker 5: Yeah, tons of them, and in Japan they released some beautiful,
Speaker 5: beautiful box sets of them. So things like X Files
Speaker 5: exists Ers all on laser disc.
Speaker 2: Hell mhmm, the entirety of Ears on laser disc.
Speaker 5: Yep, we got the whole thing. And you know, remember
Speaker 5: how they did a live episode twice. You can get
Speaker 5: it on both sides. They have so friends, so if
Speaker 5: you want to talk about red things, they don't have friends.
Speaker 5: They release the pilot but only on Singapore laser disc,
Speaker 5: and I don't have that.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 5: I think it goes for a lot of money. There's
Speaker 5: also a lot of concerts on laser discs that never
Speaker 5: got anywhere else. Oh yeah, there's lots of There's lots
Speaker 5: of all kinds of weird in you know, Japan especially,
Speaker 5: they release these background videos so they'll be like airplanes
Speaker 5: flying or flowers, where there's also a substrata of these
Speaker 5: sort of like Japanese background these sort of maybe X
Speaker 5: rated things where they have incredibly young girls topless on
Speaker 5: a beach, like uncomfortably. I don't own any I owned one,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I'm a jujit. They're like fourteen
Speaker 5: years old, twelve. I'm not team fifteen years old running
Speaker 5: on top of us. They have to sell for a
Speaker 5: crazy amount of money. I don't get that one.
Speaker 2: So Ronnie is pointing out they can't have the entirety
Speaker 2: of VR if it was last release in two thousand
Speaker 2: and one, because went till two thousand and nine. Okay,
Speaker 2: we all went on for forever.
Speaker 5: They have it up to whatever they have the first
Speaker 5: sex six seasons I think, or seven seasons.
Speaker 2: Gees's that's so much even for R. That's crazy. Although
Speaker 2: that was the best era of R, not that it
Speaker 2: wasn't at least good after that, but man, those first
Speaker 2: six or seven years were great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of weird stuff that gets released
Speaker 5: on these on that format, because, like you remember, there's
Speaker 5: like seventy thousand releases, and like even if you take
Speaker 5: out the karaoke which is a solid ten thousand maybymore,
Speaker 5: there's still at like sixty thousand releases, and even if
Speaker 5: movies get repeated, like there's like fifty terminat or twos,
Speaker 5: but like you know, you're still talking like thirty plus
Speaker 5: thousand probably maybe a little less, maybe twenty eight thousand
Speaker 5: unique titles a all the movies. No, but there's twenty
Speaker 5: plus thousand movies. I would say, jeez, that is so much.
Speaker 2: That's incredible, and so many of them literally like we'll
Speaker 2: probably never make it past that as their best release.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's a lot of them that like
Speaker 5: we'll stay there. And that's not always bad, but it's
Speaker 5: like it's a little weird, Like it's weird that it
Speaker 5: was popular enough for somebody to spend the money to
Speaker 5: make these laser discs and forgotten enough twenty five years
Speaker 5: later and nobody will ever release it again.
Speaker 2: Right, I get it. Jeez. All right, well, I think
Speaker 2: that is probably the end of the line for tonight.
Speaker 2: This has been awesome. Laser discs has been a fun conversation.
Speaker 2: Lots people learning tonight, I think because this is not
Speaker 2: something that gets discussed all that often. I love that
Speaker 2: we've been able to get some of yours cataloged on
Speaker 2: some discs that I've worked on. Hope that we get
Speaker 2: some more. In fact, there are a couple more that
Speaker 2: we haven't even technically announced yet that we've already got
Speaker 2: scanned and ready to go, So we'll see that eventually.
Speaker 2: All right, any any last like fun facts, anything you
Speaker 2: want to throw out.
Speaker 5: No, just thank you for having me. I hope it
Speaker 5: was somewhat cojin at least, and somewhat interesting because I
Speaker 5: know it can get deep into esoteric or minutia and
Speaker 5: it's not exactly what even I feel like even within
Speaker 5: our community is like the so in vogue.
Speaker 2: Well that and it's just it's not covered. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's so like so many when you don't have the hardware,
Speaker 2: it's really hard to get new people into the fold.
Speaker 2: I think that's a big thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And also I was like, I've been obsessed with
Speaker 5: this for like a long time, and so like I've
Speaker 5: been thinking about it in one way or another for way, way, way, way,
Speaker 5: way too long.
Speaker 2: So well, everybody in the chat seems to love it.
Speaker 2: And remember when you see him next week in the chat,
Speaker 2: he is the Wonderment project. Say hi, eager to see it.
Speaker 2: Next week will be another fun one, Brian, can't wait
Speaker 2: to talk again soon, Talk soon, everybody. We'll see you
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