Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

JAWS on Blu-Ray tomorrow. I'll have trouble sleeping tonight.

Just in time for shark week. I wonder if that is coincidence?

[Kevy Baby]

No, they've had Shark Week planned for some time now.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

JAWS on Blu-Ray tomorrow. I'll have trouble sleeping tonight.

I have Jaws on VHS, laserdisc, DVD and some later-released uber-DVD. Please let me know whether the blu-ray is that much better and should be purchased. I like living long, but I'm really sick of having to buy the same beloved movies in format after format.

Sometimes the blu-ray is not really an improvement in picture quality, especially with older films.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I have Jaws on VHS, laserdisc, DVD and some later-released uber-DVD. Please let me know whether the blu-ray is that much better and should be purchased. I like living long, but I'm really sick of having to buy the same beloved movies in format after format.

Sometimes the blu-ray is not really an improvement in picture quality, especially with older films.

It's been lovingly restored for Universals 100th anniversary. Amazon just shipped my copy.

[flippyshark]

Trust me, the picture quality on the JAWS Blu-Ray is stunning and revelatory. There's no going back.

Also, the very interesting fan-made documentary The Shark Is Still Working is included (in standard definition, but exclusive to the Blu-Ray.)

The other extras are all ported over from previous releases, and they look it. But, the real news here is that JAWS has never looked this good before, perhaps ever.

Happily, original mono soundtrack is included and preferred. No revisionist CG monkey business either.

[innerSpaceman]

Yay! Thanks. Gonna need a bigger boat(load of money), but - though I swore to stop buying movies - this is going to be one of the exceptions!

[Kevy Baby]

That’s a Big Boulder, Indy: Steven Spielberg on the Imax Rerelease of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’

...“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the 1981 adventure film that introduced that globe-trotting archaeologist, will receive a one-week Imax release next month, Lucasfilm said on Tuesday.

And yes, it is being converted to Imax, not just being shown on a bigger screen.

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[lashbear]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Trust me, the picture quality on the JAWS Blu-Ray is stunning and revelatory. There's no going back.

Also, the very interesting fan-made documentary The Shark Is Still Working is included (in standard definition, but exclusive to the Blu-Ray.)

The other extras are all ported over from previous releases, and they look it. But, the real news here is that JAWS has never looked this good before, perhaps ever.

Happily, original mono soundtrack is included and preferred. No revisionist CG monkey business either.

Darn you!!! I had to order it. You twisted my arm, you devil.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

That’s a Big Boulder, Indy: Steven Spielberg on the Imax Rerelease of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’And yes, it is being converted to Imax, not just being shown on a bigger screen.

Article

Best part of the article...

Originally Posted by Steven Spielberg

When “E.T.” was reissued for the third time and I made some digital changes in the picture. I’m not doing that any more. I’ve resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I’m no longer a digital revisionist.

So Indy will still shoot first, just on a digitally enhanced print with re-engineered sound.

[innerSpaceman]

Then it will be interesting to note if they restore such things as the reflection of the cobra in the glass that separated H. Ford from the deadly snake.

If they don't, I call shenanigans on Spielberg's pledge.