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No, not something from Waco, or a bunch of Trekkers, but the amount of Cult films and TV that are now making their way to DVD shelves everywhere.
Looking at the past few months and at the line up for the months to come, it seems that every publisher has been hunting through their back catalogue for the old films and slices of television that can be resurrected for the new DVD format. This week alone has seen the release of the fantasy romance that is Ladyhawke. Starring a young Mathew Broderick, Michelle Pfiffer and Rutger Huer, the film consists of magic, fights and direly matched music from Tangerine Dream. It's still worth watching and I may even possibly buy it at some point, but it begs the question; are these things really worth putting on a DVD?
More TV series are appearing, The two Incredible Hulk TV movies, More Avengers, perhaps even Saphire and Steel at some point, all coming out of the woodwork, sometimes not even having time for a dusting down or cleaning up before being plonked on the new digital format. I mean, if you're going to put an 80's series on DVD, at least you could clean the picture and find some nice little interviews with the stars, let alone getting the damn programmes in the right order instead of chopping and changing between series.
So, should the labels be shot or saluted for these minor classics and questionable cult movies? Well, I suppose at least we always have the choice of buying them or not...
Looking at the past few months and at the line up for the months to come, it seems that every publisher has been hunting through their back catalogue for the old films and slices of television that can be resurrected for the new DVD format. This week alone has seen the release of the fantasy romance that is Ladyhawke. Starring a young Mathew Broderick, Michelle Pfiffer and Rutger Huer, the film consists of magic, fights and direly matched music from Tangerine Dream. It's still worth watching and I may even possibly buy it at some point, but it begs the question; are these things really worth putting on a DVD?
More TV series are appearing, The two Incredible Hulk TV movies, More Avengers, perhaps even Saphire and Steel at some point, all coming out of the woodwork, sometimes not even having time for a dusting down or cleaning up before being plonked on the new digital format. I mean, if you're going to put an 80's series on DVD, at least you could clean the picture and find some nice little interviews with the stars, let alone getting the damn programmes in the right order instead of chopping and changing between series.
So, should the labels be shot or saluted for these minor classics and questionable cult movies? Well, I suppose at least we always have the choice of buying them or not...
This reminds me
Star Trek; The Motion Picture Directors cut is out on April 8th
whoo hoo!
Star Trek; The Motion Picture Directors cut is out on April 8th
whoo hoo!
Why would Batman try and kill Superman?
I can understand perhaps why the Alien would want to kill the Predator... after all, they're both killing machines anyway.
But what could Batman or Superman possibly do to upset eachother?
"So... you wear a rubber suit now, Batman... what happened to wearing your pants on the outside?"
"I just think it looks gay."
"..."
I can understand perhaps why the Alien would want to kill the Predator... after all, they're both killing machines anyway.
But what could Batman or Superman possibly do to upset eachother?
"So... you wear a rubber suit now, Batman... what happened to wearing your pants on the outside?"
"I just think it looks gay."
"..."
pb wrote:
> Incredible Hulk TV movies
Even better, there's a new Hulk movie in the pre-production at the moment, presumably so it can be released after Spiderman causes a storm of publicity. Also it'll have Eric Bana (superb in Chopper) playing Bruce Banner and Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream) presumably as the love interest.
Then you have Batman: Year One and Batman Beyond (Plus two other Batman movies in the pipeline that look to have been cancelled - one's a Catwoman spinoff and the other's a batman vs Superman film) and a Fantastic Four film to boot. I know it's not explicity related to your post but they're all the products of 80's tv shows based on comics, which rocked.
> Incredible Hulk TV movies
Even better, there's a new Hulk movie in the pre-production at the moment, presumably so it can be released after Spiderman causes a storm of publicity. Also it'll have Eric Bana (superb in Chopper) playing Bruce Banner and Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream) presumably as the love interest.
Then you have Batman: Year One and Batman Beyond (Plus two other Batman movies in the pipeline that look to have been cancelled - one's a Catwoman spinoff and the other's a batman vs Superman film) and a Fantastic Four film to boot. I know it's not explicity related to your post but they're all the products of 80's tv shows based on comics, which rocked.
No, not something from Waco, or a bunch of Trekkers, but the amount of Cult films and TV that are now making their way to DVD shelves everywhere.
Looking at the past few months and at the line up for the months to come, it seems that every publisher has been hunting through their back catalogue for the old films and slices of television that can be resurrected for the new DVD format. This week alone has seen the release of the fantasy romance that is Ladyhawke. Starring a young Mathew Broderick, Michelle Pfiffer and Rutger Huer, the film consists of magic, fights and direly matched music from Tangerine Dream. It's still worth watching and I may even possibly buy it at some point, but it begs the question; are these things really worth putting on a DVD?
More TV series are appearing, The two Incredible Hulk TV movies, More Avengers, perhaps even Saphire and Steel at some point, all coming out of the woodwork, sometimes not even having time for a dusting down or cleaning up before being plonked on the new digital format. I mean, if you're going to put an 80's series on DVD, at least you could clean the picture and find some nice little interviews with the stars, let alone getting the damn programmes in the right order instead of chopping and changing between series.
So, should the labels be shot or saluted for these minor classics and questionable cult movies? Well, I suppose at least we always have the choice of buying them or not...
Looking at the past few months and at the line up for the months to come, it seems that every publisher has been hunting through their back catalogue for the old films and slices of television that can be resurrected for the new DVD format. This week alone has seen the release of the fantasy romance that is Ladyhawke. Starring a young Mathew Broderick, Michelle Pfiffer and Rutger Huer, the film consists of magic, fights and direly matched music from Tangerine Dream. It's still worth watching and I may even possibly buy it at some point, but it begs the question; are these things really worth putting on a DVD?
More TV series are appearing, The two Incredible Hulk TV movies, More Avengers, perhaps even Saphire and Steel at some point, all coming out of the woodwork, sometimes not even having time for a dusting down or cleaning up before being plonked on the new digital format. I mean, if you're going to put an 80's series on DVD, at least you could clean the picture and find some nice little interviews with the stars, let alone getting the damn programmes in the right order instead of chopping and changing between series.
So, should the labels be shot or saluted for these minor classics and questionable cult movies? Well, I suppose at least we always have the choice of buying them or not...