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Please explain how True Lies and the Abyss completely skipped a Blu-Ray release?
- Thread starter Liquidsnake
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True Lies is unquestionably James Cameron's best film, and it KILLS me that I can't enjoy the exploits of the Crimson Jihad whenever I so desire.
I wonder if True Lies being "remake" of french movie has something to do with it.
There is 1080p rip from D-Theater tape.
I'd prefer if they had both versions of Abyss when they finally get around to putting it on Bluray.
Saw the extended edition on TV ages ago and personally preferred the theatrical release. The extra cold war tension stuff was fine, but the giant tidal wave seemed kinda hokey.
Saw the extended edition on TV ages ago and personally preferred the theatrical release. The extra cold war tension stuff was fine, but the giant tidal wave seemed kinda hokey.
Nope.
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got him back to the surface to reunite him with the others
If you get approval rights for home release stuff they should make you have a clause to not unreasonably block or be unavailable to approve. Wouldn't even take him that long
Yep I call that the Suddenly Over Ending.
I liked the Special Edition better. Just like I did with Batman V Superman. ;)
It's pretty weird, it's not like there aren't good prints they can remaster and release. I saw a 70mm print of the Abyss earlier this year and it looked gorgeous.
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Seriously, At this point I would take a Studio Canal version ripped from broadcast television lol.
That's because for the last eight years we have had two Jurassic Park movies and zero Avatar movies.
Yes, Avatar really is nine years old.
Haha... whaaaat?
The Abyss is far from terrible. It's a monumental acheivement. You can't avoid having extreme feelings while watching that movie. Aliens can be reduced to space marines surrounded by an army of perfect killing organisms and Titanic was an ironically tragic first date. The Abyss on the other hand is really nuanced -- tough guys doing maybe the most difficult job on the plant that show a wide range of sensitivity, pitted against a seal team 6-esque group of killers that are liberating a nuclear weapon to decimate suspected aliens, and wipe out what would be our first contact, all the while an estranged couple work out their feelings for each other in the most extreme way possible -- their trust in each other is tested in a way that still crushes me whenever I think about it for too long... man, that movie has it all... except an HD release!
Has he said why he needs to scrub the grain from all of his movies?
It was a big problem back then too. I remember protests about it. This was before social media obviously.
What's the difference between this and those who saw True Lies in the theatre, in which the film resolution is higher than 1080p comparatively speaking?
Been a while since I seen it, other than the terrorists being middle eastern what else did It have? Or was it more of presentation of the terrorist group?
They're a cartoonish portrayal of middle eastern terrorists.
It should be both versions. Anything else is a bad idea, IMO. I haven't watched it in decades, but there's no reason they can't make both available.
Exactly. Seamless branching allowed both cuts of Aliens on the same disc, so this should be no different.
The poor terrorists I guess... but wasn't True Lies more a comedy anyway?
Hmm, aren't terrorists of any nationality pretty much cartoonish in these kinds of movies? Whether it be True Lies, Die Hard, The Rock, Con Air, Rush Hour, Hot Fuzz, Speed, the entire F&F franchise, etc. This is a movie in which Arnie literally launches a terrorist stuck to a missile and says "You're fired" prior to pushing the button.
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The novelization was written by Orson Scott Card (in his days when he was one of the top sci-fi novelists in the world and not crazy). It was outstanding as far as novelizations go (Cameron actually wrote a huge intro to the book where he was adamant that it be a novel and not a novelization) but definitely not better than the movie IMO.
Yeah I actually looked it up earlier on the off chance I was wrong (although it being my fave movie growing up I was pretty sure) and saw that about Card. Quite the coup for an adaptation but I'll stick to the movie. One of my all time favorite Ed Harris roles
Off topic I recall back in the 90's people said the liquid they used for him to deep dive was real and the rat was actually put in it. I think they said as much on the BTS videos? Seems crazy so probably not true but I always thought it was neat that the rumour floated around. A very 90's type of thing (E television in their inception said the hover board in BTF was real too lol)