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does anyone know why criterion is wasting its time with this crap?

what a bunch of sissies, this is supposed to be a gun club not a blasted singing society.

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I don't know. I think they've lost their minds.

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This is actually a very decent film. Corridors of Blood is even better.

Alas First Man Into Space and Atomic Submarine are absolute rubbish.

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because there are jokers like us who will fall for fancy packaging and so-called "extras" in the form of interviews with people we've never even heard of.

Corridors of Blood was tha bomb, tho. that was a f-ed up movie!

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I think Criterion is going slightly mad, but I'm glad.

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Not every Criterion release has to be on the level of Bergman or Kurosawa. Boris Karloff occupies an important place in film history, and Criterion acknowledges that. This film is entertaining even if it's not lofty. Besides, anyone who thinks this is "crap" is free not to rent or buy it.

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I love movies issued by The Criterion Collection, but I grew up watching and loving horror and sci-fi films from the 50's to 70's, that would typically be thrown on late-night TV on the weekends. I for one loved the Monsters and Madmen collection, as it had four decent midnite movies from that period I hadn't seen before. My son's 11 now, but this, The Blob and Fiend Without a Face were ways I introduced the Criterion Collection to him, and he loved those, and now has tried out more artsy films that are more typically associated with Criterion--Onibaba and House. If you don't like the boxed set, you don't have to buy it. Stop putting things down just because you don't like them. Maybe the problem is you and not the films.

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Amen, brother. There's a lot of really good, sometimes excellent vintage films that, IMO, deserve the Criterion treatment; a nice cleanup and an interesting commentary track. Sometimes I wish I could do more toward that effort.

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Me as well! I would love to have the training and work in film preservation and restoration. I would love to devote the rest of my life to that end. I love cinema, virtually all genres and eras, from 1895 (and even primordial efforts before that)-present, and from all over the world, though admittedly 20's-60's cinema I find most enticing.

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We totally agree! I'd love to be the guy who finds some long lost print of a Lon Chaney classic in a remote Russian film vault, or (more realistically) provides a commentary track for one of my favorite 40's horror films. I'm pretty sure I could do it, and I'd only ask for a nice lunch in return!

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Same boat, different paddle! =)

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