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i am wondering why what seems like such nonsense is to be released by criterion, can anyone explain? i am very ignorant about this sort of genre.
what a bunch of sissies, this is supposed to be a gun club not a blasted singing society.
Cause these movies are easy to get the rights to... I wish there were Criterion versions of The Godfather, Scarface etc, but that will never happen...
shareyeah there may be some truth to that but I don't know if it is that simple. i can do without Scarface though. That movie is really terrible.
what a bunch of sissies, this is supposed to be a gun club not a blasted singing society.
Yeah, but even with such low liscensing costs Criterion probably could have done much better. Hell, "DOA" is in public domain, they could have gone with at least that and not this "Monsters and Madmen" crapbox.
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i'm glad some one agrees. thank you sir.
what a bunch of sissies, this is supposed to be a gun club not a blasted singing society.
I'm sure many share your views but don't care enough to voice their opinion on the matter. Unless you're a "Criterion Completist" a few dismal films out of many classics (Spartacus, Seven Samurai etc) should not be a cause for concern...
sharei actually disagree. the quality and importance of these things are sort of relative, are they not? i mean even a cursory glance at the IMDB top 250 will tell you that. i don't think that ease or inexpensiveness was the reason that criterion would release these. i just think that as film preservationists, it would be a flaw in judgment to turn your nose up at genre flicks. i think criterion was probably simply interested in giving the horror and sci-fi genres a little bit more love than they have, and selected four films that were a little bit of a cut above many of their contemporaries, to represent them. not to say those genres dont already have criterion releases, but the ratio is pretty heavily skewed. and understandably so. but at the end of the day, criterion's goal is essentially the preservation of film as an art form, and preservation of important films. who are we to tell them what is "important"?
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hear hear!
enough with this elitist treatment of genre movies! i think it's great that criterion is finally opening their eyes to the b-horror genre. my only complaint is that we have to shove over 30 bucks for these when other public domain releases are below 10.
there are too many so called "movie buffs" who in actuality only know about the limited range of foreign and classic films that they get from, say, only watching movies in the Criterion catalog. a true movie buff, in my opinion, goes all the way from French art house to American exploitation. in an ideal world these movies being released by Criterion will open a few closed-minds up to a range of cinema they might have otherwise missed.
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there are too many so called "movie buffs" who in actuality only know about the limited range of foreign and classic films that they get from, say, only watching movies in the Criterion catalog. a true movie buff, in my opinion, goes all the way from French art house to American exploitation. in an ideal world these movies being released by Criterion will open a few closed-minds up to a range of cinema they might have otherwise missed.
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you've said it all. I couldn't agree with you more.
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Yes, because that's what we all need. Another DVD set of The Godfather.
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