The Phantom, Hard Rain, Drop Zone and The Running Man coming to Blu-ray

Hades · 20-11-2009, 8:58 PM

The Running Man and Drop Zone for me

Blu-ray.com - Lionsgate Brings Four Classic Action Films to Blu-ray

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Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring the classic action films 'The Running Man', 'Hard Rain', 'Drop Zone', and 'The Phantom' to Blu-ray on February 9th. All four films, which feature performances by such action stars as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wesley Snipes, will be presented in 1080p AVC video accompanied by 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks.

Only extras for 'The Running Man' have been announced at this time. They include:

* Audio commentary with Director Paul Michael Glaser and Producer Tim Zinneman
* Audio commentary with Executive Producer Rob Cohen
* Two featurettes
* Theatrical trailer

rebel_scum · 20-11-2009, 9:07 PM

My Arnie collection is building up rightly. Nice one!

Geoff_D · 20-11-2009, 9:10 PM

Yessssss! Hard Rain! I love that flick.

I love the Running Man too, but in a late-night-on-ITV4 kinda way. Unless it looks stunning, I'll stick with the SE DVD.

IAN P · 20-11-2009, 9:19 PM

Not a bad list

Running Man is classic Arnie and Hard Rain is rather good, imported the Jap dvd just for the DTS many moons ago.

Wasn't cheap either.

VinnyP! · 20-11-2009, 9:37 PM

I'll give the phantom a miss but the other three will find their way onto my shelves.

Jim Morrison · 21-11-2009, 10:18 AM

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My Arnie collection is building up rightly. Nice one!

Aye, The Running Man is a must-have for the old Arnold collection. We've also got Last Action Hero to look forward to in the new year.

mentasm · 21-11-2009, 10:59 AM

I'm guessing Lionsgate means region locked though. Only want The Running Man.

HugoFJH · 21-11-2009, 1:27 PM

is Hard Rain about a security van heist? If Ive got the right film I really like it, although I havent seen it for agessssssss (Morgan Freeman too if I remember correctly and he is usally very watchable)

I love The Running Man too - brilliant film (although the other two are forgettable imo)

Hades · 21-11-2009, 1:31 PM

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Originally Posted by HugoFJH

is Hard Rain about a security van heist? If Ive got the right film I really like it, although I havent seen it for agessssssss (Morgan Freeman too if I remember correctly and he is usally very watchable)

That's the one

Rear speakers should get some use with all the rain

chambeaj · 09-02-2010, 10:00 AM

Unfortunately it looks like the relevant studio has done a hack job on the 'Drop Zone' Blu-ray release.

Blu-ray Review: Drop Zone | High-Def Digest

I confess to enjoying this film and previously owned on Laserdisc and DVD. Will give the Blu-ray a miss

chambeaj · 09-02-2010, 10:03 AM

Review
The Running Man

The Running Man – Blu-ray Disc Review | HighDefDiscNews

Jim Morrison · 09-02-2010, 10:14 AM

Very disappointed to find out that The Running Man is locked, particularly after Red Heat and the previous batch of Lionsgate titles were Region Free.

Geoff_D · 09-02-2010, 9:01 PM

Hard Rain turned up today. Yay! again.

philbam · 10-02-2010, 12:03 PM

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Hard Rain turned up today. Yay! again.

Mine did, too. Fantastic value at £9.99 from Playusa.com.

It has 7.1 DTS-HD master audio as well although it is locked to region A only.
Will certainly trump my region 2 dvd with dolby 2.0 stereo!!

Geoff_D · 10-02-2010, 5:03 PM

My joy has turned to sadness. I wasn't expecting Hard Rain to look or sound special - it doesn't in either respect - but it's got some real problems with the colour from about 50 minutes onwards. The colour saturation of anything above a certain level of brightness gets blown out into a horrible greeny yellow; if some smoke drifts across someone's face, they look all jaundiced until the smoke passes. I know it's an ultra-cheap catalogue release, but I'm very disappointed.

Thankfully I've still got the original R2 DVD with 5.1 audio.

philbam · 10-02-2010, 6:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Geoff_D

My joy has turned to sadness. I wasn't expecting Hard Rain to look or sound special - it doesn't in either respect - but it's got some real problems with the colour from about 50 minutes onwards. The colour saturation of anything above a certain level of brightness gets blown out into a horrible greeny yellow; if some smoke drifts across someone's face, they look all jaundiced until the smoke passes. I know it's an ultra-cheap catalogue release, but I'm very disappointed.

Thankfully I've still got the original R2 DVD with 5.1 audio.

Ah, but the region 2 dvd says on the box it is 5.1 but is actually only 2 channel.

The original region 1 dvd definitely has 5.1 sound, though.

Geoff_D · 10-02-2010, 8:30 PM

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Ah, but the region 2 dvd says on the box it is 5.1 but is actually only 2 channel.

The original region 1 dvd definitely has 5.1 sound, though.

Ah, but the R2 DVD that I played mere hours ago (to make sure that the blown out colour wasn't like that before - which it wasn't) definitely has a 5.1 track. It's the original Polygram disc with 4:3 and 2.35:1 versions on the same platter, and not the crippled Universal re-issue.

Geoff_D · 14-09-2010, 11:07 PM

UK version of Hard Rain is out soon from Universal. It's not carrying the 7.1 track from the US Lionsgate/Paramount BD, so I'm assuming that the video source will also be different. I hope it is, anyway...

Hard Rain [Blu-ray]: Amazon.co.uk: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mikael Saloman: DVD