Fine podcast guys.
Mostly agree, er apart from Mark "Shogun Assassin" Botwright
. I know they pick on you Mark, but it always makes for a very funny show.
Think it was Phil with the 3D exclusive Blu Ray deals as the worst thing this year? Yeah 100% agree. What a joke. For a viewing medium which needs people to buy; (another) TV, Blu Ray player, maybe more glasses than being thrown into the deal and the few retail 3D BR's is mind bogglingly mental!!
How much harder do they want to make it for themselves? It begs the question how much does Hollywood want you to watch 3D at home. Remember, they came up with the idea to try and get people into the cinemas again and not just to download the movies illegally. Same as to why HD DVD and Blu Ray was 'invented'.
But within what seemed like months, the TV companies were on the 3D bandwagon. I'm convinced Hollywood is gutted, and so they just don't care about the limited 3D Blu Rays. They get large sums of money for the deals, so why else should they care. I'd love to know how much Panasonic paid for Avatar.
But it can and will backfire. Sky is showing Avatar in 3D this Christmas, so anyone without a Panny TV can just watch and record it. NOt quite the same bit-rate of course, but you think anyone would care? It's Avatar in 3D without paying silly prices.
And of course you can still acquire pirated copies of ALL the 3D films. If you know where to look there are full rips to burn to a BD50.
So as a second choice of bad HD this year film wise, there is only one choice for me.
Predator Ultimate Hunter. Surely NOTHING can topple this pile of utter, contemptible, horse sh*t eating, rotating piece of plastic crap!! To borrow Mark Kermode's line,
Everyone involved should thoroughly ashamed of themselves!
Have to say, Toy Story 3 is just about my winner for new film, though Santa is bringing me Inception so we'll see. the Expendables was a great laugh, but could have been better.
Back catalog wise, I've newly purchased this year, but released 2008 I think,
Criterion's The Third Man which is brilliant but I wished they would stop region locking their films so that I dont have to go round to my region free BR player owing mate. But I enjoyed The Day The Earth Stood Still ( obviously 1951 version ) more. Treated with great affection it's quite incredible this was done by Fox. The same who have the aforementioned Predator. Go figure.
Psycho was also just brilliant, film, PQ and SQ wise
Anyways, I'm done. Great podcast as always guys, just stop picking on Mark. Poor bloke. But then again....Shogun Assassin!!!?