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Posted by ThePunisher on 05/20/07 16:43
kim wrote:
> "POD {ҿ}" <DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@DEADSPAM.COM> wrote in message
> news:Xns9935E7EB66987WeLovePOD@195.188.240.200...
>> Just looking at a website that just deals in Criterion titles, and it
>> took me back. I'm no big collector of their works, not being into
>> many foreign or art house films, but I do have Silence of the Lambs,
>> The Rock, Robocop and the Unbearable Likeness of Being.
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> I think Criterion's "RoboCop" sucks. The picture is letterboxed
> instead of anamorphic and the audio is feeble even by DD 2.0
> standards. I've had a budget VHS copy from Woolworths which played
> better though it wasn't the director's cut.
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> Also had the Fassbinder trilogy with pompous, irelevant political
> commentary and interview with worn out old bag of an actress nobody
> cares about.
> Even their seminal version of "Forbidden Planet"" has now been
> overtaken by the Warner Bros Special Edition though the deleted
> footage on Criterion's laserdisc is better quality.
>
> Jean Renoir's "Can-Can" is good though seriously lacking in extras
> and not available separately.
>
> (kim)
Agree, just because they were the first doesn't make them the best.
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ThePunisher
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