Posted by ThePunisher on 05/20/07 17:38

POD {ҿ�} wrote:
> "ThePunisher" <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> once tried to test me. I ate
> their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> The point is, without Criterion, none of the big studios would have
> bothered with extras. True there discs now don't stand up against
> modern anamorphic releases, but remember, these releases predated
> widescreen TVs.

The dvd ones didn't.

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ThePunisher

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