Posted by ThePunisher on 05/20/07 23:05

POD {ҿ�} wrote:
> "ThePunisher" <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> once tried to test me. I ate
> their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Most of them did. Remember 16:9 didn't happen in the US until HDTV
> came about.

And? here, in the UK widescreen TVs were on sale before dvds were.

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