Query failed: connection to localhost:9312 failed (errno=111, msg=Connection refused).
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
But can you get that one on Bluray?
Which you never do, except when they’re on TV late at night and you’ve already missed the first 20 minutes, so you can annoy your partner by insisting on staying up to see the rest.
I really should clear out mine. It’s hard to part with things like Blade Runner or Apocalypse Now though, even if they are just at crappy DVD quality. (How the world changes… I did at least get rid of all my VHS.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
The BFI though? What films have they censored? Normally their attitude to preserving film is top drawer.
I was watching a 4K version of The Dambusters I bought off Amazon Prime Video the other night, and at the beginning it said "this is an old movie, the Dog was actually called that, don't get offended" in not so many words.
Don't get me wrong, it was racist at the time, it's racist now. It reflects what was considered OK in Britain in the 1940s and showing the film now, with a sensible educational disclaimer, does not for me endorse the use of the word in a modern context.
It's no loss to lose Little Britain, but it's a shame if genuinely good things are getting edited in a major way. Admittedly as a largely historically accurate film I guess The Dambusters is an extreme case, the Dog was really called that, his death is a part of the story, so I guess in some other contexts editing isn't as bad.
The famous scene of the Major in Fawlty Towers ("I took her to see India... at the oval...") is one of the finest satires of casual British racism (the Major correcting someone to a different racial slur, not for being racist) ever put on screen, editing it out tears the heart out of the episode, but I'd also have to concede, you could never film it today!
My main system is still playing CDs and isn't capable of streaming from the server.
I'm another person in the camp that believes I should be able to play the UK version with all the swearwords if I want and not be forced to listen to a sanitised version that wasn't what the artist made or wanted. If it hasn't been dropped already.
But I think it was something they had to get from, say, Paramount, Warners or Disney, and it had been "tailored to modern sensibilities" in some way and that wasn't pointed out to anyone.
Ironically, Disney probably would release a properly branched version of totally original, original with tarted up VFX, and special editions if physical media still sold well - it doesn't, so at best they would do it for D+
(I wish Peter Jackson would let Arrow remaster and release his first few films, but he never will.)
Personally I've kept all my DVD and bluray discs but binned the boxes. A few cd wallets easily keeps them safe and easy to access.
I would do the same with cds, except I don't want to because I like music more than I like films.
What I don't want to do is lumber my kids with the hassle of dealing with all my music when I'm dead and gone, but I haven't quite worked out how to do that yet. I inherited thousands of LPs and 7"s and dealing with them is a phenomenal PITA.
I should probably do this. DVD boxes are even more of a colossal pointless waste of space than CD jewel cases.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
DVDs and Blurays I have very few of these days.
I do share the concerns about digital media disappearing - with online stores getting shutdown and streaming providers making decisions seemingly at random it's going to become a bigger problem as time goes on. It's a bigger thing in gaming - there's plenty of dross that I don't care about, but the issue is even worse due to proprietary formats. Even something as beloved, mainstream and relatively-recently as Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii, 2010) is going to become difficult to play as it's never had a release. I'd love to see an HD/60FPS version but Nintendo can't be arsed, and most of us don't keep a stock of old consoles around that need extra cables and adapters to even plug in to a modern TV
There are genres I dip into listening to that would never justify a vinyl purchase. CDs are kind of like a red herring currently, you get them for about £2 online... but then... they just sit there.
I abandoned CD altogether and the desire to "own" some music dragged me back in to collect vinyl for the first time (I've always sort of loved the format) but going and buying piles of second hand CDs? Too far!!
With films, they can pry my copies of my favourites (Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, V for Vendetta, Christopher Nolan films) out of my dead hands... but do I need Blu Rays of the Charlie's Angels movies...?