Sony Releasing More Godzilla -- And Mothra -- Blu-rays!

[DannyBeane]

[Hybrid Gojira]

[Gman2887]

[MouthForWar]

Aside from the subs on a couple movies, I thought all the Sony BDs looked fine...

[Legion]

[jellydonut25]

I'm surprised so many people don't seem to know the drill by now.

We can't even get the new Hollywood film to get a print that looks viewable anywhere but a dark pit where no ambient light can penetrate. What makes people think anyone's going to do anything about catalog titles of foreign films?

[Dr Kain]

[Alpha OTS]

Currently watching the bluray of G2K with the commentary, and I just had to post about how happy I am with the transfer on this. Its much better than the dvd and a definite upgrade.

edit: Scratch that. In fact, that's the problem with what I'm seeing at the moment. I'm at the scene where G is coming ashore to combat the tanks and there's these scratch marks going down vertically on the right side of the screen. Is anyone else seeing this?

edit edit: Here's a pic. Forgive the flash.



That scratch moves, btw, and there's more than one of them, and while it doesn't look like much in the poor camera cap above, its very obvious while watching the film. All these "scratches" are on the right side of the picture and throughout the G vs military scene which is one of my favorite scenes. It seems to be gone after that. Very disappointed by this. Going to be looking for it in the Japanese version.

Edit edit edit: Finished watching the movie, and didn't see those scratches anywhere else except during the G vs military scene. Went back to those scenes and played with all my tv settings to make sure it wasn't some smoothing option creating an artifact out of a much smaller defect, but any changes I made only made the scratches more visible. Like I said, they're on the right side of the screen, and extend most of the vertical length. For the record, I'm watching the movie through my PS3.

Watching GMK now. Definitely a solid step up from the dvd although the picture overall is softer than I'd like. It could look a little crisper.

[Dr Kain]

Sounds like the exact same transfer as the Toho BD for GMK.

[Alpha OTS]

[RaymondBurr]

I think it was already reported that Best Buy has the three new BD double feature discs at prices lower than Amazon. Well, the prices were lowered again and the previous Sony discs included too. Some as low as $9.99! I picked up King Ghidorah/Mothra, GMK/Against MG, and Final Wars/SOS at my local Best Buy tonight.

All of the discs can be ordered at Best Buy's website too, free shipping at $35.

Godzilla 2000 10.99
Mothra Trilogy 11.99
GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA / GMK 10.99
Godzilla: Final Wars / Godzilla: Tokyo Sos 9.99
GODZILLA VS KING GHIDORAH / GODZILLA VS MOTHRA 9.99

I hadn't paid much attention to the pre-release info on the Sony discs--very pleasantly surprised that the Japanese track is provided for the Heisei movies!

Oh, my local Best Buy also had the Daimajin Trilogy Bluray and Gamera Heisei Trilogy for 9.99.

[william newell]

I gotta say, as far as the continuing "inaccurate subs on GMK" issue, the thing I find most frustrating is that the copy of said film which Sony rents out for festivals, conventions, what-have-you, has correct subs(done by Norman Englund, I believe)so I have to ask, how hard is it to check a copy of a film you already have in your catalouge and use it as the source for the subtitles? And for that matter, whatever happened to companies taking pride in the products they release? This isn't isolated to home video, but also seem's to be an emerging issue with a certain couple of companies known for their articulated figures. Personally, I think the tipping point for me may be the impending release of Legendary's Godzilla on Blu-Ray. If it's as dark as people are saying, I'm going to not only return it, but also refuse to buy any other item released if there are ANY QC issues mentioned, regardless of how bad I would like to own said item/film. To be honest though, instead of lagging sales resulting in better quality releases, most companies will probably assume that poor sales are a result no public interest and discontinue any future items. I guess it's a case of "damned if you do and damned if you don't" unless any of you have a better idea...

[Dai]

[MouthForWar]

Exactly, Dai. Then there's the other entitled G Fans who won't buy the LP disc because we didn't get he promised deleted scenes, they want Takarada's cameo put back, a commentary, an extended cut, etc. what those fans fail to realize is that they aren't going to put out another edition of the movie if this one doesn't sell well so they are actually hurting the chances of that happening. They will take the lack of sales as a lack of interest.

And how many times have we bought all these movies? On varying formats, on different editions, etc? You're telling me that the willingness to do that has suddenly changed? Just because there aren't enough features of the picture is a little dark? Please. I've bought most of these movies at least two or three times (VHS to DVD to blu ray, plus bootlegs of various films Japanese cuts before they were available here).

Besides, most of the people complaining about the PQ have only seen tube screenshots. I've been seeing more and more professional reviews of the disc that say the PQ is fine. Screenshots don't always accurately represent a discs quality. I remember seeing screengrabs for the recent Criterion blu ray of Scanners and thinking it looked WAY too dark but when I bought it, it looked just fine (great, even).

[Legion]

[jellydonut25]

In terms of the "cheapness" factor, I think it's not necessarily due to people being CHEAP, but more that people don't want to feel ripped off. I have a running list of blu-rays I wanna get, and I check them regularly. If I see the price on one drop below $10, I buy it, but I generally wait until it's less than $10 because I know these things always happen. There's always some sale, event, promotion, closeout, blowout, clearance, or hullabaloo where things become CHEAP and I can generally wait or look around for that price drop before I drop my money.

There's so much information and so many options out there these days, people just don't want to feel like they could have gotten a better deal elsewhere. Ten, fifteen years ago, you went to the store. If they had it in, you bought it. These days, you can go to Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Fry's, Deep Discount, company-specific-websites, eBay, craigslist, my butt...there are so many options out there, and the effort to FIND the best price is minimal (especially when you don't do any of the actual searching yourself and just ask someone else to tell you)

[Cookie]

Found these at best buy the other day. I thought $36 for 6 movies on blu ray was pretty decent. Now just hoping classic media releases their remaining titles and kraken picking up the remaining Sony showa films.

[Gman2887]

I don't think a dollar over $12 is what these sets are worth honestly. Had more care and attention been given to them via correct subtitles and trailers to the right movie, I might consider otherwise. But these aren't exhibition releases and if Sony doesn't care, I don't care to pay top dollar.

Niche franchise or not I don't care for the treatment of these films and don't feel I have pay much over the cheapest price tag for them. Criterion was another story. I was very happy to pay top dollar for that. Now I don't expect every release to be like that, but it would sure be nice if someone akin to Kraken got hold of them. Or Classic Media if they'd ever release the Bluray-- Which I constantly bug them about.

[KaiserGhidorah]

BTW, just as a heads up......I checked the subtitles more closely for GxMG and it is in fact a dubtitle track so I'd hang on to your Sony DVD which actually has an accurate translation of the Japanese dialogue. I firmly believe the Sony home video dept. deliberately goes the extra mile just to tick off the fans and then snickers as they take our money for their flawed products.

[klen7]

[Gman2887]

[Mac]

[Dr Kain]

[Alpha OTS]

Anyone else seeing that right-side vertical streak artifact in the U.S. G2000 vs military battle I mentioned above?

[Dr Kain]