Eh. LRG puts out dumb stuff all the time, but they’re not forcing anyone to buy their $200 Bill & Ted limited edition with stickers, soundtrack, and SteelBook or whatever. It’s not a company’s responsibility to sell you less stuff.

If you just want an easy way to play certain games on your Switch or PS4, they can be an easy way of doing so if you no longer have the console in question or if the market rate for original cartridges or discs has priced you out.

They also occasionally put out the first Western licensed version of certain Japanese games on original media, which I think is pretty worthwhile and something they should do more of. Provided they aren’t just CD-Rs.

No one needs to buy every random thing they put out.

They might just want key staff to stay off recruiters’ radar before development is complete. Doing a high-profile project with Nintendo will probably raise the profile of their studio quite a bit.

I have the 2017 Switch remaster, but I’m definitely going to pick this up too.

Not having a nose is probably an asset in a medieval war camp.

Up voted for recommending real Roland hardware. I have an MT-32, CM-32L, and SC-55mkII to cover all my compatibility bases.

This is a super bro-y list. If Inception didn’t already have a 4K release it would definitely be on here.

I’d like to see these on 4K, but there are a lot of movies that I’d like to see more, even within the filmographies of the directors referenced here!

Let’s give it a shot:

Fincher: Zodiac.

Anderson: There Will Be Blood or The Master. Easy choice over Boogie Nights.

Tarantino: I want the 70 mm road show version of The Hateful Eight.

Cuarón: Yeah OK, Children of Men for this one.

Cameron: Well, we just got like half his filmography on 4K, and The Abyss looks great. (Aside from literally 2-3 badly altered scenes, True Lies does too, when in motion and not in stills on a website.)

I was bummed when Mega Man Mania was mysteriously canceled. I wish this were an official project, but I’ll take it. I just hope they don’t make any gameplay or (let’s call it) story modifications and stick to upgraded visuals only.

Yeah, but only if the market demand is there. The talk of a smaller run is what I was basing my comment on.

Kino Lorber is on Film Noir 22 or something. I’m sure these sell decently enough to justify at least one or two more sets.

I really appreciate how fully realized the characters are, but the gore and gross-out elements, the just generally stressful situations, the flippant attitude toward humiliation, and the dystopian attitude toward death make the show a tolerance watch for me. I’ll watch the next season, I think it will be worth watching as always, and I enjoy the commentary. I just don’t think that I could say I’ll enjoy watching it as I normally use that word.

I mean, there are thousands of 4K releases.

So make sure to identify companies that are doing it, and avoid them in the future. Teach them a lesson and vote with your wallet.

Yes, teach them a lesson, thereby collapsing the market for Blu-ray and 4K entirely. I hope you still like DVD, because 75% of this tiny market prefers it.

Preordered! I’m a sucker for '80s and '90s action movies.

Except for Gosling’s giant, looming head, that’s a pretty nice cover.

As a reminder, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is nearly 62 years old.

Well that’s an expression you wouldn’t want to see in a dark alley.

Such a waste. I didn’t know who he was, but no one should die over a couple hundred dollars of metal. Just 37.

I don’t know what that patch is, sorry.

I think you might have meant “epithet,” but since that is specifically about a word or phrase, “caricature” is probably the closest match.

The original, unmodified trilogy was a pretty archetypal hero’s journey for Luke (or rather, a series of journeys within the larger character journey). It was well done, reasonably cohesive, and had strong themes, owing in no small part to Gary Kurtz (producer for the first two movies), Marcia Lucas (editor on the first and third movies and uncredited contributing editor on the second), and Irvin Kershner (director for the second movie).

It began to fall off the rails a bit in the final movie when Lucas asserted more control, resulting in Kurtz’s departure, but ultimately in my judgment it stuck the thematic landing.

The rest were… ehhh…

We saw what happened with the prequel trilogy without those collaborators to rein him in and add actual human emotion. It’s not good, but it’s uncharitable to lump the original (again, unmodified) trilogy in with them.

The sequels were just completely incoherent.

Part of the problem is the unmodified originals have been effectively disappeared for an entire generation, so people who watch the “original trilogy” on disc or Disney+ are actually watching the atrocious CGI versions. It really does make a difference, in my opinion.

Just a note for anyone else, it’s also on GOG, DRM-free. $6 currently but it goes on sale.

https://www.gog.com/game/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura