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@StoneyBrownTV
@StoneyBrownTV 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is such an underrated movie! The premise is something I'm sure would change our entire world. I'll be looking for it now. 😃
@DrewTrox
@DrewTrox 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is amazing, and has such a great high concept.
@StoneyBrownTV
@StoneyBrownTV 10 ай бұрын
@@DrewTrox there's so much that could be experienced for people that wouldn't otherwise get to. Endless possibilities
@maujo2009
@maujo2009 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is what I refer to as a movie straight out of the Black Mirror universe together with perhaps “Her” and some other titles that follow the same tech horror that made Black Mirror such a great show.
@DrewTrox
@DrewTrox 10 ай бұрын
@@maujo2009 1995 was a good year for that. Strange Days, Virtuosity, Johnny Mnemonic, and Ghost in the Shell! I've got a new movie marathon to watch.
@davidm4566
@davidm4566 10 ай бұрын
We've invented every flavor of chewing gum. What's left to do?
@johng6565
@johng6565 10 ай бұрын
Ken Russell's The Devils comes to mind first. Awesome film if you've never seen it, with great performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Also, Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures and Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark are hard to find unless you're willing to pay $40-$50 plus for a Blu-ray. Which you should because both of those movies are fantastic.
@stratobungle
@stratobungle 10 ай бұрын
I loved Near Dark - stars 2 of my favorite actors, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein - both showed up multiple times in hugely popular films of the era...
@johng6565
@johng6565 10 ай бұрын
@@stratobungle Definitely. And a big reason for them being in it, and Bill Paxton, was because Bigelow was dating James Cameron at the time. You can actually see a marquee showing Aliens in the background of a scene in Near Dark
@JHazard1000
@JHazard1000 10 ай бұрын
@@johng6565 Near Dark is a amazing Vampire Movie. Only thing that kept it from making a ton of money it came out the same time The Lost Boys did.
@phil051991
@phil051991 10 ай бұрын
Sadly enough, I found The Devils on a prominent porno streaming site, lol. Interestingly enough, it looked great and was, as far as I know, completely uncut.
@seanaguilar2057
@seanaguilar2057 9 ай бұрын
Heavenly Creatures was great and weird. It used to come on cable all the time when I was a teen. I remember that and The Dirty Girl (about a German girl who looks into her town's past, nothing sexual), making me think I'd get in trouble if my parents saw the title and nothing else.
@Random_Blip
@Random_Blip 10 ай бұрын
#1 Cocoon (1985) #2 Strange Days (1995) #3 Showtime (2002) #4 Crossroads (2002) #5 Dawn of the Dead (1978) #6 Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977) #7 Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) #8 The Blood of Heroes (1989) #9 John Woo's Hong Kong Films #10 The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
@Dan_d00d
@Dan_d00d 10 ай бұрын
the older heartbreak kid movie ;) (not ben stiller version)
@Random_Blip
@Random_Blip 10 ай бұрын
@@Dan_d00d Updated. Cheers 👍
@SonnyGTA
@SonnyGTA 10 ай бұрын
Is this for people that don’t know how to push play and watch the video?
@Random_Blip
@Random_Blip 10 ай бұрын
@@SonnyGTA If you're one of those people then yes.
@samanthab1923
@samanthab1923 10 ай бұрын
I was just thinking of Blood of Hero’s. Knew someone that stayed in the same hotel with Rutger in Australia when he was shooting this ⭐️
@Roddrummer
@Roddrummer 10 ай бұрын
THANK YOU for putting 'Strange Days' in your list, it is magnificent, one of my favourite movies of all time. I watch it every 12-18 months and it blows my mind (as it does to people in the movie) every single time. I coinsider it the most underrated movie EVER. (oh, and I have it on DVD).
@jules-yi8rn
@jules-yi8rn 10 ай бұрын
Kevin Smith's 'Dogma' disappeared after it's initial release. Unless you bought a copy around that time, it's become impossible to find due to Weinstein owning the rights and refusing to sell them and that's a shame - I'm glad I got my copy when I did, but I'd like to see it restored. Such a great movie!
@sebastianshaw4031
@sebastianshaw4031 10 ай бұрын
VHS
@BishopWalters12
@BishopWalters12 10 ай бұрын
I found a used DVD on Thiftbooks over the summer.
@izi5150
@izi5150 10 ай бұрын
I got mine
@paralytaatylarap9715
@paralytaatylarap9715 10 ай бұрын
Maybe in America, but not in Europe. Starting price on ebay: 1€
@stevef68
@stevef68 10 ай бұрын
It's available on KZbin now. I bought my DVD copy from the Asia Pacific area and just changed all the settings to American English in the DVD settings.
@jeremiahalexander5513
@jeremiahalexander5513 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days was definitely an interesting noirish thriller with a cool backdrop of chaos for the protagonists to navigate and an even cooler soundtrack. Juliet Lewis was so cool! And Angela Bassett kicked ass. But I think the reason for Strange Days not being super loved was the bizarre, frightening and brutal nature of the crimes that were being investigated. I actually had it on DVD but was only able to watch it once.
@seanbrazell7095
@seanbrazell7095 10 ай бұрын
That Strange Days soundtrack will blow your mind. Juliette Lewis turns out to be an AMAZING rock singer. The whole finale and its score is powerfull.
@ca9968
@ca9968 10 ай бұрын
Her band, Juliet & The Licks have put out some great music...
@diredier
@diredier 10 ай бұрын
I can hardly wait... ;) amazing soundtrack overall, so many great artists
@LennyNero2019
@LennyNero2019 10 ай бұрын
Score uses Deep Forest tracks, but it's an overall excellent and eclectic mix, including Skunk Anansie, Diatribe, Tricky, and Lords of Acid!
@JnEricsonx
@JnEricsonx 10 ай бұрын
Terrific film, saw it back in 1995 in theaters and loved it.
@Paul_1971
@Paul_1971 10 ай бұрын
@@JnEricsonx Me too
@chrisaballo
@chrisaballo 10 ай бұрын
Kevin Smith's Dogma is one of the better known examples of this. There were a bunch of Fox movies that were licensed to Anchor Bay for blu-ray release that have all gone extinct, like Airheads, Nine Months and Folks! Sometimes they show up on Hulu to stream but they're never available for digital purchase and out of print on disc. Two others that are out of print on DVD with no blu-ray or digital to speak of are Faithful with Cher, Chazz Palminteri and Ryan O'Neal, as well as The Distinguished Gentleman with Eddie Murphy.
@FrederickZabala3000
@FrederickZabala3000 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is one of the most underrated Sci Fi of the 90s alongside Dark City, Event Horizons, Gattaca, Existenz, Thirteenth Floor, etc
@Cinema_Inc2000
@Cinema_Inc2000 10 ай бұрын
All of these deserve a criterion release
@scottmune4484
@scottmune4484 10 ай бұрын
I love all of those movies you mentioned, came out in my teenage years and they all hold a special place for me. ExistenZ especially just blew me away.
@bayfactor9384
@bayfactor9384 10 ай бұрын
Thirteenth floor is the second most expensive bkuray i bought
@toro5280
@toro5280 10 ай бұрын
Strange days is one of my favorite movies. The concept, the dialogues, the production design, the cast and the acting! Lenny bringing his legless buddy at the club a recording of a guy jogging at the beach is heartbreaking. Many more, sure, but this is the most memorable.
@jjpenney7354
@jjpenney7354 10 ай бұрын
Lucky enough to have both Strange Days and Dark City on DVD. Both so under rated
@filmpositive6601
@filmpositive6601 10 ай бұрын
Watcher in the Woods is another legitimately creepy live-action Disney horror film from the 80's that I have wanted to own for years. It only ever received one DVD release in the mid 2000's. I don't have Disney + (or any streaming services), but I would assume it is also not available on the service just like Something Wicked This Way Comes, of which I do own the DVD and will never sell.
@fearlessfreep
@fearlessfreep 10 ай бұрын
Watcher in the Woods has a strange story behind the ending. Go look it up.
@ClockworkWyrm
@ClockworkWyrm 10 ай бұрын
About 15 years ago we found a 2 pack of Watcher in the Woods (with the unedited ending) and Something Wicked This Way Comes and I count ourselves blessed for having bought them. Now I just need a copy of Lady in White and the Devil and Max Devlin.
@peterd788
@peterd788 10 ай бұрын
As I pointed out in your Cocoon video rights issues can be extraordinarily complex for media not conceived at the time of the original release. I used to work for Sony and sometimes it's impossible to re-release a film while meeting a budget that fits in with the likely revenue. Much of it is down to music clearance but in other cases it's down to rights retention where the originator never sold the rights beyond theatrical release. In non-English markets some voice actors never signed away their voice performance for new media and the cost of recasting is too much. In other cases the distribution rights belong to companies that no longer exist but there was no reversionary clause so companies are afraid to release in case there is legal action if a release is successful. In other cases actors, writers or directors retain reserved rights. It's a minefield.
@DanielS2001
@DanielS2001 10 ай бұрын
Rights issue is definitely a pain in the ass when it comes to films. To go along with your "media not conceived at the time" mention, another film I can think of is the movie Rad (1986). At the time it was released, VHS and then shortly Laserdisc were the only media formats that were out, to which Rad was released onto. However, when it came to DVD release, there was none. It was held up mostly due to rights issues, as they never took into account DVD and Blu-Ray coming to be, so for years, the only way to have a physical release on a modern format was a bootleg DVD made using a rip of the Laserdisc. Eventually, it found it's way onto streaming for a couple of years before it finally got a Blu-Ray. Mill Creek Entertainment also released a Blu-Ray steelbook of the movie in March 2021 and serves as #46 Mondo X steelbook collaboration with some totally rad artwork. And, there is currently a 4K Blu-Ray soon to be released of it also.
@my3dviews
@my3dviews 10 ай бұрын
It is like the TV series WKRP: In Cincinnati. The rights for much of the real music played on the show ran out in a few years, so they couldn't even show it in re-runs on TV. At least until they edited out the music or replaced it with soundalike songs. I recall an episode with a Pink Floyd song and heard that it would have cost them way to much to get the rights to put it on DVD. They did have a DVD release, but with a fair bit of the original music edited out.
@g.sferrazza10-13
@g.sferrazza10-13 10 ай бұрын
Yeah I still remember that was the reason Shout Cancelled the Werewolf TV series on DVD.
@FireMrshlBill
@FireMrshlBill 10 ай бұрын
I hope they are working this out in modern contracts and license agreements. Too many movies and video games get stuck in limbo because of this lack of foresight. It is frustrating. They need to work on perpetuity licensing agreements with built in pay structures for however the current rights holder is. If that cannot be determined, then it gets set in an account until it is found or a reasonable time passes. If you don’t uphold your rights and let them lapse between owners to the point that many years pass, your loss. Don’t want to sign off on your song being in this movie from this point on? Your song isn’t in the movie to begin with. Same with actors. You are giving this performance in this movie, no matter the medium or restoration/upscale, from this point forward, or find another movie. Same with video games.
@hugthemonkey
@hugthemonkey 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your easily digestible explanation. I’m not a true movie nerd so I’ve often wondered how the boilerplate “legal rights” company line works. Cheers Mate!
@thedoors1388
@thedoors1388 10 ай бұрын
One recent film that has gotten lost over the years is the 1996 movie Shine. It was the movie that put Geoffrey Rush on the map, at least in the US; he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role, and the film received a whole slew of Oscar nominations. It did receive a DVD release in the 2000s but has never been released on Blu-ray in the US, nor is it available to stream (at least on Amazon or Netflix, it could be available somewhere else). It has been released on Blu-ray in Australia, including a very, very recent release earlier this year, but Australia is in a different region than we are, Region B instead of our Region A. I have a feeling that the music rights are behind this, as while the classical compositions used in the film (Chopin, Rachmaninoff, etc.) are in the public domain, David Helfgott's performances of those works are not.
@samanthab1923
@samanthab1923 10 ай бұрын
I feel that way about Silkwood. Where is it?
@MikinessAnalog
@MikinessAnalog 10 ай бұрын
I can't understand how "Strange Days" didn't go over better than it did. Phenomenal film.
@BishopWalters12
@BishopWalters12 10 ай бұрын
Bad marketing with really bad trailers but the movie is awesome.
@LordRae
@LordRae 10 ай бұрын
As someone who saw it in the theaters it came out so close to the time frame it was depicting it made it hard to imagine how technology would change much in just a few years. But we all enjoyed it from the group that went and saw it. If the time gap was bigger it wouldn't have been as hard a sell. But I'm glad I have it on dvd and watch it every few years just to fall in love with Juliette Lewis again.
@MikinessAnalog
@MikinessAnalog 10 ай бұрын
@@LordRae that pesky fourth dimension
@MrRobarino
@MrRobarino 10 ай бұрын
Look up the other movies that were in Theaters around the same time Strange Days was released. It was up against some significantly better known and better marketed movies that were still playing in theaters; include Se7en, Now and Then, Dangerous Minds, To Wong Foo, Batman Forever, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Pocahontas. Heck, even Showgirls was doing better in the Theaters just because of its negative notoriety.
@coreyg3228
@coreyg3228 10 ай бұрын
It was probably ahead of it's time. I bet it would go over really well if made today.
@midknightgeek6629
@midknightgeek6629 10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this interesting and timely subject. Would love if this became the first of a series of discussions on more films that fall into this category! 😎
@ca9968
@ca9968 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is an absolute gem, another would be "The Doom Generation"...very very odd but great piece of 90`s movie making...
@torque9889
@torque9889 10 ай бұрын
I have doom generation on dvd because I loved it so much as a kid. Underrated movie, apparently it’s part of a trilogy though.
@thelordofhellaz
@thelordofhellaz 10 ай бұрын
Strand Releasing just put out a bluray and 4k of The Doom Generation remasted by Gregg Araki in 4k......and Nowhere is going to be coming out soon as well :-)
@c0t0d0s7
@c0t0d0s7 10 ай бұрын
I love most of Gregg Araki’s films, especially Nowhere and The Doom Generation. I have Nowhere on Laserdisc and I’m glad to hear that it will finally be coming to DVD.
@adamwood87
@adamwood87 10 ай бұрын
@@thelordofhellaz that's awesome! i have TDG on DVD, and Nowhere on a bootleg DVD. i will totally snatch an official copy of Nowhere.
@chancepaladin
@chancepaladin 10 ай бұрын
the uncut 'doom generation' is finally out, on streaming at least. sounds like it made it to bluray too? sweet.
@llongone2
@llongone2 10 ай бұрын
It's insane that Diane Keaton was in "Goodbar" and "Annie Hall" in the same year. Completely different characters/stories and she could have won the Academy Award for EITHER role.
@StuWright
@StuWright 10 ай бұрын
annie hall is great, but I hav`nt seen goodbar , i will watch it later tonight !
@grannyweatherwax8005
@grannyweatherwax8005 10 ай бұрын
@@StuWrightWell he spoiled the ending
@zombiebassman
@zombiebassman 10 ай бұрын
Freaked (1993) starring Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, and even Keanu Reeves in an uncredited role as Ortiz the Dog Boy. Impossible to find or stream (legally) unless you want to pay for the original DVD or vhs release. It's a hoot though. The best way to describe it is take the movie Freaks (1932) and put it in a blender with Basket Case 2, The Naked Gun, and South Park.
@anthonyhoffmann
@anthonyhoffmann 10 ай бұрын
As of this moment, there's 3 brand new copies on Australia's eBay. 9 sold, it says. I'm tempted.
@stazoola3616
@stazoola3616 10 ай бұрын
I still have the 2005 2-disc Anchor Bay DVD edition of Freaked, with Criterion-level extras. Definitely a from-my-cold-dead-hands situation.
@zombiebassman
@zombiebassman 10 ай бұрын
@anthonyhoffmann get it! If you like weird 90s immature humor it's a must see.
@Aragorn7884
@Aragorn7884 10 ай бұрын
'Strange Days' is a hidden gem 😊
@MLJ7956
@MLJ7956 10 ай бұрын
One movie that is so rare to find (at least in the US) is Disney's 'Song Of The South' (made by Walt Disney himself)...
@waakca
@waakca 10 ай бұрын
I think that's now considered racist so not likely to find it.
@sixtee5cuda98
@sixtee5cuda98 10 ай бұрын
A low-quality copy of this film has been available at Certain Online Sources for a while. Somewhere, someone has a better copy of this film. I hope they get around to making it available.
@melamineflorentine8134
@melamineflorentine8134 10 ай бұрын
Kind of sad... same with the "Our Gang" comedies or so I heard. One thing to be against racist portrayals but they ARE part of history and they were the attitudes being promoted then.. that is true of ALL content in some sense... to obliterate the memory and the other creativity in these products is wrong. The truth is the truth and there are ways to cut against the harmful stuff.. but don't wipe the history clean and leave out the actors, singers and storytellers too.
@tiago2189
@tiago2189 3 ай бұрын
Yeah I wonder why
@intellectic9155
@intellectic9155 10 ай бұрын
I have Strange Days on DVD actually. Got it from a second hand DVD shop. Under rated film.
@rolmodel12.
@rolmodel12. 10 ай бұрын
I used to own a second-hand electronic store, in my area (Replay Entertainment). And I thought, "that's weird" when that title came up on this list, because of that store. At any given time, I had 5-10 copies of that movie on DVD. Of course, this was the late '00s, so it goes to show: things change.
@michaelaurban4120
@michaelaurban4120 10 ай бұрын
I have it too
@toro5280
@toro5280 10 ай бұрын
I have it on a hard drive, but I also have it on a dvd, which I think I had to get from the UK, because here in Germany the only version was overdubbed.
@melamineflorentine8134
@melamineflorentine8134 10 ай бұрын
@@rolmodel12. We're in the middle of a kind of mass extinction event in the intellectual property world. What should have been a golden age of access has become sort of like the end of Fahrenheit 451 where the people gather in the forest and keep the memories of the banned & burned books alive in their heads.. in this case those who can manage pirated copies on their home servers & store their physical media become repositories for content!
@rolmodel12.
@rolmodel12. 10 ай бұрын
@melamineflorentine8134 very well said, and an apt analogy! On the one hand, it is sad. It makes me long for those days in our past. But, on the other hand, we should be grateful for what we have experienced. Kind of like the "better to love and lost, than never loved at all."
@martinmoore7279
@martinmoore7279 10 ай бұрын
Year of the dragon, remember watching this on DVD years ago. Such a great movie
@TheRocco96
@TheRocco96 10 ай бұрын
Ruthles People. That dark comedy with Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Judge Reynhold and Helen Slater. Down and out in Beverly Hills. Richard Dreyfuss and Nick Nolte.
@claudiamiller7730
@claudiamiller7730 10 ай бұрын
Got it!💕
@brandonpage7087
@brandonpage7087 8 ай бұрын
@TheRocco96, i remember seeing Ruthless People, on vhs, at our local video rental store, all the time, as a kid.
@Animei9
@Animei9 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for this. People always wonder why I'm so obsessed with my video disc collection. Next time they ask me, I'll refer them to this
@nonono7465
@nonono7465 10 ай бұрын
Near Dark is pretty hard to come across these days. For the longest time Apocalypto was too, but I think that finally got re-released.
@jeffagain7516
@jeffagain7516 10 ай бұрын
Studio Canal (Euro) finally put out a Blu and it's actually really good PQ & AQ, as did Anolis (Ger) with similar results. Also, yep, Apocolypto FINALL got a NA release.
@samanthab1923
@samanthab1923 10 ай бұрын
Love Near Dark. ❤
@ChrisXperince
@ChrisXperince 2 ай бұрын
I have near dark on dvd
@quadders9198
@quadders9198 10 ай бұрын
So I am a Brit and I have a Blu Ray of Strange Days. Not Sure if only Europe got a version but yeah it does exist. Excellent film, superb 90's soundtrack. One of those films that definitely captures the mood and sound of the times very well.
@TheMoneyMaker05
@TheMoneyMaker05 10 ай бұрын
I can definitely respect this list. Strange Days I wanted in my collection for years. The only way I can do it is to have it on a hard drive and watch it like that and put it on a CD. I would love a Blu-Ray Version of it. Also Dogma and the series millennium is hard to find.
@albundy774
@albundy774 10 ай бұрын
There is a German 20th Anniversary edition uncut blu-ray, there was also a UK blu-ray but don't bother with that as it is the cut version.
@artred3206
@artred3206 10 ай бұрын
i have Strange Days in dvd, also toys, colors and more oop movies if u wanna exchange
@necrosunderground
@necrosunderground 10 ай бұрын
I lucked out on my copy of Strange Days, found it in the dollar bin at the local used books/CD's/DVD's store. That sucker came home with me sooooooo fast. Definitely an underappreciated movie
@Cinema_Inc2000
@Cinema_Inc2000 10 ай бұрын
If you live in the UK there is a blu-ray version of it I have it.
@SirReptitious
@SirReptitious 10 ай бұрын
I bought Millenium not too long after it came out on DVD. I bought it the first time I saw it on sale because I refuse to pay launch price on 99% of titles. I bought other TV series that were shitcanned, usually after only one season: Space Above And Beyond, Invasion, Surface, American Gothic, Jericho, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me. I was pissed when I found out Dead Like Me had been released in 1080p for streaming, but there was no Blu-Ray release. So I just have my DVD copy. But at least I have a copy. There was a series on the WB network called Jack & Jill that ran for two seasons before getting shitcanned. Because it used music it would cost too much to release it on disc(and I assume streaming too?). I would love to have it on Blu-Ray but would happily settle for a DVD copy....
@JessicaDwyer
@JessicaDwyer 10 ай бұрын
It still breaks my heart. Thanks for the shout out Chris. At least they finally did one for Dragonslayer.
@lilMissmAlice
@lilMissmAlice 10 ай бұрын
Something Wicked This Way Comes is pretty much the perfect intro to horror for kids. The book is wonderful, and I'm really glad to say I've got my DVD! (I think it's older than that copy, iirc it's in a gold box, totally different art.) Along these lines - I thought I lost my DVD of Urban Legend and spent six months swinging from pissed to sulking that it would cost $50 on eBay to replace. Lucky for me, I kept the box and found the DVD bunking with another horror movie 😅
@arthurcorassini
@arthurcorassini 10 ай бұрын
You know one that always bugged me? The Love Bug from 1997 starring Bruce Campbell, it's not on Disney+ and it was never released on dvd or blu ray, only the original VHS, it's a shame too since it's fun and has the return of Dean Jones to the series
@jeffagain7516
@jeffagain7516 10 ай бұрын
And of course, the GREAT Buddy Hackett !!! :)
@brion0220
@brion0220 10 ай бұрын
Just for fun, here's my Top 10 for movies that I can't find in Australia (and I really want to watch or re-watch): 1. The Gift (2000) 2. The Skulls (2000) 3. Basketball Diaries (1995) 4. Silkwood (1983) 5. Manhunter (1986) 6. The Sure Thing (1985) 7. Bad Dreams (1988) 8. Less Than Zero (1987) 9. Rapid Fire (1992) 10. The Fall (2006)
@rolmodel12.
@rolmodel12. 10 ай бұрын
Nice list! The Gift, Basketball Diaries, and Manhunter are all great flicks that are out there, but not super-easy to hunt down in the States, either.
@ricahrdb
@ricahrdb 10 ай бұрын
Silkwood is on my list too. It was released in the US once but it has since gone out of print. And the prices for it on Ebay are not great.
@lagunagfx
@lagunagfx 10 ай бұрын
Cheers from Spain! I'm holding my copy of Skulls, purchased from some random video store retiring some of their catalog, maybe 15 years or so ago :)
@MatthewSmith001
@MatthewSmith001 10 ай бұрын
You can't find a copy of Less Than Zero? I have a copy I got a $3 bin in Wal-Mart probably 20 years ago... Jesus, I'm old...
@Old_Scot
@Old_Scot 10 ай бұрын
Wasn't The Gift released by Imprint in Australia? Which made it really expensive in the UK! I have a DVD which cost me £1.50 second hand, so I'll stick with that!
@Tob1Kadach1
@Tob1Kadach1 9 ай бұрын
I live in the UK and have Strange Days on Bluray, one of my fave films. Also have Day of the Dead on Bluray & Cocoon on DVD. The US is very lucky though because there are hundreds of films on Bluray in the US that have never been released on DVD or Bluray in the UK.
@hailcthulhu419
@hailcthulhu419 10 ай бұрын
Keep your DVDs period. No government, or private corporation should have a stranglehold on the information you get to see, including art. This digital only future, where you own nothing, that these companies are pushing for is dangerous on so many different levels. Keep your physical media, be it DVD's, CD's, Vynils, books, magazines, etc...
@jimmyb2655
@jimmyb2655 10 ай бұрын
With physical media on the way out, keep ALL your Blu-Rays and DVD's. It's just a matter of time until digital media purchased will be removed from your libraries. Physical media is yours, nobody can take it from you.
@k.chriscaldwell4141
@k.chriscaldwell4141 10 ай бұрын
Zapping your digital -purchases- rentals is already happening. _And…it’s gone!_
@melamineflorentine8134
@melamineflorentine8134 10 ай бұрын
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 Really! Everyone has to be their own mastering house nowadays!
@rahkuaschount
@rahkuaschount 10 ай бұрын
Finally saw "Something Wicked this way Comes" and you are right it is a very good movie. Kind of eerie in a way most movies of the genre would dream to be.
@Gobear1
@Gobear1 10 ай бұрын
The Heartbreak Kid, along with the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives and Sleuth, is being held hostage by Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, who retained the rights from their investment in the defunct studio that made them. It's unlikely that we will ever see any of those films on Blu-Ray. You can also forget about ever seeing Blu-Rays of vintage drive-in flicks like I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Susan Hart, the widow of AIP co-founder James Nicolson, owns the rights to those and a few other titles, and she wants a ridiculous amount of money for them.
@samanthab1923
@samanthab1923 10 ай бұрын
OG Stepford Wives is on YT
@RxYouth
@RxYouth 10 ай бұрын
I dont know if Something Wicked This Way Comes is a movie I've completely never heard of or one of those movies I saw as a kid but completely forgot about and watching it will trigger a bunch of old memories. Either way it looks decent and dark and made during that weird live action era of disney that I loved so much as a kid so I'm definitely gonna check it out, thanks for tuning me on to it!
@solracer66
@solracer66 9 ай бұрын
Surely you ran across the Ray Bradbury story at some point?
@RxYouth
@RxYouth 9 ай бұрын
@@solracer66 I've heard the title or that phrase before but never read it (that I remember at least)
@henrychinaski5223
@henrychinaski5223 10 ай бұрын
Good luck trying to find 'Barfly' with Micky Rourke and Faye Dunaway. An absolutely amazing film set in the gritty world of LA dive bars.
@LennyNero2019
@LennyNero2019 10 ай бұрын
There's a great Australian BD release from Imprint, and a German one in mediabook.
@FranzSanchez-ky9up
@FranzSanchez-ky9up 10 ай бұрын
I bought the Australian Imprint version recently. It cost me quite a bit to import, but it was worth it.@@LennyNero2019
@simonbrennan9806
@simonbrennan9806 10 ай бұрын
Looking For Mr Goodbar is currently streaming in HD on Paramount + in the UK. Watched it a few months ago and also have a copy saved to my TiVo box when was shown on TV a few years ago,
@adamtoronibyrne1086
@adamtoronibyrne1086 10 ай бұрын
I never got to see the video about Cocoon, but I will say, I have that Blu-ray and am thankful for that. I got it way back in 2011… I also have Dogma (got it new in 2012 at a Fry’s electronics for 8.99) Looking for Mr. Goodbar is strangely available here on KZbin, and Something Wicked This Way Comes is available if you’re a Disney Movie Club member but that’s kinda niche these days… I completely agree that this to me is baffling that they can’t even license some of these titles out - it’s frustrating to no end that collectors often get the shaft and I hope that someday this just isn’t a thing anymore. Thanks for sharing!
@JohnKryten
@JohnKryten 10 ай бұрын
The Chase staring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, with Henry Rollins as the cop chasing them. The part where Anthony Kiedis and Flea go vigilante and try to take them out is great!
@LennyNero2019
@LennyNero2019 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days has been my #1 favorite movie since 1999, when I discovered it first. I had a 4:3 projection TV then so didn't mind a non-anamorphic R1 DVD. Later upgraded it to anamorphic Australian DVD, and then bought over the years 3 different German Blu-ray releases with new transfers.
@whssy
@whssy 10 ай бұрын
Would be interested to know which of the German blu-rays is the best one.
@LennyNero2019
@LennyNero2019 10 ай бұрын
@@whssy the 2015 '20th anniversary', only it no longer comes in a slipcase with the original 'stacked 3 heads' poster art, and the image Amazon has is wrong.
@DR-xm9ck
@DR-xm9ck 10 ай бұрын
Something wicked this was comes is a real gem. A true buried treasure, one of my all time favorites
@sleepawaycamp83
@sleepawaycamp83 10 ай бұрын
I would definitely love to see “Star 80” get a blu-ray release one day. I watched it back when it was on HBO Max earlier this year and it aired on TCM a few months ago but despite that, it has never been released on blu-ray. It’s only been released on DVD on one of those crappy paper cases. “Star 80” definitely deserves a blu-ray release.
@CR41489
@CR41489 10 ай бұрын
Yeah, I also wish it would come out on Blu-ray and even better in 4K. I do have it in HD in my iTunes library but this great film deserves an HD physical release.
@ricahrdb
@ricahrdb 10 ай бұрын
Would like to own that one too. It is one of the few Bob Fosse films that I haven't seen.
@rickvince
@rickvince 10 ай бұрын
Gf and I absolutely adored this video and wished it went on for a solid hour. More of this!
@The_Lunatic_Fringe89
@The_Lunatic_Fringe89 10 ай бұрын
I actually went through this with Strange Days recently. I wanted to watch it, but at the time, it wasn't available to stream anywhere. I had to buy an old DVD off of Amazon. Glad to know that it's now on Max.
@jbainbridge22
@jbainbridge22 10 ай бұрын
Don't forget "the 13th warrior".
@gorsching
@gorsching 10 ай бұрын
When I saw the Disney logo I was thinking Songs of the South. Baskett won an honorary Oscar for his role. Id LOVE a restored copy ov this film, and Black Cauldron directors cut, before I die.
@mjanovec
@mjanovec 10 ай бұрын
The Beatles “Let It Be” film has never had a DVD or Blu Ray release. It had a very short-lived videotape release in the early 1980s but has been out of print since. While Peter Jackson produced an 8-hour film from the sessions, it is missing several of the full-song performances from the original film. There were rumors that the Let It Be film would be reissued alongside Peter Jackson’s film, but it never came to be. Therefore it appears this will continue to elude us, perhaps for many years to come.
@melamineflorentine8134
@melamineflorentine8134 10 ай бұрын
truly an unbelievable outcome. I sensed trouble when the spoken of re-release in conjunction with the release of "Beatles Get Back" never seemed to be nailed down. Then the disappointment when it still ended up not happening.
@Diggy22
@Diggy22 10 ай бұрын
Funny enough, I bought two different DVD editions of Dawn Of The Dead, and I bought the Dragon Dynasty prints of The Killer and Hard Boiled before the Harvey Weinstein trial. I never imagined they'd be rarities.
@CiderMorphine-xv3gf
@CiderMorphine-xv3gf 8 ай бұрын
High Spirits staring Steve Guttenberg has always been hard to find.
@personatodo
@personatodo 10 ай бұрын
Salute of the Jugger is definitely a hidden gem, I have the extended version but it's a more of a VHS rip. Some other movies I would like to see is America 3000, Panic Room and Hong Kong versions of Jackie Chan movies like Police Story 4: First Strike and Rumble in the Bronx which is hard to find. There are also series and miniseries gems that's never released in HD like Jack of All Trades, Xena: Warrior Princess, the miniseries Merlin starring Sam Neill, Arabian Nights and Odyssey starring Armand Asante.
@thelordofhellaz
@thelordofhellaz 10 ай бұрын
There is an Australian BluRay of the full movie. Unfortunately in America we only have a crappy cut DVD of the movie :-(
@samanthab1923
@samanthab1923 10 ай бұрын
Odyssey is on YT
@personatodo
@personatodo 10 ай бұрын
@@samanthab1923 yeah but it's just an A.I upscaled version from the standard definition version. It's not from the actual film source.
@samanthab1923
@samanthab1923 10 ай бұрын
@@personatodo Really? Had no idea. Thanks
@Belfast-Biccy
@Belfast-Biccy 9 ай бұрын
In the UK, all but one were available on Amazon, when I checked directly after watching this, didn't even bother checking eBay
@stable-shadow
@stable-shadow 10 ай бұрын
Salton Sea and Things to Do in Denver when your Dead are quite hard to find..... Strange Days so awesome..... 🕊️
@Atmblack03
@Atmblack03 10 ай бұрын
Imprint just released Things to do in Denver not too long ago. Was an immediate buy.
@stable-shadow
@stable-shadow 10 ай бұрын
@@Atmblack03 Thank you, 4k version full print?
@richardvillafana8111
@richardvillafana8111 9 ай бұрын
Two excellent examples. Love them both, but especially Things to Do in Denver. It keeps my powder dry. Boat Drinks!!!
@stable-shadow
@stable-shadow 9 ай бұрын
@@richardvillafana8111 Yeah, those were the days.... eff the head.... Critical Bill.... Salton Sea had poo bear, and bobby ocean.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioCUZ5lshKh2masfeature=shared kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmi6ZJmljd57d8kfeature=shared So wrong they were right.... 🕊️
@stable-shadow
@stable-shadow 9 ай бұрын
@@richardvillafana8111 💯 my friend, I'm getting my replies blocked I sent ya some choice clips from the film, but alas they are blocked by the devil's at YT..... 🕊️
@Codmaniac91
@Codmaniac91 9 ай бұрын
I've been fortunate enough to find both John Woo's "Hard-boiled" and "The Killer" on blu-ray along with a Twilight Time blu-ray release of "Rapid Fire" starring the late Brandon Lee. People who didn't realise what they had decided to trade these titles in at my local movie resale store. As an avid film collector myself I couldn't pass these up.
@kelvinthompson1660
@kelvinthompson1660 4 ай бұрын
My library has a copy of The Killer. I'm surprised they haven't just given it away by now..
@Fixxxer07082
@Fixxxer07082 10 ай бұрын
Little Darlings is a film that isn’t legally available on DVD or bluray. Again…it’s a music rights issue. Sometime earlier this year though, it was announced it may be seeing a bluray release next year! The Midnight Hour is another classic that got a DVD release (which now goes for good money), but hasnt had a bluray release. As for Dawn of the Dead, the original bluray from Anchor Bay might be OOP, but it can be found for a decent price. I’ve got it on VHS (multiple different releases), laserdisc (again, multiple releases), bluray (same thing), BETA, and the incredible 4K release from Second Sight. Long live physical media!
@Downhuman74
@Downhuman74 10 ай бұрын
Not sure why my previous comment was deleted but I was saying about how Dawn of the Dead (1978) may never be released in the US again due to rights issues. The UK Second Sight 4K release is definitive, region-free and can be had for a decent price. And it will probably the last word on that movie on physical media, so there's no reason to hold off.
@mattblom3990
@mattblom3990 10 ай бұрын
Pacific Heights and Jacob's Ladder were two great movies that took me a long time and more money than I'd hope to track down in a physical copy. To my knowledge, neither was available on streaming the last time I checked.
@MatthewSmith001
@MatthewSmith001 10 ай бұрын
Jacobs Ladder is one of my favorite movies. It's so surreal and nightmarish... probably Tim Robbins most seminal work.
@jimthar17
@jimthar17 10 ай бұрын
I'm almost positive that Jacob's Ladder was recently on Tubi. And not the stupid remake. I KNOW I saw it on one of the sites recently and I'm damn near certain it was Tubi. It's not there NOW as I just checked but recently it was somewhere streaming. I only have NF Tubi and MAX so it was definitely one of them.
@ssesf
@ssesf 10 ай бұрын
I used to be a landlord so Pacific Heights is not my cup of tea.
@du24pont70
@du24pont70 10 ай бұрын
Jacob's Ladder is one of my all-time favorites!
@rodbacote8607
@rodbacote8607 8 ай бұрын
Pacific Heights was on either Starz or Showtime recently but Jacob's Ladder used to show up on one of the cable channels during October and Halloween but it's been a while since I've come across it
@claywinn32
@claywinn32 10 ай бұрын
Light Of Day with Michael J Fox and Joan Jett, needs a high def release. The only DVDs available are imports/bootlegs. Prime Video has it available on streaming but the transfer looks like a VHS copy.
@asifkhan4822
@asifkhan4822 10 ай бұрын
Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast is another one of those rare hard to find movies along with the Denzel Washington and John Lithgow psychological 1991 thriller Riccochet, which I can't Find anywhere.😅
@istvanvilmos8400
@istvanvilmos8400 10 ай бұрын
The Mosquito Coast got an official German release on Blu-ray but that went out of print quite quickly.
@thedys70
@thedys70 10 ай бұрын
Riccochet hasn't aged well IMO
@AlistairCampbell
@AlistairCampbell 10 ай бұрын
The Mosquito Coast is available to buy digitally here on You Tube, i just bought and watched it a few nights back, it's great film. 👍
@thedys70
@thedys70 10 ай бұрын
@@AlistairCampbell The Mosquito Coast is a solid film indeed; the cast were awesome. Arguably Ford's finest dramatic role, better than Witness?
@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat 10 ай бұрын
​@@thedys70 It really hasn't. The opening park basketball game is its most competent sequence.
@nihthasu
@nihthasu 10 ай бұрын
200 Cigarettes! Great, underrated comedy with a cast that was in top form. Apparently it did so badly in theaters that the studio had all but denied its existence, granting it a single DVD release and not allowing it to stream anywhere.
@briansomers6022
@briansomers6022 9 ай бұрын
We picked up a copy at a used book store not long ago. So happy to have tracked down a copy. Very underrated
@sirstewartwallace3917
@sirstewartwallace3917 9 ай бұрын
It got a Blu-ray release a while back but the transfer is terrible.
@grapeshot
@grapeshot 10 ай бұрын
Yep I have a very large DVD collection I plan to hold on to them as long as I can.
@FreakyLynx
@FreakyLynx 10 ай бұрын
I’ve recently wanted to rewatch Fright Night 2 and was surprised that… I cannot find it on physical. Another I’ve been trying to find for awhile is the Val Kilmer movie Real Genius. Friend of mine has been trying to get a copy of The Jerky Boys for years, we rewatched it on streaming a couple years ago but it’s impossible to find on physical which is a shame. Very surprised about all of these because excellent movies.
@mg-ThisHandleIsSoStupid
@mg-ThisHandleIsSoStupid 10 ай бұрын
Realm Genius has a bunch of releases. Recently even on 4K.
@grannyweatherwax8005
@grannyweatherwax8005 10 ай бұрын
I've been wanting to rewatch Fright Night 2 for ages! I saw it as a teen and loved it. I'd like to know if my tastes have changed radically or if it really is underrated.
@stevedullum6777
@stevedullum6777 8 ай бұрын
Fright Night 2 is on KZbin in HD. Rumor has it there are free sites you can download full movies from KZbin as .mp4 that play perfectly on you bluray player. So I've heard.
@stereothrilla8374
@stereothrilla8374 10 ай бұрын
Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” is not available on any streaming platform and never airs on tv. It did get a Blu-ray release but people are t willing to part with it for much less than $80. Great flick.
@Finfection
@Finfection 10 ай бұрын
I found Dogma on DVD at a vender mall for 80 cents recently. I was so psyched! lol
@MatthewSmith001
@MatthewSmith001 10 ай бұрын
True!
@Iam-still-noone
@Iam-still-noone 10 ай бұрын
🤫 u can watch it on a certain video app - nudge nudge wink wink 😉- points at search button in the corner
@K1ngwill914
@K1ngwill914 4 ай бұрын
I found one at a flea market for $1 last summer. Love Dogma its so underrated.
@johnaustin9856
@johnaustin9856 10 ай бұрын
Thanks! I have Cocoon on Region 2 DVD and purchased a Region 2 player just for it! Also, my wife loves "Bugsy Malone", also only available on Region 2.
@Psilocybin77
@Psilocybin77 10 ай бұрын
I'm reminded of the actor Warwick Davis lamenting the removal of the streaming series "Willow" being removed from Disney Plus shortly after it's release. He said it hurts his soul to know that nobody will ever know the art him and thousands of other's created, and worked so hard on. I've never seen the streaming show, because I'm sick of these media conglomerates, "re-imagining" childhood favourites, but respect the artists behind the show. This whole situation is made even more awful because the series was removed to save a few bucks on royalties and taxes, in a time of awful Disney business decisions.
@katemaloney4296
@katemaloney4296 10 ай бұрын
I thought it was removed because it was a terrible remake.
@nocturnal101ravenous6
@nocturnal101ravenous6 10 ай бұрын
Don't care it was terrible it deserves to be wiped from history. It completely shit all over the original movie and was part of this never ending BS woke movement ruining films and media.
@zakofrx
@zakofrx 10 ай бұрын
Many people hated it... It was a modern (as in Woke) remaking... The stars of it were two teenage girls who were lesbians..
@nocturnal101ravenous6
@nocturnal101ravenous6 10 ай бұрын
@@zakofrx No having lesbians doesn't make it modern it just makes it Woke left.
@bghoody5665
@bghoody5665 10 ай бұрын
Davis should be thankful Disney removed it and ashamed of himself for even taking part in it.
@hinotorineko
@hinotorineko 10 ай бұрын
Am I the only person who 'took sail on the high seas' and found each and every one of these films, in HD, as he was listing them off? You could say that I found them in a ̶y̶i̶f̶y̶ jiffy.
@thedys70
@thedys70 10 ай бұрын
Ahaaaaaaaaaaar me scurvey mateys! Seriously though; please tell me how/where on keyboard you make the line run through text? i.e. ̶y̶i̶f̶y̶ [copy/pasted here lol]
@boltzmannbrayn
@boltzmannbrayn 10 ай бұрын
He could and should have done the list with more rare films, however Looking for Mr Goodbar has never been released on DVD/Blu-ray/4K yet (though it will probably get a release in 2024), and The Heartbreak Kid isn't in HD and likely never will be, and its 20+ years old DVD is long out of print.
@hinotorineko
@hinotorineko 10 ай бұрын
@@boltzmannbrayn 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' was done in HD at some point, because it's readily available in 1080p. But you are correct about 'The Heartbreak Kid'; I was only able to locate 720p HDTV (but it seems to be intact, with no logos, and uncensored).
@ricahrdb
@ricahrdb 10 ай бұрын
My personal list of titles not yet available on blu-ray: Bringing Out the Dead (1999) High Society (1956) In America (2002) Panic Room (2002) Titan A.E. (2000) Map of the Human Heart (1992) Le Notti Bianche (1957) Ryans Daughter (1970) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) A Prairie Home Companion (2006) A Canterbury Tale (1944) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
@edwardpaulsen1074
@edwardpaulsen1074 10 ай бұрын
It is absolutely amazing just how many copies of the original Cocoon, and its sequel, are available in DVD, Blu-Ray, and even VHS on Amazon only a mere two weeks after this video dropped...
@punkyreggaeparty8786
@punkyreggaeparty8786 9 ай бұрын
All gone now...
@SylvesterAshcroft88
@SylvesterAshcroft88 10 ай бұрын
I found some pretty obscure films from CEX in the past, but most of them were worthless, but Dark City was another decent find, from another used media store, but some seem to be only available in certain regions in PAL at least, like Australia, or Germany.
@zu_1455
@zu_1455 10 ай бұрын
Recently found Dark City in the cardboard dvd case at Goodwill
@rustymixer2886
@rustymixer2886 10 ай бұрын
​@zu_1455 is that the 1998 alien erases minds 24 hours movie?
@croftmire
@croftmire 10 ай бұрын
I’m in Australia and I bought Dark City on Blu maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Haven’t noticed it at the stores since, so it may have gone out of print.
@rustymixer2886
@rustymixer2886 10 ай бұрын
@@croftmire is it better than the matrix
@ivoreategui781
@ivoreategui781 10 ай бұрын
Pink Floyd The Wall directed by Alan Parker is great example of a movie that never was available on Blu-ray, only in DVD, Laserdic, VHS, Betamax, but it still difficult to get a DVD or Laserdisc or VHS or Betamax of that movie. The Man Who Saw Tomorrow starring Orson Welles was only available in Betamax and VHS, but never was available in Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-ray.
@TueSorensen
@TueSorensen 10 ай бұрын
I work in a second-hand music and movie store in Copenhagen, and the region 2 The Wall DVD is one we see quite often. It also is a steady seller.
@into_play3226
@into_play3226 10 ай бұрын
Dead or Alive, a 2006 action film based on a fighting video game is extremely hard to find in Blu-ray. The movie was widely panned, and low Blu-ray sales must have made it go OOP before many copies could end up in circulation.
@stazoola3616
@stazoola3616 10 ай бұрын
I love DOA! Got the DVD and Blu-ray. Such a fun movie. Didn't know it was hard to find. Once I finally get a film on physical media I, naturally, stop looking for it.
@JHazard1000
@JHazard1000 10 ай бұрын
I remember this movie and have it on DVD it came out at the same time as the Tekken and King of the Fighters movies.
@into_play3226
@into_play3226 9 ай бұрын
@@stazoola3616 Agreed. It’s just dumb, mindless fun IMO
@BigFatCone
@BigFatCone 8 ай бұрын
The movie is pretty good for what it is.
@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319
@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319 10 ай бұрын
I had to go to either Germany or Australia (online) to get a Blu-ray copy of Strange Days. But I'm glad that I went through the trouble. It's a movie that's more than worth owning physically and the Blu-ray copy I have looks beautiful. The fact that it can't be found here in the US as a 4K re-release is criminal.
@mastermindmartialarts
@mastermindmartialarts 10 ай бұрын
I lucked out big time with Strange Days, I had it on VHS for years and was able to find a copy on DVD on facebook marketplace a few years back. I paid $6 for it including shipping. I also lucked out with a few of John Woo's Hong Kong films on DVD, I was able to pick a few up not long ago.
@Gamble661
@Gamble661 10 ай бұрын
I have a large DVD collection that includes numerous films that you can't find anywhere anymore and I intend to hold onto it. One in my collection is mentioned here; "Something Wicked This Way Comes", a pretty good little horror film. Unfortunately though, another trend is for studios not to spend the money to produce a physical copy of a film or series on any format any longer. You may be able to "own" a digital copy but that's all. The third season of The Orville is one example I recently encountered. People love or hate The Orville, I happen to love it and have the first two seasons on DVD, I grabbed them as soon as they came available. But it doesn't look like the people at Disney, who let's face it, are pretty much asshats these days anyway, are going to release a DVD or Blu-ray version of season three.
@PhilAndersonOutside
@PhilAndersonOutside 10 ай бұрын
Agree. Disney as a company has been consumed by short-sighted greed.
@TheBlues123
@TheBlues123 10 ай бұрын
Been hoping for an uncut blu ray release of Peter Jackson‘s „Braindead / Dead Alive“ for years and beginning to more and more loose all hope.
@BigFatCone
@BigFatCone 8 ай бұрын
A box set with Bad Taste, Braindead and Meet The Feebles would be cool.
@ChrisXperince
@ChrisXperince 2 ай бұрын
I have dead/alive on dvd
@SimonAshworthWood
@SimonAshworthWood 10 ай бұрын
“Blood of Heroes” was shown on TV in Australia and available to rent in video stores in Australia, too, IIRC.
@ChrisOnStage2
@ChrisOnStage2 10 ай бұрын
I had THE toughest time trying to get a DVD of "The Comeback" with Robert DeNiro & Morgan Freeman since the movie was never released anywhere in the U.S. ! I finally had to buy a foreign DVD.
@JoBloOriginals
@JoBloOriginals 10 ай бұрын
Did it ever get officially released in the US?
@ChrisOnStage2
@ChrisOnStage2 10 ай бұрын
@@JoBloOriginals It was never released to any theater or any streaming service that I know of. I checked! I finally had to buy a copy off of Ebay from Australia!
@ertymexx
@ertymexx 10 ай бұрын
"Blood and concrete - a love story" with Billy Zane. A bizarre little gem that I miss dearly. 🙂
@thumpyloudfoot864
@thumpyloudfoot864 10 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is the title of a novel written by Ray Bradbury and is actually a line from Shakespeare's story Macbeth...
@dorailroad4285
@dorailroad4285 10 ай бұрын
The Bradbury novel is what the movie is based on.
@thumpyloudfoot864
@thumpyloudfoot864 10 ай бұрын
@@dorailroad4285 yes, but the title is a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth, I find it interesting when someone takes a line from one medium and uses it for the basis for something in a different medium... Metallica has The Call of Ktulu (Cthulhu) which is just the name of a story from HP Lovecraft and For Whom The Bell Tolls which is the name of an Earnest Hemingway book but they also have a song call "The Thing That Should Not Be" which is a line from a story called "They're Shadow Over Innsmouth" by HP Lovecraft...
@RainePhoenix
@RainePhoenix 10 ай бұрын
Dogma, Sling Blade and The Brave Little Toaster are very hard to find anywhere.
@stevedullum6777
@stevedullum6777 8 ай бұрын
Local used bookstore has great collection of blu-ray and DVDs, all for $3. Just got Sling Blade on blu-ray there a few months ago. I hit that place every weekend and walk out with a large stack of movies.
@roxy5588
@roxy5588 10 ай бұрын
I have Strange Days. It was pretty easy to find on Ebay. Another movie that stars Strange Days actor the late Tom Sizemore is Watch It! released in 1993. I cannot find it anywhere online or on dvd.
@Sinkingthroughdafloor
@Sinkingthroughdafloor 10 ай бұрын
The Fall (2006 film) It’s GORGEOUS! They shot it in 24 countries over the course of four years. And now you can’t find it streaming or on DVD anywhere. The AV club said it was the best movie that was released in 2008. It’s so sad…. The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed and co-written by Tarsem and starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell.
@Sketch105
@Sketch105 10 ай бұрын
Kevin Smiths Dogma is impossible to find. There was a DVD release in the early 2000s but because of the controversial religious subject matter and some rights issues with the Weinsteins, it's tied up from being released on Blu ray.
@erikthompson619
@erikthompson619 10 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'm glad I own one of those DVD copies. Not sure if it helped that I'm from Sweden, where few people have any religious affiliation at all and even fewer give a rat's ass about any supposed controversy with religious connotations.
@jesseswarbrick7895
@jesseswarbrick7895 10 ай бұрын
I have Dogma on blu ray that I found for 5 bucks
@orboflightning
@orboflightning 10 ай бұрын
I have a DVD copy of The Time Machine with Guy Pierce. It wasn’t well received in theaters but I enjoyed it and it’s never seen a bluray release.
@mattmozgiel2111
@mattmozgiel2111 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is criminally underrated
@PhilAndersonOutside
@PhilAndersonOutside 10 ай бұрын
Shy People (1987) is an outstanding film that's impossible to find. Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh. Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy. Won awards at Cannes. Never even released on DVD, almost never plays on TV. Shoot (1976) a somewhat controversial film starring Cliff Robertson Ernest Borgnine and others. All but vanished.
@doggedout
@doggedout 10 ай бұрын
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is not only hard to find now, it was hard to find within a few years of release. HBO used to do an occasional run of it in the 80's ,usually at 3 a.m.. It was really weird. It was maybe Diane Keaton's best role and a real gritty depiction of the time. A great movie ..if you can find it.
@boltzmannbrayn
@boltzmannbrayn 10 ай бұрын
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has been cleared for release recently and it will be released by a boutique blu-ray label in the future, it's speculated that Vinegar Syndrome is doing it.
@stinkasscat
@stinkasscat 10 ай бұрын
There are multiple copies of it in both VHS and DVD on eBay. They aren't that expensive either. I'm not really sure what's so hard about finding it.
@boltzmannbrayn
@boltzmannbrayn 10 ай бұрын
@@stinkasscat DVDs of LFMG are bootlegs though, it hasn't had an official and legal disc release.
@stinkasscat
@stinkasscat 10 ай бұрын
@@boltzmannbrayn thank you, I didn't know that!
@WordUnheard
@WordUnheard 10 ай бұрын
The movie I was going to say is difficult to find is Deathrow Gameshow, which came out in 1987. Any time I've ever mentioned this movie to anyone, the reply has always been, "I've never heard of it." I was surprised to see that it actually had a Blu-ray release, and is pretty easy to find. Weird how most of these movies are difficult to find, despite most being well-known and winning Oscars. Meanwhile, some weird movie I watched on VHS when I was a kid is out there on Blu-ray at a very good price for the 60 or so people who've actually seen it. Thanks, Vinegar Syndrome!
@melamineflorentine8134
@melamineflorentine8134 10 ай бұрын
LOL!!!! Yes I've heard of it and seen it... the Citizen Kane of cheap barrel of laughs gonzo 80's cinema. There are gags in that that are so funny I only have to look at my old bud with that facial expression and he busts out laughing. Really.. these movies were ubiquitous.. shown all over on cable damn near every weekend.. who'd have thought THESE films would be disappearing.. and here we are with digital video tech that we would have thought was magic back in the 80s now we have to FIGHT to make this stuff work with copy protection schemes and settings issues that have to be WRANGLED to ensure any kind of long term storage!
@sdelong74
@sdelong74 10 ай бұрын
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a beautiful Halloween film. So many movies I can think of. Disney has purposely buried Song of the South. I can think of dramatic movie like, The Whole Wide World, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. The very bizarre early 90s movie Boxing Helena. All of these that I mentioned have huge names in them. Boxing Helena was met with controversy when originally released. Also received an NC-17 rating. I remember when the Rock Hudson movie Seconds was found. There was a video store in LA that rented out a bootleg. Then there's the William Shatner oddity The Incubus. A movie spoke in Esposito. It was found and restored back in the late 90s. So many film become lost this way.
@JoBloOriginals
@JoBloOriginals 10 ай бұрын
Seconds is a stone cold classic
@TheRealNormanBates
@TheRealNormanBates 10 ай бұрын
go to The Internet Archives. They have 2 different HD restorations of *Song of the South* that look really good. One is 1080p and the other is 2160p; both from 16mm negatives.
@bulldogs_6165
@bulldogs_6165 10 ай бұрын
i remember watching boxing helena on laser disc in the 90's
@210Stitch
@210Stitch 10 ай бұрын
But with Song of the South if it's not released on bluray/DVD or theater again I thought in something like 4 years it goes into public domain, because it's been shelved for so long.
@sdelong74
@sdelong74 10 ай бұрын
It could be. I know Disney wants it buried. That was why the controversy over Splash Mountain. Who Framed Roger Rabbit doesn't seem to get a lot of love from the house of mouse either. Never understood why they won't give Cocoon love.
@gavinshickle1814
@gavinshickle1814 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days is #1on my list of most underrated movies. It's hard to find anyone who has seen it let alone a physical copy.
@anthonyhoffmann
@anthonyhoffmann 10 ай бұрын
It seems odd as I've just bought a copy on eBay.
@raindogs
@raindogs 10 ай бұрын
One of the most frustrating, hard to find movies for me is a copy of The Compleat Beatles. I used to have a beautiful copy on laserdisc but I don't think that a HD copy of it exists. A pity. Also, it is almost impossible to find a copy of the Australian film A Dangerous Life, starring Gary Busey, here in the US although lesser Australian films, such as Stunt Rock, can be found in different formats.
@melamineflorentine8134
@melamineflorentine8134 10 ай бұрын
Reading through these comments is sobering. I remember playing hooky from high school .. go down to the record store at the mall... I remember the CES discs of both Let It Be AND The Compleat Beatles... I remember both briefly available on Laser Disc too.. 40 years ago... hard to believe these things were easier to get when the playback machines were the size of your whole home theater system nowadays.
@JohnnyTong215
@JohnnyTong215 10 ай бұрын
Dark Horse, the 1992 movie, isn’t on 📀 and it’s a shame!!! 30 years later, and it was still forgotten!!!
@BuckarooBanzai84
@BuckarooBanzai84 10 ай бұрын
I'm SO glad somebody else agknowledged the issue with 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', another Disney cult-classic that deserves more attention! I can't even find a decent copy on eBay! (BTW, it's the same way with 'The Watcher in the Woods') I still can't believe they have 'The Black Cauldron' on Disney+, but not that one! =\
@thegroove14
@thegroove14 10 ай бұрын
Not to mention Black Cauldron is 4K on Disney+
@BuckarooBanzai84
@BuckarooBanzai84 10 ай бұрын
@@thegroove14 Another good point! =)
@Gunsight-One
@Gunsight-One 10 ай бұрын
I think I just lucked out. This video prompted me to go to Ebay and I snagged a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes on Blu-ray for $30. Every other option was alot more expensive.
@BuckarooBanzai84
@BuckarooBanzai84 10 ай бұрын
@@Gunsight-One I guess you must be; I noticed that too. You must've have been the lucky one who bought it before I could! XD (I didn't have a lot extra after Christmas. Watta ya gonna do?) Seriously though, I'm glad someone else cares about that movie. Hope you enjoy it! =)
@Gunsight-One
@Gunsight-One 10 ай бұрын
@@BuckarooBanzai84 I'm kinda stoked. I havent watched that movie since the good old VHS days, but I wore that tape out. I imagine the dark nature of the movie gives Disney cold feet when it comes to promoting it.
@chrisanderson7820
@chrisanderson7820 10 ай бұрын
Man, Salute of the Jugger is a trip down memory lane. I must dig through my DVD collection I'm sure I've got Strange Days buried in there somewhere.
@ciscoytube5352
@ciscoytube5352 10 ай бұрын
I really wish I had bought the DVD sets for Northern Exposure. Really great show with amazing writers, cast, performances, and music. From my understanding, it's the music rights that have kept it from re-release.
@milesnicholas5973
@milesnicholas5973 10 ай бұрын
Apparently, the (European) Blu-ray release of Northern Exposure has the original soundtrack.
@ciscoytube5352
@ciscoytube5352 10 ай бұрын
@@milesnicholas5973 thanks, good to know. May get a blueray reader for that and a few others.
@mageck1
@mageck1 10 ай бұрын
I see the dvd box set all the time at Walmart. I picked it up
@ciscoytube5352
@ciscoytube5352 10 ай бұрын
@@mageck1 I hope I'm wrong, but I understood they edited the US version that's available. They played a lot of copyrighted music.
@mageck1
@mageck1 10 ай бұрын
I couldnt tell you that. I dont really remember the original music in the show. it was so long ago and I didn't always watch it @@ciscoytube5352
@tecpaocelotl
@tecpaocelotl 10 ай бұрын
Movies that i love but hard to find: *Returno A Aztlan. Dvd are rare. Never came out on bluray. *Erendira, ikikunari, released on dvd. Never on bluray.
@blatherskite3009
@blatherskite3009 10 ай бұрын
Strange Days was always an odd one, because it was released in 1995 and is totally keyed into the "end of the millennium" zeitgeist ... which, of course, has aged like warm milk. It's a bit like those "2012" Mayan apocalypse films in that respect, i.e. it never had a very long "best before" date on it. And its core concept is "borrowed" (i.e. plagiarised) from Douglas Trumbull's film "Brainstorm" (1983). EDIT: Actually, you can add "Brainstorm" to your list. They've never known how to handle that film on home media, because of its rare trick of switching the aspect ratio between flat and scope throughout the film. Most of the film is in flat, but when they put the headset on that plays back recorded experiences (a la Strange Days) the film opens up into a scope aspect ratio. Which, on the DVD I've got, means you're watching most of the film as an inset little box (flat film within a scope frame) and it only opens up into full scope during the headset sequences. It worked brilliantly in the cinema, going from "ordinary" real-world scenes in flat to the screen opening up into immersive scope for the special sequences, but home formats struggle to replicate the effect in a satisfactory way.
@FanboyFilms
@FanboyFilms 10 ай бұрын
I love Brainstorm. When Strange Days came out, I seemed to be the only one I knew who said they stole the device from Brainstorm.
@blatherskite3009
@blatherskite3009 10 ай бұрын
@@FanboyFilms Sadly, I think a lot more people saw Strange Days than saw Brainstorm. But I think Brainstorm did more interesting things with the concept... You had the guy who spliced a sex-tape into a loop and was ... erm ... found in a not-very-well condition, proving that experiencing something like that over and over, in a way you couldn't manage in real life, was more than the body could take. And then, of course (SPOILERS!) the amazing idea of someone dying while recording, and do you even dare play that tape back in case experiencing someone else's death kills you too? But you've captured what happens at death in a way that was never possible before, so the temptation to find out what's on the tape is off the scale. Brilliant film, from an era when sci-fi cinema had some intelligence to it, and explored the big questions.
@toro5280
@toro5280 10 ай бұрын
I love that so many comments are mentioning Brainstorm and Strange days. Both are amazing films with great concept and cast.
@carolyn816
@carolyn816 10 ай бұрын
I have Looking for Mr. Goodbar on DVD. Looked forever and found it on Amazon a few years ago. Another hard one to find is "Bug" with Bradford Dillman. A real cult classic. I also have the DVD but almost impossible to find now.
@CryWolf-sm9iw
@CryWolf-sm9iw 10 ай бұрын
Dogma for sure. It’s the only Kevin Smith movie that has gone OOP and no other company will touch it due to the Weinsteins holding the rights. The Empty Man so far has only been released digitally. Apparently no company has yet to pick it up for physical media.
@ricahrdb
@ricahrdb 10 ай бұрын
@stonesfan285 it is unclear. Pretty much all of Weinstein's other films seem to still be available.
@ricahrdb
@ricahrdb 10 ай бұрын
@stonesfan285 after writing my previous posting I read somewhere that it also might have something to do with the original controversy surrounding the movie and publishers not wanting to deal with a film that has multiple controversies linked to it. Not sure if that is true either though. I do wonder if Kevin Smith himself has ever spoken out about the situation.
@fightingtyler14
@fightingtyler14 10 ай бұрын
Dawn of the Dead does have a North American blu-ray. It's just unfortunately been out of print for a while. It was put out by Anchor Bay. It was one of first blu-rays I purchased.
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