Blu-ray: Abandon All Hope Ye Movies Listed Here… (1 Viewer)

[Carabimero]

With the recent announcement that Samsung is no longer manufacturing Blu-ray players, I must admit I have finally given up hope of ever seeing two of my favorite movies, K-PAX and Dolores Claiborne released on BD. If it hasn’t happened by now, with the format dying, I just can’t see it ever happening now. I’m fortunate to have 720p Internet copies of these two gems, but man, they deserve full 1080 (at least).
What are some of your favorite movies that deserve Blu-ray treatment that will probably never get it?

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[Tino]

Shouldn’t this be in the Blu Ray forum Alan? You’ll get more responses there.

 

[Andrew Budgell]

Dolores Claiborne was released on Blu-ray via the Warner Archive in late 2017.

 

[Alan Tully]

Yeah, cheer up, lot's of great releases to come in the next few years.

 

[Will Krupp]

I don't mean to be a dick, but DC is readily available on blu-ray and and I can't believe you never thought of looking for it before posting this.

https://www.amazon.com/Dolores-Clai...325&sr=8-1&keywords=dolores+claiborne+blu-ray

 

[TravisR]

Thanks to smaller companies licensing titles, alot of I want has already gotten a Blu-ray release and I think more will follow. It helps that I'm a horror/cult fan so I'm more likely to see what I want than if I were a 1940's drama fan. I doubt I'll be able to replace every DVD in my collection with a Blu-ray (there's some weird [and bad] 1940's Universal horror movies like The Brute Man that might never make Blu-ray but even the second and third tier Universals are starting to come out thanks to Kino and Shout) but I've already upgraded a large chunk of my collection to Blu.

 

[skylark68]

Just thinking out loud...

The Wilderness Family (and sequels)
The Sea Gypsies (aka Shipwrecked)
Midway (extended version with Battle of Coral Sea)
The Dove
Destination Tokyo (although Warner Archive May release that one some day)
The Wizard of Speed and Time

 

[Sam Posten]

Both of those films will look perfectly fine on a streaming source. Neither of them have any specific need to be on a disk. Sticking to a specific format when the hobby contains multitudes is going to be painful in the long term.

 

[Worth]

K-PAX is available on iTunes in 1080p. I think it's unlikely to be released on disc because of Kevin Spacey, not because discs are dying.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Like to see UFOria, Reversal of Fortune and 84 Charing Cross Road for starters.

 

[Jeffrey D]

Lone Star (John Sayles)
The Four Seasons (Alan Alda)
The Mouse That Roared

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Lone Star (John Sayles)
The Four Seasons (Alan Alda)
The Mouse That Roared

Like to see Matewan along with Lone Star.

 

[Jeffrey D]

Another film I’d like to see get a decent BluRay
release is High Risk (1981). An entertaining adventure/heist film, with a good cast (James
Brolin, Anthony Quinn, Bruce Davison, Lindsay
Wagner, Cleavon Little, James Coeburn). It was released on DVD by a minor studio, in a horrible
looking 4X3 version.

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

I would really love Elisa, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112945/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3, I'd even settle for DVD, if only it had english subs (which the French DVD doesn't)

 

[StarDestroyer52]

This is where I once again mention The Wind, A Woman of Affairs, and Greed. And well I could go on and on with silents but I wont.

 

[Bob_S.]

My 2 biggest grails right now would be Astaire and Rogers and Mickey and Judy.

 

[StarDestroyer52]

My 2 biggest grails right now would be Astaire and Rogers and Mickey and Judy.

A trilogy of the RKO Astaire-Rogers would be a perfect Criterion boxset.

 

[David Weicker]

A trilogy of the RKO Astaire-Rogers would be a perfect Criterion boxset.

Trilogy??

There were nine films from RKO (and one from MGM).

And Swing Time was hinted at in this year’s Criterion yearly drawing.

 

[Carabimero]

I don't mean to be a dick, but DC is readily available on blu-ray and and I can't believe you never thought of looking for it before posting this.

https://www.amazon.com/Dolores-Clai...325&sr=8-1&keywords=dolores+claiborne+blu-ray

Thanks for the link. Believe it or not, I did look for it before posting. I look for it every few months. In fact, after I just bought it, I blanked out my screen and searched for it again, and it still didn't come up. There must be something about my browser history that is putting it way down the list. I know all searches on different computers are not created equally.

Thanks again for the link. If nothing else, this thread gave me one of the two movies I really wanted.

 

[StarDestroyer52]

Trilogy??

There were nine films from RKO (and one from MGM).

And Swing Time was hinted at in this year’s Criterion yearly drawing.

Yeah my bad on the use of the word. I now recall Swing Time on the yearly drawing now that you bring up again.