“No, stay here trapped in a decayng husk with your best days only a distant memory!”

The general impression that movie left you with is far different than my take away. I watched that movie as a little girl and I thought it was so beautiful. There's no magic pill. It was the fountain of youth and at the end they're taken voluntarily to eternal youthful Bliss with aliens, I guess. The musical score was so beautiful and the cinematography was so beautiful and the happiness I saw in the old people was so beautiful, they were no longer in pain and they could play like children again, it was all beautiful to me.

Physical > Digital and if you can't get it on 4K or Blu Ray...

Easily torrented.

I watched it recently and the film didn't age well in the current social climate. Good script, great cast, but the story is about a "magic pill" that will make old people young again. That in itself is not a bad thing, but the end of the movie sees all the old people making the selfish decision to leave their loved ones for their own eternal bliss. I know it was supposed to be a metaphor for death and heaven and such, but now it just looks like Me Generation, head in the sand, fuck you I got mine, Boomerism.

Wilford Brimley's grandson pleads for him not to go and tries to stow away on the heaven boat. And then Brimley's like "nope, I choose to never see you again, go fishing by yourself." If I was a grandpa, every moment with my grandson would be worth giving up an alien immortal orgy. Geez.

Who buys DVD in 2025?

It's not hard to find, just not alone.

Bundled with the Return on DVD for $35:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KGGIWI

Shit. What? Rollers. No. Yes. Shit!

Always have done.

Get ready to hate Illinois Nazis all over again!

One of the best movies ever.

I've been picking these up one at a time as they come out, Isle of Dogs and French Dispatch are the latest two.

While both films are a delight, I found the bonus material on French Dispatch a little tiring. Not so on Isle of Dogs, the whole production is great start to finish!

Asteroid City and Phoenecian Scheme both have normal non-Criterion releases.

Looks like we've got a pretty even split between DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD in the pie chart!

Finally got around to watching this a few weeks ago. Good movie, bitter sarcasm. Hard to imagine the conversation with a smart-bomb not happening at some point… I mean, the military gave something an X-Box controller because people picked it up faster. And way had a way more rational military at that point ;-)

Fun Fact. I registered darkstar.org back in the early 90’s because I didn’t know how to change it. It was Slackware Linux’s default domain name. Had to explain that to Patrick. Always felt like a bit of a schmuck :-)

4k shit monster

Yeah, I just checked eBay and the cheapest copy of Dogma is about £35.

It's about time! That's good news for other rare, overpriced DVDs of popular movies and shows. The secondary market for Dogma was (is?) wild.

100%

best method I found to watch old movies

especially as many public libraries loan out DVDs.

I wouldn't even though I own and buy DVDs regularly. It is the best method I found to watch old movies (Citizen Kane, the Alien quadrilogy, Dune from 1984, the LoTR trilogy, Waterworld) without subscribing to six different streaming platform.

But I understand the golden age of physical media has passed so for new movies I don't know what to do.

No.

Fuck no, these people are high or ignorant of the high seas.

I just watched True Lies in 4K and felt the transfer was phenomenal. These cheesy action movies don’t need the preserved grain or whatever, and I’d say it definitely felt true to the original experience that Cameron wanted to create.

All the ones with 4k remakes anyway lol

If you have access to the original camera negative, it's going to look great in 4K. Look at the Wizard of Oz, that's 1939.

“Too bad they never made any sequels.”