| ChichiriMuyo said: What's the point? Criteron specializes in older movies and foreign movies. Neither of which don't have the budget to compete with Hollywood, which is to say neither has anything to add in terms of HD content. I like Criterion well enough (though I hate their prices). They brought me the Seven Samurai (at twice the cost of a new DVD...), so that's worth some props. But the products they specialize in don't really add anything to Blu-ray and BR adds nothing to them. So, again, what's the point? |
Black and White films can still look amazing in hi-def (check out Warner's two Elvis movies if you don't believe me). So can a lot of older films even if they lack the flair of a movie like Iron Man or Transformers.
Criterion is nutty about getting good source material and remastering it as aggressively as possible, so I think their hi-def transfers will be some of the best out there.
Blu-Ray offers Criterion new ways to do special features too with all the added things Blu-Ray can do vs. DVD.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
