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I recently watched Die Hard and I was just thinking that it would be cool to see a similar situation take place in the Star Trek universe. I could feature the starship Enterprise be taken over by an alien species like the Romulans. They hold the entire crew hostage and there is one individual who was able to evade capture and it's up to them to save the crew and free the Enterprise. In addition, the Romulans could use the Enterprise to infiltrate the federation. It could be an interesting concept for a fourth movie in the Kelvin universe. I was also thinking it would be more like Air Force One than Die Hard. Both similar movies. What do you all think?

This is just a little rant, but 20th Century Fox was arguably the best studio for physical media until it was bought by Disney. The first ever titles released on the 4K format were Fox titles. Fox also had some good 4K restorations and releases of their older films like Alien, Die Hard, Independence Day, Predator, Home Alone. They were also good about releasing their newer films on 4K like The Martian, Life of Pi, Hidden Figures, The Greatest Showman, The Revenant, Alita Battle Angel, The Planet of The Apes movies, and I'm sure there are more that I'm missing.

Because of the Disney acquisition in 2019, there are so many movies from Fox that we might never get on 4K. Since Disney now owns all Fox titles, there are significant barriers to them being released on 4K. Since Disney no longer has a physical media department and all physical media from Disney is distributed by Sony, Sony needs to ask for the rights to each film and Disney needs to approve. Sony handles physical media distribution for three studios, Sony, Disney and Fox, and I'm sure Disney isn't lenient with the titles Sony has access to. And on a side note, I can't think of that many notable movies from 20th Century Studios as it's now called, from the past 5 years. Sure there were Avatar 2 and 3, Predator Badlands, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and maybe Alien Romulus. Maybe I'm missing a couple. Their output certainly isn't what it used to be.

In terms of 4K Blu-ray, we have so many Fox titles that never made it to 4K because of the Disney acquisition. There is a chance that we may never get Home Alone 2, Die Hard 2-5, Commando, Mrs. Doubtfire, Chronicles of Narnia 1-3, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Ice Age 1-5, My Cousin Vinny, Office Space, I, Robot, Cast Away, Jumper, In Time, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jingle All The Way, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, High Crimes, and many more on the 4K format. I think that is very sad.

The ones that we do get nowadays, at least in the US, are most likely to be steelbook exclusive editions like Fight Club, Tombstone, Master and Commander, Kingdom of Heaven, and Edward Scissorhands. Now not all new Fox releases of old movies are steelbook exclusive. The Sound of Music is the one example I know of that doesn't have a steelbook. And steelbooks can be great for those who really want them, but I am not going to spend $40 for a Fight Club steelbook to upgrade over the already great Blu-ray I got at a thrift store for $2. I'm sure I'm not the only one. And it also means that it's most likely that the movies I mentioned before that don't have a 4K are most likely to be steelbook exclusive if they ever get an upgrade.

To add insult to injury, some of the old Fox blu-rays are hard to find now for a good price. Some are even going OOP because Disney doesn't care enough to continue the licensing agreements. Compare this to other studios. Universal and Warner Bros are excellent at keeping their physical media in stock, accessible, and fairly priced. They also are consistent at releasing their catalog on 4K. It's why very recently, we got things like Ben-Hur, Speed Racer, Mars Attacks!, Eraser, a Dolby Vision Jurassic Park, Kung Fu Panda 1-3, A Beautiful Mind, All the President's Men, and even a comedy like The 40 Year Old Virgin and they're all easily available on GRUV. Paramount is the same. All the Mission Impossibles are readily available on 4K. Same with the Star Treks. We got Minority Report, Catch Me if You Can, Mean Girls, Better Off Dead, Airplane!, and even Popeye. These studios are consistently outputting their movies on the 4K format.

Disney is gatekeeping Fox's old library. I just think it's sad because it didn't have to be this way. If the Disney acquisition never happened, it's possible all the Fox movies I mentioned before could have had widespread, standard, fairly-priced 4K releases. We could have also gotten some nice box sets. Aliens could have had a 40th anniversary box set this year with an actually good transfer. I guess it's even possible that Fox could have been part of GRUV but I think that's a stretch. I just think it's sad that Fox has been reduced to what it is now. Fox used to be the pioneer of the 4K format when it first released and they made some great releases. I'm thinking about what could have been had Disney not taken over. It makes me a little concerned about what could happen under a Paramount-WB merger which I hope is blocked. Just had to get this little rant out. What are your thoughts?

I was checking out some of my 4K discs and I don't know if it's just me, but I can't help but think that WB movies have the same look to them on the 4K format. I mean for movies made in the 80s and 90s that were shot on film. Movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Lethal Weapon, The Shining, The Fugitive, The Green Mile, and Full Metal Jacket just look very similar in terms of image quality. Other movies from that era from other studios look different, such as The Thing, Back to the Future, Alien, The Big Lebowski, Gattaca, Total Recall, Forrest Gump and many more. Just to be clear, I still think all those movies I mentioned look fantastic on the format, but I can't help but think that the WB movies I mentioned look similar. Anyone else feel the same?

I sometimes watch a movie and think "OMG I need to own this" but then I don't rewatch it for a while. I started out buying movies that I had seen before usually more than once and knew that I would rewatch every now and then, but recently, I have been buying more movies I have only seen once before. Do you relate? Also do you all think this is a good way to approach collecting?

I found the movies available for free on youtube and decided to watch them for the first time. Here are my thoughts as a new fan.

Mission Impossible:

I really enjoyed this movie and I thought it was solid as a standalone movie. I really liked the setup of the botched mission and the twist with Jim Phelps having actually survived. I found the entire movie thrilling from start to finish. I had seen a few clips of the heist scene where Ethan Hunt is in the secret room suspended in the air, but I had not seen the entire scene before. I will say that it is slightly intellectual and I had to pay close attention to everything to fully understand what was happening. Another thing I will say is that it felt a bit limited in scope and the only thing that was really at stake was that Ethan Hunt was trying to be reinstated into the IMF and trying to avenge the deaths of his team while also trying to find the people responsible. I still really enjoyed this movie overall.

Mission Impossible 2:

I don't think I have ever seen any movies by John Woo, but I liked the style of this movie. Also Anthony Hopkins was a surprise. That being said, there were several things I did not like and it didn't feel like a good continuation of the first one. I thought the plot was actually compelling and the stakes were high. I also liked the rock styled theme music. The Chimera virus seems scary and it makes for a great plot device. However, I found several aspects of this movie cheesy such as the romance between Ethan and Nyah and the villain Sean Ambrose felt cliche and theatrical in a sense. I did like that we have more than one recurring character. Luther Stickell is the only character we see from the first movie other than Ethan. Overall, this movie felt like an average early 2000s action type movie and was not a good continuation from the first one in my opinion.

Mission Impossible 3:

This was my favorite out of the four that I watched despite it being directed by JJ Abrams who I am not a fan of as a director. I found the plot very compelling but I still have a few issues with this movie. I did like the setup of Ethan being given the mission to rescue Lindsey while being taken away from his new wife. This movie felt like it had bigger scope to it than the first two which I really like. Also, Philip Seymour Hoffman is genuinely scary as Owen Davian. I like that we don't know his backstory. I think too many villains in media are given a backstory explaining why they are how they are. I like it when they're mysterious and straight up evil. I also thought this one had the best action scenes. I also liked Julia as a character. I do have problems with this movie though. JJ Abrams has this "mystery box" style of writing and it's very apparent here with the rabbit's foot. It's never revealed what the rabbit's foot really is. It has a biohazard symbol on it and it would have raised the stakes if we knew exactly what it did and who would use it and how, but it just remains a mystery for the entire film. Another thing I don't like about JJ Abrams's directing is that there are moments of sheer convenience such as where Ethan Hunt and Davian happen to roll on the side of the road while fighting and Davian happens to be hit by a truck, dying an unclimactic death. Still, I think this was the one that I enjoyed the most out of the four that I watched.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

This one I thought was really good and was almost my favorite out of the four and I have very few complaints. I thought the plot was compelling and this one had the highest stakes out of all of them. I like Brad Bird as a director partly because I love the two Incredibles films. One of the weakest parts of the movie for me was the beginning. We don't know how long Ethan has been in a Russian prison and we don't know why he is there at least not immediately. Also, I found it a bit weird that Ethan is expected to infiltrate the Kremlin as soon as he is broken out of a Russian prison, when we don't really know the backstory just yet. The backstory is revealed later in the story and it does make sense, but I don't love it when movies give retroactive explanations. I initially thought it was very cheap of them to kill off Julia in between movies but I was pleasantly surprised when she was revealed to still be alive. I did like the action scenes though and the whole Dubai sequence was pretty cool with Ethan scaling the Burj Khalifa with nothing except suction gloves with one running out of battery. I also liked the heist scene in Mumbai as well as the car garage scene. I found this movie very thrilling and it had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. One last thing I didn't like was that Luther was not in this one until the very end when he makes a cameo. I also thought this movie relied just a little to heavily on retroactive explanations to make sense of it. This almost became my favorite out of the four but I think I enjoyed MI3 just a little more.

I am very happy I actually took the time to watch these movies. I am a new fan and I'm excited to watch Rogue Nation, Fallout and the two Reckonings when they become available to me. I'm wondering now what you all think of the first four movies as fans. Do you agree with me, or am I missing something? Are the later movies better than the first four? What do you all think?

I really want to buy Criterion's Blu-ray release of 12 Angry Men during the July sale. However, I would ideally want it on 4K but Criterion only has it on Blu-ray. Kino Lorber released it on 4K a few years back, but now that's OOP and extremely expensive. Is there any chance Criterion rereleases 12 Angry Men on 4K like they have for other films recently?

Edit: Thank you for all the responses! I guess I'll wait and see if a 4K is announced in the next year or so.

The first Die Hard has a 4K release, but none of the sequels do. I know that all of them have a 4K transfer because they are available digitally, but none have been released on 4K Blu-ray. Only the first one has a physical 4K release. Is there any chance we might get the Die Hard sequels on physical 4K in the future?

I really want Tron: Ares on 4k. I'm not sure whether to buy the steelbook for $45 or whether to wait for the price on the standard release to drop. I usually avoid steelbooks because they get damages easily, they don't have swappable cover art and they're hella expensive. That being said, I have the first two Tron steelbooks and I think it would be nice to have a matching set of 3. I also prefer the spine on the steelbook which is what I'll see most of the time. But I don't know if it's worth the $45 just for a matching set since I only started collecting because I wanted easy access to the movies I like. However, the steelbook is a limited edition and once it's gone, it might be gone for good. I want your input. If you're just gonna tell me to do what I want to do, please don't. The only reason I'm making this post because I don't know what to do. Maybe you guys will have some insight. What do y'all think?

As I've been collecting movies in 4K, I've noticed that with some movies, I enjoy them no matter what format they are on. With others, I don't really enjoy watching them on DVD, blu-ray or streaming. I'd say most movies that I really like I enjoy on any format, but some movies I only really enjoy when they're in 4K. For example, I first watched The Fugitive on DVD and I really enjoyed it. I don't think the quality of the image really impacted my enjoyment. But with Alien and The Shining, I only really enjoyed them when I first saw them in 4K. Does anyone relate?

Hello everyone, I am interested in watching the Mad Max movies, but I don't know where to start. I remember seeing the first half of the first Mad Max a long time ago, but it was really confusing to me and I don't remember it much. What viewing order would you recommend to someone who has never seen any Mad Max movie? Should I start with the original or should I start somewhere else like maybe Fury Road?