Paramount's Centennial Collection

[John Hodson]

Paramount seems intent on making us double-dip on a number of their 'crown jewels' that they are releasing in their centenary year. So far I've resisted, but the lure of these R1 Hawks and Ford SEs may make me crumble;

El Dorado & The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Centennial Collection) in May

Please, Paramount, bring on the BDs...

[Livius]

They sound very tempting, don't they?

[John Hodson]

Temptation, I suspect, beyond endurance.

[Fizzbin2003]

Paramount seems intent on making us double-dip on a number of their 'crown jewels' that they are releasing in their centenary year. So far I've resisted, but the lure of these R1 Hawks and Ford SEs may make me crumble;

El Dorado & The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Centennial Collection) in May

Please, Paramount, bring on the BDs...

Yeah, I want these (and the Universal Hitchcock Legacy Editiions) but I'm hoping and assuming that the Blu Rays will eventually follow.

[Mycroft]

Temptation, I suspect, beyond endurance.

Extremely and I already own them twice both seperately and as part of the John Wayne Paramount set.

[John Hodson]

The Beaver on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

[Livius]

Does anyone else think the new Centennial release looks awfully bright in the Beaver's comparison?

[John Hodson]

It's bright, but it appears to be slightly better framed and looks to have benefitted from a little wash and brush up - hard to say without seeing it myself, and I *think* I will await the inevitable BD.

[Sarah Hadley]

Oh dear. I'll have to check on this in about a week's time - as the Beaver review itself notes, these things sometimes look better in motion than in a paused shot. But still...

I just reviewed my first two Centennial Collection discs (The Odd Couple and To Catch a Thief) and thought they looked gorgeous - so I'll be quite unhappy if all of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance's outdoor sequences make Jimmy Stewart look like he's standing on the surface of the sun!

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EDIT: Incidentally, is it just me or do you ever get the sense of deja vu in these classic-film-on-DVD threads? They all seem to go the same way! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just makes me laugh.) John Hodson and Livius start up a conversation, one of them pulls out the inevitable DVDBeaver comparison, Mycroft drops in a post or two, I show up to say that one day, in the vast far future, I should be getting a comp...and so it goes. Now, I know why I'm here singing the same song over and over (I'm the only one at our review site who seems to love classic movies beyond Breakfast at Tiffany's, so I grab 95% of them), and I can make a solid guess why you guys are here (you love classic cinema too), but I still think it's kind of amusing.

Clearly, as my granddad would say, we all just have excellent taste.

[John Hodson]

These discussions would be infinitely more popular with Roobarbians, had, for instance, Ford cast William Hartnell and Kenneth Williams instead of Wayne and Stewart.

When I first pitched up here, you couldn't get through any damn thread without some obscure 'Who' reference - blast; see what I've done now..?

[Sarah Hadley]

I guess we're just the small band who doesn't have to make a Who reference in every single thread. You see, our lives aren't like anybody else's, Victoria. That's the amazing thing...

Oh. Um.

Nevermind.

[John Hodson]

[Tufty]

Paramount seems intent on making us double-dip on a number of their 'crown jewels' that they are releasing in their centenary year. So far I've resisted, but the lure of these R1 Hawks and Ford SEs may make me crumble;

El Dorado & The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Centennial Collection) in May

Please, Paramount, bring on the BDs...

I love these films but already have two editions of El Dorado, both with that horrible edit/jump cut in the fight scene between Wayne and Mitchum. I'd only buy this again if that was somehow restored and the chopped footage (if any) put back in. I love Wayne films.

[Livius]

EDIT: Incidentally, is it just me or do you ever get the sense of deja vu in these classic-film-on-DVD threads? They all seem to go the same way! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just makes me laugh.) John Hodson and Livius start up a conversation, one of them pulls out the inevitable DVDBeaver comparison, Mycroft drops in a post or two, I show up to say that one day, in the vast far future, I should be getting a comp...and so it goes. Now, I know why I'm here singing the same song over and over (I'm the only one at our review site who seems to love classic movies beyond Breakfast at Tiffany's, so I grab 95% of them), and I can make a solid guess why you guys are here (you love classic cinema too), but I still think it's kind of amusing.

Clearly, as my granddad would say, we all just have excellent taste.

Your granddad sounds like a wise and perceptive man - as such, I'm going to have to agree with him.


BTW, another review of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance here.

[Livius]

DVd Times review of El Dorado.