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The US release schedule for all of these new titles lines up as follows:

Titanic - December 5 2023

Avatar Collector’s Edition - December 19 2023

Avatar: The Way Of Water Collector’s Edition - December 19 2023

Avatar 4K Limited Edition Steelbook (Best Buy exclusive) - December 19 2023

Aliens Collector’s Edition - March 12 2024

The Abyss Collector’s Edition - March 12 2024

True Lies Collector’s Edition - March 12 2024

All six titles will be available to pre-order from November 20 2023.
Release dates for physical copies are scattered between December and March, but all will be available on digital December 12th.
 
Fantastic. The only problems are:

What about the rest of the Alien films? I know they are terrible but this is the first time they have released the films individually and not in a set.

Where are the Terminator films?

Why do I have to buy the Avatar films again lol?


Why are these covers so awful?
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Edit: that has to be one of the longest press releases I’ve ever skimmed. Appears to be a ton of new extra features including deleted scenes from WoW. I’m especially interested in True Lies not just because it’s a ridiculously fun action film but they have always said they are going to sensitively handle and contextualise the more troublesome aspects in the special features.
 
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Fantastic. The only problems are:

What about the rest of the Alien films? I know they are terrible but this is the first time they have released the films individually and not in a set.

Where are the Terminator films?

Why do I have to buy the Avatar films again lol?


Why are these covers so awful?
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Edit: that has to be one of the longest press releases I’ve ever skimmed. Appears to be a ton of new extra features including deleted scenes from WoW. I’m especially interested in True Lies not just because it’s a ridiculously fun action film but they have always said they are going to sensitively handle and contextualise the more troublesome aspects in the special features.
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I know. I have nearly every Alien box set known to man (although they never did a laserdisc box set I don’t think) and yet Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection seem to have a lot more dust on them than Alien and Aliens. None of the box sets have Prometheus and Covenant but I if they did a box set with those I would anticipate a lot of dust on them as well.

Ahh the days of better looking sets, I especially like the Quadrilogy one. Classy looking like Criterion had done it.


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Damn I got all excited thinking I'd have 4K ALIENS on disc in December until I read the fine print. Oh well, looking forward to March. Hopefully that one gets a theatrical re-release as well. And I like the covers to ALIENS and True Lies but yeah the Abyss one is lame.

No way am I double dipping on Avatar 1 and 2 so soon after the recent 4K releases. I'll wait for the box set when the series is done.
 
Damn I got all excited thinking I'd have 4K ALIENS on disc in December until I read the fine print. Oh well, looking forward to March. Hopefully that one gets a theatrical re-release as well. And I like the covers to ALIENS and True Lies but yeah the Abyss one is lame.

No way am I double dipping on Avatar 1 and 2 so soon after the recent 4K releases. I'll wait for the box set when the series is done.
Isn't that like in 40 years though Khev? :ROFLMAO:
 
DEADLINE: They didn’t ask you back for the Alien sequel, which James Cameron directed. It’s very different, more of a roller-coaster ride.

SCOTT
: Well, Jim is about that, the way he designs, his whole process is The Ride. As I learned somebody else was doing this, I actually had been trying to develop something. When Jim called me up and said, listen … he was very nice but he said, this is tough, your beast is so unique. It’s hard to make him as frightening again, now familiar ground. So he said, I’m going in a more action, army kind of way. I said, okay. And that’s the first time I actually thought, welcome to Hollywood.

DEADLINE: What was it like to learn about a sequel to your movie when your replacement calls you?

SCOTT
: Jim and I talk often. We’re not exactly friends, but we do talk and he’s a great guy.

DEADLINE: How did you feel after you hung up that time?

SCOTT
: I was pissed. I wouldn’t tell that to Jim, but I think I was hurt. I knew I’d done something very special, a one-off really. I was hurt, deeply hurt, actually because at that moment, I think I was damaged goods because I was trying to recover from Blade Runner. Which I thought I really got something pretty special, and then the previews were a disaster. And [my cut of] the film lay on a shelf for almost, I think 10 to 12 years after that until it was discovered by accident at a Santa Monica Film Festival. Somebody said, let’s dig out the old print and run it for fun. And they called Warners. And with the greatest respect to Warners, they’d lost the f*cking negative, which is like, what? And somebody panicked and went into a drawer, yanked up the first can that had Blade Runner on it, never checked it, sent it to Santa Monica.

They ran it. It was a cutting copy with partly Jerry Goldsmith on it, and partly my great musician on it. And it was a copy where we were getting reached to the end of the short strokes and trying to cut and recut to, as it were, save the movie. And this version had no voice-over and had what I call the film noir ending, which is Deckard stares at the origami in his hand, which is a unicorn, nods his head as if to agree and he goes off with his gal. So that got rediscovered. It came right out like a cannon shot, and went everywhere. And of course I know it. I knew it then that it was a very special form of science fiction. It hadn’t really been done like that ever and became a kind of copycat benchmark for most of the TV shows and science fictions. I mean, I got the social order of dystopian society really well, and I think that had never been done before. Now it’s copied again and again.
 
Me not being the biggest fan of Blade Runner what is considered the best version?

I always forget which is the correct answer lol
The correct answer is The Final Cut. Never was a big fan of the voice-over version when I first saw it on VHS back in the 80's. TFC may actually be the most important Director's Cut in film history i.m.o.
 
Nice!

(But John Wick is still better :chase)
I just asked my son and he said you are wrong. So that takes care of that ;) :lol


You know I love me some John Wick but The Raid films are just about flawless action films for me.

Hell even JW knew how great those films are and stole two of their actors

I’ve still yet to watch JW4 again :(
 
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