piphany

In an instant... poof! There goes my remorse for missing out on the Novamedia release. Look at this little beauty! I'm a little bit giddy now.

Wow, what a beautiful release... so beautifully packaged! The gradient on the OC is just lovely, not to mention the specs... I haven't heard of *The Last Emperor*; what's it like/what makes it such a special film for you? 🙂

With respect, we've only seen an iota of the set! Once we have BS, then we'll see 😁

I joined this GB this morning quite quickly after seeing it upon waking up, before I'd made up my mind on whether or not that I like the WEA design. Now that I've had some time to look at it, I'm so glad to have joined; how lovely is this! One of the nicest PET cases I've seen, and I love the gorgeous illustration by Orlando. With @ksosk's absolutely beautiful character illustrations for the CE Star Wars sets to this, I'm so happy to be in this period where we're seeing these lovely style of artworks being given such a beautiful context for sets such as these. Hurray!

Of all of the things to remind me that this GB exists and make me realise that I forgot to join, why did it have to be such beautiful beauty shots... come on Manta, please make me feel better

Ahh, the indecision is killing me! The lack of 4K is such a disappointment for me, so perhaps I should wait on Manta, but that's assuming that they will do a 4K edition and that they'll be able to make something as lovely as the lenti FS in this edition. Does anybody know if the extended cut is available on disc anywhere? I only saw the original version in the cinema and getting the extended cut is a must for me, so if this release isn't extended and if there's a chance of a future edition having that cut then I'll definitely wait...

Appreciated! Totally... I could watch either of those films forever. Neither of them deserve their terribly ugly and unappealing marketing and physical releases. I'm pretty sure that they've both been scanned in 4K at some point, too, so who knows... I don't understand why so few of Anderson's films exist in either good-looking premium packages or on 4KBD! Films like The Master are just begging for it, and there's surely no excuse for Licorice Pizza to only be released in HD in 2021... No bother. I can wait... forever...

Thank you @extantsrevenge for this excellent idea! I can't wait for the lovely discussions that will surely come 😁 I was simply going to lament the fact that I'm going to lose this first challenge as I tend to avoid lentis just because the loss of vibrance and clarity rarely seems to justify to me personally what's often not the best design. But then I saw@Trianna/ @MoneySniper's pictures of that beautiful set of the amazing 君の名は, and then also @InfiniteDoors' beautiful copy of The Prestige, and now there's a nonzero chance that I'll own copies of these before this challenge ends... such beautiful presentation of such amazing art!

Nicely put—I like that. Honestly the US$50 for the LotR VET really surprised me with how low the price was; I honestly expected at least five times that price! Methinks such a proposed system would really slash non-payers, and the higher/more drastic that entrance price the more effective it'd potentially be. a), because of course there's lots more at stake if they do do a runner, and b), because if they've already paid a decent proportion of the cost there'd surely be a nicely reduced probability of them lacking the funds as that invoice would be quite a bit smaller. Or, mind, it could have no effect at all... people and their decisions with their money are famously a piece of cake to predict 😁

Thank you for the lovely welcome! My scans of the current open GBs have me concerned for my fiscal wellbeing in the near future... I can't wait to get stuck in :)