Thursday, June 18, 2009

Just arrived...

2:06 PM / Blu-ray / Comments4 Comments

Blu-ray

Bound (BD, M6 Vidéo, Region ABC, France)

The Wachowskis' first and still their best film, in my opinion. This French release is much cheaper than the Japanese version that has been available for several months now. It's coded for all regions, and you can disable the French subtitles via the menu with no problems.

Blu-ray

Chemical Wedding (BD, Universal, Region B, France)

A bit of a guilty pleasure, this, and not really a purchase I can truly justify, as the film itself is pretty poor. It's enjoyably poor, however - probably the sort of film Hammer would be churning out to this day if they'd never stopped making horror movies.

By the way, this is the first region-coded disc I've ever seen from Universal, although it's not labelled as such anywhere on the packaging. I hope this isn't the start of a trend.

 
4 Comments

1. Peter von Frosta said:

I'm very interested in your opinion about the Bound Blu-ray. I have my reservations about the quality of that particular disc but hoping for the best...

(Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM)

2. Author Profile Page Michael said:

It doesn't exactly look terrific from what little I've watched of it, but I'll hold back on commenting extensively on it until I've seen it from beginning to end.

(Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM)

3. Erik said:

Be curious to see how it matches up to the Japanese BD, should you post some caps of BOUND. It's a low/no-budget film, and despite a print that is a little weatherworn, it looks decent.

http://www.hundland.org/hd/b/b.htm#bound

(Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 3:48 AM)

4. Peter von Frosta said:

I'm even more hestitant now, I think I'll put this on my "B" list.

(Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM)

 
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