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To all my fellow ‘90s #goth and movie buffs: #TheCrow is coming out on #4K #Bluray on May 7, now available to order on Amazon.
Fun story: I was one of the first of my friends group to really get into “#HomeTheater” — at least, as much as I could in the mid-‘90s on a financially questionable 20-something’s budget. Our apartment had a big-screen rear-projection TV (bought used, of course), later replaced with a (ridiculously huge) three-beam projector sourced from a bar that was closing down, an early surround sound system, and I started collecting widescreen movies with the special edition of The Abyss on widescreen VHS. I had a pretty decent widescreen VHS collection before finally upgrading to DVD.
At one point, Chad and I were sitting around, bored, and looking for something to watch. “I’ve got The Crow,” says Chad. Sounded good to me, so he went to grab it. And pulled out his copy — a home VHS tape, with the movie taped off of TV, over something else, in broadcast pan-and-scan, and probably in mono. He popped it in, and we started watching.
About ten minutes in, suddenly he turns to me and spouts off with a hearty and apparently random, “Fuck you!”
“What the hell?” I said.
“Until I lived with you, I didn’t care about widescreen, or surround sound, or any of that. I’d just watch the movie. You’ve ruined me!” And as I laughed, he turned off the movie in amused disgust. And it wasn’t too long before the widescreen DVD found its way into the collection.
@djwudi
"Fire it up! Fire it up!"
@gnate “Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I’m dead!”
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Ah, and speaking of The Abyss, did you see the kerfuffle around cancelling the Blu-ray release?
@gnate Wait, what? No, I’ve seen nothing about that. Source?
@gnate The closest thing I can find (and it’s not terribly close to kerfuffle) is this bit about how a fan noticed an old audio glitch in the streaming 4K release, and that’s been corrected for the physical release, thereby _decreasing_ the chance of a recall/replacement issue. But that’s a far cry from anything about canceling the physical release.
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Just in the UK, apparently, due to Cameron's refusal to cut the (non-simulated) rat drowning scene, which by current guidelines would be criminal to include.
@gnate Ah! Okay. Now I do remember hearing about that. Quite the bummer for UK fans.