Who would buy the original live action trilogy on BLURAY?
 

I'm just curious to know those of us members would would want to have the original live action Trilogy re-masterered in hi-def on blu-ray? I know there are those of us who don't like 2 or 3 (in particular) but to keep the interest alive, I would love to have the whole trilogy re-mastered in bluray. I bought my PS3 last July and TMNT was my first bluray and I was mighty impressed with the quality. The first live action movie of course will ALWAYS be my favorite!!! Any thoughts?

I'd definately buy them...ofcourse I'd only take the third one if it came with the other two...seeing as that movie makes my eyes bleed.

Hell no. I'm fine with my DVD's, plus in Blu-Ray we'd just see more creepy stuff like the actor's mouths inside the turtle throats.

I have no reason to buy a Blu-ray so no. I just want a special edition of the TMNT Trilogy with deleted scenes.

I'm afraid I have to agree with deathknight. I don't care for Blueray. If they are going to re-release a three pack, might as well give us a reason to buy it. perhaps some actual bonus features besides a sewer maze "game" and character bios. :P

Yeah I could care less about blu-ray. The dvd quality wasn't improved or anything so what makes you think that the quality for bluray could be superb. I prefer a special edition set mainly for the first movie.

I could not agree more....

Well, ideally - and probably most logically - they would remaster the film and release it with new extras on DVD and Blu-ray at the same time.

I have bought them on DVD, so unless it was a tremendious package (tons of special features people) I would see no point into buying them again.

If they remastered it, I'd say that'd be worth it alone. The video quality is unfortunately quite poor on the existing DVDs. :(

I already own it on DVD and it's enough. Besides, I'm not interested in Blu-Ray. I don't care how much a movie can be remasterized. I just want to watch a goodamn movie without worrying about the picture quality.

I'd probably only buy the first of the three, honestly, and that's only if it had a significantly better transfer and/or a lot of good bonus features. I haven't felt the need to buy the second or third movies on DVD in all this time, so I doubt I'd bother getting those.

I would if there were a bunch of features on it, but that just echoes others' sentiments.

Yes! ...and if they're at it, I would LOVE to see the original cut of the first film. Maybe a BLADE RUNNER/CLOSE ENCOUNTERS-type release with several different cuts? Unproduced and early script drafts would be a fantastic feature, as well...

...and for those of you that "dont' see any difference in quality with BR and DVD"... you obviously haven't viewed any BR material on a properly set-up system. The quality is amazing...

Blu-ray, green-ray, red-ray.... who cares. Just pull the lame 3 disk set with the lame no bonus features disks and make some special editions. I'm sure if they can scour around enough, they could find stuff. A director's commentary. SOMETHING.

You dropped the ball NOT re-releasing a special edition with free movie ticket to promote the movie, Warners (and yet, they have stuff like Big Mama's House, the "The Sequal's coming" edition with 1 extra deleted sequence, 2 more documentaries, all using clips from prior documentaries, and a different cover).

People were probably saying the same thing when dvd's came out.

old school VHS!

You are not talking about the cartoon here, right?

Unlike everyone else here I don't like technologically inferior products so I would love it remastered. Then again the digital switch over doesn't bother me either because I bought a new TV in the past 10 years. I hate to sound mean but seriously get with the times. How long did it take you give up your VHS copies and buy the DVDs? Jesus.

Special features or not it would be good for the franchise. Since most other people are making the switch to Blu-ray and most people will own a Blu-ray player by Christmas I see it as a great chance to get some more family films onto the HD format. That's a selling point for parents with kids.

Haha this is a great post, exactly what I was thinking. I don't have a blu ray player yet, but I've seen what they do and I'd really want one if I could afford.

A little off topic about the digital switch over...but why are people confused about this? Every old person I hear thinks they need to buy an hdtv...just as long as your tv isn't a thousand years old with antennas its fine.

When my tape machine ate it up?

I'd love to get one, but I can't afford dirt right now, and especially not a new TV so it would make a real difference. BTW, I wasn't paying attention. Was TMNT released in Blu yet?

Anyway, for those who are concerned that the man inside Donatello's mouth will stand out even more, I wonder.... why not, if they can digitally enhance the film, just graphically alter it and make it just black?

Too bad Warners probably doesn't think enough of the film to do that, though.

Yeah TMNT was on Blu-ray and HD-DVD I have the HD-DVD one cause it's a combo disk.

HD stuff is very dark you would not notice a guy in the costume. It would be possible to dark out the areas with no penalty.

I agree this stuff is expensive but it is becoming cheaper and for people to say they don't want a blu-ray version at all and would never buy it is dense. You would never buy a BLu-ray copy if you got a blu-ray player, which you will. You all bought DVD players you will all buy blu-ray players. My point was look to the future! Plus if it comes out now it will be cheaper by the time you go to buy it.

I dunno, wouldn't it be pointless? I mean, new movies look awesome in HD. I'll never go back to standard definition again, but for old movies, they weren't made with HD in mind, right? So wouldn't they just look crappy?

There's a process they use to clean them up quite a bit. Almost every movie today is filmed in digital now so it's to be expected it will be released in HD. However not every movie is filmed in HD. Some filmmakers like Spielberg for example refuse to film digital and went the old school route for the last Indiana movie.

They can make any movie HD it's like the process Lucas invented to clean up his old film stock of Star Wars. The difference is it's digital so it's like applying a filter in photoshop almost. Your sharpening the picture and enriching the colors. I'm sure it won't work for every movie as you'd guess but that can be fixed do if work is applied to it. They just need to re-master some things. Some movies with older special effects will look pretty bad.

dont have blueray, wont buy em

If/When I make the jump to Bluray, I probably would, if the enhancements are worth it, and they add some better special features.

the industry standard for movie production has been 35mm film since the 1920s or 30s... from CITIZEN KANE and CASABLANCA to SEX AND THE CITY and THE DARK KNIGHT. the technology really hasn't changed... just gotten better. larger format film is often used for effects plates, but 35 is the standard. when scanned at the highest resolution possible, 35mm film equals about 6-10,000 lines of vertical resolution. studios are currently rescanning and archiving their films at 4,000 lines of resolution. the HIGHEST home theater resolution on the market is 1080 line of resolution. so, 35mm film is SEVERAL times more detailed that the highest level of HD on the consumer market.

DVD is 480, bluray is 1080, 35mm film is <4,000..... TMNT 1 was shot on 35mm film. age of the medium doesn't matter... it's the detail that makes for a good picture.

what exactly does this gibberish mean? it means that, yes, even older films look FANTASTIC in HD.

the first TMNT film used a grainy, contrasty film stock. most people think the look is "cheap" and not very high quality... trust me, it is VERY high quality. the first TMNT film would look AMAZING in high def.

for me, special features take a BIG backseat to image quality of bluray.

that's wrong... digital simply isn't up to the level of detail, color and dynamic range of film. a lot of independent productions use HD digital because it's cheaper. other bigger productions, like SUPERMAN RETURNS or MIAMI VICE use 4K cameras (viper, geneisis, the new RED one...) for aesthetic or special effects reasons. the industry standard is still 35mm film. digital is becoming more popular, but don't believe for a SECOND that it's surpassed film.

NOW... nearly every film is EDITED and color graded digitally using what's called a digital intermediate. the analog film is scanned and edited on computers. VERY few filmmakers edit film... spielberg being one of the last of the major directors to edit on old flatbed edit machines.

The only way they could get me to buy this would be to bring out the cut scenes and have some commentary by Brian Henson, The Director, Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird.

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