tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post7556145280358221669..comments2024-03-23T22:07:37.938+00:00Comments on NUTS4R2: The Alligator PeopleNUTS4R2http://www.blogger.com/profile/08450069327397561514noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post-3932798679810123462012-06-20T17:48:02.682+01:002012-06-20T17:48:02.682+01:00Yeah, I got the two collections in a single box ve...Yeah, I got the two collections in a single box version. It's beautiful packaging.<br /><br />I tend to pick up most of my US discs at any of the regular monthly Film Fairs in the UK but, even if I get them off Amazon.com and pay postage, they still often work out cheaper (and often cleaner transfers) than the UK R2 versions off the shelf over here.<br /><br />;-)NUTS4R2https://www.blogger.com/profile/08450069327397561514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post-70939623384032642802012-06-20T15:17:50.942+01:002012-06-20T15:17:50.942+01:00I love that Ult SciFi collection. BestBuy did Vol...I love that Ult SciFi collection. BestBuy did Vol 1 in (maybe??) 2006? 2005? Something like this. It was a summer release and they did some marketing as a "Best Buy exclusive". But their marketing wasn't much beyond a local store's doors or local circulars, OR if customers idly wandered thru Best Buy's fairly new (and limited) website. <br /><br />Still, before that Christmas, it sold like hotcakes and was their biggest selling package. <br /><br />They 'fronted' the money for the remastering efforts and this package indeed contains some great prints. Even at the time, the $20 price for 5 disks screamed GREAT VALUE. Much less $20 for such luxurious remasterings. <br /><br />My concern was, "How can anyone else find copies, though? BestBuy isn't letting anyone else sell it." True. BestBuy wanted to recoup its expenses by having exclusives sales. <br /><br />Very understandable. And I agreed - if they're going to put up the front money, why shouldn't they get profits? <br /><br />The next summer or spring, Amazon started carrying it. <br /><br />"And where's Vol 2?" That didn't get released for another year - so there was about a 2-year lull but then, BestBuy didn't keep exclusive sales very long - just thru that Christmas season, and it was immediately showing up on Amazon lists in January. <br /><br />The next year, they offered both collections in a single box. <br /><br />Interestingly, the 2-vol collection is $43 (??) which is a couple of dollars higher than the two individual's original $19.99 price! <br /><br />BestBuy announced, two years ago, they were cutting DVD-Shelf Space by more than half in their stores. "DVDs aren't selling, so we're using the space for iPods." Basically. <br /><br />But DVDs aren't just "not selling". They're not being produced FOR sale. It's really tough to buy something when no one makes it, but it's true - "they aren't selling". Du-uh. <br /><br />Sort of like, "The cart refuses to drag the horse along" though. This seems to be the mentality of so-called DVD studios. <br /><br />There is an interested DVD-seller development. A company called "Mill Creek Entertainment" (which I believe has at least one other similarly named 'company') has a lot of CLASSIC 25, 50 or 100 collections. These are Horror, Noir, SciFi - all kinds. And they're all Public Domain prints - ie, generally awful. <br /><br />However, this group will find duplicate prints and compare them, and their collections have contained "the best quality" of duplicate prints. And these are good values although most DVD collectors will have purchased earlier prints. I tested some out (NOIR and SCI FI) for a couple of rare George Raft films and THE WASP WOMAN, which has a pretty crisp video-print.Buffalo Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04396753470835290493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post-872244516517428292012-06-20T07:42:32.970+01:002012-06-20T07:42:32.970+01:00Ha! Yeah, I have that double box collection.
Pret...Ha! Yeah, I have that double box collection.<br /><br />Pretty fun movies. Love The Mole People especially.<br /><br />Thanks for reading. :-)NUTS4R2https://www.blogger.com/profile/08450069327397561514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post-29271473558963304242012-06-19T22:03:01.209+01:002012-06-19T22:03:01.209+01:00Y'know, your first comment was BEST PERFORMANC...Y'know, your first comment was BEST PERFORMANCE IN THIS FILM and, in thinking about it, yes, his was the best performance in the film. The most memorable one. And OF MICE AND MEN is a grand performance for Jr, who should have fated differently without all the walls built for him by dad's pals. <br /><br />I have waded thru your reviews and see you did cover ATOM BRAIN, a film I laughed thru. AMAZ TRANSPARENT is rather a hoot - it is a good bookend to Ralph Meeker's KISS ME DEADLY because they both end, well, rather explosively, let's say. <br /><br />Have you located CULT OF COBRA WOMAN? This was in the Ult SciFi Collection with MOLE and MONOLITH, etc. If you're a soldier on leave in Morocco and Tangiers, whatcha gonna do?!! "Let's find a forbidden club that has forbidden entertainment..." Yeah. Right. Great fun, though. It's kinda got a tanna-leaf curse going for it... sorta.Buffalo Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04396753470835290493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post-61883654030209470192012-06-19T19:14:19.419+01:002012-06-19T19:14:19.419+01:00HI again Chuck.
Don't forget Chaney's &q...HI again Chuck. <br /><br />Don't forget Chaney's "big time" with Of Mice And Men... although he'll always be Lawrence Talbot to me. ;-)<br /><br />I'll have to keep an eye out for The Amazing Transparent Man methinks.<br /><br />Thanks for reading.NUTS4R2https://www.blogger.com/profile/08450069327397561514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260387431722105524.post-39858504613863195992012-06-19T15:32:21.254+01:002012-06-19T15:32:21.254+01:00This is a fairly late film for radiation movies (1...This is a fairly late film for radiation movies (1959, after so many other radioactive monsters had stomped around) but it's one of the fun mad-scientist-does-radiation films. <br /><br />CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955) and THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1960) also share the Post-WWII-use-of-scientists theme, but these two are for less-scrupulous reasons! Fun stuff, though. ATOM BRAIN is also an early CSI film, too. TRANSPARENT is a bank-heist film. <br /><br />I'd point your comment of "Lon Jr best actor" into George MacReady's repertoire... He's the bad guy in PATHS OF GLORY; GILDA's husband (and the bad guy boss to Glenn Ford); THE DETECTIVE STORY with Kirk Douglas; several dozen others, too. Big-time films but yes 'only' a supporting actor. <br /><br />Then there's Bruce Bennett, also with a long catalog of classics, including the unwanted tag-along miner in TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE, but was with Bogart in DARK PASSAGE and SAHARA too; MILDRED PIERCE, NORA PRENTISS, and a few dozen others. <br /><br />Frieda Inescort was the female lead in the wonderful RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE with Lugosi and his cape, THE LETTER with Bette Davis (Frieda's the one that doesn't kill all the men!), THE UNDERWORLD STORY and many more.<br /><br />Chaney's attempted-rape scene was pretty interesting to include because those were still non-gratis in Hollywood. The lofty status of this film, however, allowed those to slide along into double-features and drive-in's. <br /><br />But I gotta love ALLIGATOR PEOPLE when they could only afford one suit! <br /><br />And great kudos are earned for your props to MONOLITH MONSTERS - a most inventive way to do a cheap and fun film.Buffalo Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04396753470835290493noreply@blogger.com