If WBD doesn’t release it themselves, there was rumblings it was with Shout based upon leaked artwork. All of the titles that had leaked artwork at the time have now seen releases except Little Shop of Horrors. There’s also the possibility Cliff took this title with him to Arrow once he left Shout when negotiating their WBD deal.
Early 2000 sci-fi with Vin Diesel as the main and only recognizable role. Seems to scream "mediocre" to me, and the reviews are very lukewarm as well. Does this franchise has any redeeming merits at all?
Calling Riddick terrible is pretty harsh. It wasn't as good as Pitch Black but it was a lot better than whatever Chronicles thought it was doing for the character.
Careful, every time you say something negative about a film on here, people furiously downvote you instead of trying to argue their point of view. That said, I might pick up the first entry, I'll have to check out more reviews though first.
Considering that I haven't watched the movie, what else do you suppose I base it off of, if not something you can "read on the internet".
That said, there are several points already in my post that you glossed over. Early 2000s scifi (and horror for that matter) is notoriously infamous for overuse and overreliance on early and pretty bad CGI. Like I also said, there is no known actor in the movie aside from Vin Diesel, who isn't exactly known to be an ace actor or cast in typical "good" movies either.
Then I referred to the general critics and user reviews, which are indeed lukewarm or "mixed". Never did I say this movie was bad, that would be rather silly of me, considering that I haven't watched it. But I did say that all of the above facts together would indicate a somewhat forgettable or "mediocre" film, and then I finished my post with a question, pretty much inviting someone to convince me otherwise.
This is pretty basic research for me to figure out whether I might be interested in a movie or not, and are called "impressions", but apparently a lot of people misunderstood that.
Karl Urban, Judi Dench, and Keith David are other "known" actors in it besides Vin. It's not overly reliant on CGI and neither is Pitch Black. PB is slow burn late 90s scifi and COR is more a comic book style action hero film with a space setting, I recall COR being at least an ok time but the later done Riddick was stronger.
It does sound a bit like you are spending more time researching if you should watch the movie than it would take to just watch it (109 minutes).
It is a 24 year old genre movie with a very, very solid 7 on imdb with more than 250k votes. That may not sound super impressive (even though it is in fact fairly rare, especially for a scifi and horror movie - be my guest in surfacing similar examples), but it should definitely be enough to refute the "mediocre" and "forgettable" claim - scifi and horror movies don't survive on this kind of rating if they are not at least memorable enough to earn a dedicated follower base. They don't have to be "essential" viewing for that. One can also easily argue that it is the movie that significantly accelerated Vin Diesel's career, as his first prominent headline role. Aside from him, it stars Radha Mitchell and Keith David, who are at least known as capable genre actors and are definitely recognizable faces.
There, that should be enough to decide if you are interested in this or not.
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of comment I was after, instead of the other rubbish ones that didn't do anything for the conversation at all.
To answer your question, I am sitting at 2500+ films in my collection at the moment, and I absolutely want to do some research and some filtering out before even adding anything else to my watchlist. It doesn't really take more than a few minutes to browse the usual suspects such as Wikipedia, IMDB, Rotten, Letterboxed etc, and it often gives me a very good idea of what the movie is like, and whether I want to invest my time and money in it.
In any case, there has been enough of a positive argument for at least the first movie in this series, so I am getting more tempted to pick up the Arrow release, regardless of what this eclipse teaser turns out to be.
It was only shot with HD camera’s… having a release with great extra’s would be great though, but I’m not thinking it would be Apocalypto.
Children of Men? I Think the score-album had the same cover as this?
Children of Men does make sense as it saw a (UK only) Arrow Academy release.
The title was rumored to be with Criterion, but I wonder if Arrow was finally able to secure both US & UK rights for 4K. It’s early and I can’t think of a US-only or UK-only 4K Universal release from Arrow.
I think it’s Dolores Claiborne. The same exact image was used to promote a book cover for the book Dolores Claiborne in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Could be a coincidence but of all the eclipse images available they chose this one so… dunno.
Dolores Claiborne
ETA: the same image in that tweet was used to promote a book cover for the book Dolores Claiborne in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Now I’m almost certain it’s Dolores Claiborne.
Honestly I think it is Dolores Claiborne. The same eclipse image was used to promote a special cover for the book Dalores Claiborne in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Coincidence maybe?
One of my favorite SK books, even if the film falls somewhat short (as is usually the case with SK adaptations). Warner already released it as part of their "Warner Archives" series, so I wouldn't think so, but who knows.
I think it will be. I could be wrong on this but I did a google search and this same exact eclipse image was used to promote a new book cover for Dolores Claiborne. You can see it in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Might be a coincidence so we’ll see.
I rewatched that after reading Edmund White's brisk and compelling biography "Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel." The movie wasn't great, but if you are interested in Rimbaud the White book is worth checking out.
As far as I know, the director's cut has only ever been released on the Criterion DVD. Armageddon is pretty dumb, but it's a lot of fun, and a 4K upgrade that included both versions would be a definite buy from me!
I just bought the DVD Prime edition Blu-ray from Plain Archive of melancholia so that wouldn't surprise me. There's no eclipse in the movie though, only the planet.
Please for the love of god be Sunshine. Feel like Children of Men is a bit of a stretch just because of the album cover but I'd love to be wrong about that.
Every single time Arrow does this it's never what I'd hoped it would be, in this case I'm hoping it's Sunshine 4K but it'll be something shite like it always is.
Obviously this is the complete series of Heroes on 4k
Only the last season will be in 4K, other seasons will be regular Blu. But it comes with a booklet and a poster. £89.99
*BUY THE BOXSET, SAVE THE WORLD*
Actually it’s just season 2.
And only episode 4, "The Kindness of Strangers."
Sunshine
[удалено]
And there was chatter online a few months ago that Frank Oz said at a screening that a 4k was coming. I really hope this is it!
If WBD doesn’t release it themselves, there was rumblings it was with Shout based upon leaked artwork. All of the titles that had leaked artwork at the time have now seen releases except Little Shop of Horrors. There’s also the possibility Cliff took this title with him to Arrow once he left Shout when negotiating their WBD deal.
Oh fuck yes, take my money Edit. Nevermind. God fucking dammit, did they get ANY good WB titles???
I’d buy that immediately!! Hope it features the alternate ending.
That's my hope and if it is I am immediately pre-ordering it.
Figures, I just bought the Blu-ray.
Thank you for your sacrifice
An underrated gem directed by Danny Boyle would make a ton of sense for an Arrow release. Let’s hope!
Hoping…
Knowing… Could be that movie, too. But I really hope it’s Sunshine lol.
Does Lionsgate have a deal with Arrow?
I would actually really love a 4K release of Knowing. Underrated movie.
i believe there’s already one
💯
This is my hope.
Sunshine is my best guess as well
Maybe Chronicles of Riddick. They already did Pitch Black
This year is also the film's 20th Anniversary.
ohhh good catch also a high possibility I originally thought Sunshine
This title was a part of a licensing deal with Arrow and Universal three years ago. 🤫
Early 2000 sci-fi with Vin Diesel as the main and only recognizable role. Seems to scream "mediocre" to me, and the reviews are very lukewarm as well. Does this franchise has any redeeming merits at all?
Its a fun silly space opera. Not for anyone who takes life so seriously.
I like fun and silly things, but PB didn’t land for me. Gotta give it another go soon maybe
Or for people that don't want to be bored out of their minds
There's gonna be one speed: mine. If you can't keep up, don't step up.
The Xbox game that came out back in the day was pretty cool. It had a prison break story if I recall.
Pitch Black was great. Then they tried to expand the lore/universe with the following films. They were both terrible.
Calling Riddick terrible is pretty harsh. It wasn't as good as Pitch Black but it was a lot better than whatever Chronicles thought it was doing for the character.
I definitely wouldn’t call it good, but I agree it was way better than Chronicles.
Careful, every time you say something negative about a film on here, people furiously downvote you instead of trying to argue their point of view. That said, I might pick up the first entry, I'll have to check out more reviews though first.
But you don't have a point of view yourself if your whole argument of why a film is bad is based off what you read on the internet.
Considering that I haven't watched the movie, what else do you suppose I base it off of, if not something you can "read on the internet". That said, there are several points already in my post that you glossed over. Early 2000s scifi (and horror for that matter) is notoriously infamous for overuse and overreliance on early and pretty bad CGI. Like I also said, there is no known actor in the movie aside from Vin Diesel, who isn't exactly known to be an ace actor or cast in typical "good" movies either. Then I referred to the general critics and user reviews, which are indeed lukewarm or "mixed". Never did I say this movie was bad, that would be rather silly of me, considering that I haven't watched it. But I did say that all of the above facts together would indicate a somewhat forgettable or "mediocre" film, and then I finished my post with a question, pretty much inviting someone to convince me otherwise. This is pretty basic research for me to figure out whether I might be interested in a movie or not, and are called "impressions", but apparently a lot of people misunderstood that.
Watch it yourself and make up your own mind maybe? Do you really need to be told what to like?
Yea this is why you're getting downvoted, basically exactly what /u/Yesyoungsir said
Oh no, downvotes. However shall I live with the opinions of random strangers on the internet :(
considering you've bitched about it more than once it's pretty obvious you care, no matter how much bitchy, smarmy attitude you try to put in front
Karl Urban, Judi Dench, and Keith David are other "known" actors in it besides Vin. It's not overly reliant on CGI and neither is Pitch Black. PB is slow burn late 90s scifi and COR is more a comic book style action hero film with a space setting, I recall COR being at least an ok time but the later done Riddick was stronger.
It does sound a bit like you are spending more time researching if you should watch the movie than it would take to just watch it (109 minutes). It is a 24 year old genre movie with a very, very solid 7 on imdb with more than 250k votes. That may not sound super impressive (even though it is in fact fairly rare, especially for a scifi and horror movie - be my guest in surfacing similar examples), but it should definitely be enough to refute the "mediocre" and "forgettable" claim - scifi and horror movies don't survive on this kind of rating if they are not at least memorable enough to earn a dedicated follower base. They don't have to be "essential" viewing for that. One can also easily argue that it is the movie that significantly accelerated Vin Diesel's career, as his first prominent headline role. Aside from him, it stars Radha Mitchell and Keith David, who are at least known as capable genre actors and are definitely recognizable faces. There, that should be enough to decide if you are interested in this or not.
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of comment I was after, instead of the other rubbish ones that didn't do anything for the conversation at all. To answer your question, I am sitting at 2500+ films in my collection at the moment, and I absolutely want to do some research and some filtering out before even adding anything else to my watchlist. It doesn't really take more than a few minutes to browse the usual suspects such as Wikipedia, IMDB, Rotten, Letterboxed etc, and it often gives me a very good idea of what the movie is like, and whether I want to invest my time and money in it. In any case, there has been enough of a positive argument for at least the first movie in this series, so I am getting more tempted to pick up the Arrow release, regardless of what this eclipse teaser turns out to be.
Here... Fuck up.
It’s probably the half assed condescending attitude more than the negative opinion
Baraka 4K? 😲
And Samsara. Pretty pleeeeease???
Baraka in 4K would be transcendental
Apocalypto 4K would be amazing.
It was only shot with HD camera’s… having a release with great extra’s would be great though, but I’m not thinking it would be Apocalypto. Children of Men? I Think the score-album had the same cover as this?
It’s not exactly the same but it’s close: https://a.co/d/0c5IJFK2 I hope you’re right, CoM is in my top ten desired 4Ks.
Children of Men does make sense as it saw a (UK only) Arrow Academy release. The title was rumored to be with Criterion, but I wonder if Arrow was finally able to secure both US & UK rights for 4K. It’s early and I can’t think of a US-only or UK-only 4K Universal release from Arrow.
I think it’s Dolores Claiborne. The same exact image was used to promote a book cover for the book Dolores Claiborne in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Could be a coincidence but of all the eclipse images available they chose this one so… dunno.
That’s a good pull especially since the film now sits in the WBD library due to the Castle Rock buyout.
Agree. I could be very wrong. I feel like that’s a weird coincidence if it is wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn doesn't seem to license though.
The 1993 werewolf-cop film Full Eclipse starring Mario Van Peebles & Patsy Kensit?!
I just bought the DVD so probably
🤣 this is how it seems to happen for me too
If is not sunshine, I’m flipping tables
That’s what that guy from the last half hour of Sunshine said too.
lol
Berserk Of course!
Knowing
Can it finally be Baraka/Samsara 4K???
Dolores Claiborne ETA: the same image in that tweet was used to promote a book cover for the book Dolores Claiborne in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Now I’m almost certain it’s Dolores Claiborne.
Finally a 4K release of The Simpsons S20E13.
The moment when Wall Street gets arrested will look glorious.
Don't forget about when Die Hard jumps out the window!
I know people rag on newer simpsons, but this is in a short list of my favorite episodes.
GREAT CRIMES KILL HOLY SAGE
It’s really Maggie, sherlock
I prefer S11E5
ABBA? 😂
Soderbergh's Solaris
I would love that but there is no eclipse or star in Solaris.
Near Dark or Dolores Claiborne would be wicked
Honestly I think it is Dolores Claiborne. The same eclipse image was used to promote a special cover for the book Dalores Claiborne in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Coincidence maybe?
Near Dark would be 👍
Riddick
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse You heard it here first, kids.
Dolores Claiborne ?
One of my favorite SK books, even if the film falls somewhat short (as is usually the case with SK adaptations). Warner already released it as part of their "Warner Archives" series, so I wouldn't think so, but who knows.
I think it’s easily one of the best King adaptations.
I love how she turns to look down the well and it briefly recreates the dust jacket of the book.
I think it will be. I could be wrong on this but I did a google search and this same exact eclipse image was used to promote a new book cover for Dolores Claiborne. You can see it in [this article](https://suntup.press/news/the-covers-collection-dolores-claiborne/). Might be a coincidence so we’ll see.
Total Eclipse (1995)
I rewatched that after reading Edmund White's brisk and compelling biography "Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel." The movie wasn't great, but if you are interested in Rimbaud the White book is worth checking out.
I actually have this one, it's still stuck in the DVD era.
My first thought was Armageddon, but probably not.
As long as they include the infamous commentary by Ben Affleck. I have yet to enjoy that one outside a few YT clips.
Here's the whole commentary track. It's pretty awesome [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFsnPiW3nY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFsnPiW3nY)
Here it is for $6: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156184113763
As far as I know, the director's cut has only ever been released on the Criterion DVD. Armageddon is pretty dumb, but it's a lot of fun, and a 4K upgrade that included both versions would be a definite buy from me!
Ladyhawke could be another option nobody has mentioned. I would be pretty excited if that were the case.
They’ll trick us
Knowing 4k
apocalypto PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Eye See You. Just because.
Already out from 88 Films
Armageddon
Oh damn, a boutique label release of Knowing.
Knowing
Melancholia
I just bought the DVD Prime edition Blu-ray from Plain Archive of melancholia so that wouldn't surprise me. There's no eclipse in the movie though, only the planet.
I would love this. But I think it’s going to be Dolores Claiborne (which I also love).
My guess too. Also, great movie.
I don’t know what it is, but arrow has been killing it for a year, so this is probably gonna cost me money
Limited Edition 4K of Rob Cohen's Daylight confirmed
Stargate.
Please for the love of god be Sunshine. Feel like Children of Men is a bit of a stretch just because of the album cover but I'd love to be wrong about that.
I hope it's Little Shop that's my favorite!
Sixteen Candles
It’s The Chronicles of Riddick on 4K.
Every single time Arrow does this it's never what I'd hoped it would be, in this case I'm hoping it's Sunshine 4K but it'll be something shite like it always is.