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Author Topic: African Queen blu-ray - $40????? Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 01-22-2010 09:41 AM                  I know AQ has never even been on DVD before and it the last film on the AFI top 100 to be released on disc blah-blah-blah...but what makes Paramount think this title (a single disc at that) is worth $39.99 retail for the blu-ray? This is not the "commemorative box set" (which is $58.99) but just the disc version. Is there something that makes them think I will spend more than this than "Casablanca"? (Casablanca blu-ray $14.99 at Amazon!)  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-22-2010 09:57 AM                     That's nothing new. I paid $40 for the Criterion Collection version of Robocop on DVD. That's $40 in 1999 dollars. All for an unrated, single disc title with non-anamorphic video. BTW, you're quoting the full list "MSRP" price for the single disc version of The African Queen. $39.95 is a very very common list price for single disc Blu-ray titles. Not many people will actually pay that much for the BD unless they're silly enough to do their movie disc shopping in shopping mall stores like Sam Goody or fye. Amazon has the single disc version of The African Queen available on pre-order for $27.95. If you don't like that price, wait a couple or so months after the disc is released. We're already seeing lots of Blu-ray titles being discounted to levels of $15, $10 or even lower just like what happened with DVD when that format went "mainstream."  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 01-22-2010 12:14 PM                  Yeah, Bob, that's what I plan to do. I'll get it from Netflix first just to see it and when it's under $15 I'll pick one up if I still want it. Also I forgot Casablanca had already been on BR in that over-priced collector's edition.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-22-2010 02:21 PM                        THE AFRACAN QUEEN is a great movie, Joe. I saw it when it was released to theatres for the very fist time in 1951 when I was only twelve years old and saw it at least two more times in a theatre and many times on home video. The last time I saw the movie was on a FOX special edition laserdisc in a deluxe box with the same Kathrine Hephburn book that will be come with the Blu-Ray SE of TAQ.. The set was not cheap and I still bought it and might go for the SE of the movie again. THE AFRACAN QUEEN will have a 4K digital scan from the original three strip film elements and is not as exciting as it sounds, I do not remember the film having vibrant color. As far as I can remember, it was a rather drab looking film. The film only featured four speaking rolls. Humprey Bogart, Kathrine Hephburn, Robert Morley and Theodore Bikel. It must have been at least fifteen years since I last saw the movie and I am very anxious to see it again on Blu-Ray. What a treat that will be! -Claude  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2010 04:53 PM                        Isn't that the movie where they sort-of ripped off the story for the John Wayne/Katharine Hepburn movie "Rooster Cogburn?" I've never seen AQ but "Rooster" is one of my favorite John Wayne movies due to the great chemistry between him and Hepburn.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-23-2010 01:29 PM                        Rooster Cogburn (1975) is a sequel to True Grit (1969).  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-02-2010 10:17 PM                     Mike, True Grit is by far the better movie when compared to Rooster.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 02-02-2010 10:37 PM                     I saw this on cable a few weeks ago, and I can definately agree the colour was terribly ugly and drab, It actually looked like a colourisation, and I had to look it up I was so convinced.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2010 01:43 AM                        quote: John Wilson Mike, True Grit is by far the better movie when compared to Rooster. John - I know, but my point was that Rooster made use of most of the same story as African Queen. (I've never seen it but I read that somewhere on the internets.)  |  IP: Logged

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