YES, The Towering Inferno comes to Blu-Gay

[DjfunkmasterG]

July 14th 2009, the disaster flick that defined disaster, The Towering Inferno hits Blu-Gay. This is one of my favorite so cheesy action disaster films, and I regularly watch my DVD version at least three times a year. So to know it will get an HD transfer is encouraging.

http://www.amazon.com/Towering-Inferno-Blu-ray-Malcolm-Atterbury/dp/B0024F08UG

[bassman]

Cool. I just recently watched this on the tube. Classic.

BUT....this will hands down be the greatest Blu Ray ever..

http://scifiwire.com/assets_c/2009/04/Ghostbusters_Bluray-thumb-360x461-16948.jpg

:cool:

The cover sucks though. 12 days and counting...

[DjfunkmasterG]

That cover does suck, why not use the original Black Poster art?

[bassman]

That cover does suck, why not use the original Black Poster art?

That's pretty much what every GB fan thinks. I guess sony wants it to "pop" and stand out on the shelves.

They're holding off on releasing GB2 for some reason. Hopefully it's because they're finally giving it the Special Edition treatment. And hopefully they're holding it off to add the upcoming documentary "Cleanin Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters" (http://www.fangoria.com/features/21-fearful-features/2625-cleanin-up-the-town-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-ghostbusters.html)


What about Inferno? Any new features listed for the BR?

[DjfunkmasterG]

The Towering Inferno Blu-Ray Special features:

Special Features Include:

• Commentary by F.X. Feeney, film historian
• Scene-specific commentary by Mike Vezina, special effects director on ‘X3′
• Scene-specific commentary by Branko Racki, stunt coordinator on ‘The Day After Tomorrow’
• 32 extended and deleted scenes
• Alternate opening sequence
• Irwin Allen 1977 interview
• Six storyboard comparisons
• 10 featurettes:

◦ Inside the Tower: We Remember
◦ Innovating Tower: The SPFX of an Inferno
◦ The Art of Towering
◦ Irwin Allen: The Great Producer
◦ Directing the Inferno
◦ Putting out Fire
◦ Running on Fire
◦ Still the World’s Tallest Building
◦ The Write Stirling Silliphant
◦ AMC Backstory: The Towering Inferno

Vintage promotional materials:

◦ NATO presentation reel
◦ Two original 1974 featurettes
• Trailer farm:

◦ ‘The Towering Inferno’ teaser
◦ ‘The Towering Inferno’ trailer
◦ ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ trailer
• Interactive galleries:

◦ American Cinematographer article
◦ ‘The Towering Inferno’ and how it was filmed
◦ Photographing the dramatic sequences for ‘The Towering Inferno’
◦ “Action Unit” lives up to its name while shooting ‘The Towering Inferno’
• Stills galleries:

◦ Shot compositions
◦ Publicity
◦ Behind the scenes
◦ Conceptual sketches
◦ Costumes

[bassman]

Whoa! That's a decent list of features there. Looks like this will be a definite purchase for me.

Hopefully the HD transfer comes through okay. I'm still a newbie with BR, but i've noticed that some older films don't fair too well with the format.

[DjfunkmasterG]

A lot of titles tend to use DNR to clean up the video,which people mistake for the HD like Picture when in actuality it actually robs the picture from its original intended source.

[AcesandEights]

This is almost as cool as when I found out Where Eagles Dare had been released in DVD.



BUT....this will hands down be the greatest Blu Ray ever..

The cover sucks though.

I dunno. It makes me want to go swimming :)

[DjfunkmasterG]

I am definitely looking forward to GB and The towering inferno in terms of HD purchases.

[bassman]

I am definitely looking forward to GB and The towering inferno in terms of HD purchases.

You're into this kind of thing.....know of any sites that list upcoming BR's and whether or not they're worth it?

[DjfunkmasterG]

You're into this kind of thing.....know of any sites that list upcoming BR's and whether or not they're worth it?

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=150


This link takes you directly to the Blu-Gay software section of the AVS HD FORUMS. These guys talk about everything Blu.G... I mean Ray


Whoa! That's a decent list of features there. Looks like this will be a definite purchase for me.

Hopefully the HD transfer comes through okay. I'm still a newbie with BR, but i've noticed that some older films don't fair too well with the format.

One of the best transfers of an older film into the HD format I have ever watched was Blazing Saddles (HD-DVD Version) Man, what a fantastic job they did with that film.

Bullit even looks fantastic, same format (HD-DVD)

Some of the worst transfers I have seen:

Saturday Night Fever (Blu-Ray)
Traffic (US HD-DVD) I hear import version is better
The Perfect Storm (BR and HD-DVD versions)
T2 (Blu-Ray) Original Release
Twister (HD-DVD and BR Release)
Grease (BR)

[Kaos]

Damn, DJ. You are still smarting over HD-DVD! It's alright, I loved the format too.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Yeah, I am Kaos, For many reasons.

1. The format was complete (unlike Blu-Ray which is still buggy)
2. No region coding (Any HD-DVD from anywhere in the world played on your player, no hacking required.
3. The red cases look better than those gay looking lite blu ones. :p