The Game (#627) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

[alvoi]

Release date: September 25, 2012
Purchase: Amazon

United States
1997
128 minutes
Color
2.40:1
English

DIRECTOR APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION

The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down the rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewers alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood’s true contemporary visionaries.

Disc Features:

1. New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director David Fincher and director of photography Harris Savides, with original theatrical 5.1 surround theatrical soundtrack, in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
2. Alternate 5.1 surround mix optimized for home theater viewing, supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce and Fincher, in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
3. Audio commentary by Fincher, Savides, actor Michael Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, digital animation supervisor Richard “Dr.” Baily, production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, visual effects supervisor Kevin Haug, and visual effects producer Robyn D’Arcy
4. An hour’s worth of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and film-to-storyboard comparisons for four of the film’s major set pieces, with commentary
5. Alternate ending
6. Trailer and teaser trailer, with commentary
7. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt

Three reasons:

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Finally, The Game will get the treatment it deserves! I'll throw away my UK release as soon as this arrives

 

[ruioptica]

Day one for me

 

[karl01]

a must for me too just love the idea of this film so original not like most of the **** from hollywood

 

[cooey]

Ooooh this will be my first Criterion purchase!

 

[Noodles]

Ooooh this will be my first Criterion purchase!

Same here mate.

 

[karl01]

Same here mate.

Hope you got a region free player they are normally region A

 

[cooey]

Got a region A player and a region B player here

 

[alvoi]

Got a region A player and a region B player here

Same here

 

[SimonLDT]

I'll have some of this.

 

[bigrob]

deffo a day one purchase. i can let my Criterion LD retire now and rest witht he others in my LD collection

 

[blumaster]

just heard about this. So excited to see that not only it's getting a NA release, but it's going to be a Criterion release to boot.

 

[pmartin252]

Pre-order link for this September 25th release now here.

 

[dirtyoak]

Sweet! Day one for me and my first criterion. I have a Panasonic that's region free so it'll be no problem playing this.

 

[laz305]

Anybody got it yet? Is it worth it? How's the packaging?

 

[blumaster]

had to snap these off quickly because my batteries were dying. It's a Criterion release so whether it's worth it or not depends on the person.

 

[tridon]

This is the one Fincher film that I've never seen. I may have to see this because I'm not a fan of "new" Fincher who makes films about Facebook and books that already had a film adaptation a year before in another country. "Old" Fincher, on the other hand, is AMAZING (I want Panic Room on Blu-ray)!

 

[GVZER]

Fyi. There is a misprint cover of this film
So beware if you order from Amazon.

...Nas thanks you

 

[tridon]

Fyi. There is a misprint cover of this film
So beware if you order from Amazon.

Spoiler

...Nas thanks you

That's strange. Watch all the sellers on eBay... RARE "MISPRINT" EDITION OF THE GAME!!!

 

[bananek]

Hope I get a good copy :/

 

[Colombianlove41]

Whew! I got a good one. I watched it and it looks amazing. Well worth the upgrade and there were no real technical issues being the movie is very dark.