All The President's Men (4K+2D Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]
- Thread starter paulboland
- Start date
Wait- the OP image is not placeholder art?!!i was really hoping that would say 'Artwork TBC,' but since it doesn't, that's what we get for this classic: text on black, and nothing on the reverse?
the original posters are themselves not very exciting at all, but even that would be better.
View attachment 607816 View attachment 607817
That's definitely placeholder "art" lol WB have been doing this all the time with their steels as of late.
It won't be the final art until they add the credits to the back. 
Special Features:
- All the President's Men: The Film and It's Influence
- Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
- Telling the Truth About Lies
- Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
- Jason Robards on Dinah!
Interesting that some of UK vs US steelbooks present a Hobson's choice:
US: Glossy- not embossed
UK: Embossed- but matte finish
US: Glossy- not embossed
UK: Embossed- but matte finish
I'd prefer glossy over embossing in this case, that they didn't do the title was a big oversight imo. Actually isn't it debossing? There's no frame.
It's not huge though, the matte isn't streaky and that's usually what ruins it for me, I think the steel is fine.
Does it really?
Heck, I might pick it up then now. I wasn't going to drop on it for just a 4k. There was zero info about a blu ray too. I take it that it's the remastered 1080p movie on the blu ray?
Or is it just special features?
The blu-ray has the movie and special features, haven't checked what's on the 4k disc. Can't tell if it's remastered or not though.
I would be shocked if that Blu-ray turns out to be remastered. I can't remember the last time Warner did one alongside a new catalogue 4K release. The US Steelbook is 4K disc only and if they had gone to the trouble of issuing a new disc they would have put it in that one as well, plus the current disc isn't some crummy old VC1 with lossy audio from the very early days it's a fairly decent MPEG 4 AVC transfer with lossless audio from 2011. So I don't see them going to the effort. Speed Racer would be a much deserving cause for a remastered blu alongside the new 4K transfer on purely technical terms as that is a crummy early VC1 transfer with lossy audio. That said I don't think that will get one either as all the evidence points to Warner having no policy for some time now of caring to do new transfers on Blu-ray if it's not a brand new film.
Similar threads
