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The only steelbook they sold out at full price £29.99 was Blade Runner 2049I don't think they're struggling sheerly because they're asking £30 for a 4k steelbook.
I think the quality of film and steelbook design has to be factored in too. Most of the films listed above either were crap and/or had a crap steelbook.
Again with the 4k steelbook price debate.
When new 2D/4K releases sell for the higher end of between £20-25 then why is £5 extra for a steelbook talked about as a rip off when people routinely pay £25 for a 2D/3D version of a film in a steelbook?
2D/3D amaray - £18-20 2D/3D steelbook - £25
2D/4K amaray - £20-25 steelbook - £30
No one is forcing anyone here to buy a steelbook for x amount sheerly because it has a particular disc in it. IF you have to have it however, there are plenty of places where you can flog the 4K disc and you'd have no problem getting atleast a tenner for it which essentially reduces the cost down to what you wanted to pay for the standard blu ray disc and the steelbook anyway.
Just back after seeing this. Feel a bit disappointed to be honest. Thought it was going to be better. Didn't live up to the hype for me.
Having watched the complete Shout Factory box set over the last couple of weeks, it's really only more of the same. Only brought into 2018 for the new cinema goers.
Probably on a par with Rob Zombie's remake for me. It's OK, just don't expect anything special.
Parts of it felt rushed to me. With some scenes feeling tacked on. And it felt like they ran out of ideas about 3/4 the way through and didn't know how to end it.
Be interested to see what the rest of you think......
I'm hoping Best Buy gets a 4K edition because this one is too expensive.Anybody know if the U.S. is getting a steelbook of this? Thanks.
I understand that it includes the 4K disc, but the majority of Steelbook collectors have blu ray collections, just can't justify a thirty quid price tag to get a blu ray I can buy on amaray for 13.99. Sorry, no sale.
Now that I've had time to process it, the more I think about this, the more this film annoyed me.
Here are the issues I had with it in the spoilers below.
Don't read unless you've seen the film yet.....
I missed that completely. When was that implied?Re:The bus crash: It's implied because the doctor was the only one to have survived, and the fact that he's infatuated by Micheal, that he aided in the accident in order to let him escape.
I know what it is. I'm a Halloween fan. I don't need it explained.Not completely sure what people are wanting/expecting from this movie. We can sit here and pick the plot apart but ultimately this is a Halloween movie in 2018. It's not going to be the citizen kane of slashers. John Carpenter couldn't even replicate or attempt to replicate what he did in the original due to the landscape for slasher movies changing since Halloween 1978 came out hence why he passed on directing anymore movies.
Main criticisms I see for this movie is that it's too much "fan service" or pays too much "homage" to the original. It's just like the new Star Wars movies, Force Awakens comes out and its bashed for being too much fan service, Last Jedi comes out and its bashed for taking the franchise in a completely different direction then people were expecting. You can't please people these days obviously.
The movie is about a man who wears a mask and kills people. This is the 10th movie about the same subject matter. How different could it possibly be really?
I for one think its a good movie and it's a good Halloween movie. Its not perfect, definitely a good 7 out of 10. I'm just happy to see Michael back on the big screen
Box office performance can do amazing things to what can happenSaw it last night... Good movie.Obviously it's never going to be better than the first one because that is what started it all, but the fact that they've done this as a direct sequel, 40 years later, and ignoring all the other movies is great.
Realistically how many times can one man keep coming back to kill? LOL. Thank god they ignored all the other films and made it simple and fresh again and what they've done here is given this franchise new life again, even if another movie is never made.
All the teenagers going to see this who had never seen the original have almost certainly seen both now to connect the dots. I don't particulary think they should make another one. It just really waters down the franchise to keep coming back with movie after movie about the same person doing the same things. After Halloween 2 I ignored all the others anyway because they were just stupid. I gave the Rob Zombie version a go because it was a remake but it was just 'ok'. Between this 2018 movie and the original it's a simple story and in most parts a believable one. I really like how Myers wanders around the street past the children trick or treating, who wouldn't have a clue who he is at their age. I thought Laurie Strode was a bit OTT with her paranoia. It's understandable when you've tried to be murdered that you would be paranoid etc but how many people would have a trap door built in their basement with a remote-controlled revolving kitchen worktop that is there as both a safe haven and a trap... just in case he returns within the next 40 years lol, but rather than getting too in depth in the whole plot of what worked and what didn't (most things did), I enjoyed it for what it is. A good ol' fashioned horror slasher that has been released in time for Halloween, because y'know, that's the name of the movie and what it's based around.
I give it a 7/10... maybe a 8/10.
Like many people I don't take these sort of films seriously.
Oh, and the post credits thing... they shouldn't have bothered because nobody would ever ever escape what happened at the end LOL.