Update Arrow Video Upcoming Releases Review

Update Arrow Video Upcoming Releases Review – Mallrats is a movie I love and the good folks at Arrow Video have put together a really nice package with this two-disc Blu-ray set full of special features along with a beautiful remastered picture. Fans will love this set and they should because it’s so good. Studio: Arrow Video Release Date: 20 October 1995 (Theatrical) / 13 October 2020 (Blu-Ray) Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 45 seconds (Theatrical Version) / 1 hour 25 minutes 31 seconds (TV Cut) / 2 hours 1 minute (Extended Cut) Region Code: A Picture: 1080p (1.85:1 aspect ratio) (All Versions) Audio: English 2.0 (All Versions), English 5.1 (Theatrical and Extended Versions) Subtitles: English SDH (All Versions ) Cover : Yes (Limited) Digital Copy : No Starring: Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannon Doherty, Claire Forlani, Jason Mewes, and Stan Lee Written by Kevin Smith Directed by Kevin Smith Note: I’m updating this review with my thoughts on the latest last week. 4K Blu-ray, also from Arrow Video. Only the picture and special features contain different material than the Blu-ray. Of course, the packaging also changes a bit, but it’s such a small change that it doesn’t really matter. Brodie Bruce, a student obsessed with Sega and comics, and his best friend TS Quint are both dumped by girls on the same day and both head to the local mall to deal with their loss. Along the way, they meet some friends, including Willem, a guy who looks at pictures of the Magic Eye and tries desperately to see the hidden picture; Gwen, one of TS’s ex-girlfriends; and Jay & Silent Bob of Clerks fame. Eventually, they decide to try to win back their significant others and take care of their nemesis (the father of TS’s girlfriend and the store clerk who hates them for not having a shopping plan). I first watched CLERKS in 1995 after it was released on laserdisc. The film was highly praised by Siskel & Ebert, who I watched weekly on their TV show. I thought the movie would be funny and it was, but I had a hard time relating to the characters because I was too young to enter the workforce, let alone be tired of it. Of course, after my first job, I began to understand what CLERKS is all about. Kevin Smith’s next film, 1995’s MALLRATS, was the film that spoke to me more than EDITORS. Here we have a movie about people talking about film, comics and television, topics that my friends and I talk about all the time. The conversations at MALLRATS were very similar to some of the conversations we had with friends and it was a joy to see people like me represented on the big screen. The movie was funny and had relatable characters. MALLRATS was trashed by critics. Siskel & Ebert hated the film, as did other critics. The film bombed at the box office, recouping only a fraction of its $6 million budget. Smith walked out of the movie always joking that he “did a mallrat” when someone made fun of him. He used the film as a defense instead of standing by, which he later regretted. The film is quite simple in its design. It’s a romantic comedy that has a plot, unlike CLERKS, which has no plot. A few times the camera zooms in on Shannon Doherty or Claire Forlani as they realize they shouldn’t break up with any of the male leads, while soap opera-style music plays, as if Smith is saying, “This is what the studio wants, but I’m going to make it as sweet as possible. The movie works best when the characters have free rein to talk and do whatever they want. Jay and Silent Bob try to beat the stage for the play, which will be set in a mall, then but punches the easter bunny after he lied about who really punched Brody. Speaking of Brody, the real find of the movie is Jason Lee who kills it as Brody. You’d never guess that Lee never acted before MALLRATS as he has he owns every scene he’s in. The way Lee perfectly delivers Smith’s dialogue is great to see and every scene with him is fun to watch. Brody is given some of the best lines in the movie, but Smith delivers them to almost everyone except T.S. Who is the real man in the movie.MALLRATS is a movie that gets better with every viewing. I bought the movie on laserdisc when it first came out and showed it to anyone who was willing to sit down and watch it. It was always a joy to see people’s response to the film, this was a time before anything about Mary turned the tide on raunchy comedies. The jokes come to mind quickly, the dialogues are witty, and we like the characters. Smith says there will be a sequel and hopefully it will shine a light on the original. The picture and sound of Mallrats have been restored by Arrow Video and the results are beautiful. The film looks the best it has ever looked as the detail is very high (patterns on clothing, individual hairs on someone’s head, etc.). The colors pop when they show up, especially in the film’s very pink climax. The transfer notes apply to all three versions of the film found in this set, except for the TV version. The TV version uses the same transfer for 98% of the version’s runtime, but footage is scattered throughout where the quality drops significantly as clip after clip is lost. Arrow had to use lower quality footage to fill in where the footage would have been. The drop in quality is very noticeable (like the uncut footage in Scream Factory’s SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT Blu-ray), but it never detracts from the enjoyment of the film. There are two tracks to choose from for your audio, with a 5.1 track and a 2.0 track available. Both tracks sound great, but the movie was originally mixed in stereo, so I decided to do this review. 5.1 just pushes the effects and music into the background and I’ve never liked that. Not a bad sound at all, but I like listening to the original mix of the movie. So how different is the new 4K Blu-ray from 2K Blu-ray? Well, Mallrats looks even better in 4K. I noticed how the colors jumped while playing the game during the third act on the Blu-ray, but they jumped even more on the 4K Blu-ray thanks to HDR. The grain of the film is much more distinct here as well, as it gets a bit heavy at times. Details are high and textures get a nice higher resolution. Everything is better with 4K Blu-ray. The features are pretty much all included on the 4K Blu-ray, except for one pretty big omission: the TV Cut isn’t on the 4K edition. No one has any idea why. Some have said that Arrow didn’t want to include it because the quality wasn’t up to the standard that Arrow wanted to promote with the 4K release, but that didn’t stop them from including the TV cut of ROBOCOP in the 4K release. . Who knows why he wasn’t included, but he wasn’t. Everything else is the same.. Disc 1: Theatrical Version (1h 34m 45s, HD, 1.85:1) – Introduction by Kevin Smith (12m 31s, HD, 1.78:1) Smith begins by telling the famous story of his conversation with producer Jim Jacks on Saturday morning after the film opened. He then praises the poster (drawn by Drew Struzen) but admits that it sold the film very poorly. He ends up talking about how the movie has aged and that he had a Stan Lee role before he became popular. The intro can only be selected from the “Play Movie” option in the main menu.

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Audio commentary with cast and crew. Kevin Smith is joined by Chasing Amy’s Jason Lee, “Fat Buds” Mewes, Phantom’s Ben Affleck, Scott Mosier and View Askew historian Vincent Pereira for a very lively commentary track where the stories flow like water and the jokes even faster.