As many people recently seem to be realizing that they miss physical media, I’m one of those few that never gave it up! I keep all my outdated media formats and pile on as the new ones come out. Personally, I’ve always preferred having a library at my fingertips, and avoided dependence on the whims of streaming platforms. It’s not that I eschew all digital media, I just prefer to own my own copy of something (which is probably why I love Bandcamp so much…download those WAV files and save ‘em, just in case)!
I’m also now the kind of person that will immediately preorder something that catches his eye, and the last few weeks there have been 2 reissues coming to Blu-ray or UHD (whichever you prefer) that I couldn’t hit “buy” on quickly enough.
One is a sentimental favorite; a deeply flawed film that I have a soft spot for anyway…and not just because the title character's original comic book incarnation gave me my 1995 AOL email name...and the name has stuck to me since.
The other is a film that made a huge impact on me as a kid, being the first R-rated film I watched at home with my parent’s (begrudging) explicit permission. It’s also one of those films that has long deserved but eluded the super deluxe treatment, complete with tons of extras, so I am really looking forward to the day this package shows up in my mailbox.
I've also got a new reissue of Donnie Darko heading my way near the end of this month, and that's on top of the recent spate of full-run Blu-ray and DVD sets of television shows I've long loved that have been piling up on the to-watch list, so even if all the streaming services were to spit out crud for the next few months, I've got plenty to keep me busy for a quite a while. Woo hoo!
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