The live action Jetsons Movie

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by droosan » August 31st, 2020, 7:32 am

Ben wrote:
August 31st, 2020, 5:03 am
Kino have a Uni deal, Droo. They have a bunch of 80s Uni titles coming along the line: the Michael J Fox vehicle The Secret Of My Success is also coming along, in October!
Most of the Kino Lorber Blu-rays I have are silent films, or 'boutique' 60s movies like One Million B.C. or Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.

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As for a live-action Jetsons .. the project continues to be resurrected & foundered at Warner Bros, every couple of years. But there was a themed TV commercial for 'Alcoa' a couple of years ago -- which showed an interesting promise of what it could look/feel like:


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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Ben » August 31st, 2020, 8:32 pm

Kino has expanded hugely from just the silents (actually a different side of Kino) and boutique-label titles to handling stuff from Universal, Touchstone, MGM and Fox, as well as many independents and definitive versions of some PD films. Pretty impressive in the last few years!

I remember that commercial!

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Randall » August 31st, 2020, 11:30 pm

The KL Studio Classics line has been awesome. I may have splurged a bit on those titles.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Ben » September 1st, 2020, 4:13 am

Haven’t we all? ;)

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Daniel » October 30th, 2020, 7:06 pm

Details for the movie disc:
KLStudioClassic wrote:Coming February 16th!

Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
• Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin
• Audio Interview with Voice Actor Jeff Bergman (George Jetson / Mr. Spacely / Board Member)
• Theatrical Trailer
• 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Lossless Stereo
• English Subtitles

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Randall » October 30th, 2020, 8:45 pm

It seems leaner than what we were led to expect, but not bad for a non-special edition disc.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Daniel » November 8th, 2020, 2:02 pm

Amazon pre-order is up.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Daniel » February 19th, 2021, 1:56 pm

Here's a review. Yeesh! Seeing as the one thing I was hoping for didn't come to fruition, I'm passing.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Ben » February 19th, 2021, 4:26 pm

At least the commentary sounds okay, and an almost hour long chat with Bergman can’t be bad. But the video does sound pretty ropey; for the one time I may ever feel the need to see this ever again I'll stick to the DVD I just nabbed off of Rand.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Randall » February 20th, 2021, 12:33 am

The DVDBeaver review also showed off the too-dark and grainy video. What a shame that this is the best that Universal could provide. I wonder if the DVD is any better?

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Ben » February 20th, 2021, 5:03 am

Urgh! I thought that title screen at Beaver didn’t look half bad, if a little dark, but the clarity seemed to be there, but scrolling down and seeing those other shots... Kind of looks like HDR without the higher resolution! I note that it’s also on Blu from Fabulous in the UK...wonder if an older master might be any different (no extras though)? I’ll take a look at the DVD (still not here) and see if there’s any major difference, but I’d think that someone just took a print off the shelf and transferred without any real grading; a shame, since they went the extra mile with a commentary and the interview.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Randall » February 20th, 2021, 11:16 am

I found these comments on the UK release (on the Blu-ray.com Forum):
Definitely a dated off-the-shelf master. Although certainly an upgrade on the DVD, it is a little disappointing just how dull the colours are. Light specks here and there and several other small anomalies (two weird small central black marks at 8:11 for several seconds etc). No extras or subtitles. AVC encode. Audio sounds fine. I would probably rate it a 2.5-3/5 for PQ.
With that in mind, the US release with the extras sounds like a better bet for me. But do let me know how you find the DVD.

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Ben » February 20th, 2021, 11:22 am

I’ll let you know *when* I find the DVD! ;)

Was hoping this morning might bring a package, but no... :(

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Daniel » February 20th, 2021, 1:09 pm

That would've been eerie timing!

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Re: The live action Jetsons Movie

Post by Ben » February 20th, 2021, 4:04 pm

Kinda...but we're past the two week shipping window so it should be any day now...I hope, since there’s a bunch of goodies in that pack!

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