The Relic (US - BD RA)
Lionsgate has announced a Blu-ray release of the Tom Sizemore movie
Title: The Relic (IMDb)
Starring: Tom Sizemore
Released: 6th April 2010
SRP: $19.99
Further Details:
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced a Blu-ray release of The Relic which stars Tom Sizemore and Penelope Anne Miller. The disc will be available to own from the 6th April, and should retail at around $19.99. The Blu-ray Disc is presented in 1080P High Definition Widescreen format and 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio. The only extra material will be the theatrical trailer.
Quote: Plucky evolutionary biologist Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) joins forces with tough Chicago cop Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) to unravel the mystery behind the horribly mangled corpses that keep popping up around her museum during an opening night gala. When they investigate further they find that there were mysterious deaths on the cargo ship that brought new exhibit pieces across the ocean. Sure enough, there's a monster to blame, sprung from a strange artifact of South American origin. Based on the bestseller by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
News by Tom Woodward
Starring: Tom Sizemore
Released: 6th April 2010
SRP: $19.99
Further Details:
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced a Blu-ray release of The Relic which stars Tom Sizemore and Penelope Anne Miller. The disc will be available to own from the 6th April, and should retail at around $19.99. The Blu-ray Disc is presented in 1080P High Definition Widescreen format and 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio. The only extra material will be the theatrical trailer.
Synopsis
Quote: Plucky evolutionary biologist Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) joins forces with tough Chicago cop Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) to unravel the mystery behind the horribly mangled corpses that keep popping up around her museum during an opening night gala. When they investigate further they find that there were mysterious deaths on the cargo ship that brought new exhibit pieces across the ocean. Sure enough, there's a monster to blame, sprung from a strange artifact of South American origin. Based on the bestseller by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
News by Tom Woodward
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The CGI effects in this looked really fake back in the day when watched on VHS, I can't imagine how bad it'll look in HD. (And i don't wanna find out)
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two thumbs up?
wow, i didnt realized they both liked it. ebert has shown some genre love but siskel tended to always not like those sorta movies so surprise.
anyway for 20$ (probably less in stores) and on blu? i'll definately get this, i didnt love it but i enjoyed it and it was cool. granted i've only seen it the one time but yeah i remember liking what i saw. lol
wow, i didnt realized they both liked it. ebert has shown some genre love but siskel tended to always not like those sorta movies so surprise.
anyway for 20$ (probably less in stores) and on blu? i'll definately get this, i didnt love it but i enjoyed it and it was cool. granted i've only seen it the one time but yeah i remember liking what i saw. lol
Always enjoyed this one, but if they're gonna do a Bluray properly, they need to do a serious remastering job on it. The original VHS and standard DVD releases had atrocious picture quality, some parts of the movie were so dark (literally) that you could barely tell what was going on onscreen. Here's hoping they do it right for once.
taciturnwes wrote: Always enjoyed this one, but if they're gonna do a Bluray properly, they need to do a serious remastering job on it. The original VHS and standard DVD releases had atrocious picture quality, some parts of the movie were so dark (literally) that you could barely tell what was going on onscreen. Here's hoping they do it right for once.
hopefully that was indeed a transfer issue that can be fixed and not like AVP:R where apparently it was the director's intention to not let anyone see what was happening. lol
hopefully that was indeed a transfer issue that can be fixed and not like AVP:R where apparently it was the director's intention to not let anyone see what was happening. lol
i've had this on DVD for years and i just rewatched it again last week and the CGI doesn't look really that bad at all (and i say that as someone who HATES CGI). i LOVE this movie (i actually saw it when it first came to theaters!). IMO it's a VERY underrated gem. also the creature is another one of the late Stan Winston's awesome creations!
oh, and i freaking LOVE this cover art!
oh, and i freaking LOVE this cover art!
Wow! I didn't know so many people loved this movie. I was afraid of all the bashing I might get for posting something positive. I remember loving this movie when I saw it in theaters back in the day.
I liked this movie, but the picture quality on the DVD is pretty bad. I watched the DVD on my 52" HD tv recently, and it's an eyesore. Seems like Paramount (Paramount released this, right?) doesn't always knock HD transfers out of the park, either.
I'd say this was more of a 'Peter Hyams Movie' than a 'Tom Sizemore Movie'.
I kind of like the cover art, but there are a couple of posters for the film that are way cooler, I especially like the first one of these:
i have this one laser disc and really enjoyed the movie.a bit dark in places but heres hoping the blue ray will recitfy this problem.and yes i did say laser disc....lol
I agree, after seeing those posters, those are cooler. I am actually about to go watch siskel and eberts review of this. Tom Sizemore used to be such a good actor, sad he has sorta stumbled
Always thought this was a cool little B movie. I got the VHS on a blind buy and liked it 
Since Lionsgate is releasing all these Paramount movies like the original "My Bloody Valentine" & "The Relic", don't you think it's about time that they release other Paramount titles like "The Perfect Weapon" or "Bugsy Malone" on Blu-ray & DVD?
taciturnwes wrote: Always enjoyed this one, but if they're gonna do a Bluray properly, they need to do a serious remastering job on it. The original VHS and standard DVD releases had atrocious picture quality, some parts of the movie were so dark (literally) that you could barely tell what was going on onscreen. Here's hoping they do it right for once.
I can't speak for the accuracy of the picture quality of the DVD and VHS (as I never watched them) but I saw this film several times in a couple different theaters due to working at one where it played. I can assure you that the projected print at both was EXTREMELY dark. I remember specifically a scene "showing" the monster in the unlit underground sewers that was nearly pitch black except for some faint highlights on the beast. Relic was even darker than Seven (another film we played).
Theatrical movies with this gloomy, contrasty look were extremely rare from the early 80's to the mid 90's but now it's considered a cliche. Both were so unusually dark for the time that customers would complain and/or wanted their money back thinking we screwed up the projection (I was called an idiot and full of s**t when I told a older male patron that Seven "was supposed to look that way". Relic director Peter Hyams was also the Director of Photography (as he is on most of his other films) and his style tends to have deep inky blacks. I remember being disappointed with the laserdisc because they had brightened the picture to ill effect. As a result it lost it's edginess and betrayed more mediocre CG effects. I hope the Blu retains the look of the theatrical presentation as part of the reason I liked this film so much was because of its moody, shadowy lighting.
I can't speak for the accuracy of the picture quality of the DVD and VHS (as I never watched them) but I saw this film several times in a couple different theaters due to working at one where it played. I can assure you that the projected print at both was EXTREMELY dark. I remember specifically a scene "showing" the monster in the unlit underground sewers that was nearly pitch black except for some faint highlights on the beast. Relic was even darker than Seven (another film we played).
Theatrical movies with this gloomy, contrasty look were extremely rare from the early 80's to the mid 90's but now it's considered a cliche. Both were so unusually dark for the time that customers would complain and/or wanted their money back thinking we screwed up the projection (I was called an idiot and full of s**t when I told a older male patron that Seven "was supposed to look that way". Relic director Peter Hyams was also the Director of Photography (as he is on most of his other films) and his style tends to have deep inky blacks. I remember being disappointed with the laserdisc because they had brightened the picture to ill effect. As a result it lost it's edginess and betrayed more mediocre CG effects. I hope the Blu retains the look of the theatrical presentation as part of the reason I liked this film so much was because of its moody, shadowy lighting.
daleisin wrote: taciturnwes wrote: Always enjoyed this one, but if they're gonna do a Bluray properly, they need to do a serious remastering job on it. The original VHS and standard DVD releases had atrocious picture quality, some parts of the movie were so dark (literally) that you could barely tell what was going on onscreen. Here's hoping they do it right for once.
I can't speak for the accuracy of the picture quality of the DVD and VHS (as I never watched them) but I saw this film several times in a couple different theaters due to working at one where it played. I can assure you that the projected print at both was EXTREMELY dark. I remember specifically a scene "showing" the monster in the unlit underground sewers that was nearly pitch black except for some faint highlights on the beast. Relic was even darker than Seven (another film we played).
Theatrical movies with this gloomy, contrasty look were extremely rare from the early 80's to the mid 90's but now it's considered a cliche. Both were so unusually dark for the time that customers would complain and/or wanted their money back thinking we screwed up the projection (I was called an idiot and full of s**t when I told a older male patron that Seven "was supposed to look that way". Relic director Peter Hyams was also the Director of Photography (as he is on most of his other films) and his style tends to have deep inky blacks. I remember being disappointed with the laserdisc because they had brightened the picture to ill effect. As a result it lost it's edginess and betrayed more mediocre CG effects. I hope the Blu retains the look of the theatrical presentation as part of the reason I liked this film so much was because of its moody, shadowy lighting.
Well, I didn't actually catch this one in the theater so I have no real frame of comparison, but despite whether or not it was intentionally dark from the get-go, the DVD transfer was still horrendous at VHS levels of quality and should be fully remastered nonetheless.
I can't speak for the accuracy of the picture quality of the DVD and VHS (as I never watched them) but I saw this film several times in a couple different theaters due to working at one where it played. I can assure you that the projected print at both was EXTREMELY dark. I remember specifically a scene "showing" the monster in the unlit underground sewers that was nearly pitch black except for some faint highlights on the beast. Relic was even darker than Seven (another film we played).
Theatrical movies with this gloomy, contrasty look were extremely rare from the early 80's to the mid 90's but now it's considered a cliche. Both were so unusually dark for the time that customers would complain and/or wanted their money back thinking we screwed up the projection (I was called an idiot and full of s**t when I told a older male patron that Seven "was supposed to look that way". Relic director Peter Hyams was also the Director of Photography (as he is on most of his other films) and his style tends to have deep inky blacks. I remember being disappointed with the laserdisc because they had brightened the picture to ill effect. As a result it lost it's edginess and betrayed more mediocre CG effects. I hope the Blu retains the look of the theatrical presentation as part of the reason I liked this film so much was because of its moody, shadowy lighting.
Well, I didn't actually catch this one in the theater so I have no real frame of comparison, but despite whether or not it was intentionally dark from the get-go, the DVD transfer was still horrendous at VHS levels of quality and should be fully remastered nonetheless.
Disciple wrote: I kind of like the cover art, but there are a couple of posters for the film that are way cooler, I especially like the first one of these:
the 2nd poster was the original DVD cover art.
the 2nd poster was the original DVD cover art.
Great little B grader.....maybe when it hits the cheapie bin...
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