Forum - View topicNEWS: Tubi TV Streams Millennium Actress Anime Film
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catbot158
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AHH, I saw this film when Paramount was streaming it on their Youtube Channel! I was sad when it went down but look! It's alive!
This is my favorite Satoshi Kon film. It's more simplistic than his other films, but the editing and animation is phenomenal. Definitely check out this film if you want to see some great shots and nice animation from Madhouse! |
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relyat08
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This film keeps streaming on various places all the time. I'm not going to watch it again streaming, but I'd love to own it. I'm not sure if there is a huge audience for it at this point, but I guess the streams can't hurt..
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Hoppy800
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If you had satellite TV you would notice that this film aired non-stop in 2009-2011.
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pajmo9
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This is hands down my favorite Satoshi Kon film. It had a beautiful story with a wonderful soundtrack by Susumu Hirasawa. I really wish someone would release it on blu-ray.
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Zin5ki
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Quite so! For fans of emotionally-charged stories, it makes something as lavish and daring as Paprika seem almost disappointing by comparison. And that in itself is quite a telling feat. |
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GeorgeC
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What I don't understand is why it is only Paprika is still in-print on DVD and Blu ray in the States?!?!?
Kon's other films SHOULD be in-print as well. It would be VERY nice if there were remastered for HD since the previous DVD releases for 3/4 of them were very, very flawed. There IS an audience for these films... If the jacked-up prices online for USED copies of Region 1 DVD's don't convince you, I don't know what else would! I've always wanted to see the older Satoshi Kon films properly remastered and re-released on Blu ray in the States... I've been tempted for over a year to pick up the reasonably-priced Region B Blu ray of Perfect Blue but that would mean investing in an all-region Blu ray player, resetting my current BD player in the PC, or buying another PC BD burner/player just to reset for Region B for one disc! (I didn't even have to reset the BD player for Metropolis!) I even posted a suggestion on Criterion's website to pick up the out-of-print Satoshi Kon films... I suggested they're the anime equivalent to a good Alfred Hitchcock film which SHOULD interest a lot of people. It's a crying shame streaming, scalped/USED DVD's, or bootlegs or expensive Japanese imports are the only way to see these films. (The Paramount YouTube streaming of Millennium Actress was far from perfect. It was based off of the master used for the DVD and even back then people could see it WASN'T the best DVD presentation it could have been for that time, either! Dreamworks really bungled the anime licenses it had back then!) These films SHOULD be as available as Akira and Ghost in the Shell (the GOOD, original film) are now... |
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relyat08
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There are a number of cheap, or even free software programs that eliminate region blocking entirely. Some for DVD-only, but some work for BD as well. DVDFab has one for both, and a number of my friends have other various ones that they like to use as well. |
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GeorgeC
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Thanks for the tip! I'll keep it in mind. I might be "crazy enough" to get Perfect Blue/Region B after all unless the price has been jacked up since the last time I checked... It was around $20 which is very reasonable for an anime import. I was very happy with what I paid for the Metropolis UK steelbook... I might have to use a region-decryptor for the next computer... My current one runs like a "Christmas tree" (it's an older PC) where HD and Blu ray support is concerned as in it can SORT of run it BUT it tends to choke at the worst times and not all titles are equally supported. I had no problem running Captain America (2011) on that machine but Metropolis (2001) was an issue? Both were on BD, both loaded fine on the machine... Weird! Great for DVD, though! I ran Cutie Honey (1973, DVD) and it upscaled nicely... Blu ray/HD support has always been spotty on PCs and Macs. The computer industry -- at least MS and Apple -- never fully integrated Blu ray into their machines. Apple and MS want our money from digital downloads through THEIR SERVICES... That's why MS supported HD-DVD on XBox 360 to confuse people and attempt to split the market for HD disc support which ultimately failed BUT Blu ray still hasn't been as popular as DVD was at its height just over 10 years ago. Support for BD on personal computers has always been third-party. As anybody that's played with BD on PC knows, not all player software is created equally and what IS supported is generally fussy at times. You're generally better off futzing with traditional table-top devices connected to your TV instead of playing BD's on a PC. Oh, and as for Millennium Actress on TubiTV? It's full HD unlike the streaming on YouTube... The YT streaming was strictly SD resolution. It was 360p, not even full SD (480p)!!! The TubiTV streaming I noticed was HD. It still makes no sense that this film and Perfect Blue aren't available in Region 1/A on disc right now...! Don't get me wrong -- I love Kon's feature films AND Paranoia Agent. They should ALL be in-print right now on BD, minimum! I don't know why no company has bothered to option them for HD release. As far as I know, all the Satoshi Kon feature films AND Paranoia Agent have been remastered for HD. Perfect Blue is at the top of MY personal list but I would recommend all of these films AND Paranoia Agent for Satoshi Kon fans and anybody that likes suspense/thriller/Hitchcock-type movies. I'm gonna personally make it a goal to suggest re-licensing on at least another anime forum within the next week. |
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Top Gun
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You're so right it hurts. It's an absolute crime that Kon's masterpieces have almost all lapsed into licensing hell, and half of them never got anything resembling a competent release in the first place. Even several years ago I had to resort to grabbing a used copy of Millennium Actress, and I finally bit the bullet and grabbed the UK's steelbook Blu-ray release of Perfect Blue. (I have a somewhat-dodgy software solution for multi-region playback, though its support for BD menus is iffy at best.) I'm eternally grateful that I bought Geneon's Paranoia Agent release years ago, because I think it goes for two arms and three legs at this point. I know Kon's library wouldn't set the world on fire sales-wise, but I have to believe that the amount of attention they'd garner among dedicated fans and film buffs would more than make it worthwhile for someone to put them out there again. There has to be something on the corporate side of things making it untenable. (And at this point I've pretty much lost hope that Dream Machine will ever see the light of day as a finished film. Kon gets taken from us far too soon, and yet Michael Bay continues to plague the world. The universe just sucks.  )
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