Is the New 40 Film Criterion Box Set Worth It?

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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024

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  • @ZacharySiple
    @ZacharySiple Před 28 dny +3

    I told my Grandma that I live with about this set and she said "don't even think about it." LOL. :)

  • @creategreatness8823
    @creategreatness8823 Před 16 dny +1

    You know what would have been REALLY cool? If they let people CUSTOM BUILD this set with 40 of their own choices as long as the films were all currently in print and under license from Criterion.
    So go for a plain semi-blank or non-specific packaging....and let people custom build THEIR 40 films to include in it.
    THAT would have been something special. To say hey...War of the Worlds, Godzilla, The Blob, Night of the Living Dead, Following, The Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, etc etc
    I know that would have been a bit of a logistical nightmare...but it would have been wild and I think a LOT of people would have bit. Especially those looking for a chance to get a great package deal on a bunch of titles they've never purchased.

  • @mmayer1558
    @mmayer1558 Před měsícem +2

    Personally my only gripe with this is that it's a box set of movies you can get individually for an AESTHETIC value. To me the point of a collection is that it looks visually impressive. I would much rather have on my shelves the individual editions with their spines all showing. Maybe this is for boxset enthusiasts and not really for those collecting Criterion?

    • @FilmsByColor
      @FilmsByColor  Před měsícem +1

      Exactly! This was another point I meant to mention. Even if I didn’t already own half of these titles, I would still prefer to collect the individual releases for all the care that goes into the art and packaging of each one. I do like box sets, but I prefer boxsets that collect a filmmaker’s work. The randomness of this one doesn’t appeal to me.

  • @TheVid54
    @TheVid54 Před měsícem +6

    Criterion's Christmas cash grab. You can get these blu-rays individually with better packaging - often at at a better price - some titles are probably available, or will be, in 4k editions from other labels. Criterion continues to disappoint. Maybe you can sucker a friend or relative to gift it for the holidays. Frankly, a subscription to the Criterion channel is a better option and you can check out which of the films randomly included aren't worth owning

  • @felixnolasco2683
    @felixnolasco2683 Před měsícem +10

    It’s a great set if you’re starting out. But definitely not worth it for seasoned Criterion collectors who already own the majority of those films.

    • @FilmsByColor
      @FilmsByColor  Před měsícem

      @@felixnolasco2683 Exactly my thinking. I won’t be picking it up, but a nice gift for newbies and casual collectors.

    • @ParzivalTheThird
      @ParzivalTheThird Před měsícem +7

      @@FilmsByColorIn theory, yeah it would be, but take a step back and think about how insane that sounds. Oh, so you’re a newbie? Drop $800.00 on this one box set! That should give you a good head start!

    • @Beetleejuicee
      @Beetleejuicee Před měsícem +1

      What newbies in Criterion are dropping $800 off the rip to start? These sets will sit until they drop in sale to something around $399

  • @erg9998
    @erg9998 Před měsícem +4

    If this ends up in a half off sale, as someone with only a handful of criterions, i would consider this. Am considering it. But if its a limited at current price thing, idk if i can swing the ticket price. Would love to see more short news videos from the channel though!

  • @shinycheeto5779
    @shinycheeto5779 Před měsícem +3

    Feel like this is a super niche thing. Collectors already have a good chunk of these or would rather have 4K set.
    As for people just getting in idk. That price tag probably put them off. Hopefully they release something else to celebrate 40th anniversary like a poster or anything more affordable

  • @robjohnson9235
    @robjohnson9235 Před 29 dny

    This is a great value at around $15 a disc and I am grabbing it.

  • @brandonrobertkersjes
    @brandonrobertkersjes Před měsícem +5

    $400.00 when half off?

    • @BALAAABOYYYY222
      @BALAAABOYYYY222 Před měsícem

      Maybe, maybe not. Hopefully. I’ll definitely grab at that price. Would debate between opening it or selling it. Aaaahhhhh.

  • @Pagaugezero
    @Pagaugezero Před měsícem +6

    Criterion Collection Starter Kit. Great for those who are starting out.

    • @sharkeyflor
      @sharkeyflor Před měsícem

      thing is most beginner collector's are going to be able to afford/not be willing to buy something at this price. may be popular at the half off sale though

  • @gracemartinez18
    @gracemartinez18 Před měsícem +2

    Beautiful…But no one better convince him to spend $800

  • @RandallStevenson
    @RandallStevenson Před měsícem +1

    If I had the $$$ to spare, I would be all over this, just like I would've been all over the Walmart Disney set.

  • @Freddy-Da-Freeloadah
    @Freddy-Da-Freeloadah Před 18 dny

    1/2 off sale makes it $10 per bluray movie... But do I want these films? Some are films I am "Supposed to" watch... But not a majority... Some are old favorites, which I don't have on bluray...
    ALSO: I have a list, and this set only has one of those films: "Pickpocket", a film I do not like...
    Maybe the Janus Films DVD set? But that sells for $750 plus postage, and they are just DVDs!
    IMHO

  • @fv5681
    @fv5681 Před měsícem +2

    Happy for the company as a whole. Really cool they been around for 40 years. Feels like it’s for the got to have every release collectors but hopefully they do well with it and sell a bunch of these.

  • @ParzivalTheThird
    @ParzivalTheThird Před měsícem +5

    I think it’s absolutely crazy to say that this box set it good for people starting out. Yeah, it’s a great collection of essential movies, but for the love of god, what kind of maniac drops $800.00 up front on a brand new hobby?

    • @carywhitt
      @carywhitt Před měsícem

      Take someone who gets into vinyl record collecting, to really take advantage of it, you’re dropping well over a grand to get all the stereo equipment and turntables and speakers, etc.… So not unheard of.

    • @DarkInception
      @DarkInception Před 28 dny

      @@carywhitt​Yes, hobbies have a start up cost, but most hobbies will try to deliver the “fundamentals” at somewhat of a value.
      If you’re getting into comics for example, trade paperbacks are an affordable way to collect entire stories without having to hunt or pay the steep cost of back issues. Music labels frequently drop greatest hits re release. In card games they have starter decks. You get the idea.
      Yes, there is a start up cost for any hobby. But the idea is you want newcomers to have easy accessibility. This boxset, is more expensive than most newcomers would pay, and yet redundant for their existing audience, so they won’t buy it either.

  • @benrus44
    @benrus44 Před měsícem

    I was about to comment somewhere to find out your thoughts on this release! You were way ahead of me. I only have 9 of these films. It’s enough to deter me from getting this box set. Would be great to have. But like with a lot of the “grail” DVDs too expensive. I like these random news videos! Keep doing them!

  • @HuntersCinema
    @HuntersCinema Před měsícem

    Many of these films already have or will receive a 4K disc in the near future. If you're patient and wait for sales or scout on Facebook, Reddit, etc, you could probably get most of these releases at their best and actually watch them as you buy them.

  • @extofer
    @extofer Před měsícem +1

    This is a weird box set to me. New collectors like me aren’t generally looking for things like these. I don’t even know 80% of the films in this set and I wouldn’t do a major blind buy of that many movies. I mean I’d accept it as a gift but I wouldn’t seek it out myself.
    I only see hardcore collectors picking this up.

    • @HenryLaPierre
      @HenryLaPierre Před měsícem +1

      Not even, as they already would presumably have all, or the majority of the included titles.

  • @mrwhateverism
    @mrwhateverism Před měsícem

    I’m a true Criterion collector, not a fugazi, so of course I will pick this up, even though I already own many of these films.

  • @nachoamb1
    @nachoamb1 Před měsícem

    It’s cool but I already own all those movies

  • @juancmorenor
    @juancmorenor Před měsícem +3

    This is a mistake of Criterion! Much better would be the Akira Kurosawa box set! Who will pay 800 usd for it or also 400 usd with 50% descount! Too much!

  • @rlh1984
    @rlh1984 Před měsícem +1

    I actually only have 5 of these films, so I don’t feel like it would be that redundant for me. But that’s beside the point because … hundreds of dollars no matter when or how you get it. But part of me feels like I’d like to have the individual releases. However, I will say that almost all of these movies are ones I’d like to have or wouldn’t mind having, and many of them are films I might not be that motivated to get individually, and it’d be cool to have a way to get them along with others that I’d definitely want otherwise. It’d be cool, but probably not.

  • @letstalkcriterion
    @letstalkcriterion Před měsícem

    I have all 40 films it’s a great idea and a lovely nod to the criterion closet nice for new collectors to get a nice cross section it will be a nice deal in the sale.

  • @HenryLaPierre
    @HenryLaPierre Před měsícem

    Collectors that buy Criterions most likely already have enough of the included titles to justify making a purchase worthwhile, and those new to Criterion are not going to drop the asking price (even at what B&N asks at their bi-annual sales) in one shot in any sort of numbers that would make this release a success. As to those mentioning the packaging, imo the individual releases are preferable to the obvious cardboard slots this will use that just scream scratches. My one positive on this is that there aren't any included exclusives to this release that will make Criterion (film) completists like myself contemplate picking it up. Easy pass.

  • @Starkardur
    @Starkardur Před měsícem

    Works well as an introduction to Criterion perhaps but for avid collectors and fans of Criterion I don't think this box set matters that much.

  • @MagnitudeReviews
    @MagnitudeReviews Před měsícem

    Would it not be $400 during the sale? Or is it supposed to be pre-order only and never going on store shelves?

  • @user-ep8lr4wz1z
    @user-ep8lr4wz1z Před měsícem

    This is a reaction to an older video ( This with "Rumble Fish" and "Flight of the Phoenix" ), sorry. Moin from SH in Germany! I have seen you today for the first time with the Criterion Design book video. Now I would like to react to your shopping. First the film high on the left side in the picture: "Afire" with the wonderful Paula Beer! Also seeing the classic "Blow up" below it, it reminds me of the fantastic "Blow out". There is seen - only for a moment - the cover of "Come and see"!!! What is about the "remake" of "Cat People" with the beauty and talent of Nastassja Kinski known from the Wenders materpiece "Paris, Texas" with Karen Black's son Hunter Carson? "Badlands" from Malik !!! I see "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" by Altman! "The last Metro" is a gem. "Dogfight" with Lili Taylor is good. "Cul-de-sac" even better. "Die freudlose Gasse", "Tagebuch einer Unbekannten" and "Die Dreigroschenoper" by Pabst from the pre-Nazi area! "Black Moon" with the great Therese Giehse, who is also in Malle's "Lacombe, Lucien", which is, beside of "Atlantic City" and the also fine "Alamo Bay", one of my favorites. Sirk's movies are also: "A Time to Love and a Time to Die", "Interlude", "The Tarnished Angels", "Written on the Wind" and "Imitation of Life" and his two movies with the wonderful Zarah Leander from Sweden "La Habanera" and "To New Shores"! Try to find Peter Lorre's "Der Verlorene ( The Lost One )" from 1951 not only acting but also director. Favorite Hitchcocks of mine are: "Torn Curtain", "Topaz" and "Family Plot". I love "High Society" - musical remake and - by George Cukor "Heller in Pink Tights", "Bhowani Junction" and "A Star is Born" with Garland and James Mason. "Rumble Fish" is great: the cast (stars also Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper and Tom Waits - l love his total work) , the music, the mood and the possibility to compair it with Coppola's "The Outsiders" or even "One from the Heart" - all three are fine movies. Do you know "Volver" by Almodovar? Have you seen "The Virgin Spring"? I love also Bergman's " The Serpent’s Egg ", "Det sjunde inseglet" from 1957, " Sommarnattens leende " 1955 and the best of his movies - 1982's - " Fanny och Alexander"! "True Stories" is by Talking Heads group member David Byrne - their and his music are even much better: watch the concert movies "Stop making sense" and "American Utopia" - both among the best ever ( John Goodman in Joe Dante's "Matinee"?). Wenders, and then Pasolini and Fassbinder ( here with his last one "Querelle" - but please watch "Fear eats Soul"! - becauce of "All That Heaven Allows" and the very good "Far from Heaven") side by side. About "Insignificance": Theresa Russell and Michael Emil as Monroe and Einstein compaired to Michelle Williams and Walter Matthau in later movies!?! I love "Hidden Fortress" - not so much "Star Wars". Weired but good ones like "Naked", "The Night Porter" - and "Sid and Nancy" in the background - and also - the best ever - "Onibaba"! "Tom Jones" is only a joy. The classic silent "La passion de Jeanne d’Arc" is realy one of the best ever. Coen's "Miller's Crossing" is one of their bests ( have you seen Albert Finney in "Wolfen" or - yes - "Tom Jones"?). " The Flight of the Phoenix" has also Hardy Krüger, who's character is the biggest surprise. And James Stewart in all his fantastic Westerns by Anthony Mann? You both and your children ... stay gold. Regards from Germany SH Jörg

  • @carywhitt
    @carywhitt Před měsícem +1

    I think it’s a nice set. It is good for beginners that only have say a couple of criterion movies in their collection because the bang for the buck is really really good. It’s currently like $16 a movie and you could possibly get it for under $10 a movie come November. Also a great gift for that budding film nut. Either way, this is not bad at all.

  • @postmodernrecycler
    @postmodernrecycler Před měsícem

    I mean, there's no Buñuel film. What's the point of this?

  • @carywhitt
    @carywhitt Před měsícem +1

    Here’s a question since everyone’s referring to casual collectors or new collectors concerning this set. What’s the number of criterion movies that makes you a beginner collector, or a novice collector, or a hard-core collector?

    • @HenryLaPierre
      @HenryLaPierre Před měsícem +1

      Not sure of the number, but I consider those CZcamsrs who only buy the English language mainstream Hollywood type releases the collection puts out to be casuals. You know the ones, they publish a video of their hauls and they're all identical (Raging Bull, Thelma & Louise, After Hours, Risky Business... the list goes on). It's refreshing when you have a channel like this or James over at 20th and 21st Movies talk about foreign films or those outside the norm.
      Novice, I'd say those without a large number of releases, but open to any release.
      Hardcore, maybe those who've without thinking twice, let their love of film take them down all the various rabbit holes the collection allows. Also, completists :)

    • @carywhitt
      @carywhitt Před měsícem

      @@HenryLaPierre yeah I guess there’s more to it than just amounts. But the bigger Hollywood releases (Tootsie, Risky Business) are fewer in number for sure.

  • @JefferyEPetrone
    @JefferyEPetrone Před měsícem

    Seems like an oddly daunting release from Criterion.

  • @Beetleejuicee
    @Beetleejuicee Před měsícem

    Saw this yesterday absolutely ridiculous lol. These sets will sit for a longgg time. People might by when the drop to around $399. Furthermore it is the most popular films in the collection meaning everyone already has them or most of them. This set will essentially only be marketed to beginners in Criterion and out of that market not many will drop $800 or even $600 on a criterion set. Also most people getting into criterion want the many different standards covers they sell individually to start a shelf of Criterion not just 1 boxset to put somewhere on the top of everyones shelf because it is too big. I think this will be a big fail from Criterion. If it ever drops to $300 I might snag one but thats it.

  • @LinouGertz
    @LinouGertz Před měsícem +1

    I got several of these movies, but still want this so much! So many I don't own, and such a beautiful set, so if this is included on the 50% B&N sale I will consider it!

  • @elivincent3795
    @elivincent3795 Před měsícem

    hopefully my christmas gift from parents

    • @FilmsByColor
      @FilmsByColor  Před měsícem

      Oh cool, good luck! Hope you get one

    • @elivincent3795
      @elivincent3795 Před měsícem

      @@FilmsByColorthanks man! i’m a college aged guy but i just started collecting criterion’s about a year ago only have 15 or so but i usually still get one big present from parents so hopefully i can ask for this possibly

  • @AndyKing1963
    @AndyKing1963 Před měsícem

    Pointless when I have half of the discs already, but on the other hand not everything has to be aimed at me. It will be interesting to se how this sells, at least beyond the usual grifters on eBay

  • @qarsiq
    @qarsiq Před měsícem +2

    Emphatic NO.

  • @ethanedwards7557
    @ethanedwards7557 Před měsícem +1

    I already have almost every movie in the set on bluray so I have no interest in this one.

  • @anthonyparkinson4517
    @anthonyparkinson4517 Před měsícem

    I'm still waiting on a refund or even an explanation for all those crappy non-anamorphic DVDs CC released back in the day when everyone else was doing anamorphic transfers for half the price or even less. They've always been overpriced, even moreso with their laserdiscs which bordered on criminal with their pricing.
    And numbering their releases is just a cynical way to appeal to the OCD collector who wants them all. Nah, done with CC.

  • @AndrewLaSane
    @AndrewLaSane Před měsícem

    It took all of 10 seconds for people online to start bashing the "random" titles and ask why their favorite films didn't make the cut. Can't wait to see unboxings of this beauty later this year

  • @davidosborn6714
    @davidosborn6714 Před 26 dny

    Criterion could have done one of these just based on the contents of Guillermo Del Toro's swag bag during his visit to the closet... A cute idea, I suppose, but not $800 worth of cute...Hard pass.

  • @heavyharmonies
    @heavyharmonies Před 22 dny

    $800.... no 4K... hard pass.

  • @brunomachado7279
    @brunomachado7279 Před měsícem

    I have the majority of these titles and some of them don't interest me. Pass.

  • @michaelliptak358
    @michaelliptak358 Před 27 dny

    First way overpriced most of the films in this collection I don't like or care for of the small number of criterion films I do own none of them made this box set so I will pass not worth it

  • @clothesontheground
    @clothesontheground Před měsícem

    ooof, not 4k included?