@@K1ngSlayer95 I actually dug the 2022 Hellraiser. Another Hulu only movie. I’m surprised with how big that fan base is they haven’t released it on physical as they did Prey
Except it's not the only way to get them. The Star Wars Limited Edition DVDs that came out in 2006 have the original unaltered movies on a second disc.
It's great to see you back with another fantastic video! 👍😎 I couldn't agree more, I can't see holding on to streaming services for just a handful of originals that I like. Especially when Tubi has so many hidden gems. Although My wife and I will pay for a streaming service during the holidays, scramble to watch the few movies we like and then cancel again. If Netflix,Hulu, and others, would release the little bangers they have on physical, we would never need to pay for streaming again. It sucks, but the fan-made releases tend to be the only option to have a physical copy. 😢
Man, this reminded me how much I want a release for the Amazon series red oaks. That show was canceled way too soon. I haven’t found a physical release anywhere outside of a season 2 promo disc that Amazon sent out
@@thelastmoviestandingit’s a great slice of life dramedy that’s based around a group of people that either work at or are members at a country club in the 80s. I highly recommend checking it out. IMO it’s one of the last great comedy shows before things got way too safe and boring
I have a massive Blu Ray/DVD collection (approx. 20K). And I have ZERO qualms about buying bootlegs, if an official version isn’t there. One of my favorites I own, is the entire series of What We Do In The Shadows on Blu Ray. Love the show. They have only given us DVD. I say this as a music artist /film producer. If I have releases I never drop on physical media, I have no problem with people making physical copies of my stuff. 🤷♂️ All of the bootlegs I have ever bought have beautiful resolution. I feel like I am watching regular releases.
If a movie or TV series only exists on DVD and not on any higher resolution format, then I'm fine with the DVD release, I personally am not a resolution snob, grew up on VHS, so DVD is fine, I won't bother with Bootlegs if it's at least on DVD, plus at least its an official release. but those Star Wars unspecialized Bootlegs are a whole different story, the fact that they were only officially released on VHS is a reason I can agree with even though I have the VHSs of those.
@@stephens4175 yea if it’s at least on DVD I’m fine with that. The only 1 I have that has a DVD is the Dukes of Hazzard & my dvd started acting weird so lol. Streaming not coming to physical is total okay in my eyes to bootleg lol especially if I really like the move or show & know it will be at risk of getting deleted in a few years if they feel like it
I have all of the old beavis and butthead episodes complete with all music videos bootlegged. Since it will never get physically released because of copy rights.(And Mike Judge also hates a lot of the episodes.) The person who made that is an absolute savior to preserving the 90's. One my favorite things I have
@@thelastmoviestanding Not all the old episodes were officially released. Only about half of them were and some were partially censored. None of the episodes released physically had the music with the skits like it was on MTV. They were split onto separate disks. Most of the music videos are also missing from the episodes they made officially available. What I have is a 2 disk Blu ray set of "the king turd collection" which is all the episodes and season specials recorded straight off of MTV. It's all in 480p so all 200 episodes and 4 season specials fit on just 2 Blu ray disks.
i live in indonesia and the quality of our discs worsen each year, till the end of all physical media distribution here in the mid 2010s. at that time, i bought more bootlegs as a form of protest, also pointing out that the bootlegs were actually better manufactured compared to the real ones! for a much recent case, i really love Titanic, got the real VCDs, DVDs, Bluray, and UHD. but none of them got Indonesia dubbing. When Disney launched Disney+ here, they released Titanic with Indonesian dubbing. But theres no more physical media distribution here, so there wont be any official disc release of it. all was fine until Disney removed Titanic from streaming for the re-release. i found a seller that offers to print you a disc on demand, and Titanic with Indonesian dubbing is available. So, i bought the bootleg DVD copy of Titanic with indonesian dubbing. its not that we actively looking for bootlegs, its just that buying the bootleg one was our best option at certain circumstances😂 governor Swann said it better, "Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of piracy--piracy itself can be the right course?"
Yeah, sometimes it's the only way to get them. I have a very nice bootleg of True Lies that actually has a better case and cover art than the official 4k release, which I also have.
I also have despecialized edition from Harmy's, also have an alien Blu-ray set with all alien films including Prometheus and covenant and Thundercats bluray series
Same here. I have several VHS copies of the Star Wars OT on VHS, I have the limited Edition DVD's that had a second disc that featured the theatrical releases on it, I have the six movie Star Wars Saga Bluray set and most recently I got the big Skywalker Saga set that has Episodes 1 - 9 on Bluray and 4k (and I don't even have a 4k player or tv yet). But when I was able to, I also got the DeSpecialized Editions of Star Wars on Bluray, three seperate discs in a three disc case.... eventually I want to get individual cases and art work/slip covers for each film... but the movies themselves look amazing. My biggest is worry is one day they stop working or the disc suffering from Disc Rot.... but I will cross that bridge if I ever come to it. I also had bootlegged versions of the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, I have since gotten the official releases of those two seasons....
I think Star Wars is a special case where I feel bootlegs are justified. I’m not even a big Star Wars fan but fans have been crying out for these to get re-released for decades at this point. The onus is on Disney to do it or just accept that this is what fans will resort to.
That’s a George Lucas thing. He thinks the SEs are the superior films and doesn’t care if people want the OG films. He even slow walked giving the library of Congress the theatrical versions. Seems he wrote that into the contract when he handed it all over to Disney.
@@50TBRD ah I see. That’s too bad. I can see why people don’t like him anymore. It honestly makes me feel bad for the director of Return of the Jedi. He died before he could have any say on how he wanted his film to look.
At least when Spielberg did a SE of ET he had the good sense or consideration for fans to include both versions of the film. Honestly, why aren't we to the point in entertainment where we can customize? Male or female main characters, whatever relationship you want, in the case of Star Wars, a checklist of scenes you'd like or not like your experience.
They were last released in 2006 so it hasn't (quite) been decades. I own those 2006 DVDs, and they're really crappy. All they did was take the 1993 LaserDisc transfers and dump them onto non-anamorphic DVDs. So they look terrible. But they are an official LucasFilm release. So I won't be purchasing these *ILLEGAL* Bootlegs ...
The Valet is a remake of a Francis Veber film, the writer-director of many most famous, important, and fun French movies ever, mainly starring Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu, and Jean Reno (The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe, The Toy, La Chevre/Unlucky, Fugitives, Les Comperes/CoFathers/'ComDads', Le Diner de cons/Dinner for Fools, Jaguar and many others). I think this must be 9th of his films, remade in English, the most I ever heard from any one director! Americans don't read subtitles, or learn other languages I guess... The Birdcage, Father's Day, Dinner for Schmucks, etc, all are remakes of Veber's films. The original La Doublure/The Double starred a very beautiful Alice Taglioni, and I wouldn't be watching this remake, if it weren't for Samara Weaving, my new favorite actress, thanks to her crazy killer roles in movies like Mayhem, The Babysitter, Ready or Not, and Guns Akimbo! It's still a very feel-good film, adapted to LA realities, nationalities, with some details changed (in the French movie valet was much younger, without a former wife, so it didn't look that out of place and depressing, and the store he was visiting was a bookstore, not a bike shop). Funny thing is half the movie is in Spanish, so you still gotta read subtitles, what was the point of a remake...😂
I'd like to own stuff like Finch and army of the dead. Never had Apple + and don't want to pay for Netflix anymore. Finch if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it, great post apocalyptic scifi drama with Tom Hanks. I know discs are out there just haven't gotten around to grabbing them.
My only complaint about the Star Wars' Despecialized Editions is that Harmy's name appears in the credits. It is no longer about preserving film when you do this. Besides that, they are the most visually appealing versions. But I already have the Star Wars Limited Edition DVDs, which were released in 2006 and included laser disc rips of the original unaltered movies on a second disc, so I don't see the need for them.
Honestly, for me, I'll only go for bootlegs if they are for things that I want to complete or for preservation. For example, I've got the first two seasons for the AMC TV series called Halt and Catch Fire. The first two seasons were released on DVD and Blu-Ray, however Season 3 and 4 of the show never had a physical release, and there haven't been any plans for them to be released on physical media (the only way to get the whole series complete is to buy the digital streaming via Amazon Prime. If I could get them from a third party distributor (i.e. bootleggers), I'd totally would buy them in a heartbeat so I could have the complete series (I've even toyed with making them myself if I can find a way to rip the streams from Amazon). I own a bootleg copy of a TV series called VR.5, which only lasted a season and isn't available on streaming. I bought it because the last physical release that existed was on VHS, and even then, you can't get all of the show. Some shows and movies aren't available on DVD and Blu-Ray, or even streaming, due to rights issues. One such example is the movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), which only had a VHS release and hasn't had any additional releases due to rights issues (mainly with the music featured in the film). I've got that one, as well as The Heartbreak Kid (the 1972 film, not the remake with Ben Stiller), Hamburger - The Motion Picture (1986) and Joysticks (1983, which I've found out has recently being re-released on Blu-Ray through a boutique company release) among many other movies and some TV shows that aren't readily available commercially. And I also have the Despecialized Star Wars films on Blu-Ray also, mostly due to preservation purposes also (I have the films on VHS and Laserdisc). Also, about Hush, I heard it was just re-released digitally (where you can purchase the film from other places digitally instead of having to watch it via Netflix). I haven't heard anything about a physical release (and I certainly would get it if I could).
Love my despecialized edition’s. Mine came with loads of special features from Harmyfilm, as well as a boat load of fan content of hard to find crew interviews, deleted scenes, utube reviewers, or whatever archival content the fan base could cram in this set…and as a bonus…the holiday special. Although, I could have done without that ! lol
Carpenter Brut is my favorite retro synthwave artist - a new subgenre credited to have started around the release of 2011's Drive film. Blood Machines is derived or expanded from his awesome music video Turbo Killer. In other music videos he used scenes from 70s and 80's slashers to build his own storyline of sorts, with corrupt preachers and psycho killers, even releasing one of the albums as a soundtrack to a non-existent film. 😁
He offered the Blu-ray when they were funding the production for Blood Machines and even did a second run back in 2021 before Shudder took it off which I took advantage of. You get way more with the official than the bootleg which is just a screen rip of what was on Shudder.
@@MPREZYA555 yea I really want to original, especially for the BTS stuff on it. But I emailed them earlier this year & they are out. The website is even down. & none on eBay.
@thelastmoviestanding kicking myself for not getting a few but glad I glad I got one as it took almost a month to ship. Have you seen it before? I'll have to dig up the pics or take some new ones as it's pretty cool.
Bootlegging movies that are in theaters or are getting a Blu-ray is dumb but movies that don’t exist anywhere else it’s no different than recording your movies off cable and having blank vhs tapes. I have a couple foreign ones that never had US releases. Haha Star Wars too many copies plus the de specialized I have the 4ks only, easily to make yourself. They are illegal to sell not make. A lot of people are complaining about Warner using cheap discs most of the HD-DVDs don’t work and people are saying their DVDs are going the same way. I was lucky that my copy of Dukes of Hazzard works.
I too have the theatrical copies of the original star wars movie on bluray as well as Klaus (2019), The Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special, army of the Dead, Owl House, and infinity train (season 1 and 2 have dvds but not 3 and 4)
@@Transcinephile I was going to get the Hawkeye bootleg until I saw the 4k release. I highly doubt they'll do their stand alone Christmas special on physical haha
@@RebelHeartVideoteque thanks for the update. I didn’t know it was called that. I also really liked last years movie “Belfast” which was set during the conflict in the 60s
I never knew Jacki had a show like that. that would be super interesting to check out. There'a a lot of old tv shows that never got released, or even available to watch anywhere, it's sad
The only reason why Bootleg Unofficial bluray's even exist. Is bc of the studios won't get off there ass and releaes the movie. Or license the movies out to the small labels to releaes the movie on bluray. So the studios are mostly the blame for even bootleg unofficial bluray's being around. So maybe the studios need to start listening to what actually the fans of physical media want. & not listen to some person sitting behind a desk making all the decisions based on what they are reading on there laptop. From someone who thinks they know what is the best decision for the studios
Not controversial. The controversy was created by ol' man Lucas himself when he fundamentally changed the character type in one of the pioneering movie genres in the last 50 years. That's on him. The blatant refusal to release a modern graphically improved version of the originals is on him. I've bought and own ALL versions except the 4Ks. No 4K theatrical release? No support for the modern 4Ks from me then. Too bad Lucas, Suck it buddy
Just for the official record, you should have NOT purchased these, and not for the reasons your thinking... These versions took a team of people who spent YEARS putting these together, and even MORE years putting together the 4k versions, and they made the available to people for FREE to share, they specifically said not to do whatever this seller did, and that is to download these original editions and make copies to sell people, and yet scumbags are doing it anyway... I am NOT coming after you or blaming you, but whoever sold those to you, is a real POS... That team that put those together and shared them with all for personal use, and never charged anyone did it out of love of the movies and did not do it to make money, people like your seller however pissed all over that, and did it anyway, he got those versions for free... Now I get things that are not available anywhere, and not going to say I never bought a few movies that there was no other option, and this is another case of that on your part..... but google Star Wars project 77 and read what went into those... and again I am NOT blaming YOU, or anyone else who bought them not knowing the history, none of this is directed towards you.. But the seller who sold them to you is scum.
I have been trying to find silkwood for years but the ones I find are around 100 US dollars. Not going to pay that.just wondered if you u have it and where you found it
@@tastetestwithtony9443 I’ve actually never heard of it until now. I just looked it up & wow it’s high lol old kinos are always way too overpriced. But that’s how Blame It On Rio was, the out of print Kino is $100 but the UK version is like $10 hahaha but it’s getting a re-release in the US in Sept so there may be hope for Silkwood to get a re-release
I picked up a few bootleg blu-rays that never had a official release.. I see no issue buying the bootleg film if studios has no release, but once there're an official release I will upgrade them.
I only go bootleg if there is absolutely no physical release. Like, I got "Barbarian", "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", "Godzilla Minus One", and all 5 seasons of the 1990's "Spider-Man" animated series because I refuse to rely on an internet connection to watch a movie.
Alot of Warner Bros. dvds that was made in 2000's to mid 2010's are know to have disc rot. It is mostly the US made discs that are in muti disc sets, The movies that have the cardboard case with the plastic disc tray are bad for it. Not as many of the single disc in the plastic cases are problematic it seems. Most of the Made in Mexico discs are fine. For some reason some of the US disc plants had a lot of problems. I have a WB Blade Runner dvd' in a cardboad/plastic it has disc rot. A Warner Bros Classic Saturday Morning Cartoons sets all 3 2 disc sets are rotted.
I have a Few Bootlegs in My Collection including but not limited to Invader Zim The Movie: Enter the Florpus The Despeciliazed Star Wars Trilogy Viva Piñata: The Complete Series & i also own a Few DBZ Bootlegs of The Ocean Dub basically i buy Bootlegs for stuff that are either 1. Out of Print 2. Doesn't have an Official Release in the First Place
I try to avoid bootlegs as much as I can but it's insane some of the things that are just not available. It is really confusing for example that Scream as a franchise has such a following and pop culture popularity but there are no legitimate releases of the television series.
@@ghostpizza0 I don’t actually. All my video games are digital, & the retro games I would want are super expensive haha I’m glad I’m not into the physical game world, those things are pricey!! 😂
Is there anywhere to get more info on your film? I live in a nearby city to you, I've worked on crews before and would be great to help you out on a future project. Didn't know you were involved in production.
which 1's? Star Wars? I'm going to assume burned because the way the DeSpecialized versions work is that you have to download the files. I'm 99% sure they are just burned on discs, I can see the lines at the bottom of the disc. but there are menus with chapters & disc labels to look as real as possible.
I have bootlegs because why not if studios don't want to release them? Before Disney released the MCU shows physically I had bootlegs of those so my MCU collection was complete. I then bought the official editions after they released.
I did the same with Mando! I through them out when the 4Ks came out but I kept the bootleg Disney Galleria of the BTS that they left off the 4Ks. I love the BTS content & hate that they didn't include it in the $50 steelbook
I haven't seen any of the Disney Star Wars specials like Mandalorian Obi-Wan and I really wanna see them and I know they made a few more and Bootleg is the only option but I worry about finding good ones. I only knew of 2 places online? I can't get out due to my handicap but years ago I knew someone but they didn't have artwork or cases.
With Star wars I have a Blu-ray collection. Of the original six films, I have the 4K versions of the original trilogy, I have the original trilogy on DVD with the original cuts. And I still wanted the despecialized editions. If you look into it the people that get in trouble are the people making them not the people buying. I think the only reason why people got in trouble with Napster back in the day was because not only were they downloading but they were sharing at the same time. Also corporations realized it was bad PR to fine 13 year olds downloading Disney episodes.
There's a lot of films that I just don't understand why they never made a physical D v d or cut transferred to blu ray. Obviously these movie companies are hoarding some of their titles. Columbia Pictures being one of the chief offenders. There are so many good titles from colombia.Then I would love to see just a standard blu ray. Not to mention 20th century fox, which who knows, if any of those older titles will ever be released. So I have gone out and found bootlegs of certain titles that I have to have in my collection, and I, these bootlegs, look amazing and the cover art sticking with the original movie poster. Makes it twice as inviting. I can't stand companies like warner bros that put on half Baked images on their releases. I usually do make a copy of the original movie poster onto a picture and slide it over the atrocious artwork. I absolutely support bootleg markets, and as you said, if they ever get around to releasing them officially again, I will rebuy them
@@thelastmoviestanding acronym for whitest kids U know. Was a television sketch comedy series like over 15 years ago. You can only get the first 3 seasons on dvd but they are like 150$ each so I got a bootleg copy of all 5 seasons on Blu-ray for 35$. Worth every penny
I'll admit to having the True Lies bluray from Spain but it turns out it's a bootleg. I would like to acquire the SW despecialized or 4k remasters but don't have a fast enough internet and I would be nervous trying to buy it. I've bought pretty much every edition of the Original Trilogy as well. I'll try and watch those Lego Movies next time I have Disney Plus.
I kept off buying that Spanish bootleg of True Lies for 10 years, only to scramble and get it after seeing the official waxworks release by Cameron, who we sadly lost to Avatar cartoons, take a moment of silence... 😂
@@MrBlue3rd Yeah, I bought it as well, for the special features, and to compare for myself, as I didn't really notice much wrong about Terminator 2 UHD transfer...
bwhahahaha I literally spit my coffee when you air quoted my "Targets" Im dead lol.... as Daniel at @cobwebschannel says: "Chase referring to movies as Targets or stuff he is targeting, makes physical media sound badass!" hahahaha .....freat vid man, I am waiting on the de-specialized 4k star wars to arrive so I'll report back on those! they will be my first ever bootlegs but like you, I have bought SW soooo much
🤣my Dr Evil "Laser" air quotes lol Yea the Star Wars despecialized are definitely worth bootlegging. I don think im goin to get the 4ks unless they are night & day but I don think they will be so much better to spend the money on them. I don't even want the 4ks of the other Star Wars films. the side by sides ive seen look awful! plus Disney doesn't do 4K right sadly
@@thelastmoviestanding Im really interested to see these ... I got all 3 original 4ks despecialized for a super good deal if Id mention them on my channel at some point lol - I only have the force awakens in 4k from the studio - which, I like too except the killing of Solo - but what is not to like? - it is basically the exact same story as the original film lol
@@AVAPopCulture the force awakens I would probably definitely get on 4K if I found it for a good price. I have all my Star Wars on blu-ray will slips so finding them all on 4k with slips right now, isn't worth it for me. im really happy with the blurays
If there is no way too legally to get them (especially at a reasonable price) then bootleg is the only way.
agreed. pays to have a computer with bluray burner :)
A few of my bootleg blu-rays actually have BETTER picture and sound quality than the official blu-ray that eventually got released. Go figure!
Those Star Wars blus in slipcovers look so sick. I want those!
I got a Blu Ray bootleg copy of Hellraiser (2022) in a flea market, and the movie actually looks pretty good.
@@K1ngSlayer95 I actually dug the 2022 Hellraiser. Another Hulu only movie. I’m surprised with how big that fan base is they haven’t released it on physical as they did Prey
Bootleg dusty + exclusives like hocus pocus 2 perfect fine, since their isnt legit release yet, and mat never be
@@thelastmoviestandingWe got it in the UK but on DVD only. Really baffling.
If that’s the only way to get something then so be it.
Except it's not the only way to get them. The Star Wars Limited Edition DVDs that came out in 2006 have the original unaltered movies on a second disc.
It's great to see you back with another fantastic video! 👍😎 I couldn't agree more, I can't see holding on to streaming services for just a handful of originals that I like. Especially when Tubi has so many hidden gems. Although My wife and I will pay for a streaming service during the holidays, scramble to watch the few movies we like and then cancel again. If Netflix,Hulu, and others, would release the little bangers they have on physical, we would never need to pay for streaming again. It sucks, but the fan-made releases tend to be the only option to have a physical copy. 😢
@@VampireHida yea I never intend to be a slave to the stream services. The good original movies they put out are a a dime a dozen anyways lol
Man, this reminded me how much I want a release for the Amazon series red oaks. That show was canceled way too soon. I haven’t found a physical release anywhere outside of a season 2 promo disc that Amazon sent out
@@DONWASABIJUAN I’ve never heard of that show
@@thelastmoviestandingit’s a great slice of life dramedy that’s based around a group of people that either work at or are members at a country club in the 80s. I highly recommend checking it out. IMO it’s one of the last great comedy shows before things got way too safe and boring
I have a massive Blu Ray/DVD collection (approx. 20K). And I have ZERO qualms about buying bootlegs, if an official version isn’t there. One of my favorites I own, is the entire series of What We Do In The Shadows on Blu Ray. Love the show. They have only given us DVD.
I say this as a music artist /film producer. If I have releases I never drop on physical media, I have no problem with people making physical copies of my stuff. 🤷♂️
All of the bootlegs I have ever bought have beautiful resolution. I feel like I am watching regular releases.
I see it no differently than back in the 90s when we made mixtapes off the radio or recorded our favorite movies\shows on VHS
@@thelastmoviestanding good point.
I didn't know I needed slipcovers from my Star wars bootlegs but boy howdy, those are nice
If a movie or TV series only exists on DVD and not on any higher resolution format, then I'm fine with the DVD release, I personally am not a resolution snob, grew up on VHS, so DVD is fine, I won't bother with Bootlegs if it's at least on DVD, plus at least its an official release. but those Star Wars unspecialized Bootlegs are a whole different story, the fact that they were only officially released on VHS is a reason I can agree with even though I have the VHSs of those.
@@stephens4175 yea if it’s at least on DVD I’m fine with that. The only 1 I have that has a DVD is the Dukes of Hazzard & my dvd started acting weird so lol. Streaming not coming to physical is total okay in my eyes to bootleg lol especially if I really like the move or show & know it will be at risk of getting deleted in a few years if they feel like it
I have all of the old beavis and butthead episodes complete with all music videos bootlegged. Since it will never get physically released because of copy rights.(And Mike Judge also hates a lot of the episodes.)
The person who made that is an absolute savior to preserving the 90's. One my favorite things I have
Are Beavis & Butthead not in physical media?
@@thelastmoviestanding Not all the old episodes were officially released. Only about half of them were and some were partially censored. None of the episodes released physically had the music with the skits like it was on MTV. They were split onto separate disks. Most of the music videos are also missing from the episodes they made officially available.
What I have is a 2 disk Blu ray set of "the king turd collection" which is all the episodes and season specials recorded straight off of MTV. It's all in 480p so all 200 episodes and 4 season specials fit on just 2 Blu ray disks.
i live in indonesia and the quality of our discs worsen each year, till the end of all physical media distribution here in the mid 2010s. at that time, i bought more bootlegs as a form of protest, also pointing out that the bootlegs were actually better manufactured compared to the real ones!
for a much recent case, i really love Titanic, got the real VCDs, DVDs, Bluray, and UHD. but none of them got Indonesia dubbing. When Disney launched Disney+ here, they released Titanic with Indonesian dubbing. But theres no more physical media distribution here, so there wont be any official disc release of it.
all was fine until Disney removed Titanic from streaming for the re-release. i found a seller that offers to print you a disc on demand, and Titanic with Indonesian dubbing is available. So, i bought the bootleg DVD copy of Titanic with indonesian dubbing.
its not that we actively looking for bootlegs, its just that buying the bootleg one was our best option at certain circumstances😂 governor Swann said it better, "Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of piracy--piracy itself can be the right course?"
Yeah, sometimes it's the only way to get them. I have a very nice bootleg of True Lies that actually has a better case and cover art than the official 4k release, which I also have.
Same! We probably have the same release.
I also have despecialized edition from Harmy's, also have an alien Blu-ray set with all alien films including Prometheus and covenant and Thundercats bluray series
I havnt heard of the aliens 1. Is it all like 1 movie cut? I’m going to get the Kill Bill grindhouse cut 1 of these days too
Despecialized editions are obsolete after project 4k77 4k80 and 4k83. Even Harmy says so.
I bought a movie threw Walmart on line it came in and was bootlegged paper covers glued on top the whole series wasn't there either. I sent it back.
Same here. I have several VHS copies of the Star Wars OT on VHS, I have the limited Edition DVD's that had a second disc that featured the theatrical releases on it, I have the six movie Star Wars Saga Bluray set and most recently I got the big Skywalker Saga set that has Episodes 1 - 9 on Bluray and 4k (and I don't even have a 4k player or tv yet). But when I was able to, I also got the DeSpecialized Editions of Star Wars on Bluray, three seperate discs in a three disc case.... eventually I want to get individual cases and art work/slip covers for each film... but the movies themselves look amazing. My biggest is worry is one day they stop working or the disc suffering from Disc Rot.... but I will cross that bridge if I ever come to it. I also had bootlegged versions of the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, I have since gotten the official releases of those two seasons....
I had the 1st 2 seasons of Mando bootlegged too until the 4k official releases are out.
I think Star Wars is a special case where I feel bootlegs are justified. I’m not even a big Star Wars fan but fans have been crying out for these to get re-released for decades at this point. The onus is on Disney to do it or just accept that this is what fans will resort to.
That’s a George Lucas thing. He thinks the SEs are the superior films and doesn’t care if people want the OG films. He even slow walked giving the library of Congress the theatrical versions. Seems he wrote that into the contract when he handed it all over to Disney.
@@50TBRD ah I see. That’s too bad. I can see why people don’t like him anymore. It honestly makes me feel bad for the director of Return of the Jedi. He died before he could have any say on how he wanted his film to look.
At least when Spielberg did a SE of ET he had the good sense or consideration for fans to include both versions of the film. Honestly, why aren't we to the point in entertainment where we can customize? Male or female main characters, whatever relationship you want, in the case of Star Wars, a checklist of scenes you'd like or not like your experience.
They were last released in 2006 so it hasn't (quite) been decades. I own those 2006 DVDs, and they're really crappy. All they did was take the 1993 LaserDisc transfers and dump them onto non-anamorphic DVDs. So they look terrible. But they are an official LucasFilm release. So I won't be purchasing these *ILLEGAL* Bootlegs ...
The Valet is a remake of a Francis Veber film, the writer-director of many most famous, important, and fun French movies ever, mainly starring Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu, and Jean Reno (The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe, The Toy, La Chevre/Unlucky, Fugitives, Les Comperes/CoFathers/'ComDads', Le Diner de cons/Dinner for Fools, Jaguar and many others). I think this must be 9th of his films, remade in English, the most I ever heard from any one director! Americans don't read subtitles, or learn other languages I guess...
The Birdcage, Father's Day, Dinner for Schmucks, etc, all are remakes of Veber's films.
The original La Doublure/The Double starred a very beautiful Alice Taglioni, and I wouldn't be watching this remake, if it weren't for Samara Weaving, my new favorite actress, thanks to her crazy killer roles in movies like Mayhem, The Babysitter, Ready or Not, and Guns Akimbo!
It's still a very feel-good film, adapted to LA realities, nationalities, with some details changed (in the French movie valet was much younger, without a former wife, so it didn't look that out of place and depressing, and the store he was visiting was a bookstore, not a bike shop).
Funny thing is half the movie is in Spanish, so you still gotta read subtitles, what was the point of a remake...😂
@@LennyNero2019 oh wow I didn’t know all that. I love Samara Weaving, Guns Akimbo is so good
I'd like to own stuff like Finch and army of the dead. Never had Apple + and don't want to pay for Netflix anymore. Finch if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it, great post apocalyptic scifi drama with Tom Hanks. I know discs are out there just haven't gotten around to grabbing them.
@@MoviePalaceOfBlood ye give heard of Finch but never seen in. I don’t think I’ve seen anything from Apple+ outside of Ted Lasso
I have red notice and 6 underground on bootleg Blu-ray dvd
I need 6 Underground on bluray
Also got the gray man on bootleg Blu-ray dvd
@@babymaker13th I don’t like that movie haha The Package from Netflix is another 1 I want
@@thelastmoviestanding I have the package on regular dvd
I see a lot of bootlegs that come from China, some of which have a very good picture quality
I don’t have any from China. I know a lot of 1s from Spain are too
They are verry good copy’s red notice, 6 underground,beekeeper all work great as bootlegs
My only complaint about the Star Wars' Despecialized Editions is that Harmy's name appears in the credits. It is no longer about preserving film when you do this. Besides that, they are the most visually appealing versions. But I already have the Star Wars Limited Edition DVDs, which were released in 2006 and included laser disc rips of the original unaltered movies on a second disc, so I don't see the need for them.
Honestly, for me, I'll only go for bootlegs if they are for things that I want to complete or for preservation. For example, I've got the first two seasons for the AMC TV series called Halt and Catch Fire. The first two seasons were released on DVD and Blu-Ray, however Season 3 and 4 of the show never had a physical release, and there haven't been any plans for them to be released on physical media (the only way to get the whole series complete is to buy the digital streaming via Amazon Prime. If I could get them from a third party distributor (i.e. bootleggers), I'd totally would buy them in a heartbeat so I could have the complete series (I've even toyed with making them myself if I can find a way to rip the streams from Amazon). I own a bootleg copy of a TV series called VR.5, which only lasted a season and isn't available on streaming. I bought it because the last physical release that existed was on VHS, and even then, you can't get all of the show. Some shows and movies aren't available on DVD and Blu-Ray, or even streaming, due to rights issues. One such example is the movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), which only had a VHS release and hasn't had any additional releases due to rights issues (mainly with the music featured in the film). I've got that one, as well as The Heartbreak Kid (the 1972 film, not the remake with Ben Stiller), Hamburger - The Motion Picture (1986) and Joysticks (1983, which I've found out has recently being re-released on Blu-Ray through a boutique company release) among many other movies and some TV shows that aren't readily available commercially. And I also have the Despecialized Star Wars films on Blu-Ray also, mostly due to preservation purposes also (I have the films on VHS and Laserdisc).
Also, about Hush, I heard it was just re-released digitally (where you can purchase the film from other places digitally instead of having to watch it via Netflix). I haven't heard anything about a physical release (and I certainly would get it if I could).
Love my despecialized edition’s. Mine came with loads of special features from Harmyfilm, as well as a boat load of fan content of hard to find crew interviews, deleted scenes, utube reviewers, or whatever archival content the fan base could cram in this set…and as a bonus…the holiday special. Although, I could have done without that ! lol
Carpenter Brut is my favorite retro synthwave artist - a new subgenre credited to have started around the release of 2011's Drive film.
Blood Machines is derived or expanded from his awesome music video Turbo Killer. In other music videos he used scenes from 70s and 80's slashers to build his own storyline of sorts, with corrupt preachers and psycho killers, even releasing one of the albums as a soundtrack to a non-existent film. 😁
@@LennyNero2019 yea he got my attention with the Turbo Killer video. That’s how I discovered Blood Machines. I absolutely love his style
He offered the Blu-ray when they were funding the production for Blood Machines and even did a second run back in 2021 before Shudder took it off which I took advantage of. You get way more with the official than the bootleg which is just a screen rip of what was on Shudder.
@@MPREZYA555 yea I really want to original, especially for the BTS stuff on it. But I emailed them earlier this year & they are out. The website is even down. & none on eBay.
@thelastmoviestanding kicking myself for not getting a few but glad I glad I got one as it took almost a month to ship. Have you seen it before? I'll have to dig up the pics or take some new ones as it's pretty cool.
@@MPREZYA555 seen the BTS stuff before? no I haven't.
I need Flaming Hot on Blu Ray. I love that move but it only released on Disney +
@@Julianhulian I haven’t seen that 1 yet lol but if it’s a Disney movie it ain’t ever coming on physical hahaha
i can burn you a 1080p bluray hit me up
Bootlegging movies that are in theaters or are getting a Blu-ray is dumb but movies that don’t exist anywhere else it’s no different than recording your movies off cable and having blank vhs tapes.
I have a couple foreign ones that never had US releases. Haha Star Wars too many copies plus the de specialized I have the 4ks only, easily to make yourself. They are illegal to sell not make.
A lot of people are complaining about Warner using cheap discs most of the HD-DVDs don’t work and people are saying their DVDs are going the same way. I was lucky that my copy of Dukes of Hazzard works.
@@80sMadeConsumer omg I totally should have mentioned the vhs recording we use to do back in the day haha
@@thelastmoviestanding I didn’t know anyone who didn’t have at least one recorded movie off cable
@@80sMadeConsumer oh I have tapes!
@@thelastmoviestanding 😂
what you're talking about is actually called counterfeits...not bootlegs. they're 2 different things.
I too have the theatrical copies of the original star wars movie on bluray as well as Klaus (2019), The Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special, army of the Dead, Owl House, and infinity train (season 1 and 2 have dvds but not 3 and 4)
I need to get the GOTG holiday special on Blu-ray
@thelastmoviestanding yeah it's my favourite Disney+ marvel release. It's going to be a yearly watch going forward
@@Transcinephile I was going to get the Hawkeye bootleg until I saw the 4k release. I highly doubt they'll do their stand alone Christmas special on physical haha
The only bootleg I have is fright night 2. This movie is a pain to get. So I think I have a Spanish version.
But it looks really good.
1 I have that i totally forgot to mention was Prom Night 2
In relation to "Derry Girls", the term that you were grasping for was "The Troubles".
@@RebelHeartVideoteque thanks for the update. I didn’t know it was called that. I also really liked last years movie “Belfast” which was set during the conflict in the 60s
I got kill Bill the whole bloody affair blu ray bootleg. It is so cool watching it that way. I'm shocked it hasn't been given an official release.
@@HadoukenX I wanna get that version too
This got me thinkin of jackie chan adventures and how theyve never released the complete series on physical
I never knew Jacki had a show like that. that would be super interesting to check out. There'a a lot of old tv shows that never got released, or even available to watch anywhere, it's sad
@@thelastmoviestanding it's a cartoon from the early 2000s and funnily enough he doesn't voice his character 😆 good show though
The only reason why Bootleg Unofficial bluray's even exist. Is bc of the studios won't get off there ass and releaes the movie.
Or license the movies out to the small labels to releaes the movie on bluray. So the studios are mostly the blame for even bootleg unofficial bluray's being around. So maybe the studios need to start listening to what actually the fans of physical media want. & not listen to some person sitting behind a desk making all the decisions based on what they are reading on there laptop. From someone who thinks they know what is the best decision for the studios
I have a few bootlegs like streaming services exclusively or not available on bluray like Song of the South
i have "Link 1986" on a bootleg dvd.....
I bought the de-specialized versions of Stars Wars a long time ago and they are great. Now I need those custom slipcovers.
Not controversial.
The controversy was created by ol' man Lucas himself when he fundamentally changed the character type in one of the pioneering movie genres in the last 50 years.
That's on him.
The blatant refusal to release a modern graphically improved version of the originals is on him. I've bought and own ALL versions except the 4Ks. No 4K theatrical release? No support for the modern 4Ks from me then. Too bad Lucas, Suck it buddy
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Just for the official record, you should have NOT purchased these, and not for the reasons your thinking... These versions took a team of people who spent YEARS putting these together, and even MORE years putting together the 4k versions, and they made the available to people for FREE to share, they specifically said not to do whatever this seller did, and that is to download these original editions and make copies to sell people, and yet scumbags are doing it anyway... I am NOT coming after you or blaming you, but whoever sold those to you, is a real POS... That team that put those together and shared them with all for personal use, and never charged anyone did it out of love of the movies and did not do it to make money, people like your seller however pissed all over that, and did it anyway, he got those versions for free... Now I get things that are not available anywhere, and not going to say I never bought a few movies that there was no other option, and this is another case of that on your part..... but google Star Wars project 77 and read what went into those... and again I am NOT blaming YOU, or anyone else who bought them not knowing the history, none of this is directed towards you.. But the seller who sold them to you is scum.
I have been trying to find silkwood for years but the ones I find are around 100 US dollars. Not going to pay that.just wondered if you u have it and where you found it
@@tastetestwithtony9443 I’ve actually never heard of it until now. I just looked it up & wow it’s high lol old kinos are always way too overpriced. But that’s how Blame It On Rio was, the out of print Kino is $100 but the UK version is like $10 hahaha but it’s getting a re-release in the US in Sept so there may be hope for Silkwood to get a re-release
@thelastmoviestanding if you have never seen silkwood it is awesome. My opinion it is chers best acting job ever
I picked up a few bootleg blu-rays that never had a official release.. I see no issue buying the bootleg film if studios has no release, but once there're an official release I will upgrade them.
Same!
I'd settle for a bootleg of Sarah Michelle Gellar 😆👍
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Where did you get valet? Haven't found it anywhere.
I only go bootleg if there is absolutely no physical release. Like, I got "Barbarian", "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", "Godzilla Minus One", and all 5 seasons of the 1990's "Spider-Man" animated series because I refuse to rely on an internet connection to watch a movie.
Wait Godzilla Minus One still doesn't have a DVD/Blu-Ray Release yet?
@@Sc3n3F3rgy Not outside of Japan, and the Japanese release doesn't have subtitles. I made sure to check before settling on the bootleg.
Alot of Warner Bros. dvds that was made in 2000's to mid 2010's are know to have disc rot. It is mostly the US made discs that are in muti disc sets, The movies that have the cardboard case with the plastic disc tray are bad for it. Not as many of the single disc in the plastic cases are problematic it seems. Most of the Made in Mexico discs are fine. For some reason some of the US disc plants had a lot of problems. I have a WB Blade Runner dvd' in a cardboad/plastic it has disc rot. A Warner Bros Classic Saturday Morning Cartoons sets all 3 2 disc sets are rotted.
@@zonger420 I didn’t know that. That’s for the info. That crazy! WB has so many great movies they are releasing extremely slowly on Blu-ray
I have a Few Bootlegs in My Collection including but not limited to Invader Zim The Movie: Enter the Florpus The Despeciliazed Star Wars Trilogy Viva Piñata: The Complete Series & i also own a Few DBZ Bootlegs of The Ocean Dub basically i buy Bootlegs for stuff that are either
1. Out of Print
2. Doesn't have an Official Release in the First Place
I try to avoid bootlegs as much as I can but it's insane some of the things that are just not available. It is really confusing for example that Scream as a franchise has such a following and pop culture popularity but there are no legitimate releases of the television series.
Season 1 has a DVD release (I own it) the others however don’t.
I know you like movies but do you like video game movies and can we see your collection
@@ghostpizza0 I don’t actually. All my video games are digital, & the retro games I would want are super expensive haha I’m glad I’m not into the physical game world, those things are pricey!! 😂
Where did you score the Star Wars Despecialized blu-rays?
Etsy
@@thelastmoviestanding Thanks.
Is there anywhere to get more info on your film? I live in a nearby city to you, I've worked on crews before and would be great to help you out on a future project. Didn't know you were involved in production.
I brought true lies ftom spain Amazon, a few years back , it was never released till this year officially
soo title translation come arrest me haha
Are they factory pressed or BD-R burnt copies?
which 1's? Star Wars? I'm going to assume burned because the way the DeSpecialized versions work is that you have to download the files. I'm 99% sure they are just burned on discs, I can see the lines at the bottom of the disc. but there are menus with chapters & disc labels to look as real as possible.
I have bootlegs because why not if studios don't want to release them? Before Disney released the MCU shows physically I had bootlegs of those so my MCU collection was complete. I then bought the official editions after they released.
I did the same with Mando! I through them out when the 4Ks came out but I kept the bootleg Disney Galleria of the BTS that they left off the 4Ks. I love the BTS content & hate that they didn't include it in the $50 steelbook
I haven't seen any of the Disney Star Wars specials like Mandalorian Obi-Wan and I really wanna see them and I know they made a few more and Bootleg is the only option but I worry about finding good ones. I only knew of 2 places online? I can't get out due to my handicap but years ago I knew someone but they didn't have artwork or cases.
Axel F. Is one I want and if Bootleg is the only way then I don't care. I love those movies and this was a great movie.
Yea major franchise sequels only going to streaming, 100% bootlegable to complete the collection
With Star wars I have a Blu-ray collection. Of the original six films, I have the 4K versions of the original trilogy, I have the original trilogy on DVD with the original cuts. And I still wanted the despecialized editions.
If you look into it the people that get in trouble are the people making them not the people buying. I think the only reason why people got in trouble with Napster back in the day was because not only were they downloading but they were sharing at the same time.
Also corporations realized it was bad PR to fine 13 year olds downloading Disney episodes.
I only watch the theatrical Star Wars versions. Valet was a surprise especially since I hated the Overboard re-quel.
I didn't mind the overboard remake but I totally understand the hate for it at the same time haha
It wasn’t terrible, just not great. Too slapstick, miscasting all over the place. Really pales in comparison to the original.
There's a lot of films that I just don't understand why they never made a physical D v d or cut transferred to blu ray. Obviously these movie companies are hoarding some of their titles. Columbia Pictures being one of the chief offenders. There are so many good titles from colombia.Then I would love to see just a standard blu ray. Not to mention 20th century fox, which who knows, if any of those older titles will ever be released. So I have gone out and found bootlegs of certain titles that I have to have in my collection, and I, these bootlegs, look amazing and the cover art sticking with the original movie poster. Makes it twice as inviting. I can't stand companies like warner bros that put on half Baked images on their releases. I usually do make a copy of the original movie poster onto a picture and slide it over the atrocious artwork.
I absolutely support bootleg markets, and as you said, if they ever get around to releasing them officially again, I will rebuy them
Hey man ya do what ya gotta do. I just got wkuk complete series on Blu-ray 🤐
Wkuk? lol
@@thelastmoviestanding acronym for whitest kids U know. Was a television sketch comedy series like over 15 years ago. You can only get the first 3 seasons on dvd but they are like 150$ each so I got a bootleg copy of all 5 seasons on Blu-ray for 35$. Worth every penny
I'll admit to having the True Lies bluray from Spain but it turns out it's a bootleg. I would like to acquire the SW despecialized or 4k remasters but don't have a fast enough internet and I would be nervous trying to buy it. I've bought pretty much every edition of the Original Trilogy as well. I'll try and watch those Lego Movies next time I have Disney Plus.
I kept off buying that Spanish bootleg of True Lies for 10 years, only to scramble and get it after seeing the official waxworks release by Cameron, who we sadly lost to Avatar cartoons, take a moment of silence... 😂
@LennyNero2019 I still bought the True Lies 4k. Outside of some scenes being out of focus at the beginning I thought the transfer is fine.
@@MrBlue3rd Yeah, I bought it as well, for the special features, and to compare for myself, as I didn't really notice much wrong about Terminator 2 UHD transfer...
Homebrow is for video games
@@ghostpizza0 I’ve never heard of the term before I saw a few CZcamsrs saw it about movies 🤷🏼♂️
bro dont buy bootleg blurays. hit me up im in texas. i have a pc with a bluray burner
this dude is buying overpriced bootlegs. just get a hard drive if you are gonna bootleg
bwhahahaha I literally spit my coffee when you air quoted my "Targets" Im dead lol.... as Daniel at @cobwebschannel says: "Chase referring to movies as Targets or stuff he is targeting, makes physical media sound badass!" hahahaha .....freat vid man, I am waiting on the de-specialized 4k star wars to arrive so I'll report back on those! they will be my first ever bootlegs but like you, I have bought SW soooo much
🤣my Dr Evil "Laser" air quotes lol Yea the Star Wars despecialized are definitely worth bootlegging. I don think im goin to get the 4ks unless they are night & day but I don think they will be so much better to spend the money on them. I don't even want the 4ks of the other Star Wars films. the side by sides ive seen look awful! plus Disney doesn't do 4K right sadly
@@thelastmoviestanding Im really interested to see these ... I got all 3 original 4ks despecialized for a super good deal if Id mention them on my channel at some point lol - I only have the force awakens in 4k from the studio - which, I like too except the killing of Solo - but what is not to like? - it is basically the exact same story as the original film lol
@@AVAPopCulture the force awakens I would probably definitely get on 4K if I found it for a good price. I have all my Star Wars on blu-ray will slips so finding them all on 4k with slips right now, isn't worth it for me. im really happy with the blurays
@thelastmoviestanding I have all old dvds and vhs except force awakens so I'm pretty excited lol