{"id":61820,"date":"2014-04-15T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=61820"},"modified":"2014-04-14T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T04:23:20","slug":"steelbooks-fox-war-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/steelbooks-fox-war-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"SteelBook Alert: War, What Is It Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over in the UK, Fox Home Entertainment has decided to unleash a sizable number of Blu-ray catalog reissues in SteelBook packaging this year. Notably, a bunch of them are war movies. Unfortunately, most of those will arrive too late for the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S., yet the British equivalent (Remembrance Sunday) isn’t until November.
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All but one of these movies is about World War II. (Joel Schumacher’s ‘Tigerland’ is about boot camp training for Vietnam.) ‘The Thin Red Line’ has the most interesting cover art design. The others look decent enough, but are standard home video art used on other DVD and Blu-ray editions. Sadly, Fox has a tendency to region-lock its Blu-rays, even when the same studio releases the same titles in multiple countries. I can’t confirm region coding on all of these (some might in fact be region-free), but they’re all listed as Region B.<\/p>\n

I already have the domestic Criterion Collection release of ‘The Thin Red Line’, the Digibook for ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’, and ‘Patton’ in a regular keepcase. (I have no idea whether the SteelBook contains the original flawed copy of ‘Patton’ or the improved remaster.) I don’t feel the need to rebuy any of those just for SteelBook, and none of the others do much for me. (Keep in mind that ‘The Longest Day’ is one of the most notoriously awful video transfers released to Blu-ray.)<\/p>\n

I think I’ll pass on this entire wave, though I do find them interesting.<\/p>\n

‘The Thin Red Line’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: May 12, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a318.50
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘Patton’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘The Longest Day’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘Battle of Britain’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘A Bridge Too Far’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘Hart’s War’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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‘Tigerland’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon UK<\/a>
\nRelease date: June 2, 2014
\nPrice: \u00a319.75
\nRegion code: Listed as Region B<\/p>\n

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