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UA is launching a massive boxset of their titles to celebrate the relaunch of the studio under Tom Cruise/Paula Wagner's control.

Here is the complete list of titles. Talk about arbitrary:

Disc 1: The Woman In The Window P&S
Disc 2: Red River P&S
Disc 3: The Barefoot Contessa P&S
Disc 4: Marty P&S
Disc 5: The Night of the Hunter WS
Disc 6: Dance with Me Henry P&S
Disc 7: The Killing P&S
Disc 8: Moby Dick P&S
Disc 9: Twelve Angry Men WS
isc 10: Paths of Glory P&S
Disc 11: Witness For The Prosecution WS
Disc 12: The Big Country WS
Disc 13: The Defiant Ones WS
Disc 14: I Want To Live! WS
Disc 15: A Hole In The Head WS
Disc 16: The Fugitive Kind WS
Disc 17: Some Like It Hot WS Disc 1
Disc 18: Some Like It Hot WS Disc 2
Disc 19: The Alamo WS
Disc 20: The Apartment WS
Disc 21: Elmer Gantry WS
Disc 22: Inherit The Wind WS
Disc 23: The Magnificent Seven WS Disc 1
Disc 24: The Magnificent Seven WS Disc 2
Disc 25: Judgment at Nuremberg WS
Disc 26: The Misfits WS
Disc 27: One, Two, Three WS
Disc 28: Pocketful of Miracles WS
Disc 29: Westside Story Disc 1 WS
Disc 30: Westside Story Disc 2
Disc 31: Birdman of Alcatraz WS
Disc 32: Dr. No WS Disc 1
Disc 33: Dr. No WS Disc 2
Disc 34: Manchurian Candidate WS
Disc 35: The Miracle Worker WS
Disc 36: The Great Escape WS Disc 1
Disc 37: The Great Escape WS Disc 2
Disc 38: I Could Go On Singing WS
Disc 39: Irma La Douce WS
Disc 40: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World WS
Disc 41: Fistful of Dollars WS Disc 1
Disc 42: Fistful of Dollars WS Disc 2
Disc 43: The Pink Panther WS
Disc 44: Topkapi WS
Disc 45: The Greatest Story Ever Told WS Disc 1
Disc 46: The Greatest Story Ever Told WS Disc 2
Disc 47: The Fortune Cookie WS
Disc 48: Persona P&S
Disc 49: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Disc 1 WS
Disc 50: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Disc 2
Disc 51: In The Heat of the Night WS
Disc 52: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WS Disc 1
Disc 53: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WS Disc 2
Disc 54: Hang 'Em High WS
Disc 55: Thomas Crown Affair (1968) WS
Disc 56: Yours, Mine and Ours P&S
Disc 57: Fellini Satyricon WS
Disc 58: The Battle of Britain WS Disc 1
Disc 59: The Battle of Britain WS
Disc 2 Disc 60: Midnight Cowboy WS
Disc 1 Disc 61: Midnight Cowboy WS
Disc 2 Disc 62: On Her Majesty's Secret Service WS Disc 1
Disc 63: On Her Majesty's Secret Service WS Disc 2
Disc 64: Fiddler on the Roof WS Disc 1
Disc 65: Fiddler on the Roof WS Disc 2
Disc 66: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex P&S
Disc 67: Last Tango In Paris WS
Disc 68: Lenny WS
Disc 69: The Wilby Conspiracy WS
Disc 70: Carrie WS
Disc 71: The Missouri Breaks WS
Disc 72: The Pink Panther Strikes Again WS
Disc 73: Rocky WS Disc 1
Disc 74: Rocky WS Disc 2 Disc
75: Annie Hall P&S Disc
76: A Bridge Too Far WS Disc 1
Disc 77: A Bridge Too Far WS Disc 2
Disc 78: Equus WS
Disc 79: New York, New York WS
Disc 80: The Spy Who Loved Me WS Disc 1
Disc 81: The Spy Who Loved Me WS Disc 2
Disc 82: Coming Home WS
Disc 83: La Cage Aux Folles WS
Disc 84: The Last Waltz P&S
Disc 85: Manhattan WS
Disc 86: Raging Bull WS Disc 1
Disc 87: Raging Bull WS Disc 2
Disc 88: The French Lieutenant's Woman WS
Disc 89: Heaven's Gate WS
Disc 90: The Secret of the NIMH WS
Disc 91: War games WS
Disc 92: Red Dawn WS Disc 1
Disc 93: Red Dawn WS Disc 2
Disc 94: The Living Daylights - Disc 1
Disc 95: The Living Daylights - Disc 2
Disc 96: Baby Boom WS
Disc 97: Child's Play
Disc 98: Rain Man WS
Disc 99: Road House WS
Disc 100: Goldeneye WS Disc 1
Disc 101: Goldeneye WS Disc 2
Disc 102: Leaving Las Vegas WS
Disc 103: Richard III WS
Disc 104: The Birdcage WS
Disc 105: The Man In The Iron Mask WS
Disc 106: No Man's Land WS Disc 107: Bowling for Columbine WS Disc 108: Dark Blue WS
Disc 109: Pieces of April WS
Disc 110: Hotel Rwanda WS

I'm confused. It's called 90 films, and it contains over 100? Did no one think about this before going to press?

CSM126 wrote:I'm confused. It's called 90 films, and it contains over 100? Did no one think about this before going to press?

90 films. But each individual disc is numberered there. Thus the Good, the Bad and the Ugly counts as two on the list.

The title of the box sounds familiar... where have I heard that before?

I mean, what can you say about this box other than, "Yep, those are all United Artists films all right." Of course, the sad thing is that it doesn't even include anything from the first 40 years of the company, including anything produced by the founders of the company. It looks more like a way to clear out some unsold inventory than a celebration of anything.

Wait a minute. Hold up. Fucking Child's Play?

Fucking Pieces of April?

Oh yeah....someone's wife is the star.

I like how the Academy ratio films are labeled as being Pan and Scan

and this

Now MGM will mark the 90th anniversary of its United Artists label -- two years early -- by issuing a 90-title "United Artists Super Deluxe Set'' on Dec. 11.

made me lol

Well Road House is in there, so they got their Swayze covered.

Classic New York Post article. The first sentence:

The Criterion Collection got a lot of ink last year when it issued a 40-title box of arthouse classics to mark the 40th anniversary of its sister company, Janus Films.

I thought they were 50 years, 50 films, but hey, its their article. This set is a great reminder of all the business blunders UA/MGM has done and gone through the years. So many classic films they had in their catalog, only for them to just give awa to Turner.

I also wonder if they are including the It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World with the extras or the BS they released later on where they took the extras but left the same packaging and UPC.

I can't wrap my head around the target audience for this release, it's like filling out a Mad Libs:

Matt wrote:I mean, what can you say about this box other than, "Yep, those are all United Artists films all right."

The article nailed it: "digital doorstop."

tavernier wrote:Fucking Pieces of April?

Oh yeah....someone's wife is the star.

For what it's worth, this film could have easy been in the realm of Little Miss Sunshine or a Garden State, but it didn't do the "cute" thing and remained very bare bones. I actually quite like it. So there.

It's completely idiotic, but I'm not sure it's that much more idiotic than the Janus: 50 Years set, though the UA set contains some horrible films (and some great ones).

Given the release date, I think we are free to assume that the set is designed as a Christmas gift to be purchased by upper middle class middlebrow muddleheads for giving to similarly situated collectors who equate wall space with quality. Mom; are you listening?

I guess the only way to compete with Ford at Fox is with Bored in a Box.

dx23 wrote:Well Road House is in there, so they got their Swayze covered.

did you miss Red Dawn's inclusion?

miless wrote:

dx23 wrote:Well Road House is in there, so they got their Swayze covered.

did you miss Red Dawn's inclusion?

Yeah, I did.

So what is the cost of this set...like $40,000 or something. =P~

Matt wrote: Of course, the sad thing is that it doesn't even include anything from the first 40 years of the company, including anything produced by the founders of the company.

Exactly. I knew I knew better than to click on this thread and be fooled by my impulse to believe that this had anything to do with a true co retro going back to the genuine uniting of artists Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks, Griffith, so that that artist would have control of their own product. But I went ahead and clicked anyway. At least I had a laugh.

O wait-- they're going back to their roots since Tom Cruise is an actor and so were the founders! Yay! The artists are in control of Big Hollywood again! (gurgle... nostril skoink... toilet flush.)

Seriouslly though, the set should have been cut off at Disc 87.

Guys, this set is perfect for the Dabney Coleman and Rutger Hauer completists on your shopping list.

Cinephrenic wrote:Seriouslly though, the set should have been cut off at Disc 87.

Oh, come on... I've never seen Heaven's Gate, but there's nothing wrong with The French Lieutenant's Woman or The Secret of NIMH. Cut it off at 90 and allow UA to keep a shred of thematic dignity.

-Toilet Dcuk

Cut it off at 109: fuck Don Cheadle.

Matt wrote:It looks more like a way to clear out some unsold inventory than a celebration of anything.

Hey Matt, did you see the New Line Cinema collection they just announced yet? It was like the "what's in Walmart bins across the nation" set.

Wait a minute. Hold up. Fucking Child's Play?

LEAVE CHILDS PLAY OUT OF THIS.

Here is the packaging for this crazy thing.

Is anyone here going to buy this? If so, please speak up.