o.supreme wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 6:15 pm
Although Kraken's release of RoG and Echo Bridge G vs Bio aren't perfect, I can't imagine Criterion doing any better after the limitations Togo put on them previously.
Only if we got a legit G1985 release and perhaps a version of Biollante with English title card and the Japanese subtitles removed ( aka the Miramax version), otherwise it would offer nothing new.
I’m surprised Janus picked up the rights to those. But it’s hard to see Criterion doing a Hesei set, even if they pick up the allegedly expired rights to Vs. KG and Vs.M. They’d have to wait for the rest still, and then they don’t have the same cultural impact or importance as the Showa movies, so maybe release them under Eclipse? But I can’t see Toho being okay with Just DVDs. In 2022 or whatever. So unless they’re going to Criterion’s new 4k series (which I guess I can see them doing “budget” 4K releases to pad their line), I can see them just sitting on it for a while. Although-they could finally release it with Rodan and Gargantus with them in an Eclipse set…
I dunno. It just seems like a weird move unless they’re only interested in distribution. And even if they did a Hesei set I can’t see them picking up the Millennium movies for anything other than “We have them all” .
I COULD see them trying to release Shin through Criterion some years down the road though.