It's kinda funny how Criterion released a giga boxset of Olympics documentaries.Who was the target audience for this?>FUCK YEAH, FINALLY OLYMPIC KINOOOOOOO
Sports fans and guys who collect sports memorabilia
>>224012721Sometimes the IP owner already paid for restoration, digitization, and accompanying booklet and just need a U.S. distributor.
>>224012721Iirc the nerds on r/criterion were let down by this announcement when it came out
>>224012721METROPOLISHAS NOTHING ON THIS
>>224012721it could be interesting? it would be neat to watch the evolution of a sport and all the major record breaking moments. i remember watching a vid a while back about dick fosbury showcasing his new high jump style during the 68 olympics and really enjoyed it, shit like that would be cool to see.
>>224012721History enthusiasts, sports enthusiasts, documentary enthusiasts, criterion completionists
My dad won bronze ages ago and he always watched olympics, I guess it'd be for him.
>>224014344What did he win it in, sucking 100m of cock (your mom won 1st and you 2nd)?
>>224015678But the collection and try to guess!
>history bad where's my marvel movies
I just want the 1936 documentary
>>224015678made me lol
>>224012721For historical preservation purposes.
>>224012721>>FUCK YEAH, FINALLY OLYMPIC KINOOOOOOO
>>224012721I wonder if half the living people featured in it and a third of their relatives bought it would they profit? Could be clutch. Are you gonna not buy a documentary you're in/relevant to?
sounds like it could be interesting if you're fan of olympics
>>224012721Dude did you see the fucking Stanly Kubrick box set with impossible to remove discs
>>224017545>with impossible to remove discsWdym?
>>224017852Criterion loves making expensive over the top unwieldly boxsets and put the discs cardboard. In some of their previous ones they already had the disc being too loose and fall off so this time they opted to pack the discs so tight that its impossible to jiggle them out without scratching them.
>>224012721Their fucking shitty ass Kubrick collection box set fucking turned me off this company forever, absolute garbage packaging that damages the blurays.
>>224012721You people are absolute plebs and it shows. Official Olympic films are masterworks of cinematography and weaving long stories together. They focus on the human spirit and triumph, they focus on coming together and overcoming. They're often 3+ hours and weave a multi-week competition into an experience that really does remind you what it was like to live it. For Games you never saw, you can feel their flame through these movies, and for those you did, you can relive exactly those moments that made you feel proud to be a human.
>>224017852https://youtu.be/cHJ9EV0jAzY
>>224018131>53 minute video shitting on a disc packageLooks kino, will watch later
>>224017911>>224017973These boxsets are meant for other people to put on the internet and for you to download and put on your Plex server, dummy
>>224018131>this costs 600$ Do the Criterioyim deserve it?
>>224014315Well, there's about 15 people. What's the rest of the target audience?>>224018942Yep. I want the set, but I'm waiting for the price drop/rerelease in sensible packaging.
>>224012721Leni fans
>>224019035Yep. A lot of alt-righters and Trump voters probably bought this.
>>224019074tbf Olympia 1936 is pretty female gazed (no homo uWu)
>>224019095>female gazeDoesn't really exist in any significant way.
>>224019074>Yep. A lot of alt-righters and Trump voters probably bought this.
>>224019306I don't look like that. I've had lhr.
>>224012721Historical content is important and interestingSorry it’s not your typical MCU/Star Wars/Breaking Bad level pleb slop with hype moments or whatever
Criterion is such a frustrating company because they are the biggest game in town for releasing *generally* quality presentations of good movies, but they also put out way too many boring woke flicks, they use ai to write copy on their website and probably their disc back covers, and they don't always use the best compression houses for their disc mastering.
>>224012721>>224014258it's both a look at how the documentary film has evolved and a look at how the sports themselves have evolvedthe trailer for it was God-tier because it was nothing but match cuts of different sports in different erashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAkTyFzdoZw
>>224019397You can have historical context without watching decades of films about the Olympics. Personally, I'm not interested in the MCU, or Star Wars, or Breaking Bad. Nor am I interested in this boxset.
>>224015708Porn is basically free. Why would I pay for it?
>>224019458What are the boring woke flicks? Their discs have really improved in past two years.
>>224012721I've watched a few around the last few Olympics. They're neat. It's interesting to preserve and it's not as if they'd put them out individually.
Literally Nazis who want to watch the Riefenstahl propaganda films about aryans being natural born sportsmen.
the olympics are a big part of the globohomo transhuman religion
>>224019663And you’re a loser in a failing country
>>224019481That looks good.I'm happy to see people creating good content.
>>224014344That's really cool. Congrats to your dad
>>224019583Iranian have only won 27 gold medal
>>224013933>Oh my god who wants to watch multiple Olympic documentary kinos? Uuuuughh boooring>HOLY SHIT KPOP DEMON HUNTERS IS GETTING A CRITERION RELEASE LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO!!!!! GONNA BE GONNA BE GOLDEN!!!Kill all redditors
>>224012721Tokyo Olympiad is pure unfiltered documentary KINO
>>224013616>>224014315Also gooners who like well-chiseled B&W butts
>>224019843>1st-world nations from half-century agoFun.I enjoy seeing people enjoy themselves. Especially when they have a focus and a goal.I also love Vancouver and enjoyed watching 2010.
>>224019843I really wish they had hosted one in the 80's, when they were at their peak.
>>2240198981964 Tokyo Olympics were very significant because they symbolized Japan's de-chuddified reemergence on the world stage. They unveiled the shinkansen and expressway systems for the event. It was epic>To host such a major event, Tokyo's infrastructure needed to be modernized in time for large numbers of expected tourists. Enormous energy and expense was devoted to upgrading the city's physical infrastructure, including new buildings, highways, stadiums, hotels, airports and trains. There was a new satellite to facilitate live international broadcast. Multiple train and subway lines, a large highway building project, and the Tokaido Shinkansen, the fastest train in the world, were completed. Tokyo International Airport and the Port of Tokyo were modernized. International satellite broadcasting was initiated, and Japan was now connected to the world with a new undersea communications cable.[45] The YS-11, a commercial turboprop plane developed in Japan, was used to transport the Olympic Flame within Japan.[53] For swimming, a new timing system started the clock by the sound of the starter gun and stopped it with touchpads. The photo finish using a photograph with lines on it was introduced to determine the results of sprints. All of this demonstrated that Japan was now part of the first world and a technological leader, and at the same time demonstrated how other countries might modernize.[52] In preparation for the games, 200,000 stray cats and dogs were rounded up and killed.[54]
>>224012721There's a couple Leni Riefenstahl kinos in this.
>>224019988That’s basically the only reason anyone would buy this. Pretty much anyone that bought it should be on an FBI monitoring list.
>>224020127Isn't there are some famous Japanese movie about the olympics?
>>224012721Hoarding physical media, and watching the olympics are both things that only boomers care about. Who else would it be for, but boomers?
>>224020169Yes. It’s by the same guy who made the Makioka sisters and other classic drama movies. Forget his name.
>>224012721>Who was the target audience for this?>WHY AM THING ME NO LIKE STILL THING?>ME CONFUSED AND ENRAGED!These engagement bait threads are repetitive and tiresome.And the rest of you faggots fall for them every fucking time. This board is dead and only the imbeciles remain.
>>224019948>In preparation for the games, 200,000 stray cats and dogs were rounded up and killed.wtf nuke japan again
i wouldn't pay for it, but it would probably be interesting to watch. i'm sure there are sports fans who would pay for it though.
>>224020321Kon Ichikawa
>>224020424>I want a high trust society>NOOO NOT LIKE THAT
>>224018942Does anyone actually buy Criterion blu rays for MSRP? I assume that most just just wait for the 50% off sales. On Amazon a lot of their movies will just always be half off.
>>224020609>massacring stray cats = high trust societyAlso Japan is only a "high trust society" because the shogun forced everyone to behave or commit sudoku, and they just never abandoned those rules during the Meiji Restoration. This is why they still do nonsensical things like bathe naked in front of each other in public and sit on their shins so their legs go numb. Those are traditions created during samurai times so they wouldn't be able to draw hidden swords and kill each other.
>>224019128the whole movie is slow motion shots of muscular aryan übermenschen
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>>224018071this desu
They should release uncensored jav. I'm sure more people would buy that.
>>224019583Ironically it's Jesse Owens that is the star of her movie, but she had a thing for black men.
>>224021796True aryan (indian) qveen
>>224019948F
>>224021681Basically every nation on Earth kills animals. And Anglos (who nuked Japs) invented the animal holocaust via farming industry
I'll buy it and cut all the ass shots and make a summaryBut this is the kind of documentary that has no ass shots, mention no ass shots nor the male gaze, even if it's 90% of all the female sport's footage
>>224022798I'm more interested in being exposited about "why" form would change to>run faster>jump higher>row harder>skip longerSince I've always enjoyed watching competitive actions more than judged actions.
>>224022654Equating the mass slaughter of stray domestic pets that were neglected by humans to that of farm animals bred and raised for food is a dumb vegan argument. Sure they're all animals, but there's something particularly cruel about murdering a defenseless creature meant to be a companion to humans like an innocent cat. With stray dogs at least you can justify that they're scavenger pack animals and actually pose a danger to humans if allowed to run feral.
>>224023433It was a disgusting act that bears mentioning in encyclopedia articles, because it shows the often cruel toll of hosting an Olympics. It's no worse than the many cities in more modern times that have rounded up the homeless humans and bussed them off to god knows where in order to appear clean, or the stadiums built through basically slave labor with nearly no safety oversight resulting in deaths.Actually, that's why these sorts of stories that focus on the Games and athletes themselves are so compelling, because it does make all of the bad inflicted by the IOC feel "worth it". And because the competition aims to be chiefly apolitical and free of the woes of the rest of the organizing, it distills it down to what the Olympic Games MEAN rather than what they represent in society. Often criticized for being too fluffy and blind to the world, but it's meant to project a utopic vision of what we as people can be, when we set down our politics, put aside factions, and let human willpower and spirit, sportsmanship and togetherness, prevail.The state of the modern IOC as a mafia on par with FIFA is a sad thing precisely because of that, but the Games always manage to win out in the end, no matter how controversial or bad it is made out to be, what people always, always remember... Is the triumph and elation of victory, the heartbreak of coming so-close, the fact that the intense reactions of our athletes at the finish are wiped away by the time they get their medals and walk the closing ceremony. >>224018071>>224021752>>224019843Glad there are other Olympicheads here that have actually watched some of these films. The Winter Games get slept on, but the docs about Sapporo '72 and Nagano '98 are rather incredible in their own right. Nagano got an amazing IMAX film too, that I don't know has ever been re-released.
>>224012721You sound like a whiny bitch. I wish I could ban you.
>>224012721>FUCK YEAH, FINALLY OLYMPIC KINOOOOOOOI shout this everytime I watch Cool Runnings.
