TORA! TORA! TORA!--Blu-ray

[dragon53]

The Blu-ray edition of TORA! TORA! TORA! will be released in the US for the first time on December 6, 2011 in time for the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The extended Japanese version of the movie is featured which includes 10 minutes of film footage never released before. The limited edition dvd will be packaged as a Digibook which includes rare photos from the 20th Century Fox archives. No price was mentioned.

[B17Fortress]

Uh, December 6? Why can't they just wait one day to get it out on the actual day of the attack (the seventh)?

[[CAT]CplSlade]

So you can be home watching it on the 7th instead of in the checkout line at Worst Buy.

[B17Fortress]

Oh, stupid me.

[Dauntless]

Dammit! I gotta get a Blue-Ray now fer sure.

[dragon53]

DAUNTLESS:

I've got PEARL HARBOR on Blu-ray. The sappy love story aside and the Hollywoodized aspects, the movie does a stunning job VISUALLY of the actual attack that is far superior to TORA! TORA! TORA!.
The ARIZONA blowing in PEARL HARBOR up is fantastic---TORA's version of the ARIZONA is pretty tame by comparison.

[Dauntless]

Yeah, they lay it on thick with the sappyness, but Kate Beckinsale sure is pleasing to the eyes. Though I just have the regular extended version, there's lot more aircraft than you'd expect to see. Including Eagle Squadron Spitfires, and Doolitle B-25's.

Though PH used P-40N's, it's not like TTT didn't use P-40E's. At least they tried to make them look like Tomahawks with the nose guns, and of course converted AT-6's into Jap planes in both films.

More of a nostalgia thing for me. TTT and The Battle of Britain were the first really good aviation war films in color I saw as a kid.

Of course the real reason to finally get a Blue Ray is the complete Star Wars saga coming out. I've delayed long enough gettin' one, plus my regular DVD player finally broke.