The Blu is nice...the UHD is super nice. All the JC already released on UHD, or coming down the pipe (the UK is unleashing the JC UHD flood gates), makes this a great year to be a Carpenter fan.
As an aside, now that I have seen Christine in high clarity, I noticed for the first time that the movie they are watching at the drive-in is Thank God It's Friday, which is cool.
This flick is good at portraying all the salacious stuff that goes on in society today with the advent of technology, but not so good at commentating on it. I'd say that the film seems to be about the hypocrisy of an immoral society determining morality, but it really isn't able to wrap its commentary up in a coherent way. There are some ambitious moments here, and the film certainly is swinging for the fences, but it didn't quite land…
Things I would do differently.
1. Remove the food from the freezer where they put the bodies.
2. Build the wall out of something stronger than cardboard.
3. Close and seriously board up the doors behind the built wall.
4. Seduce Francine away from Flyboy.
5. Take all the guns out of the gun store.
6. Never take off the fur coat.
7. Eat a whole ton of cheese.
