Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
the news that the upcoming DVD release has been falsely advertised is very sad. I found the evidence in this thread to be quite convincing that the crawl will most likely be a lame re-creation. In any event, I would be one of those who would recognize original '77 sound effects and such ... and so the 1993 audio mix would reek of false advertising to me anyways.
The "Theatrical" Manhunter DVD is not truly theatrical there are a couple of slight changes in it. The "uncut" versions of Last House on the Left are still missing footage. Any movie with 5.1 sound, by definition, cannot have the theatrical soundtrack. Either it has been up-mixed, or down-mixed. Any movie shot on film and shown on a digital medium, by definition, cannot be the theatrical version. No home-video version can be. Any digital movie, not shown at it's theatrical resolution (which of course in many cases is a 35MM print) by definition isn't the theatrical version.the news that the upcoming DVD release has been falsely advertised is very sad. I found the evidence in this thread to be quite convincing that the crawl will most likely be a lame re-creation. In any event, I would be one of those who would recognize original '77 sound effects and such ... and so the 1993 audio mix would reek of false advertising to me anyways.
Movies are prepared for different environments and they have to continue to be prepared for this. The sound changes, as far as I'm aware, were all part of the original soundtrack - in one theatrical release, or another. The video changes are actually none - except for the opening crawl. As I said even Manhunter has never had it's true Theatrical version released, they changed parts of the video for home-video (which is fine - it's not like they re-shot parts of the movie and added in big-budget effects to beef-it-up). How people can keep whining about the soundtrack, simply is beyond me. The 5.1 mix for the Terminator was far less true to the original audio then the SW audio mixes (up until 1993). Now I know you might say "well yes, but they put the mono track on there too" - well they didn't for OUR domestic release . In shot: the september "OUT" DVD's will be no further from the theatrical version then most movies. Keep in mind that I refuse to purchase the tampered Indy trilogy - I consider that tampered, I don't consider the Sep release tampered.
The crawl will not be a digital re-creation, anyone who thinks otherwise is letting their own speculation get one over on them.