Does anyone actually have the laserdisc rip that is out there with the music videos on it?
I had it once and gave it away in trade. I wish i had a copy to watch as the laserdisc goes for over a hundred dollars just for the japan version with the burnt in subtitles and analog only sound. The only copy i can find for sale of the digital us release goes for 200.00 and a guy in japan owns it.
I wish i had the laserdisc so i could rip the sound full bitrate pcm and not some overly compressed mpeg audio or fake dolby 2.0.
I have spoken to those who saw this in theaters and they say the soundtrack was awesome. I wish someone who had a film print could somehow extract the audio, LOL.
It is probably more likely the germans who got the neverending story for the same reason they got the superior blu ray release of dune. I have always wanted to see the true cut of the neverending story with the real music, the american version is an attrocious piece of crap as far as i'm concerned since i have read the Michael Ende novel.
I'll take a dark symphonic score over an 80's chick rock band ballad anyday.
I do prefer the original organ score as re-recorded by Kino. of course they did not have the technology to record sound back then or it was in its infancy, so the score was played live while the movie was shown like a silent film.
Still the 80's rock soundtrack and color tinting i find amusing in its own way.
Though 24fps was not proper speed for metropolis i read on some german site it was 16fps. or supposedly this was how it was made. but was shown 26fps at the berlin premiere which is weird.