pmonroe said:
dark_jedi said:
Do you have this DVD?
Nope. If I did, I would have offered it.
Damn, it is getting harder and harder to find shit for these projects lol
pmonroe said:
dark_jedi said:
Does anyone know if there are any good PQ DVD's of the movie Dreamscape that are uncut? I have a pretty good 1080p version of this and would love to see if it would be possible to somehow return this flick back to its uncut form, it would be great if there was a PAL and NTSC version of the uncut movie.
Thanks
The UK release from 2 Entertain is uncut and anamorphic, but it's a NTSC-PAL transfer. I've never watched the disc, so I can't speak for the PQ. All of the other uncut DVDs that I know of are either fullscreen or letterbox.
Do you have a link to this particular DVD? I cannot find anything anywhere for this 2 Entertain DVD.
Thanks
The NeverEnding Story 1984 2-Disc Set is up.
dark_jedi said:
The NeverEnding Story 1984 2-Disc Set is up.
Excellent! :) Time to make some room on my hard drive ...
Woohoo! About 50% downloaded at the moment. Not sure I'll watch it this weekend (Decided to Watch [Rec] and [Rec]2 tonight) and I was leaning towards reviewing Maximum Overdrive this weekend, but we'll see how I feel tomorrow. Thanks!
Looking at the screenshots: Awesome, you guys re-grained the German cut!
Just to ask again: Any chance of Conan coming to Blu-torrents?
Greetings all, I just wanted to post a quick review of Team Blu's latest release "The NeverEnding Story" 2-disc set that I received last week. To cut to the chase, this is yet another strong entry into their ever growing list of quality releases.
As most (if not all) of you may recall, the biggest flaw with the theatrical (i.e. domestic) release was that the transfer was too dark and the biggest flaws with the extended release were that it was too light and DNR'd to hell.
Here's a quick breakdown after viewing both discs:
Theatrical: Comparing the domestic release which I own to Team Blu's release, the PQ really shines with the lightening techniques applied to the transfer.
Extended: On the flipside, I don't own a version of the extended so I had to compare it to screen captures but it is very plain to see that the darkening of the extended cut and grain application have restored a filmic presentation to this cut of the film.
To put it bluntly, the previous issues with both transfers has been corrected with this release and fans of this film owe it to themselves to put this on their shelves post haste.
Update: Fixed based on DJ's info.
vadertyme said:
Greetings all, I just wanted to post a quick review of Team Blu's latest release "The NeverEnding Story" 2-disc set that I received last week. To cut to the chase, this is yet another strong entry into their ever growing list of quality releases.
As most (if not all) of you may recall, the biggest flaw with the theatrical (i.e. domestic) release was that the transfer was too dark and the biggest flaws with the international release were that it was too light and DNR'd to hell.
Here's a quick breakdown after viewing both discs:
Theatrical: Comparing the domestic release which I own to Team Blu's release, the PQ really shines with the lightening techniques applied to the transfer.
International: On the flipside, I don't own a version of the international so I had to compare it to screen captures but it is very plain to see that the darkening of the international cut and grain application have restored a filmic presentation to this cut of the film.
To put it bluntly, the previous issues with both transfers has been corrected with this release and fans of this film owe it to themselves to put this on their shelves post haste.
Thanks for this, but just to clear some things up, the Theatrical is the International and the International is the Extended in your post lol, there are only 2 versions, the International which is the Theatrical almost everywhere, and then the Extended which was only available in Germany up until recently, and our Extended is 100% English Friendly, if I have anything wrong here I will let You_Too straighten it out lol.
Thanks again for the review!
dark_jedi said:
vadertyme said:
Greetings all, I just wanted to post a quick review of Team Blu's latest release "The NeverEnding Story" 2-disc set that I received last week. To cut to the chase, this is yet another strong entry into their ever growing list of quality releases.
As most (if not all) of you may recall, the biggest flaw with the theatrical (i.e. domestic) release was that the transfer was too dark and the biggest flaws with the international release were that it was too light and DNR'd to hell.
Here's a quick breakdown after viewing both discs:
Theatrical: Comparing the domestic release which I own to Team Blu's release, the PQ really shines with the lightening techniques applied to the transfer.
International: On the flipside, I don't own a version of the international so I had to compare it to screen captures but it is very plain to see that the darkening of the international cut and grain application have restored a filmic presentation to this cut of the film.
To put it bluntly, the previous issues with both transfers has been corrected with this release and fans of this film owe it to themselves to put this on their shelves post haste.
Thanks for this, but just to clear some things up, the Theatrical is the International and the International is the Extended in your post lol, there are only 2 versions, the International which is the Theatrical almost everywhere, and then the Extended which was only available in Germany up until recently, and our Extended is 100% English Friendly, if I have anything wrong here I will let You_Too straighten it out lol.
Thanks again for the review!
Hey DJ, sorry about the confusion. I always correlated the extended with the international for personal reasons. I updated my review accordingly.
Watched Maximum Overdrive Last night (Loved it!) Plan on getting the Review up in the next few days. In the meantime though...
Went with the Clear Case look...
If anyone can help with how the Posters were printed I'd be appreciative.
Those are very nice cases, wish I had a case of single and double.
I just wanted to let you guys know there is now something really, really cool at B-T, if you have a high enough rank you can now stream titles in HD! I am currently encoding ALL our releases so you can stream them as well, the only 2 that are not our versions are the Terminators, I will ask Vinnie if I can re do those and maybe swap out but we will see, but anyways this new feature is bad ass!
Just letting you guys know that are now members there.
Thanks
dark_jedi said:
there are only 2 versions, the International which is the Theatrical almost everywhere, and then the Extended which was only available in Germany up until recently, and our Extended is 100% English Friendly, if I have anything wrong here I will let You_Too straighten it out lol.
Correct. The first premiere of the film was in Germany and it had the audio dubbed to German. It's longer because a lot of scenes have either different shots or are just longer from start to end. It also has a slightly different use of the music since the Ivory Tower theme we're used to wasn't included, but a softer symphonic tune. And Limahl's song isn't there either. The english audio has different voices for the snail guy and Gmork compared to the later International cut that most of us are used to.
This German original version has been obtainable on DVD but only with German audio so it's really nice to have an English friendly version now. We took the English close-up shots of the book and note and color matched them to the Extended cut.
To those who are not familiar with the restoration of this German original version, some company named CinePostproduction in Germany took the negative of the International version as well as an interpositive (or whatever it was, the negative was gone) of the longer German cut, and did some restoration work as well as some very destructive grain reduction and a very weird new color timing choice.
Since this company posted some raw scans of the International negative as well as the German interpositive on their site, one can see that what they had to work with was beautiful. The International negative had faded to brown a little bit but all color was intact. The German interpositive was faded to pink and had slightly less detail but was still in pretty good shape.
Once they had cleaned these up, which I suspect they did with tons of automatic dirt removal as well as some manual too, they applied a heavy de-grain filter that gave the whole thing a waxdoll look. Then some colorist who had apparently "looked at all the sources" or something, went ahead and created an overall strange look which doesn't resemble any other version of this movie.
Nothing we could do with the new color timing since that would've taken re-doing it shot by shot, but we did fix one of the more horrible things they did, which was to add a very amateur-looking glow over the Ivory Tower wide shots. (The glow was not on the negative, it was a very ugly and weird creative choice) Here's before and after:
You might also see that we shifted back the colors to be less orange, which corrected an error they also did when creating their new master.
There are other things here and there in the movie, like in a wide shot of Atreyu riding his horse past a mountain, there's a waterfall in the foreground that's been brightened. Or the scenes with Morla where they painted Morla's face (and eyes!) orange and the environment around Morla teal. This is something I wish we could've fixed but again, that would've taken months of work.
For those interested, here's an example of a roughly color corrected negative vs raw German blu-ray release:
Even with those things pointed out, we're still very proud of what we did with the Extended version, or German original cut if you will, and we know that you who love this movie will enjoy it!
The International cut that we're all used to is also there and looks better than ever!
EDIT: What we did with the Extended version was to soften the "edge-enhancement" applied to fake a sharper look, shift the colors back to how they should look (less orange skin tones and reds) and applied true to the negative grain, based on the grain from the very film stock they used, to make it all look more like film again.
Thanks for all the work you've put into this, fellas - I can't wait to reacquaint myself with this film. I think it may be the only one I've ever watched twice in a row, as I recall doing on its cinema release (1985 here in the UK).
Was no theatrical audio mix available for this one?
Jonno said:
Was no theatrical audio mix available for this one?
I remember comparing the audio from an LD release with the Dutch BD which was the source for our International version and it sounded identical. It's probably already close to original theatrical. I listened to the audio from the US BD but that one sounded very fake-remastered, like too much treble, typical compressed modern mix.
As for the Extended, there is only one English audio source so we could do nothing about it. But it sounds good.
Thanks for clearing that up!
Just had a Terminator weekend and it was beyond words....
I cannot get enough of these releases.
The clarity and color is spot on perfect.
I am grateful for all the work that goes into these projects.
Thank you.
After watching both cuts of The Neverending Story release by Teamblu i am really impressed, what surprised me is how well the Extended cut has been handled, who would have thought that such a mess of a transfer could have been improved upon as much as it has been.
I found the extended version pleasing on the eye because of the lack of dirt on the print, that combined with Teamblu's magic with added grain and getting rid of the dnr look works really well.
The Extended version is also completley scored so none of the limahl track and also has some differences in the music, this does not bother me at all and does not take away from the film. As a preservation i would say the international version is obviously the more authentic, and despite it having some dirt on the print it still looks very good and i do prefer this cut of the movie because it is the one i grew up with.
The artwork and menu's are presented very nicely, i especially like the cover art, i am sure fans of this movie will be pleased with the work that has been done on this movie.
Thank you Teamblu.
Glad you guys are really liking what we are doing, it is very nice to read this, it does look like we are a big hit at B-T and that is great, with the true HD streaming you just cannot get any better then that, this Site ROCKS!!! and by this weekend I will have ALL our projects up for download and stream in 1080p, and I talked to Vinnie we will replace T1 and T2 with our versions, so thanks to Vinnie for that.
Again thanks guys, it really does mean a lot to us to read these nice comments.
dark_jedi said:
Glad you guys are really liking what we are doing, it is very nice to read this, it does look like we are a big hit at B-T and that is great, with the true HD streaming you just cannot get any better then that, this Site ROCKS!!! and by this weekend I will have ALL our projects up for download and stream in 1080p, and I talked to Vinnie we will replace T1 and T2 with our versions, so thanks to Vinnie for that.
Again thanks guys, it really does mean a lot to us to read these nice comments.
You guys could have just done NotLD '90 and called it good, and I would've still been grateful, considering how botched the official release was! T1 and T2 turned out better than I could have expected. I still have yet to watch Maximum Overdrive, though I did download it already. Looking forward to all the future releases!
“Lifes a song you don’t get to rehearse, and every single verse can make it that much worse”
Can anyone help with a blu torrents invite at all? Im desperate to check these out! I can help with a comicbt invite in return.
dark_jedi said:
Glad you guys are really liking what we are doing, it is very nice to read this, it does look like we are a big hit at B-T and that is great, with the true HD streaming you just cannot get any better then that, this Site ROCKS!!! and by this weekend I will have ALL our projects up for download and stream in 1080p, and I talked to Vinnie we will replace T1 and T2 with our versions, so thanks to Vinnie for that.
Again thanks guys, it really does mean a lot to us to read these nice comments.
What exactly do you mean by "replace T1 and T2 with our versions" ? And does the streaming feature require new encodes?
For those interested, Jason Goes to Hell Unrated has really turned out to be a real treat, we have some very nice extras here and it is like a tribute to the Man himself Mr. Kane Hodder, I actually have met this guy and he is super cool! so this BD is a real treat to me and I hope you guys as well.
all requested invites have been sent out. thank you
I'm excite for Jason. Always a fun ride to watch.