Info: Films re-released with alterations — Page 2

TheQuazz said:

Well, this is depressing.

Yup. Be aware.

Highlander 1

Highlander 2

Highlander 3

& you guessed it Highlander 4 urgh I mean Highlander Endgame 😃

“Plan 9 from Outer Space” had some easter eggs added to the Legend Films colorization: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4607105

From the same company, “Reefer Madness” has a “420” flash-frame inserted within the first half of the film in both the colorized and restored B&W versions (2004 Fox DVD).

Ronster said:

Highlander 1

Highlander 2

Highlander 3

& you guessed it Highlander 4 urgh I mean Highlander Endgame 😃

This doesn’t tell me anything. Can you be more specific?

Highlander 1 had the wires removed that were visible during the final Duel where Connor wins “The Prize” In the Directors cut fairly recently

Highlander 2 The quickening was totally Re-cut as The Renegade Version

Highlander 3 The Sorcerer was totally Re-cut as The Final Dimension

Highlander Endgame was Totally Re-cut and Revamped for Home Video but the name did not change

The VFX were updated from 2 to endgame

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JayArgonaut said:
Jedit: does “digital alterations” also include DVNR?

No, since that’s more of a remastering attempt.

Source for “The Devil’s Advocate”, where only the first DVD/VHS print run had the original sculpture: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4057

Terminator and Devil’s Advocate added, as well as The Lion King.

I had mentioned Jaws. Here’s some screen grabs from the 2005 DVD and the 2012 BD. A bit tough to spot but the first example shows a wire balancing the buoy on the '05 DVD (look closely to the right of the buoy).

Second might be a bit tough to spot but to the far left is a sailboat on the horizon on the '05 DVD.

I had mentioned Bride of Frankenstein. Last night I noticed a similar change to a shot in the first film. This occurs in the shot of Henry and Fritz wheeling the slab with the corpse towards the gallows. It’s a bit complicated to explain but I’ll do my best.

In this shot there’s a pointed rock formation we see in the foreground which our guys pass under as they go up the hill. Just before Henry is about to pass under, it jumps to them partially further up the hill. In every release prior to 2012 (I checked this on the 1991 VHS and 2006 DVD) this either looks as if they cut to a different shot or perhaps it had been a continuous shot but a few seconds of footage was either cut or lost. On the BD, the framing has been altered and some digital altering may have been done so it now ‘almost’ looks like a continuous shot but yet our guys still noticeably jump farther up the hill. For more specifics check out post #178 in the link below.

http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/46057/Re-FRANKENSTEIN-on-BluRay-1931?page=-1#.V1Lj3zUrJdg

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If you are going to put movies in the list because of major color tints being added. You may as well add Stargate to the list also.

It has had a directors cut released which did not update the special effects but the colors are much much different from the remaster. and an additional number of minutes were added from the cutting room floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJtZUPvJxY

Very much either Yellow / Pink / violet and Turqoise tinting has been added that trailer is the more or less right colors compared to the current versions. Practically the whole film is tinted in one of those 4 directions.

EDIT: It seems that the 15th anniversary Blu-Ray sorts the color tinting out in many respects

I am going to probably do an edit on this in the next few months I am gearing up for it.

doubleofive said:

Oops:

http://trekcore.com/blog/2016/06/one-more-change-in-the-new-star-trek-wrath-of-khan-directors-cut/

Also they digitally fixed some stairs in the 2009 remaster?

I got the stairs, but this just looks like a mistake, not an intentional mistake.

Ronster said:

If you are going to put movies in the list because of major color tints being added. You may as well add Stargate to the list also.

I’ve thought this list was interesting because it provides many solid examples of irrefutable manipulation of the films. I agree that things like color (also DVNR) are also reasons why current home video releases can often be problematic, but it’s done so frequently I think it might drown out the alterations that were deliberate revisionism with cases that are just due to shitty grading and remastering.

I’m not necessarily protesting adding that stuff to the list. Just thought I’d mention that there have been other threads about color timing issues, and that this list was a bit more interesting without it in my opinion.

There seems to be one scene in particular that has a clear revisionism stamp on it. And that is the flashback of the uprising on Earth is set at night… Blue tint but correctly as the crowd have lanterns.

Whilst it seems the directors cut set’s it in the day by color grading it to be day very deliverately bright and yellow. So now why the Lanterns?

I think that it is small but it’s way out and I don’t know about the latest releases of the theatrical cut but it is meant to be night on the uprising where the guard is lifted up as Daniel recounts the story of RA from the hieroglyphs with Flashbacks.