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Originally posted by: Bantha Track
Following on from the KOTOR thread, can I put out a request for movie versions of the Indiana Jones games.

This suggestion seemed to generate some positive responses in that thread so I am clearly not the only one who would love to see this.

Originally posted by: Harlock415
Well, certain Hong Kong releases are definitly better. I myself am a little dissapointed in the Fortune Star set of Chinese Ghost Story as it shows a lot of grain. If you want to de a restoration of Fist of legend, you will need the Laser Disc, since it has a Mandarin track and the proper Cantonese track (in which the Japanese speak japanese, the English speack English, etc) I do happen to have that from Tai Seng, for some readon, the LD is gold. I have no idea if that makes it better or not. The LD is also uncut.

George Lucas can learn a thing or too about film restoration from Celestial who is doing over 700 Shaw films:

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There are cerrain movies that are still not right. For instance Drunken master II -- even the Taiwanese DVD, is not correct. The aspect ratio is wrong, but it IS uncut. For the proper asspect ratio, you once again have to go to the LD. Upon a Time in China and America I believe was releaed also in the wrong aspect ratio.

It's a hard battle when the Asian studios are almost as bad. The deluxe R3 Bruce Lee Boxset has a re-dubbed Big Boss, with added Kyaas and Pink Floyd incidental music that were not in the older releases. The Game of Death 2 DVD is English only, odd considering I still have the original Chinese Tower of Death with Cantonese audio. My older copy of Fist of Fury has an extensive audio commentary by Bey Logan on it which is absent in the newly remastered one. I for one am not too fond of the addition of a DTS track to something as old as these.

The Killer and Hard Boiled are still out of print in the US and both of those had great audio commentaries by John Woo. Both those movies are still in print in asia in anamorphic prints which were not the case here in the US. They were letterboxed.

So yeah, I think there are indeed many projects that can be undertaken.

Originally posted by: lint
Hey all, first time poster. Ive been reading through these forums and think it is great what all of you are doing to preserve and re-release films how they should have been.

This forum has got me wondering if anyone has undertaken re-editing any of Miramaxe's horrendous US releases of Jet Li's films or any of the other fantastic kung fu films they have purchased the release rights to?

You can read more of Miramaxes butcher jobs here:
An Open Letter to Miramax

Also here:
Appeal to Disney for Respectful Treatment of Asian films

Three films that deserve some special treatment in my opinion are Fist of Legend, Drunken Master 2 and the Once Upon A Time In China trilogy. These films have been edited, re-scored and re-dubbed into English. The miramax versions are terrible. The original soundtracks are beautifully done and the original language is essential (needless to say). The truth is, some pretty fantastic versions could be made using Miramaxe's prints (they did manage to obtain some very nice prints for mastering) and other releases original language tracks, soundtracks, subtitles, and missing scenes.

Has anyone undertaken a project like this for 'any' kung fu epic?

-lint

Originally posted by: Troy
I’m probably about to list a load of films that somebody’s on with already or has asked for as well but I’m sure you can appreciate I don’t have the time to look at every post on the forum. So if I do mention something somebody can help me with please drop me a line.

Back to the Future Trilogy with all the deleted scenes put in, I don’t mind if the picture quality isn’t great as long as they sync up well. And Back To The Future: The Ride, I know its been mentioned somewhere so does anyone have a copy I could get hold of? Also has anyone thought about a way to do something with the book-ends of Christopher Lloyd from the Back To The Future Animated Series and also Doc in the music video of ‘That’s The Power Of Love’?

And what about an edit of the movies that excludes part II so basically you get the Clock Tower scene in the first movie then just after Marty has got back to 1985 and Doc looks up at the clock you then go straight in to Part III or use the ending of Part II then edit into III.

Another way also I’d like to see is Part I’s scenes in 1955 inter-cut with the 1955 scenes from Part II and you follow that side by side until, as I mentioned above you move into Part III.

There is all manner of edits I’d like to see with Back to the Future, such as a chronological edit or a full on none stop Parts I-III.

What else would I love to see:

Ghostbusters II the way it was shown at cinemas however I don’t know of anywhere where you can get the original scenes anymore. Also if there was someway of incorporating Dan Ackroyds cameo from the Casper remake in the 90’s with Ghostbusters or Ghostbusters II that would be cool.

What about a Batman that takes the core Tim Burton 1989 film and incorporates flashbacks from Batman Begins and maybe a little tweaking so it doesn’t come out with the Joker being the one that killed Bruce’s parents (I know someone is doing the opposite but I like the fact Begins did the plot from the comics).

And I know somebody has done/or is on with a ‘Forever’ and ‘Robin' edit. I’d like to see a Forever edit like my previous comment, where appropriate, the flash backs are some from Begins. Oh and I’d love to see a Batman Begins with the Danny Elfman Score.

I know there is more however I cant think of them yet. . . but I will

Originally posted by: crazyrabbits
I found a couple little items you could use. There is the footage of Robocop at a WCW pay-per-view event (Christ, that was terrible) that might be useful. I also found a Japanese commercial advertising a Thursday night showing of Robocop 3 (you can find it here). In addition, I also found a website that shows (apparent) photographs of one of the unfinished police car designs from the first film (you can find that here). I'm not sure how valid this is, as the guy mentions working with many of the cast and crew on these designs, and I'm not sure if they were already put on one of the DVD releases, but maybe you could use them as a photo gallery or something. When I can, I'll try to download some of the Robocop-related stuff from Youtube and try to convert it. I'm just very tired today, having finished an exam and all.

Originally posted by: klokwerk
Sorry if they've been mentioned already, but if you're including text-based extras, please consider the Cinefex articles featured in Issue 32, Issue 45 & Issue 56 (the articles are about Robocop 1, 2 & 3 respectively).

Originally posted by: crazyrabbits


Well, I'll tell you, I downloaded it from the Robocop Archive, and I can't seem to convert this to and .avi or .mpg format. It keeps screwing up the picture. As it stands, the quality isn't bad (I'd say 5 or 6 out of 10), but it doesn't even play in VLC, for God's sake! I'll see what I can do.

Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
I have the original Criterion DVD for Robocop.

Yeah, that's the version I used for The Game.

I took the links off because it's now "officially" been released...but I guess it's out of my control at this point.