Doctor M

I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but while the extended version is superior and matches the original script better, something is off about the hacking scene at the end.

It seems to be re-edited in a manner that make much less sense.

I really should take a look at it again, compare it to the theatrical cut and see if I can relocate that copy of the script I had.

dvdmike said:

Mine was lost die to lack of interest and people saying they had better.
Took me weeks to colour grade it

Well, dang.

There hasn’t been much comment on this lately, but several months ago I found a purported 1080p HDTV Theatrical rip online. It has German and English 2.0 audio.

I finally got around to watching it and after 5 minutes I turned it off. It has horrible framerate issues. It’s 23.976fps but feels like a capture where the framerates didn’t sync. Judder galore.

Anyone making any progress on this?

I dunno. They’ve licensed out before. I’ve even got one from Anchor Bay for ‘Castaway Cowboy’, and IIRC there’s no Disney splash screen anywhere. Done like that, since it has been long enough since any official release, it could provide Disney with a reasonable distance from the film.

It would also make it clear that it was for collectors and enthusiasts and NOT something Disney recommends for kids.

timemeddler said:

has anyone heard anything new about the rumor that disney was selling the rights to criterion for a bluray release of this movie?

Did you just make up that rumor, because it’s brilliant?

Okay, that makes more sense.
It appears the DVD publisher was IDDK which is ИДДК in Russian. FYI, the release is dated 2005.

GoboFraggle1983 said:

Doctor M said:

Actually, I found two that might be different releases (one in a bundle of several Disney films), but this one had full sized screenshots.  (You can check them out on RuTracker if you want.)

Where exactly did you find this?

Was that really a question?

Did they not shoot on film?

ThiefCobbler4ever said:

Some good news of late, The Jim Henson Company finally got permission to reinstate Kermit for Emmet Otter! The special even aired recently on ABC Family:
http://kidscreen.com/2015/12/17/the-jim-henson-company-remasters-christmas-classics/

The bad news, they matted it to widescreen and because they restored it in HD, the frame rate has been manipulated.

(facepalm)

Billy Bumbags said:

SPECTRE has divided opinion - I liked it. That’s the thing with Bond, it hops between several styles as the films go on - they all divide opinion to some degree. But you’d have to go a long way to beat Die Another Day as the worst (IMO)

And yet I liked Die Another Day. I thought it was a big silly love letter to the franchise on its anniversary.

SilverWook said:

It was adapted into a live stage show in 2008, and Paul Williams wrote some new songs for that. Maybe that’s where it’s from?

JEDIT : Wikipedia says it was written for the tv special but was never used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Otter’s_Jug-Band_Christmas_(TV_Program)

And I can’t believe I still don’t have a copy of this…

Then get it.

Hmmm. Nearly the worst Bond films (I’m told Spectre is officially the worst). I’m intrigued.

DaF really does need help and a few of those deleted scenes fill plot holes.
I wouldn’t mind seeing some cuts with regards to Wint and Hidd though. They are god awful villains and drag the film down whenever they’re on screen.

I was just listening to the soundtrack and heard a song called “Born in a Trunk”. Was that in a scene that ever existed?

CJAG95 said:

Is this still available ANYWHERE ??

Still looks to be available on 'spleen.

CatBus said:

RDPlissken said:

Doctor M said:
Man it blows.

big time

That post filled up my entire screen.

Well you’ll have to scroll to read this one.

Doctor M said:

towne32 said:

An update has been posted in the myspleen comments section. It seems the color was indeed off and a corrected version will be released in the future.

Man, and those guys were defending their transfer hard.

[quote]Because of the amount of people complaining about some of the scenes being too yellow, and the Youtube clip posted by one of the users we started wondering if the color is right ourselves. Unfortunately, it was revealed that there has been a huge misunderstanding between the person who did the scan and the one working on color correction. I won’t get into details, but a whole movie color grading is wrong and does not reflect the look of the print.

Some of the scenes need minor corrections (these are most likely the ones that made me think the whole scan is right, I haven’t screened the entire print), but others, like the dojo fight or Neo’s interrogation are completely wrong. The movie will get a shot by shot color correction in the next months, if you wish to watch a theatrically accurate version of The Matrix, please wait for the new version (it will be labeled v1.5).[/quote]
(Sorry, but I have no idea how to format text on this site any more. Man it blows.)

towne32 said:

An update has been posted in the myspleen comments section. It seems the color was indeed off and a corrected version will be released in the future.

Man, and those guys were defending their transfer hard.

[quote]Because of the amount of people complaining about some of the scenes being too yellow, and the Youtube clip posted by one of the users we started wondering if the color is right ourselves. Unfortunately, it was revealed that there has been a huge misunderstanding between the person who did the scan and the one working on color correction. I won’t get into details, but a whole movie color grading is wrong and does not reflect the look of the print.

Some of the scenes need minor corrections (these are most likely the ones that made me think the whole scan is right, I haven’t screened the entire print), but others, like the dojo fight or Neo’s interrogation are completely wrong. The movie will get a shot by shot color correction in the next months, if you wish to watch a theatrically accurate version of The Matrix, please wait for the new version (it will be labeled v1.5).[/quote]

drngr said:

Reliance MediaWorks (the former Lowry) has clips in their demo reel of their True Lies remaster. Tealed to death, naturally. All of the clips from Super35 films are 16:9, as well.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/95919913

I have serious doubts that James Cameron would have approved that.

ieyasu said:

Any information on the Aladdin Diamond Edition blu-ray? Just curious if it’s just the special edition DVD (AKA the IMAX presentation that never happened), transfer or the original theatrical print (of course, with the censored “Arabian Nights”).

Pretty good question. I don’t know. Assuming it’s the same as the UK release that came out a few years back, it’s probably the IMAX repaint job.

Anyone know?

Catbus is right. THe exact shade of green might be hard to remember, but we would remember colors like that.
Considering the black levels are crushed and the light areas are blown out, there are a lot of reasons to believe the film transfer and/or source are sketchy.

Seriously, this isn’t complicated. No one remember the DVD looking wrong when they saw it and that wasn’t that long after the movie came out.
Also, trailers are rarely restored or retimed unless they are cutting a re-release trailer… and the DVD is pretty damn similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8

It make for a pretty solid reference.

I'm currently re-reading Deathly Hallows and came across a discrepancy. Checking the Harry Potter Wiki, it turns out there is no discrepancy, but a deleted scene from Deathly Hallows is wrong because of this.

Thought this might be interesting to know before reinserting the scene.  It might be worth muting her saying the spell, making it looks like she does it non-verbally.

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Memory_Charm said:

In Chapter 9 of Deathly Hallows, just prior to erasing Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle's memories, Hermione says that she has never performed a Memory Charm before, despite having already altered her parents' memories.[8] However, J. K. Rowling has said this was a different charm[3], which alters memories rather than removes them.

Despite Rowling's statement that the charm Hermione used on her parents was not the same, in the Part 1 film adaption, Hermione uses the actual Memory Charm to eradicate her mother and father's memories of her.
However, it all still fits in as in the film Hermione doesn't say she hasn't used it before.
Either symbolically or by actual magic, when Hermione performed the charm on her parents, all images of her in their family pictures were erased as well.

I disagree about the costumes.  The books explicitly say that wizards/witches dress in outrageous colors and wear robes and silly hats pretty much all the time.

Their attempts at muggle-ware usually produce comic results.

Starting with the third film they pretty much never wear robes with hoodies and sneakers showing up at Hogwarts.

If you check out the change list from my edit of Chamber of Secrets you'll find the official extended cut introduces a lot of flaws that should have been fixed.

Also, the Malfoy crap in HBP: if you check out the original script you can see they recycled some footage (Malfoy pulls an extremely dusty cloth off of the vanishing cabinet more than once) and split up the Malfoy scene to try and extend it suspense or something.

In most cases I've found the scripts to be better than the final cuts and they reveal many of the flaws.  They make great guides to help you edit around those flaws.

And Scream Factory has revealed that their forthcoming Army of Darkness: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray (due on 10/27) will now be a 3-disc set (and not the 2-disc set previously expected). All-new extras will include the 96-minute Medieval Times: The Making of Army of Darkness featurette, offering new interviews (with star/co-producer Bruce Campbell, actors Marcus Gilbert, Ted Raimi, Timothy Quill, Richard Grove, Bill Moseley, Patricia Tallman and Angela Featherstone, director of photography Bill Pope, editor Bob Murawski, production designer Anthony Tremblay, composer Joseph Lo Duca, costume designer Ida Gearon, special make-up effects artists Howard Berger, Tony Gardner, Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero, “Pit Bitch” performer and effects artist William Bryan, mechanical effects artist Gary Jones, first assistant director John Cameron, visual effects supervisor William Mesa, and stunt coordinator Christopher Doyle). You’ll also get 55 minutes of new Behind-the-Scenes Footage From KNB Effects, new still galleries of behind-the-scenes photos and props, and storyboards for deleted and alternate scenes. In terms of other material, Disc One will include the 81-minute Theatrical Version with DTS-HD 5.1 audio, the original ending, the original opening, and deleted scenes (with Raimi and Campbell commentary), plus the trailer, TV spots, and the home video promo. Disc Two will include the 96-minute Director’s Cut with DTS-HD 5.1 and 2.0 audio, with audio commentary by Sam Raimi, Campbell, and Ivan Raimi, 2 vintage featurettes (Creating the Deadites and Making of) and extended interview clips with Raimi, Campbell, and Robert Tapert. And Disc Three will include a new 4K scan of the 88-minute International Cut interpositive with DTS-HD 5.1 and 2.0 audio, the 90-minute Television Version (1.33:1 in SD) with DTS-HD 2.0 audio, and the vintage The Men Behind the Army featurette.

Sez thedigitalbits.com

Wow.

I'd recommend running your Deathly Hallows discs through DVD Rebuilder with the added AVISynth script lines:

loadplugin("agc.dll")
HDR=HDRAGC(coef_gain=.25, max_sat=3)
temp=mergeluma(last,HDR,.33)
mergechroma(temp,HDR,.5)

The AVISynth plugin can be found here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=93571

It's what I did with my own copies.  Makes them very watchable.