Love Private School... how can you not? Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell in their prime. Good Lordy. I've seen it broadcast in HD on HBO and Cinemax and it looks better than Fast Times. That's not saying a lot but still... I have the retail DVD which is anamorphic and mono but it still looks pretty good.
Mine is 100% perfect. There was one guy who had a glitch on The Thing but that was user end problems. The original files for Andrea's projects are without issue.
Everything looks great, Andrea... just want to bring to your attention the second commentary is with Joe Alves actually, you have 'John'. No big deal, I just thought you might change that one before everyone prints their covers. So glad you're using the HDTV as that is far and away the best presentation. Great news! Maybe your cat doesn't like the movie... so he sabotaged the project.
Andrea, just go with the HDTV version from HDNet. That added slice from the BD framing was a risky method as you suspected initially. Not worth the trouble. Most people hold the HDNet broadcast in high regard. I do prefer it because it has the correct brightness and the color is awesome. Just go with that and save yourself a big headache. Looking forward to it as with all your projects. Happy Holidays!
zeropc did re-up the original file some time ago to usenet under a new header, but there were frames missing when the file was created so the new upload was exactly the same. Very watchable... just not perfect, but that's not zeropc's fault. As far as I can tell that's the way the original file started out. There are certain areas with some frame stutter but the soundtrack is intact.
Old school Titan dub is making my brain explode... in a good way. Big thanks to Space Hunter M!
love it!
The most mysterious and elusive of all the early Godzilla movies... especially because of the title which confused us as kids. "It's Godzilla, right? So why do they call him Gigantis?" Rights issues go back as long as I can remember. Some things never change. Anyway, this is a great addition to the lexicon because it's the only other black and white Godzilla film and actually features the first battle between the big green guy and another major player - Angilas (Anguirus). This is the very definition of old school Godzilla and the action is really pretty great to boot. Good show, Space. Really looking forward to this as I've not seen it in about 20 years. Thanks for the great effort all around on these classic creature features!
Space, can you send me a PM with that Titan dub as well please... I grew up with that one too. Thanks in advance and thank you for making this classic available to the fans. It's one of the best Godzilla films in the history of the franchise!
As far as audio, is the AIP dub the superior mix? I've read in the past that the international audio dub was different and possibly not so great. I really don't have a lot of info on it, but maybe Space can elaborate. Is the music the same on both? Thanks in advance.
Love me some '60s Godzilla... been looking for Destroy All Monsters in a proper presentation for some time now. Thanks for delivering the goods, Space. I thought the restoration of King Kong VS. Godzilla also on the spleen was excellent and since I grew up on these classics, it's always great to experience the best versions of them. I have old VHS recordings from back in the day of basically every film from '54-'75 featuring the big green guy, but one by one I'm trying to get the strongest widescreen transfers of each movie. This is easily one of the best from the Showa series era... looking forward to it. Thanks for the great effort to present it at its very best!
Got it complete... looks amazing. The "blue night" is back the way it's supposed to be for the THX version. Thank you once again for a job well done, Andrea. Excellent work and it's been a long awaited experience to see the THX in HD. Great presentation of a legendary film... just awesome to behold.
It's very close to done... tomorrow at the latest.
I've had great results using Handbrake to convert various frame rate mkv's to 23.976 and that's after having problems trying to use Uncropmkv, which caused image drag and blur. Very strange. I see no loss in quality using Handbrake. It does a great job with the audio as well.
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That's ok, we have THX Halloween to keep us entertained in the meantime.
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I recently watched Terror in the Aisles which has a bunch of footage from The Thing with its original color-timing. Andrea's version looks exactly like the clips from that documentary. Very bleak indeed. There's a lot of footage from Halloween in Terror in the Aisles as well. Pretty much looks like the 35th BD. Despite that, I can't wait to see this THX in high def. Thanks, Andrea!