Call me crazy, but I think a split screen showing the Cinemascope LATT and the academy version side by side in sync would be really cool.
Got the THX TSWLM today. Won't have time to test it until tonight, but I have doubts it's original factory seal. This was out of print years before the studios started pushing those flimsy eco cases on us.
UPS guy is a total tease. Pulls up in front of my house with a large box that's the right size for a batch of LD's, then delivers it next door. >_<
When I eventually buy the NSNA Blu from Yesasia, I'm going to get the LTK VCD, as it's dirt cheap. Unless somebody is going after the full frame Japanese LD for sale at the LDDB? ;)
Trying to sort out original soundtracks from remixes with some movies is enough to make my head spin.
I should have said a post 1994 film then. ;)
In the case of some of those older films, they may have simply ported over the 70mm mixes?
There was an early DVD of The Shadow with a DTS track. Fullscreen unfortunately.
The audio on the Mortal Kombat Blu Ray is weak compared to the DTS LD. There was also a commentary track never carried over to DVD or Blu.
Maybe it's a standard sidearm for both sides?
Or maybe the prop guys just didn't anticipate people would someday be able to scrutinize the film frame by frame. ;)
"Aren't you a little short for a savior of the universe?" ;)
Great stuff! Does anyone know which cantina patron was "Flash Gordon"?
Some of the other names go back to the costume sketches seen in The Art of Star Wars book.
*ahem*
Marvel is going to need something to fall back now that they've totally frakked up Spiderman. ;)
captainsolo said:
These 5.1 mixes will almost certainly trump anything from later on simply due to better compression and greater detail. Better practices because they were made for LD 5.1 which avoids the typical down conversions built into DVD audio. But the UE is the only release of LTK that is fully uncut in Region 1. The others are a rumored PAL German LD and a NTSC Japanese LD but both are full screen.
Is it feasible to patch the missing scenes using the UE? There is a VCD on Yesasia.com, but it's probably full frame...
Wow! We never saw this angle in the movie.
I smiled when I saw this ship outside the bar in the old Sierra PC game Space Quest. (Or something that closely resembled it.)
I've long been curious about the 2001 pod like thing in the background.
As mentioned before, yesasia.com has it for less than $30.
Why the SE DVD sets fetch so much money is a mystery to me. Ebay madness!
The Moonraker THX disc was a coaster, but for six bucks I'm not sure it's worth the hassle of getting a refund.
It's going to be a Connery Christmas for me if both LD sets get here in time.
Maybe my dream of a Tag and Bink movie will come true. ;)
When I was a kid, you had to write an angry letter to Cinefantastique or Starlog magazine to bitch about a popular film. Even if you had an typewriter in the house, you still had to lick an envelope and a stamp.
IIRC, film critics used to have some sort of background in journalism. You never saw Siskel and Ebert discussing the same movie for nearly an hour. ;)
A vintage promo I don't think has been mentioned here before?
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1990osu said:
Thank you silverwook.
Actually, it was Jay.
Citation needed.
It was Jay. I slept in today due to illness and fatigue. My pay has been docked accordingly. And I can kiss my Xmas bonus goodbye! ;)
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/07847/12096-AS/Evita-%281996%29
I can't imagine a DTS Laserdisc release for a film that didn't have DTS theatrically. The IMDB isn't always right.
You're right! My SE has the 5.1 track. This is what I get for watching movies late at night. ;)
I only spent a couple bucks on the THX, thankfully.
Unless my eyes and ears were playing tricks on me the other night, the Moonraker SE does not have a 5.1 track.
I suspect some THX discs didn't rot away, or there would not be used copies on Ebay. (Perhaps a different batch from another replication facility?) Keeping my fingers crossed!
The Jetsons Movie and We're Back have both had a DVD release in widescreen.
Spielberg's "Family Dog"series has not come out on DVD, although the pilot episode was originally an Amazing Stories installment.
Heavy Metal has long been on DVD and the Blu Ray is terrific. There are some very minor differences in the soundmix, but it's unlikely a stereo soundtrack recorded off cable prior to the official 1990's video release exists. The Japanese Laserdisc is open matte.
Beavis and Butthead Do America has also had a nice DVD release.
Cat's Don't Dance has only come out on DVD in full frame.
There are a couple other anime or family films I could add to the list soon as I'm done sorting out my LD collection.
DuracellEnergizer said:
The still construction of London After Midnight (1927)
Now that I know the story, I have no interest in seeing the film even if a copy is somehow discovered, restored, and made available to the public. Except for The Village, I've never once enjoyed these "bait and switch" movies, and nothing here convinces me this film would be any exception.
5/10 (for the reconstruction, of course; the film itself is unratable)
Was bait and switch even a concept in 1927? ;)
I think it's hard to judge LAM, since the photo recon is all we have to work with. Tod Browning essentially remade it with Bela Lugosi as "Mark of the Vampire" in 1935. That movie I felt cheated by, as characters are acting out a deception even when they couldn't possibly be observed by anyone else. You can mislead or hoodwink an audience, but you can't outright lie to them.
There's a similar conundrum with The Innocents from 1961. Most reviews go with the theory the main character is slowly going mad, and that neatly explains away all the spooky goings on. As Deborah Kerr's character sees the ghosts and describes them before ever seeing pictures of them, this doesn't hold water for me. That one plot point robs the film of any ambiguity for me.
http://fetts.tumblr.com/post/37678226684
Someone has to answer for this travesty. ;)
Yeah, the LALD SE looks like a VCD at times. :(
The THX DVD of Dr. No has noticeably more compression artifacts seen in ocean waves.
Is it possible some of the earlier 5.1 mixes were derived from 70mm releases? (At least the Moore and Dalton entries.) I'm thinking some of these ought to be preserved. They could certainly co exist with a PCM track synched up to the Blu Rays. Maybe preserve the SE menus too? ;)
I've got the THX Moonraker DVD on the way, and more factory sealed Bond LD's in my future. There is no cure for Laserdisc fever!