SpacemanDoug

Weekend at Bernie’s sadly has had a bit of an issue on home video. After the first VHS release of the movie, the second movie came out which revealed at one point that Larry was a virgin. However, in the first movie there’s a scene that strongly implied he has sex with a woman at the party. So after the second movie was released that scene was removed on all subsequent home video releases, with an exception which was the region 2 DVD. I was hoping to possibly get my hands on this removed scene and reconstruct it using blu-ray footage. If anyone can possibly send it to me let me know.

No DVD versions do

springfeel said:

I was thinking of getting the vhs tapes to sync Clint’s ape movies but then I saw the prices :p
For LD I
Don’t think a pcm track is available in mono just a stereo mix so would have to use analog Ld

Heartbreak ridge and gauntlet were stereo but I can tell they were tinkered with for the 5.1

From what it seems Gauntlet didn’t seem that tampered with cause I can tell all of the gunfire and other noises were period appropriate, though I could be wrong with some of it

Since pretty much almost all of the classic Clint Eastwood movies (particularly the ones from Warner Bros. mostly) seem to have alterations to their audio tracks, I decided to start this thread to list those movies and possibly get laserdisc versions of the original audio tracks.

One of the most notorious examples are the Dirty Harry movies, their 5.1 remixes saw extremely severe sound effects replacement and there hasn’t been a re-release of the original mono tracks since the 1998 DVD releases.

Doesn’t look perfect, probably a little too close to the DVD, but it looks vastly superior to the blu-ray color timing, especially the skies since they don’t look green anymore

ChainsawAsh said:

1.85:1 isn’t OAR…? What would OAR be for a US film from the 80’s that isn’t anamorphic? 1.66:1 was European standard, so I assume it would have been matted differently there, but surely it would have been composed for 1.85:1, right?

1.85:1 IS the OAR from theaters (including Europe) but it was shot in 1.66:1 and that’s how the Criterion releases are

Imo it works best in 1.85:1

made a comparison with Halloween
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezHCtx6pbfc

boy is this 5.1 remix awful lol

kchrules said:

Ronster said:

over saturated, get the saturation right first before re-grading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqF0EED6AA

These films never looked good so colorful why make them over saturated now?

shift cyan towards blue more Highlights are blown on the source.

Oh yeah, I still have it way too saturated. And that Youtube video is darker than the DVD I’m using (at least it looks like it), I have several DVDs/VHS/Laserdiscs of the movie. I think the full screen DVD from 1998 has that darker saturation/color grading as well, so I might use that. I’m getting the original JP laserdisc of DH soon, which might be the same transfer as the old rental tape (which was taken directly from a print), so that might be a useful reference as well.

From what it seemed in your uploads that 1979 VHS tape was too yellow looking

Blu-ray looks boosted too

How do you even regrain a picture?

this is really good, keep up the good work

Hey include the original mono mix too

the 4K version of Blade Runner significantly dials back the teal tint of the 2007 blu

ScottZill said:

Are the cuts on this release different than the ones on the Shout Collector’s Edition?

no they aren’t, they’re both the same, only difference is that the quality on Shout’s release is much better

and the 103 minute version is actually the VHS cut, the actual theatrical version ran 110 minutes and has never seen a home video release

the 117 minute cut was basically the cut that was at the premiere before being re-edited to 110 minutes

My second Dirty Harry audio comparison is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0HKFjHeRc

I also decided to compare the audio mixes for Magnum Force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7ESA4f0TE

NeonBible said:

SpacemanDoug said:

(everyone sounds like they’re underwater)

😄

Sorry couldn’t help but laugh at that!

yea I’ll admit I did kinda make a joke about it, but really everyone does sound muffled in the remix

I can now add Das Boot onto here

The 5.1 remix created for the director’s cut is vastly inferior to the original stereo mix. The original mix (thankfully included on the blu ray for the theatrical version) was knock your socks off loud and impactful. The 5.1 remix has muted explosions and bad dialogue mixing (everyone sounds like they’re underwater)

restorations of Junkman and Deadline just got shared to MySpleen

does anyone know if the original US DVD releases are edited and if they are how badly they’re edited?

I know that the very first DVD set of The Young Ones had edited episodes, but the 2007 re-release was uncut

I think the first release was called the “every stoopid episode” set and the re-release was “extra stoopid edition”

Though the unique thing is sometimes the first DVD release had extra bits not seen in the TV versions of the episodes, but sadly they were omitted on the re-release due to them wanting to reflect the original BBC broadcast versions

my Terminator comparison is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_T3atwffA

looks like this won’t need to be done because the Arrow blu-ray is including a 2.0, 4.0, and the 5.1 track

Comparison of the Blues Brothers audio mixes is done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-KinxZSOHY

I hate how Universal tried to integrate the 5.1 remix into the theatrical version, a lot of bits are thrown off as a result

This one may come as a surprise to some of y’all but the home video versions of Vacation actually have an alteration from the original theatrical version. The movie had three scenes with the Ferrari girl driving in her car on the road, with the first and the third of those scenes playing “I’m so Excited” by the Pointer Sisters and the second one playing “Little Boy Sweet” by Jude Pointer. Unfortunately all US home video versions of the movie omit the two instances of I’m so Excited and exchange them for Little Boy Sweet, so as a result it plays in all three scenes. But for TV versions I’m so Excited played where it was supposed to, and that’s how it is on the foreign dubs as well. (before you say it, no the blu-ray does not restore the song in the English track) But I wanna preserve the original English language version of the movie with the soundtrack fully intact, so if anyone can provide me with a version with the song intact and in English please let me know.

Charles Threepio said:

Open All Hours Series 2 is one. Most DVD prints remove a scene from one episode where Granville parodies Singin’ in the Rain. I happen to have an early R2 DVD release which retains the scene, and my PBS station’s print also retains it.

do you happen to know if the R1 DVD releases remove it?