SpacemanDoug

I know that not too long ago reel 1 was finished

Back to the Future should be added
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFo1vaDk-SA

just thought I’d correct a small mistake here

the CCE master wasn’t just on the Criterion LD, it was also on the very FIRST New Line DVD (the flipper DVD), I have a rip of it and it does look identical to the LD

I know Grease has been added already, but there is more to it. The 20th anniversary 1998 5.1 remix of Grease had all of the songs remixed (like adding reverb and background vocals to a couple of the songs) and added a bunch of foley sound effects. This was the only mix available for 20 years. The 40th anniversary 5.1 remix restores the original sound mix and sounds far better than the previous 5.1 mix.

crissrudd4554 said:

Think I’ve shared this before. Not a comparison of a surround mix to mono but IMO the mono track on the BD of Frankenstein is very flat.

https://vimeo.com/295910511

Ah yes I’m quite familiar with this one, I own the 1999 DVD myself and despite being mastered too quiet it sounds far better and more lifelike than the blu-ray

Well at least the Disney+ versions restore the Fox logos despite since 1997 the original trilogy has had them plastered, along with removing references to News Corporation

digitalfreaknyc said:

It’s missing from the Blu-ray as well??

Yep

Any takers?

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)