captainsolo

Ah.

I wish I lived in Canada.

WILL USA STOP SHOWING KINGDOM OF THE FLAMING CARP REPEATEDLY?!?!

I can't take it!

Yeah, I meant to say three novel sequels. Haven't read those in ages. They do get a little out there but there is a SW reference! (in 2061 I think..) 3001 was a bit much though.

LMS: Ady's ESB reconstruction on a projector and sound system. Brilliant. Can never go back the GOUT again.  (save for d-j.)

Yay, Swedish Puggo for New Years!

Bump. Gonk's cousin. Bump.

2010 is much better than one would expect. So are the three novels.

Touch of Evil. The restored cut-Still mind blowing and a definite influence on Psycho. We are mere mortals. Only Orson could make Charlton Heston convincing as a Mexican.

"He was some kind of a man...What does it matter what you say about people?"

ChainsawAsh said:

I guess we'll always have to live with the jump cut at the end of From Russia with Love...

What cut?

Thanks for posting this.

Baronlando said:

Huh. In the Raiders HD version shown tonight on USA, it's back to the original shot.

That's odd. Hopefully it won't be added for the blu-ray release. Why did they redo this shot in the first place?

If only I could afford it...it looked pretty good. Reminds me of a 16mm of FRWL that popped up earlier this year. That went for over $800 :(

This will usually will happen in historic and art house theaters when showing original prints and the like. You always have to make do with some slight cropping in some instances depending on the projector, screen, distance, or projectionist. The better the theater, the better the image. This kinda recalls the reasons why the THX certification was first introduced.

Last year I saw an original print of Get Carter that actually had image on the curtains like Zombie describes above.

The Blus will probably look slightly different to these caps, but we now have a good idea of what we're looking at. (thanks for caps ady!)

No surprises. I'll bet the audio will be horrendous.

That does it. Who's ready to break into the Lucasfilm vault to steal prints?

I sure as hell am.

Personal favorites:

SW: Puggo's 16mm and Dark_Jedi's GOUT

ESB: Ady's 1980 reconstruction

ROTJ: Dark_Jedi's GOUT

TV's Frink said:

Classic Game time:

Zork

I loved the Infocom text games.

OMG Zork! My old math teacher introduced me to this years ago.

Now I'll have to go and play it again.

God, that was too long ago...No. 4 is 11 years old!

Down-STP.

It Happened One Night and The Mouse That Roared.

The Chauffeur-Duran Duran.

Wow, the color looks much improved. And it isn't purplish!

James Bond-I've watched Dr. No through LTK so many times that I've lost count. The Brosnan films slightly less.

If I counted the number of times it would be Live and Let Die.

No prob.

Some isolated scores but I think that's it.

I don't know about the Japanese LD, but that special is on one of the UEs.

1989's look like this:

It is reputed that GE and TND have their original mixes on LD. I don't know this for sure. The mix on the UE of GE has been changed. (different LFE levels etc.)

This is what I have gathered in Bond LD knowledge over the past couple of months:

The general consensus on this thread is that the Connery films are best in the Connery Collection volumes (I and II) because they were pressed a few years after the 1989 series. These can be had for around $10 each on ebay (I just received Vol. I for around $7) The first three were initially available on Criterion but despite originally having banned commentaries the transfers have paled in comparison to others.

For OHMSS through Licence to Kill your only option is pretty much the 89 series with a couple exceptions.These can be had for around $5-10 each. Also, make sure that it says Deluxe letter-box edition on the top because an earlier run of fullscreen transfers uses the exact same artwork.

Goldfinger and Thunderball had deluxe box set releases in the mid 90's and those are tough to beat. They edge out the Connery Collection transfers. (they do cost more than the others-I'd check the others first.)

Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker all had THX certified releases in 1998. These are the last Bond catalog title releases on LD in the US and are extremely rare. They all resemble their initial THX DVD and Special Edition DVD counterparts.

Licence to Kill was initially released on Fox LD as a 2disc Letterbox LD. I have this and it isn't bad, but it is prone to rot and is not the uncut version. It was later repressed as part of the MGM series and this one does not rot like the Fox. For an uncut LD I think you have to find a particular German or Japanese one.

Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies were released on seperate Dolby Digital and DTS versions. The only difference between the two is that the Dolby LD has 5.1 @384kbp/s and the DTS has the full 1565kbp/s DTS 5.1. If you have a DTS capable setup then that one is the way to go definitely. the dolbys go for around $5 and the DTS go for around $30-50. Both feature the original theatrical soundmixes and not the remixed ones found on the UEs.

Finally, The World is Not Enough was released on LD in Japan. It has a Dolby EX 5.1 track.

Whew!

So in short I'd guess I would recommend going for the title you are most interested in first as a test. The best place to start otherwise is one of the Connery collections and a few of the 89 series. This won't set you back too much and they pop up on ebay very often.

Too bad that this happened during the 30th Anniv.

R.I.P. Kersh.

The UEs give the correct ratios (Except that Goldeneye is cropped and so is the opening teaser of AVTAK) like the majority of the LDs. They pale in the sound category. Detail is exceptional on the UEs. Sometimes I feel like things are too cleaned up. (especially on original effects shots). The colors on the UEs ranged from okay to great to what the heck to desaturated (YOLT!). I've gotten two from the 89 LD series and the colors are spot on like I remember from childhood. (And YOLT has the rich saturation back!)

The HD to SD thing was just a theory I came up with. I don't think the studio would have tampered with these color wise.

Yay! Someone else who actually listens to Around the Sun!

Duran Duran-New Moon on Monday