crissrudd4554

Was there a Full Frame LD release for RoboCop???

skoal said:

Thank you very much for the replies.

Which T2 releases have the best audio? Thanks!

This is what I’d like to have:
The Terminator Remastered BD and mono audio from the Special Edition DVD
T2 Special Edition: Open-matte LD and ???

If it means anything, theres a copy of the remastered BD with the synced mono track from the LD on MySpleen. The LD mono track is MILES better than the flat sounding mono track MGM included on the Special Edition DVD. Hope this helps.

No updates just yet. In the meantime, I did have a related project idea which I pitched to FanRes. Figured I’d pitch it here but since the purpose is somewhat small rather than start a new thread I figured I’d pitch it here. Anyways back in 2012 when Universal released its first batch of Universal Monsters on BD, two sequences, one from Frankenstein and the other from Bride of Frankenstein, were tweaked. The issue with Bride has been discussed sporadically among some fans since the BD’s release (http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku…_MSfSMrKCQ). I only a few months ago discovered something with the first Frankenstein.

First with the latter. The sequence of Henry and Fritz wheeling the slab with the corpse up the hill toward the gallows early in the film has been tweaked. Originally about midway through the sequence, just as they pass under a pointed rock formation in the foreground, it cut to them closer to the gallows. Either something was cut or missing here. For the BD the sequence has been repositioned so the scenery passes by seamlessly however the two men and the slab jumping forward is all more noticeable than it had been previously. Here’s two GIFs to demonstrate what I mean (syncing’s not perfect).

First shows the original edit.

Second the BD edit.

Next Bride. This IMO is a bit more distracting then the edit to Frankenstein. It’s the shot of the Monster approaching the hermit’s cabin. It previously consisted of two shots, the first being farther away than the second. For the BD the first part of the sequence has been blown up to match the second part so the sequence looks more complete. However the editing is a bit jarring and a tree branch that was missing in the second half now magically ‘disappears’. Below are GIFs to detail this change as well (syncing’s not perfect).

Original

BD (recreation)

Why these changes were made who knows?? Are they bad?? Not necessarily but it would be nice if they had been left alone. Perhaps this is a nitpicky topic but hey we need those from time to time right?? Anyways would anyone by any chance be interested in attempting to restore the original edits to the BD versions?? I’m no master of upscaling and such so I won’t be much help. The availability of the original edits isn’t much a challenge. Any pre-2012 DVD release will have them. It’s possible maybe the iTunes versions may have them since I remember renting an HD version of Frankenstein off iTunes a year or two before the BDs had been released that wasn’t the BD print (obviously). Also there’s an HD version of Frankenstein for free on OnDemand in the TCM section until tomorrow which has the original edit of the hill sequence if anyone would like to capture it. My capture device cannot record HD or I would do it myself. They also have an HD Bride of Frankenstein but its the BD print. Anyways let me know what you guys think.

slumberdore said:

Fang Zei said:

There was another amusing video I remember from back then. I wouldn’t know how to track it down now a decade later, but it was some dude in his room with the GOUT discs and he mentioned the non-anamorphic transfers and then proceeded to show the dvd cases of movies from his collection that actually were anamorphic. As I remember it, these titles included Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (“with Robert Picardo the doctor from Voyager” as the dude added).

This video also ended with a breaking of the GOUT discs.

Could it possibly be this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZVxC1hNDY

Yep that’s it.

Fang Zei said:

There was another amusing video I remember from back then. I wouldn’t know how to track it down now a decade later, but it was some dude in his room with the GOUT discs and he mentioned the non-anamorphic transfers and then proceeded to show the dvd cases of movies from his collection that actually were anamorphic. As I remember it, these titles included Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (“with Robert Picardo the doctor from Voyager” as the dude added).

This video also ended with a breaking of the GOUT discs.

Come to think of it I remember that video too. I didnt really know what Anamorphic Widescreen was until the 2006 SW DVDs came about. I knew ‘of’ it but not exactly what it meant and that video pretty much spelled it out. Keep in mind I didnt get my first Widescreen TV 'til 2008.

Haarspalter said:

Here’s an awkward video from the GOUT release day 10 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBDcH7ZSbYA

OMG I remember that video. Anyways I remember Suncoast carrying the GOUT. There used to be a video rental place near me called Movie City that I remember having a GOUT poster for a little bit. Can’t remember who carried it but the GOUT set I got came in a tin case.

Apparently changes were made to Magnum Force

http://youtu.be/DupGOpLmOnM

Kinda glad I found this thread since I didn’t know if the DVD cover section of this site was for Star Wars only. Anyways I’ve made a bunch of VHS styled DVD covers based off of the Universal Monsters video collection from the early '90’s. Below are a select few then I have a question.

I have more but just wanted to share a few to get my point across. Anyways I have a question. Most of the textless artworks I used for the front covers I found on customaniacs but there’s still a number of artworks I’m still looking for. Does anyone have or can assist in locating the textless prints of the front artworks for any of the following films??

Dracula
Dracula (Spanish Version)
Frankenstein
The Mummy
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Bride of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein (with the reflection of Boris Karloff as the Monster)
Tower of London
The Mummy’s Hand
The Monster and the Girl
Man Made Monster
The Wolf Man
Captive Wild Woman
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Mad Ghoul
House of Horrors
Creature from the Black Lagoon

Just to reiterate what exactly Im looking for heres the artworks I used for the front covers of the covers I posted above.

Basically Im looking for the artworks to the movies I listed but textless like those.

There was definitely some evidence of dirt in the '97 SE’s. The lightsaber duel on Dagobah is a good example. One thing I also noticed was a big speck of dirt at the beginning of the shot of Luke igniting his lightsaber at the star of the carbon freezing chamber duel that was present on the pre-1995 VHS releases had returned in the SE.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Does anyone have any hi-res textless versions of the front of the 2006 DVD’s?

Check customaniacs or movieposterdb

Greedo shooting first too

Jerryshadoe over at FanRes says he should have updates soon so keep checking back. For those who don’t know, Universal is releasing Blu-ray sets for the Frankenstein and Wolf Man sets next month. Perhaps an effort was finally made to cleanup the audio mix for the original Frankenstein. However considering the same mix has been in use since 2004 I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Just to get this out of the way. I prefer the original Emperor because of nostalgia AND pacing. In the new Emperor scene Ian McDiarmid just sorta drags his dialogue and its just not one of his better performances. He speaks like he’s literally reading it straight off cue cards. Density mentions the old emperor sticks out like a sore thumb. Sorry I’m gonna have to say that about the new Emperor. The scene just drags now with the extended dialogue and McDiarmid’s rather overly monotone performance. It just looks like something that was shot in two or three takes with little to no motivation or rehearsal. Had they used the same dialogue as the original and McDiarmid perhaps reviewed the original and rehearsed it to get a better feel of the Emperor in that moment it may have been better. Granted the original is not much better either but due to nostalgia and pacing I choose it over the new one. I can’t fully blame McDiarmid since the extra dialogue was obviously not his choice but it hurts the scene. As far as how the Emperor looks, the new one was shot over 20 years later so obviously you can’t fully replicate the Emperor’s original look and for that reason I’m willing to accept it.

Also on the '95 VHS of ROTJ George even spoke briefly about the Prequels during his Leonard Maltin interview and mentioned the first film would likely be out in '98 if not '99. So the cat was already out of the bag even before the SE’s.

I could have meant that had I initially known what he was referring to.

Vegas for a comedy act. ; )

My apologies. I know you to be critical of the prequels so I thought you were being smarty at me. I guess the roles reversed here. Sorry.

TV’s Frink said:

I can think of several interpretations of that but why don’t you just tell me the right one.

Why bother?? To you it’ll be the wrong one.

TV’s Frink said:

crissrudd4554 said:

I saw TPM…I was 6

Sometimes I hate this place.

Don’t let us keep you then. Im sure Vegas is waiting for you.

I saw TPM 3 times when it first came out, and although I was 6 I still remember Maul splitting in two.

While the OUT will always be the SW I know and love, Id pick '97 SE out of the updated versions. Vaders ‘Nooo’ is still missing, Sebastian Shaw’s ghost is intact, Vader’s saber in Empire is still red, CGI Jabba is horrible regardless of which version I watch, and when compared to the '04 and '11 versions, the coloring of the '97 SE is closer to the originals. Although I was as I am now more accustomed to the OUT growing up, the SE’s were still part of my childhood. I was only like 4 when they came out and I did eventually have my dad get me the SE’s on VHS. So in a way I have a special place for those cuts as well so yes in answer to the topic '97 SE all the way!

I did not have the FS edition of the 25th Anniversary DVD but the disc I had I definitely recall having the montage.

Slavicuss said:

crissrudd4554 said:

Slavicuss said:

crissrudd4554 said:

I do have an AMC airing of Jaws from 2003, no commercials but VHS sourced if anyone is interested in me sharing that. I’m also interested if anyone has considered doing a complete edit of the 1995 doc combining parts from all edits including the 2 hour cut on the LD/'05 DVD/BD, 10 minute cut from '95 VHS, and 1 hour cut from '00 DVD. All have certain parts not in the other. It’d be nice to cut it in a similar fashion as the one hour cut with music and photographs since the 2 hour version is cut together rather boringly.

I only noticed that the shortened version of the documentary included a never-before-seen raw outtake of the 4th of July beach panic scene.What other differences are there besides the use of production stills?I heard that there was an extended version of JAWS screened in 2000 to celebrate the 25th anniversary,it included deleted scenes but not as many as the old ABC TV edit from the late 70’s/early 80’s,is this true?

The documentary first. I have to watch the one hour version again but off hand I remember a bit where Richard Zanuck was speaking of the casting process. He said something like ‘Our philosophy was the star was the shark. We have our star so we don’t need big names. Just get good actors’. This isn’t in the two hour cut. Also the 10 minute cut is the only cut with Spielberg’s full closing line ‘Jaws was a fun movie to watch but not a fun movie to make. It was an amazing experience for me under the worst conditions, and sometimes very sweet conditions, but most of the time under the worst conditions’.

I’m not sure about the ABC edit but from what you mentioned it sounds similar to the AMC version I taped. It has a few deleted scenes but lacks a few that are in the old ABC edit notably the extended scene in the Brody kitchen and Hooper and Brody talking under the jetty before cutting open the Tiger shark. And yes it does have the horrible sound EX from the surround mix, not the original mono.

Thanks! I remember my old Australian VHS 25th anniversary fullscreen copy of JAWS from 2000,also had a cut-down version of the 1995 laserdisc documentary-now at 60 minutes.At the start it featured a rather well edited montage from the film which ended on a close-up of Quint’s face screaming as the shark bites down on his legs.This new opening for the doc was more dynamic than the original flat presentation on laserdisc.I forgot to transfer this 60 minute version to DVD-R before binning the tape.The version on the 25th anniversary R4 DVD was shortened by a further 10 minutes-and didn’t include the montage.
If you put together an extended version of the 1995 doc are you going to use the original laserdisc title cards for each chapter-which were later removed for the DVD and Blu-Ray ‘full-length versions’?

I dont actually have the LD so the best I could do is the DVD version. Odd that your 25th Anniversary DVD features a cut version of the one hour cut. The doc on the US 25th Anniversary DVD was identical to the cut on the US 25th Anniversary VHS and had the montage. However the 2012 US DVD did feature a slightly edited version of the one hour doc which lacked the montage.

Slavicuss said:

crissrudd4554 said:

I do have an AMC airing of Jaws from 2003, no commercials but VHS sourced if anyone is interested in me sharing that. I’m also interested if anyone has considered doing a complete edit of the 1995 doc combining parts from all edits including the 2 hour cut on the LD/'05 DVD/BD, 10 minute cut from '95 VHS, and 1 hour cut from '00 DVD. All have certain parts not in the other. It’d be nice to cut it in a similar fashion as the one hour cut with music and photographs since the 2 hour version is cut together rather boringly.

I only noticed that the shortened version of the documentary included a never-before-seen raw outtake of the 4th of July beach panic scene.What other differences are there besides the use of production stills?I heard that there was an extended version of JAWS screened in 2000 to celebrate the 25th anniversary,it included deleted scenes but not as many as the old ABC TV edit from the late 70’s/early 80’s,is this true?

The documentary first. I have to watch the one hour version again but off hand I remember a bit where Richard Zanuck was speaking of the casting process. He said something like ‘Our philosophy was the star was the shark. We have our star so we don’t need big names. Just get good actors’. This isn’t in the two hour cut. Also the 10 minute cut is the only cut with Spielberg’s full closing line ‘Jaws was a fun movie to watch but not a fun movie to make. It was an amazing experience for me under the worst conditions, and sometimes very sweet conditions, but most of the time under the worst conditions’.

I’m not sure about the ABC edit but from what you mentioned it sounds similar to the AMC version I taped. It has a few deleted scenes but lacks a few that are in the old ABC edit notably the extended scene in the Brody kitchen and Hooper and Brody talking under the jetty before cutting open the Tiger shark. And yes it does have the horrible sound EX from the surround mix, not the original mono.

I do have an AMC airing of Jaws from 2003, no commercials but VHS sourced if anyone is interested in me sharing that. I’m also interested if anyone has considered doing a complete edit of the 1995 doc combining parts from all edits including the 2 hour cut on the LD/'05 DVD/BD, 10 minute cut from '95 VHS, and 1 hour cut from '00 DVD. All have certain parts not in the other. It’d be nice to cut it in a similar fashion as the one hour cut with music and photographs since the 2 hour version is cut together rather boringly.