SilverWook said:
Recent photo of a corridor at LAX. I'm fairly certain the row of Unichapel phone booths were shot here, as was one shot of the monks. The wall mural can clearly be seen in the film. It's been in many other films since then as well.
Bonus points if you know what 1980 movie also shot here. ;)
Airplane! ?
We will like it, we will like it. Keep up the good work.
I don't know if you ever passed me that file. If it was via email I should have it. I'll check and let you know.
back on thx 1138 now!
for 1997 I mean the special edition, obviously
LOL I have the 1997 version. I don't know if it's the same as the thx release.
THX release, uh? That's the one you adore Leo, isn't it?
First time I hear about this! I'm curious too
It will be for laserdisc nostalgia.
Make a thread for blade runner project right now!!! Lol
Yet another necessary purchase then LOL!
Yet another Blade Runner version that I now want :/
hairy_hen said:
Some official releases of Alien do have music-only tracks, but the editing isn't always right and the sound quality is not as good as the Intrada CD version, which came from the master tapes and not from higher generation duplicates.
1999 DVD had the music-only option. I'm curious about your high quality source though!
I hinted at the laserdisc in the name because obviously there is no real "theatrical" reference. It's a not bad name.
Is this going to be call Alien Laserdisc HD edition?
I had to turn the pc on to answer a bit more extensively.
Considering that films always get a color timing "treatment", obviously what we find on the film print won't necessarily (probably never) match real life colours.
Also, you can't certainly judge from shots of models because those are the most heavily alterated in terms of colours, the interior stuff not as much.
Even with all the important limitations of such analysis in mind, I can still say that:
yes, the colour of those rare RAF jackets could be elusive for who hasn't owned one (like most of the people on the RPF who were judging on any picture from any source they found). Having had one I can still see what is reasonably correct or not. My observation is also based on other details such as the golden wing patch (which is an unlikely yellow in the LD as opposed to the real gold it's supposed to be and this is better represented in DVD and BD), the shoulder patch and the buttons (which are black in the original jacket, not exactly the colour shown in the LD).
The LD version, from a good few details I can spot, is the least faithful to "real life" look. I still think BD is too "bright" looking and it's not "right", probably they killed some colours in the making... but I would still say that between the DVD and the BD there is some better representation of what "could have been" to begin with. The '99 DVD in particular seems to be the most spot on, take it for what is worth.
Again, that's just an extra consideration for this thread. Obviously whatever you find in the film stock is LAW, but then again, also those have black fading out in time. I've seen an original copy of Empire Strikes back with all the black that had turned into brown (the film itself was crisp clear)
Mine wasn't a quote, it's the stupid forum on mobile that doesn't work well on my iphone.
I know that color timing and real life colors are two different things but judging from the first screen grabs where we see Dallas around the table wearing the jacket and since I owned that RAF jacket I can tell you that the colors on bluray are the most faithful to real life (perhaps just a tad brighter), DVD close enough, laserdisc colors are completely off. Just a curiosity for you guys. Great job here. I didn't know there were so many different "color versions" of the same frigging movie!
If I find the courage and I finish working on the Italian subtitles (I'm almost at the end) will you mind adding them to the project? As you said, it's low priority but it would be nice to have multilanguage subs.
Can anyone update me on the current THX project... how it evolved and where we are at now? I got confused many pages and many years ago. Thank you
SilverWook said:
thxita said:
SilverWook said:
I didn't remember THX pinching LUH's cheek before the sex scene.
If there's yet another version of the movie, I'm going back on sedation! ;)
No, LOL! It's cool! I checked, it was always there.
SilverWook said:
I didn't remember THX pinching LUH's cheek before the sex scene.
Spaced Ranger said:
Thanks for that clarification, thxita. I thought I remembered reading here (years ago - LOL) someone buying a videotape for the Italian preservation. I only found the O.P. description "Source: Italian TV - broadcast". So it was a legal, WB commercial tape and not a bootleg / blackmarket one from the broadcast?
Msycamore bought the Italian tape, I can't remember if he managed to ever watch it. You are indeed referring to years old "moments" lol.
We started with me providing the recording from the Italian Tv broadcast. Months later we figured it out that the same version was also on the (now relatively rare) WB official VHS, the only version of the film ever released in Italy before the DVD.
this is more or less the recap of our spaghetti adventures with this film. A higher quality preservation of the Italian edition taken from the VHS tape would be great but I think Msycamore has had enough alright LOL, plus the tape won't be really much better than what we have already.
on the other hand I really wish the original version could be completed so that my fellow Italians could see the film as it was released in the US, subtitled.
The Italian broadcast was the same as we have on Italian VHS, not a different version.
PDB said:
Jetrell Fo said:
Jonno said:
Yes, though it now occurs to me that the earlier 2003 scan (used for the director's cut and quadrilogy DVDs) may have had a life in HDTV too.
In either case, the colour adjustments done for the DC largely remain in the theatrical cut (something that will hopefully be addressed in a spoRv - or similar - project at some point).
There is already a DC project that has the original color timing preserved. Creating menu's is not my strength and I have not been able to find anyone willing to help out so it sits as an "as is" release.
Sorry to interject this here. It should have it's own thread.
A good, quick way to tell which master/color timing was used is the exterior shots of the Nostromo. The Collector's Edition LD, the AC3/70mm LD, the '99 DVD and the early Japanese HDTV copy all have the Nostromo model as being gray. That's the way it is in the original 35mm (I've seen a print) and the way the model looks in real life.
When the film was re-release in '03 the Nostromo and much of the film was re-timed to have a blue tint. It looks this way in the DC's 35mm print (the most beautiful 35mm print I have ever seen) and Dtheater DVHS. I don't think there is another HDTV copy of this color timing outside the DVHS.
When the film was prep'd for the BD there was a green tint added to the blue tint. This is what it looks like on the BD, all current HDTV masters, Itunes (USA) and I believe Vudu (USA).
Those pics have a blue-ish Nostromo so it is the same master as the BD
I'll check it out!
Is the 2010 master the one used in the bluray?
I meant... Is there any way to distinguish the bluray theatrical edition from previous theatrical editions (namely the 1999 DVD)?
