Oh the guy's a panic! All the great comics have timing and he's got it. I wonder how it would go with some "Yakety Sax" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpc5_3B5xdk

Well, sorta... he invented "Fantozzi", a character who entered in the Italian culture - check it out, can't say if the movies would retain the same bittersweet irony in another language, but you should give it a go!

Paolo Villaggio -- "Widely popular in Italy, Villaggio expressed his comic qualities through slapstick, satire and irony." Sounds like an Italian Benny Hill ... without the babes?

Mine is not that new and the colour timing was changed I thought but have not checked

nope, you can tell it's the same master, same soft video. The biggest tell is the shot when Arnie climbs the swiss embassy at the beginning. Look at the sides, slim black lines, like it's pillarboxed. They appear in the DVHS, the HDTV and this new webrip.

R.I.P. Paolo Villaggio...

I thought the open matte lies in had was the newer master

It's quite shocking to pay for a web-dl and get logos...what's next, adverts?

...another reason to not get web-dl...

Yes, in a web dl. Starz web dl's always have a logo bobbing in and out during the programme.

nir, "a logo sometimes"? in a web-dl or HDTV? when/where it could be found?

Hmm. I shall persevere with my HDTV cap. Thanks for checking it out nirbateman

The True Lies web dl is open matte, but from the same master as the HDTV. It has a logo sometimes, and while it has a healthy bitrate, it is from the same 2003 master, so it doesn't look much better.

^^ it looks like True Lies and The Abyss are available as web-dl from amazon via starz. It'll be interesting to see if the compression is better

Anyone in New York for next friday? Robocop and Class of 1999 projected on 35mm http://prod3.agileticketing.net/WebSales...d0073268f4&

dont know if any of you already know, but seems like a web-dl of the theatrical cut of The Abyss appeared today. I know the bd is scheduled for release, but I have never seen that AMZN release before

Alien Covenant Korean HD rip is out on trackers, presented in open matte (16:9) instaed of cinematic 2.35:1

Congratulations Colek! You must be chuffed to bits

Well done, glad the procrastination paid off in the end!

Gratulacie Colek!

Sweet!

Algorithms exam passed, aww yeah

And Lucas isn't Lucas anyway he is much better than those two

Those guys went Lucas in 2003 when they made the crap sequel and retimed the original to look like the crap sequel. They made only one good movie (Bound is crap too), forget about them they are f'd up crazied drug addicts

Knowing WB they'll probably just upscale the 2K master

The Wachowskis don't own the copyright anyway...

They just changed sex... They didn't mutate into George Lucas... So maybe they even would do a Matrix original memory revisit...

Was just kidding you guys ehehe. But the old 2004 remaster is the way the sisters want their film to look like. They have changed sex, to ask them to remaster the Matrix as it was originaly would be like asking them to be men again.

Oh yeah I definitely agree. I was talking about a new 6K scan of the negative or maybe of the interpositive for more truthful colors.

Tbh I wouldn't trust them with The Matrix at all. New master would be cool, but only done by a proper external studio, one that actually respects source material

Also, we talk about a new master... Not a George Lucas revision... A master may even be done by someone else, if he get in hold of the correct needed legal rights...

it is just basic culpubality, ownership of action, for better or worse

if you werent, person x could kill someone have a name/sex change and not be prosecutable, kill was the most extreme example, but it applies to everything else

umm, honestly, I dont think there would be a single legal argument Hollywood could use that would win that case against them, you can have your name changed officially, new passport the works, you are still the same person in the eyes of the law though, that's why it has to be done officially

Stamper, that sounds utterly insane. It wouldn't set a "precedent" for family members altering someone else's work either. That's a slippery slope fallacy.

Only the author can retouch his work, and the authors of this film are gone. Their sisters aren't allowed, it would establish a precedent where family can retouch an authors work!

Pull the other one.

Maybe some legal issue regarding copyrights and names, and such things?

?!?!? Stamper, now I have to hear this!

????

There will never be a remaster of the Matrix, the director's have changed sex so they can't go back and fix their previous film it's illegal

@TAF, PM sent on ot.com. :-)

Yeah at the Prince Charles cinema. Maybe someone here went to that screening.

There was a 35mm screening of The Matrix in London recently, I would have loved to have gone but couldn't

They need to remaster The Matrix as well. I was at a screening last Sunday and it was the same old 2K master...

It'll get a new timing pass for UHD

Yep it's the Final cut http://www.thehdroom.com/bluray/blade-ru...er-109666/

I assume just the final cut?

I'll be interested in seeing how they handle Blade Runner on UHD. I hope they don't muck it up.

Blade Runner UHD Blu Ray coming this september

Don't worry, vbangle. I replied to your PM. It's all good. :-)

If chewtobacca reads this, my apologies for PMing you for links...didn't read the rules until now...sorry man.

Also.. a PM is like.. well.. how saying it best.. uhm.. if he is offline, while you send a PM.. he may read it, when he comes online.. the PM doesn't just.. get lost on waiting...

So, send him a pm, lol.

he was online 4 hours ago...

I was hoping to send him a PM.

Oh, where's Stamper these days?

Clearly we could have guessed that from your username

The sun reflecting on me was blinding the other people...

Last year I was called "the whitest thing around the pool area"... Even the Plastik Chairs were not as white as I...

Yeah us brit can't handle weather like you chaps lol. being in the Health and Safety profession as well makes it more intresting! i've just had to iossue a memo to tell workers to check their pee!

^You should see what happens when it snows here

The UK calls 30 degree temps a "heatwave"!! LOL

If they work from negatives it must mean that they are going to re-do the title cards, right? I hope they pick the exact same font

This is a big release for Arrow. They're going to do a great job

Wasn't the 35th anniversary edition of Halloween the same as the old Criterion LD though and more closer to it's original cinema presentation? the 1999 THX DVD was a Cundy apporved 'revision' saying it was closer to what they were trying to acheive back in 1978? Correct me if i'm wrong though?

Wasn't the Scream Factory release from last year also supervised by Cundey?

None of those guys knows how their films look like. It's too long ago and they did too many films in between.

So we can be sure it will look bland with zero color correction like Halloween does I guess

This new 4K restorayion from the original negative is being supervised by both Dean Cundy and John Carpenter and thats direct from Stuart Cohen (Producer)

I'm ready to regrade it as well!

Yeah Arrow announced it earlier this year, it will be interesting to see how it differs from the Shout release

Looks like Arrow is preparing a restoration of The Thing in 4k https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/stat...5211807744

So when do we get 3D trailers?

re: BLADE RUNNER 2049 Making-Of Featurette -- my favorite part is ... "See it REAL 3D" :-O

And that is why we can't have nice things...

Invites on CG have been disabled for a while, since some vindictive ex-member tried to bring the site down.

@althor ... CG = CinemaGeddon

Hell, I still can't get an invite for there, lol. I had one guy on myspleen tell me he'd hook me up when they got things sorted and that's the last I heard of it.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Making-Of Featurette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BUozYf9w0Y

What is CG?

I'm having trouble DLing new files from CG. Everything I've already DL'd seeds just fine, but anything new I pull down never connects. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Let me know if you need any help with Data Structures and Algorithms, Colek. My degree is in CS.

Today's Data Structure and Algorithms, tomorrow Physics.

@Colek wow, what's the exam on?

^ ^ Because they're "getting into the flow" today? "Stealing Fire" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6q2h1QScg

I am procrastinating, so I visit it every few minutes rather than learn for today's exam.

Busy day. This is most people I've seen on the site at one time

Star Wars reality-check by Glenn and crew ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MvMWyIpOs&t=60m40s

That's pretty cool indeed and good to know. It's also weird since we usually keep the credits very close to the originals but oh well.

Basically, the English credits use the standard fades, while the French credits have everything wiping in from left to right, which looks rather cool IMO.

Just found that French Die Hard trailer which is very interesting color wise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDg9AkYRWCc

I didn't even know the English credits were different

Those closing credits for Die Hard 2 in French look better than the English credits, that's for sure! I just wish there was a way to make a clean version of the final shot so I could recreate those French credits in HD...

Yes, including a downmix is never a bad idea. The problem is that it makes it difficult to work out whether the original audio is present or not. If you run the decoded streams through Spek, you should be able to see whether or not you have two different mixes.

@Bigrob in the case of Escape from New York, Scream Factory also included a 2.0 mix which was a downmix from 5.1. I don't know how common downmixing is for them but I have to guess that any film containing both 5.1 and 2.0 tracks is potentially a 2.0 downmix. They say it's for maximum compatibility with all audio systems.

Just came back from a 35mm screening of Silence of the Lambs, and boy, that DS mix is a beast! The low ends rumble very loudly in the asylum, gunshots are very loud and present, and it takes the 5.1 mix by a mile. The image is very similar to the BD in color, but in 2 scenes, the contrast was noticeably different, and effectively so (Avoiding spoilers here, for those who haven't had the pleasure).

You'd probably have to check them on a case-by-case basis.

Scream Factory Blu-Ray's. Are the 2.0 tracks the original audio mix or are they the 5.1 mixes down mixed?

I was going to wait until the back-to-school sale period, one of three in the year when computers go on sale, but the constant failures my Dell laptop's enduring, and the time wasted from those failures alone, have forced my hand.