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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
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).
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.
Angry Birds Star Wars cantina scene (very funny!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lYFO_tKlE
"poita - Damn you Britain and USA trying to steal Australia's rightful place as the land of political turmoil." USA just won the crown: yesterday's Virgina GOP senators baseball practice s̶h̶o̶o̶t̶i̶n̶g̶. mass political assination attempt. And the U.S. "fake news" media is still calling it a "shooting"! We're No.1, right?
All time? Really? For every kind of tracks? AFAIK DD were a direct port of theatrical tracks, while DTS were just an APT-X -> DTS Coherent Acoustics conversions...
Soundtracks were altered for near field home viewing all the time for LD, unfortunately.
There's this for 70mm: http://www.in70mm.com/library/process/dolby/index.htm
I'd like to include a surround mix with encodes for my digital movie library, but only if it's a legit original surround mix.
Is there some place to check if a film had a surround mix prepared at the time of its theatrical debut?
I recall a service which allowed parents to rent a DVD from some company and then send them notes on how they wish to cut it, and the company would just censor it for them. It's no different than TV versions (At least in the states), so I don't see a problem. Even though there are films which even you cut out the graphic images, will still have adult themes.
It even could be interesting for preservation, if they are changed with audio redubs and such....
If the clean versions really are "available at no additional charge as an ‘extra’ included with the original theatrical version of movies in the program", I see no problem.
It's the same think I've thought... gritty, punchy, more violent and sensual... they would be PG-35, though! 
Oh, Sony want's to start, to bring some clean movie versions (Versions censored for flight companies and Television Broadcast) to some vod services as choice to the normal Theatrical versions...
Has anyone considered a regrade of Die Hard 2? There were some screencaps that showed that the BD is headed different from the THX LD / DVD release?
Adam West -- same Bat-time, but next Bat-Age, old chum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NwQvA4OuMI
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Amazon demi-gods have longer lifetimes. In human years, she's a 28 year-old hottie! :-O
Psst ... hey bud ... I've got a friend Emile Fournier (Gambit [1966]) and he tells me he can get it for you half price ... on the quiet. ;-)
Get yourself the real Luke's lightsaber for a quarter million only! Available for a limited amount of time. Get it while you can!
A bit too old for my tastes, still a nice woman - not that wonder, but still nice... 
@ spoRv -- Lynda Carter, still yummy at 66 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Carter
And also some Israeli "chutzpah" which suited perfectly with being an Amazon in 1918 England.
And yeah, Gal Gadot started as your average model, but in contrast to Bar Refaeli, she rose above that with commitment and sheer will power
I'm from Israel and can confirm that. When I joined, a short 8 years ago, it was 3 years for men.
Damn you Britain and USA trying to steal Australia's rightful place as the land of political turmoil.
The normal length of compulsory service is currently two years and eight months for men (with some roles requiring an additional four months of service), and two years for women.
I loved Lynda Carter when I was a boy! 
but AFAIK the military service is mandatory for women, too, in Israel... one of our members could eventually confirm that!
but AFAIK the military service is mandatory for women, too, in Israel... one of our members could eventually confirm that! It seems the star of the movie was a bit of a wonder woman in real life: "Gal Gadot was born and raised in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. .. served for two years as an enlisted soldier in the Israel Defense Forces .. She says of her time as a soldier: "You learn discipline and respect. .. [Fast And Furious] director Justin Lin really liked that I was in the military, and he wanted to use my knowledge of weapons." Yeah ... but can she do this: https://m.popkey.co/9c0f31/DYyLq_s-200x150.gif ?
Just got back from seeing Wonder Woman with my daughter. FREEKIN AWESOME is all I can say. 
"Shrek" parodied "Cops", too--remember that scene in "Shrek 2" where some of the characters are watching a series called "Knights"?
Haven't seen it. I only know the name of "Kevin Smith" (never met him but he always popped up here & there on the Internet) from his "Clerks" movie/short (haven't seen it, but I have seen someone else's "Troops" -- a "Cops" parody [excellent!] in the Star Wars universe).
Tusk (2014) -- rottentomatoes.com's TomatoMeter is at 41% -- "Tusk is pleasantly ridiculous and charmingly self-deprecating, but that isn't enough to compensate for its thin, overstretched story."
^ ^ ^ It's okay. Trump's a clever guy and got his detractors talking "covfefe" while he gets his work done without the hailstorm of "fake news".
You guys are using it as wrong. It's like "smurf". What the covfefe is covfefing my covfefe?!
Everyone is ALWAYS talking about these things ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sElTHIgl2tg
"covfefe" is how 'Toffife' sounds if you try to say it with a full mouth of Toffife...
I did see another suggested meaning ... in Arabic ... "I will stand up". Different than the Aramaic translation but fitting nonetheless considering average Americans did more research to find it's meaning than the media did. LOL
Hmm. Much radio/TV talk about this "Trump covfefe". Any relation to "the burglar of Bamff-ff-ff" (must be pronoinced in your finest F-Troop Agarn/Pierre accent) ?
I thought COVFEFE is the old native American Word for "(to) be to trump to communicate with smoke signals" ...
COVFEFE translated in ancient ARAMEAN means "APOCALYPSE" (which in Greek means revealing, I believe) yet everyone seems to think Trump is off his rocker over this. LOL
If we spill beer on the sofa... I will spill some rum on top of it, so the beer smell is not that bad anymore...
I'll see the lot of you when I return. Try not to spill beer on the sofa please, it's a bitch to get that smell out.
There's a french DVD with english 2.0 surround and also some UK DVDs with 4.0 wonder w that one is!
Do I open a master list thread for DVDs that have original mixes? Like Scarface which had the Pro-Logic until it was remixed in 5.1 etc.
Thanks to Beetking on OT, I've discovered this great image comparison service, more than two images at once: https://diff.pics
He's got Braindead as well http://www.ebay.ca/itm/35mm-Feature-BRAI...SwY3BZJK1a
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/35mm-Feature-BRAI...SwY3BZJK1a
Look what I found from the same seller: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/332242091854