As I mentioned in the Martian thread I also saw Crimson Peak (CP) when I had a few hours to kill between jobs.

I'm not a big fan del Toro and I can't figure out why. His films should be right up my alley. I love his imagination and the sheer amount of details that he puts into his films. The stories he tells are interesting and are strong enough to intrigue me but he rarely clicks with me. But I keep trying and figured CP should be enough of a spectacle to see on the big scene.

Going into CP, I read some reviews that said the movie was sold wrong. It is sold as horror film with costume drama elements but it is really a costume drama with horror elements. The movie out and out tells you that the ghosts in it are just a representation of the past. They are an element of the film not what the film is about.

So with that in mind I went to see the film. It is definitely a costume drama, especially in the beginning, but the horror elements slowly creep in as it goes and extend beyond the ghosts into murder, insanity and incest. Its that last point that got a bit icky for me. With all those elements, the film reminded me a bit in story structure and values like an Italian giallo.

What didn't remind me a giallo is the production values. The house in the film is amazing. That is not an exaggeration to say it is one of the best production pieces I have seen in awhile. I just love the hole in the middle of the house which shows the seasons. Leaves falling through for the fall, then snow for the winter. As the cliche says the house is a character in of itself.

The actors were overall really good with Hiddleston and Chastain being excellent. Chastain really got to chew the scenery the longer the film went on. While I seen many male actors do this, its rare to see a female actor go gloriously crazy. So that was fun. Wasikowska was also good in the main character role but her role mostly reactionary to the others. Hunnam is basically playing the Scatman Crothers role from the Shinning.

Overall I liked the film but it never totally or tonally gelled for me. The parts were good but the whole was lacking. If someone came to me and said they hated the film I wouldn't defend it because I would probably agree with them on many of their points.

I won't recommend it for an outing to the theater but for a rental I've seen far, far worse. Just come with expectations low.

Sadly, I'm forced to sell my MUSE/NTSC laserdisc player, the Pioneer HLD-X9; about one hundred hours of operation time - used just to transfer few important titles; original remote control and box; I'd prefer to send it in Europe.

Right now, if you go to the OT forum, you find this:

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Hi,

I just came across from OT.com, where I am exactly the same person, because I got curious.

Mainly because Stamper got a little LD rip from me, and passed it along, until it became an audio file that is passed along here (and OT.com) and I thought "well a great time to check the fanres.comn community". So I am here.

As the thread marks, I am from Germany, so don't be insulted, if I take things as correctly as possible.. seems to be a genetic thing. uperman:

..well additionally English is not my native languaged, and I alwas s*cked in leraning languages, so, I might try my best, but my english will never be what I would call "very good".

I can't believe its so close now till the release of the Force Awakens!

Got my tickets for a midnight showing.

Who's all going?

I loved seeing the new trailer but honestly, I don't want to see anymore now before the release.

I quite liked it, although I didn't like the narration and I would have preferred they shot it as a continuing story rather than with the narration, and I would have liked it if they gave some more attention to the other wire walks he did. The film kind of paints Philippe Petit as an amateur - which he certainly was not. I would have liked to have seen more of his daily practising. For example one thing we didn't see in "The Walk" is Philippe doing backwards-rolls on the wire which you can see him do in Man on Wire at 56 minutes in (it's on dailymotion if you want to google-search it, I won't directly link it for copyright reasons).

The sequences on top of the twin towers were done really well though. But the film's ending was all wrong - there was no mention for example of the harsher legal consequences that were handed to his accomplices.

It was good, but Man on Wire is the better film in my view. But it's worth seeing for the twin-tower rooftop sequences.

Well, 21st october 2015 is "that" date... will you watch the whole trilogy?

I'll do it, with my family!

Any chance someone has the LD and can capture the Movie Audio and the Isolated Score? The Blu-ray only contains a newly created 5.1 mix and the original mono mix would be nice to have. The Isolated Score would be considered as a Bonus, if the track is available on the LD the capture-person has.

Thanks in advance

It seems I had an unplanned Jessica Chastain double feature by seeing The Martian and Crimson Peak.

As for The Martian I loved it. There were a few things going against it for me. I'm not the biggest fan of Matt Damon. I love Ridley Scott but he only makes a good movie maybe 1 out of every 5 times and I read the book and loved it so there was a lot to live up to. Luckily for me everyone hit it out of the park and I loved the film. In fact of the 3 "space" films over the last few years, Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, I enjoyed this the best.

Anyone see this yet?

Hello,

Do you have any tips for aligning two different sources? I have DVD and HDTV, I would want to color correct DVD source to HDTV and delogo it using that.

Upscaled DVD: http://i.imgur.com/6jEQTB1.jpg
HDTV: http://i.imgur.com/24ZquVi.jpg