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Morphine / Морфий - 1080p Bluray - TheRealThunderbolt |
Posted by: Colek - 2015-11-29, 12:24 PM - Forum: In progress
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Morphine is movie directed by Alexei Balabanov - Russian cult director - which is mostly known for Cargo 200 and Brother. The film itself is based on semi-autobiographical short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Powerful and bizarre tale of the young medical doctor sliding into the abyss of drug addiction as the country around him slides into the horrors of civil war. Even so the revolution and the war is hardly shown in the movie (which is set in a small Siberian village), one could feel it's dark presence in every scene, every dialogue. Surprisingly well captures the spirit of autobiographical novels of Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia's greatest and most controversial author of the 20th century. Strongly recommended for everyone who enjoys Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, classical Russian literature and history. Also, it's a great tribute to the director/screenwriter Sergei Bodrov Jr. who died so tragically at the height of his career.
So the movie never received real HD release. Only HD transfer that exists is one on Russian iTunes, and it has lots of flaws that I managed to minimalize or completely get rid of. The worst issue from all is crushed blacks and the horrible color timing that doesn't even come close to what is seen on DVD release of this movie.
Using DrDre's Color Correction tool I managed to correct it. Then with some AviSynth plugins and other programs I came to result that is noticeable better than it's source.
DVD (cropped to match iTunes)
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iTunes (raw)
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iTunes (color corrected)
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Final
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I synced the DVD audio from original DVD to this release as well as Polish voiceover ripped from TV. What is interesting is that DVD was actually PAL speedup, but it wasn't big issue. I used English subtitles from AsianDVDClub Custom DVD as well as many others custom subtitles I could find throughout the internet. I can only confirm that English and Polish ones are very good translations though, as they are the only languages I speak
Audio:
Russian - 5.1 DTS sourced from DVD @ 1536 kbps
Russian - 2.0 AC3 sourced from DVD @ 192 kbps
Polish voiceover - 2.0 AC3 sourced from TV @ 448 kbps
Subtitles:
Russian
English
Spanish
French
Polish
Czech
Bulgarian
Croatian
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Chinese (T)
Arabic
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I am in process of authoring the disc right now and it should be done within few upcoming days. It will be available on MySpleen.
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MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE S01 UNCUT preservations |
Posted by: Stamper - 2015-11-28, 04:37 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Hey everyone,
I'm in search of fans so that we can get finally some of the Season 1 of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE episodes uncut.
I'm looking for someone still owning a VHS version, probably UK in Pal format of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE S01E01 UNCUT so that we might preserve it.
For anyone not informed, the current master that is available on DVD and iTunes HD is cut, especially in the beginning of the episode.
Here's the cuts
- As Briggs arrives in the warehouse, he wanders about, then he eyes the woman, and walks to her. In the official DVD, he doesn't wander, we do see him eyeing the girl, then immediately he's through the door. The scene is reduced, for no apparent reason.
- After the record self destruct, we miss shots of Briggs arriving at home, dresses off, pours himself a drink, grabs the folder. The available episode resumes right there, missing the whole action. You can hear there's a cut because the music abruptly changes and can see the drink on the table, that is almost empty since Briggs savored it while thinking the mission.
I think there is more. The late 90's UK VHS were complete and uncut. One would like a preverv.
There are other cuts in season 1 episode, including one episode that have the mission tape scene replaced with one from another episode, with just the actual audio from the episode edited in place.
This one was also released on UK VHS intact. Here's a link with VHS info http://www.mission-impossible.tv/english...deoEng.htm
I will google for more info and post them here when I find them.
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Hello, all! =D |
Posted by: TonyWDA - 2015-11-27, 01:06 AM - Forum: Presentation
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Definitely from OriginalTrilogy.com as well, and I've been creeping this site for a while now without properly introducing myself, so here goes a-nothin'! =)
I'm very excited to be here, and can't wait to see what else gets proper preservation/restoration in the future. ^-^
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Good Evening |
Posted by: dvdboy - 2015-11-22, 07:55 PM - Forum: Presentation
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Hi,
Used to be a member over at AMPS before the reddit migration. Looking forward to seeing some interesting projects coming out of the community.
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