The Taiwanese cut of Island on Fire is nearly 35 minutes longer than the original theatrical release. I watched both cuts, and I have to say that the Taiwanese one is way better, as it explains plot way better with it's extra scenes.

Complete comparsion can be found here: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=935

Last year, this movie got it's Bluray release in Japan - without English subtitles, but interesingly it was fully restored to HD quality, but it has it flaws.

Colors are pretty faded, close to no grain at all, poor lightning on some scenes.

So I decided to give it a go and make uncut Bluray copy with English subtitles (sourced from hardcoded, poorly translated sadly, subtitles from Taiwanese cut and superior Hong Kong Legends DVD subtitles).

I have been playing with the settings in Premiere Pro so far and this are the results on the Bluray copy

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/141094
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/141096

Let me know guys if you have any complaints, suggestions etc

Does anyone remember this/have this?

Had quite a few clips from great movies all together and sounded fantastic.

Hey guys,

I have three copies of this movie:
- PAL DVD (for subtitles)
- Custom Uncut NTSC DVD
- Japanese Bluray

So the uncut DVD is very poor quality but has over 40 minutes of scenes cut from both PAL and Bluray. Upscaling it didn't really gave me much quality upgrade, as I said it is already pretty bad. I would want to correct the colors though. Now, should I just go 'by my heart' with the uncut's scenes color or is there any other way?

PAL DVD - http://i.imgur.com/ExiKNLR.jpg
NTSC Uncut DVD - http://i.imgur.com/xfRjzjn.jpg
Bluray - http://i.imgur.com/lH5panz.jpg

Just noticed that the uncut DVD's aspect ratio might be fricked up as well when making these screens.

I still swear the audio track on the laserdisc outshines the BLU currently available.

Theres just something missing in the mids when John is pounding poor Karl's head near the end.

Or when Hanz dry fires John's baretta, the bass units in my speakers used to almost jump out on the LD version.

Cracking mix and sorely missed.

Can someone please magic this with the BLU video quality.

Hey Guys,

I came across this forum from Original Trilogy and it was the restoration works that intrigued me so.

I was a firm Laserdisc user and still believe that the soundtracks I listened to oh so many times still sound better
than some of the DVD and BD tracks that have followed. So i was amazed to find people with the same opinion it would appear!

I'm no tinkerer of such wizardry as you may be but I have a keen eye and ear and I'm a fan.

Now, I'm still trying to watch a certain movie favourite of mine, Escape from New York, to no avail I have followed all the
cryptic clues to watch but I have been met with the greatest of dead ends.

I'd appreciate another avenue to watch as the others mentioned are either closed or not working.

Anyway, Thanks if you read, no worries if you don't!

Here is something I think would be worth tracking down. There was a teaser trailer for Wayne's World 2 that was especially made for THX theaters. I saw it once as a kid, and never saw it again. I've read about it on the Film-Tech forums, and a print actually showed up on eBay a while back (but it already sold by the time I found out about it).

This is one of those rare, not-available-on-video trailers, like the Spider-Man World Trade Center teaser, or the original Hook teaser with the map. But unlike those, there isn't a video copy of it anywhere online either.

http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t001123.html

It has shown up on eBay before - anybody want to keep an eye out in case it turns up again? (For that matter, does anybody perhaps know someone who has a copy, or perhaps could inquire on one of the 35mm forums?)

I'd love for this to get found, scanned, and the sound properly captured in Dolby. The surround was apparently really cool (though all I remember is the Deep Note scaring the bejeezus out of me).

For anyone looking for this .....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1984-STAR-W...1a050bed9a

Looks like this seller might have all the reels split up .... I hate when people do shit like this.

Moved the Disney collection to this thread https://fanrestore.com/thread-802.html

So I'm having a bit of trouble with subtitles and was wondering I could get some advice. I demuxed the subs from the Blade Runner and Alien BDs and have them in .sup form. I need to modify the sup into txt/srt/whatever so I can edit them to fit my regraded BD that I'm making. I assume I have to use an OCR to convert the sup to txt.
For example with Blade Runner I cut out the Warner logo and need to convert the sup into text, re-do the timing and pop it into Adobe Encore to produce a BD. Anyone have a methodology?

Hello lads,

I need someone who would be able to rip both video and audio from Laserdisc player. I will send you the disc, you would rip the loseless audio for me, video and reship the disc to me. I would of course pay you for whole hassle