Hi all,
I have the (both original and new) BD and the HD-DVD and want to before 2025 watch this again in the best way I can.
Does anyone have a higher quality video source or the cinema DTS.
I will be watching it in a real cinema on a large scope screen

Hi - I can't message yet so hoping this works

hello everyone !!!
Happy and exited to be in this forum !!!

Here we have it folks. This is what I believe to be the best way to watch this dark comedy. Most people are familiar with the Unrated cut, which is the theatrical cut with additional footage that was removed from TC for rating purposes most likely. Director, Terry Zwigoff, released his approved Director’s Cut afterward, removing some comedic elements making for a tonally darker film overall, with Willie having less of a redemption arc. However, there is some funny swearing and gags present in DC that is not in unrated. Consider this edit an extended unrated cut of the film more than anything. Some differences between the cuts are listed here:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/alternateversions/

The video transfers for both DC and Unrated differ from one another, including colour, detail, and framing, with the DC having more framing on top and bottom. The Unrated cut is a higher bitrate with more film grain present and better reds in particular. However, it suffers from poorer colour grading in some scenes, as well as blown out highlights. Where possible, I have used the better video of the two, including the additional framing from DC spliced in where necessary. Unrated footage has been regraded to match DC’s superior colours where present also.
Audio is less clipped on DC, so that was primarily used. However, I very much prefer the choices of songs and musical cues in Unrated over DC, so Unrated is used in those cases.
Some shots/takes in both DC and Unrated differ ever so slightly. Whichever cut had better comedic timing took precedence over video quality in this edit. There have been a lot of very small changes with footage spliced between the two cuts that will just take way too long to list. However, a big change I have opted for was to go with DC’s ending, with Thurman cleaning Willie’s blood off the front porch rather than Unrated’s, with Thurman kicking the bully in the balls and riding off on his bike.

SCREENSHOTS:

https://imgur.com/a/bad-santa-comparison...ts-i5fqPzq

PM for a link. Merry Christmas everyone 😃

Hi,

I am doing a project with Airplane! (1980) and really wanted to use the original mono audio.  All Bluray releases have the same 5.1 track, the NTSC DVD I sourced had the surround track and a stereo track, it seems that LaserDisc is the only physical media with the mono audio.

This led me to this site, where I found an old post https://fanrestore.com/thread-4952.html but there was never a response there.

So I took a gamble and on a whim purchased this: https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/59471/SF0...7/Airplane! in the hope I could find some kind soul to capture the audio for me.

I am new to the community here (very first post!) so I hope this is an acceptable request, I don't need the LD back, I'd just like the audio from it.

Many thanks 

Hey all. I'm an enthusiast and here to see some great work

Hey, guys.

I've started a regrade of the remastered 1080p Blu-ray emulating the 35mm scan that's been out there for a while, which I like quite a lot and which looks more similar to the T2 cinematography with the blues and purples, whether 1984 accurate or not. I'm at 13'30" for now. There's a couple of shots I need to revisit, but here's how it looks right now:

Happy to be here. I've been getting into fan edits lately and am hoping to find some good ones.

Excited to be a part of this community!

I've quite a lot of Laserdisc audio commentaries I've grabbed from a torrent many years ago on a private tracker which doesn't have invites anymore. Majority are AC3, very few are both mp3 and aac. Going to be uploading a vast majority to archive.org anyway since to me these would be best available to be synced to remux, either 1080p or 2160p. Even web-dl!
On archive.org search for username FansUnlimited. The commentaries will be available individually.

CARRIE: The Criterion Collection Laserdisc - #141 (1976) [CC1278L] - UPLOADED!
Audio commentary by film expert Laurent Bouzereau (author of The De Palma Cut) and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen - AC3 132 MB


HIGH NOON - The Criterion Collection Laserdisc - #7 (1952) [CC1107L]
Audio commentary with film historian Howard Suber - AC3 116 MB
Note: This audio commentary is already available via remux, but will still be available individually.


KING KONG (1933) - The Criterion Collection Laserdisc - #2 [CC102L]
Audio commentary with historian Ronald Haver - AC3 119 MB


KING KONG (1933) - Image Entertainment Laserdisc - [I6003]
Audio commentary with film historian Paul Mandell - AC3 137 MB


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