2020-11-14, 12:04 PM
You know, all these years, I didn't even know until now that the film was recut for the US market. Makes sense though, because it's depressing as hell at the end but apparently they wanted to leave you in a good mood instead, hence the alternate credits and shortening Superheroes.
The UK Blu-ray has both versions but I dunno about the US one. I'm just checking my copy now to see what audio's on it because Blu-ray.com seems to be under the impression it has a 2.0 track but doesn't specify on which version or whether it's mono or stereo (or Dolby Surround), and the box simply says 7.1 with no mention of anything else.
The LaserDiscs are a bit all over the place but as far as I can tell, most of them have the plain stereo audio dubbed in from the soundtrack (as in, CD soundtrack, with alternate takes of vocals and so on). The UK one, which I thought I had but apparently don't, seemingly has a Dolby Stereo/Surround track rather than the mono, it looks like that's on both the digital and analogue so probably no hope of the original mono on analogue left or whatever. Still, I really want the UK LD now.
I have a German LD en route at the moment, but I have no idea if it's cut or not (listed as 95 mins, which is obfuscated slightly by PAL speedup and the actual runtime is almost-but-not-quite 100 mins so they could either be rounding up or rounding down) and there's zero info about the audio except that the back says "Diser Kultfilm in original englischer Fassung (man versteht ihn trotzdem!!)" - so it's English, but probably not Dolby Surround (since there's no Dolby Surround logo on the packaging), and may or may not be analogue only (since there's no mention of digital sound either). I'm wondering if it might be digital mono or plain stereo given that LaserDisc supposedly hinted at digital sound in European markets as opposed to LaserVision which tended to mean analogue, plus it's quite late really (1991), so it'd strike me as odd for it to be analogue only, but you never know.
The UK Blu-ray has both versions but I dunno about the US one. I'm just checking my copy now to see what audio's on it because Blu-ray.com seems to be under the impression it has a 2.0 track but doesn't specify on which version or whether it's mono or stereo (or Dolby Surround), and the box simply says 7.1 with no mention of anything else.
The LaserDiscs are a bit all over the place but as far as I can tell, most of them have the plain stereo audio dubbed in from the soundtrack (as in, CD soundtrack, with alternate takes of vocals and so on). The UK one, which I thought I had but apparently don't, seemingly has a Dolby Stereo/Surround track rather than the mono, it looks like that's on both the digital and analogue so probably no hope of the original mono on analogue left or whatever. Still, I really want the UK LD now.
I have a German LD en route at the moment, but I have no idea if it's cut or not (listed as 95 mins, which is obfuscated slightly by PAL speedup and the actual runtime is almost-but-not-quite 100 mins so they could either be rounding up or rounding down) and there's zero info about the audio except that the back says "Diser Kultfilm in original englischer Fassung (man versteht ihn trotzdem!!)" - so it's English, but probably not Dolby Surround (since there's no Dolby Surround logo on the packaging), and may or may not be analogue only (since there's no mention of digital sound either). I'm wondering if it might be digital mono or plain stereo given that LaserDisc supposedly hinted at digital sound in European markets as opposed to LaserVision which tended to mean analogue, plus it's quite late really (1991), so it'd strike me as odd for it to be analogue only, but you never know.