Wild Eastās site now says the Pecos double bill is a Blu-Ray & DVD combo. I hope they paid for the rights this time because this might get enough attention to get them in trouble if they didnāt. 
There are ~300 copies of this Amazon.com available. 
Did they change the effects when the longer version was made available for the first time? If so, then anything released before 2002 should be original and anything after that not.
The longer version with the altered sound effects was released in 2004. All the 161 min DVDs should have the original mono audio.
The image, or at least the one from print, is from someone in Italy who is selling his copy (somewhereā¦I took these from Blu-ray.com)
Well yes be interesting to see re this .
Yep :(.
[quote=āSundance, post:1162, topic:660ā]The good thing with AFOD is that if the new restoration does come out somewhere (I would think it willā¦) then we will have two discs with excellent image quality and we can choose between the two color schemes regardless of which one of them is actually the correct one. ( I am of course only speaking as someone who wants the English tracks, different situations for different audiences )
With GBU even if the new colors are exactly the way they are supposed to it still has the shitty downmixed mono track (I still donāt know if this is on purpose or if they made an error since the original mono was certainly restored) and the scene Leone didnāt want. And unless you know and are satisfied with Italian only, there is no alternative (the old MGM BD is an abomination).
Personally I think I even prefer the original shorter version but maybe weāll never see it again. 
Considering they treat their films like this Tell MGM it's time ā NOW ā to save John Wayne's The Alamo before it's lost forever
As for OUATITW, from what I have understood a lot of DVDs used to have incorrect colors, and some of them on purpose. Something about the equipment they were watched on and how they needed to POP from the screen or something. And I think DVD canāt even present all the colors as accurately as Blu-Ray.
For example Mad Max 2 on DVD was quite golden/brown and the Blu-Ray (which according to some Mad Max experts is how the actual film prints look) looks quite different: http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/multi_comparison.php?disc1=2453&disc2=2448&cap1=22618&cap2=22576&art=full&image=0&hd_multiID=252&action=1&lossless=#vergleich (just put the mouse cursor over the image to switch between the Blu and DVD).
That said, wouldnāt surprise me if the CVC is actually closest to what it should be (but how can we knowā¦). If I have understood correctly the technicolor prints (but is Leoneās copy technicolor or eastman or) shouldnāt have degraded much at all if they have been stored well. Butā¦ but. Yeah. And I know absolutely nothing about technicolor and Eastmancolor and whatevercolor and prints dye transfers and stuff. ;)[/quote]
So whatās the deal with FAFDM? For a neophyte, what Iāve been able to glean is that the best idea for fans is the German Blu releases of FOD & FAFDM, and for DYS is the Italian release? Is that about right? As far as GBU, I donāt think that any region has ever had a proper HD version of the theatrical cut, and the HD versions of the extended cut all use the new sound mix :(. Mad Max 2 is one of my all-time favorite films, I hadnāt heard about that, itās fascinating. Yeah, Fox treat their films appallingly. They did seamless branching on all of the Alien films in the boxed set, so I donāt want to hear that they canāt. At the LEAST, they couldāve spliced the proper mono together with the downmix for the new footage. Thereās no excuse. And between their indifference and the state of the physical media market, I donāt see it getting fixed. As far as film prints, I think the chance of seeing much of anything in 35mm is nonexistant now, but itās worth noting that since Leone of course shot in Techniscope and then blew it up later, most prints of the film likely looked pretty haggard, and without Leone around to ask or his DP (and Iām skeptical about listening to them lately anyway with many of the many changes which have happened lately), exactly what the films are āsupposed to look likeā is admittedly somewhat debatable these days.
New remastered Man with No Name Trilogy review is up. Looks like an improvement over the 2009 releases.
My steelbook new blu pf TG,tB&tU just turned up. Iāve only flicked through it, and now Iām watching it properly (Iād say Iām maybe 15 mins in) and Iād say: forget all of this āIs it teal? Is it green? Is it too yellow?ā bruhaha - it looks f*cking beautiful. The colour timing doesnāt notice anywhere near as much as it does against a still comparison and, anyway, I think the movie looks better for it, now that Iām looking at it for real, in motion and all that.
Relax, everyone. Buy. Enjoy.
First Iād like to say that everyone should probably check it out themselves (just download before spending money ) to decide if they like it or tolerate it or whatever. So now for the rant.
It unfortunately looks exactly like the screenshots when I look it in motion (I view the movie and screenshots on same display). And I donāt like some of it at all, other parts are quite good (but better if you reduce the yellow & green). And for example the opening credits, I have always thought they are supposed to be somewhat white(ish). Now the beginning is green and the rest of it yellowā¦ which I guess means they didnāt apply a simple yellow tint to the entire movie or even the beginning should be yellow.
Itās not really the yellow even what is the problem, it is all the green. Salvati insisted (supposedly) on the yellow look, but they made it green. Whether it is because a blanket yellow tint changed lots of stuff into green I donāt know.
I would much rather watch it with regraded like for example these two (both by same person with same settings, mouse over the image will change it):
There have already been photos from an Eastman print in Ebay (but Eastman fades), a 1971 Italian IB tech print (not fading) and this here Cine Censura | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (it is the scenes cut away for the international releases? with even splice marks and stuffā¦ maybe scanned from pieces left behind from whatever print went forward?) and none of them look like the Blu-Ray.
(Btw, the PDFs at that site call Blondie Joe.)
And even Torsten Kaiser from TLE said it should be more like the example here http://s52.radikal.ru/i138/1406/69/0978f33d123b.jpg apparently based on the IB tech printsā characteristics or something. Hereās another (yes the text in the TEAL image is wrong since it is from the new BD and not first) Not found : Screenshot Comparison
I donāt believe Leone wanted it to look like this but if he did (I obviously cannot know) he wasnāt as good as I thought he was.
But I donāt want to watch it with the altered soundtrack anyways so it doesnāt matter even if Leone rose from the grave and confirmed the colors are exactly as they should be. So the only option is to download a copy where the mono track is added (and colors regraded ).
Aahhh, that made me feel better.
I guess if I was running the old MGM blu next to it on another television I would notice the green-ness in the same way that we all can when looking at screenshot comparisons, but watching it last night it was - for me - nowhere near the issue Iād initially feared it might be. Iām not saying itās not there; it definitely IS. Butā¦ well, the brightness/contrast/colour levels on my television must have favoured the movie for a start because none of it looked as bad as any screenshot Iāve seen. Even so, the colours as they stood were at their āworstā in the external, broadly sunlit scenes but - and I appreciate this comes down to a question of personal preference, as of course do the settings on my telly - it simply wasnāt jarring enough to distract from the movie or even feel particularly like a mistake in the remastering (Iām not saying it wasnāt); it was subtle enough imo to go unnoticed if you werenāt looking for it, and maybe come across as a stylistic choice if you were.
All personal taste I suppose. I just think that it looks fine without a colour comparison hanging over it. The green/yellow tinge is not as severe as feared (not on my telly anyway), it doesnāt affect anywhere near as much of the film as I feared it might, and the green/yellow tinge that IS there kind-of suits the movie, tbh.
Ā”Viva la muerteā¦tuya! Blu-ray
Spain
Donāt Turn the Other Cheek
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Viva-la-muertetuya-Blu-ray/104095/
Kinoās Sabata BD looks rather nice: [url]http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_reviews_62_/sabata_blu-ray.htm[/url]
can someone say something about possible differences between the UK and the GER GBU BluRay in terms of available subtitles, language tracks, weird menu localization etc? Sometimes I rather get the UK version rather than some screwed up German stuff
On Facebook BU just confirmed Companeros will be released on blu, details are as follows:
Quoted from the post:
"Our COMPAĆEROS Blu-ray will be released on October 28, 2014.
Written and directed by the legendary Sergio Corbucci (DJANGO, THE GREAT SILENCE), COMPAĆEROS is a once-in-a-lifetime teaming of the two greatest European stars in āSpaghetti Westernā history: Franco Nero of DJANGO and Tomas Milian of DJANGO KILL.
Now freshly transferred in gorgeous High Definition from the original negative, COMPAĆEROS is presented here in both its English and full-length Italian Versions for the first time ever! Extras include:
ā¢ Audio Commentary with Journalists C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
ā¢ āIn The Company Of CompaƱerosā ā Interviews with Stars Franco Nero & Tomas Milian and Composer Ennio Morricone
ā¢ International Trailer
ā¢ Italian Trailer
ā¢ Poster & Still Gallery"
Link:
No idea about the German one, but fwiw the UK blu has the exact same animated menus as the old MGM blu (I recall a brief moment of panic when I put the disc in and feared that theyād put the wrong disc in the box), so I assume everythingās the same as it was except for the transfer of the movie itself.
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English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English Dolby Digital 1.0
EspaƱol Dolby Digital 5.1
FranƧais DTS 5.1
Deutsch DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0
PortuguĆŖs Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Commentary from Film Historian Richard Schickel
Audio Commentary from Christopher Frayling
Subtitles:
English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
EspaƱol
FranƧais
Dansk
Nederlands
Suomi
Deutsch
Norsk
PortuguĆŖs
Svenska
English Commentary from Film Historian Richard Schickel
Commentaire Audio de lāHistorien du CinĆ©ma Richard Schickel
Audiocommentaar van Filmhistoricus Richard Schickel
Audiokommentar von Filmhistoriker Richard Schickel
English Commentary from Christopher Frayling
Commentaire Audio de Christopher Frayling
Audiocommentaar van Christopher Frayling
Audiokommentar von Christopher Frayling
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Leoneās West (0:19:55) [size=8pt](Audio - 1ENG Dolby Digital Stereo) (Subs - 1ENG 2FRA 3DAN 4NLD 5FIN 6DEU 7NOR 8SVE)[/size]
The Leone Style (0:23:48) [size=8pt](Audio - 1ENG Dolby Digital Stereo) (Subs - 1ENG 2FRA 3DAN 4NLD 5FIN 6DEU 7NOR 8SVE)[/size]
The Man who Lost the Civil War (0:14:23) [size=8pt](Audio - 1ENG Dolby Digital Stereo) (Subs - 1ENG 2FRA 3DAN 4NLD 5FIN 6DEU 7NOR 8SVE)[/size]
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Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Part One (0:07:48) [size=8pt](Audio - 1ENG Dolby Digital Stereo) (Subs - 1ENG 2FRA 3DAN 4NLD 5FIN 6DEU 7NOR 8SVE)[/size]
Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Part Two (0:12:26) [size=8pt](Audio - 1ENG Dolby Digital Stereo) (Subs - 1ENG 2FRA 3DAN 4NLD 5FIN 6DEU 7NOR 8SVE)[/size]
Deleted Scenes - Extended Tuco Torture Scene - The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction
Vignettes - Uno, Due, Tre - Italian Lunch - New York Actor - Gun in Holster
Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer - French Trailer
I didnāt c+p that lot off of a website, I stuck the disc in and wrote everything down. So itās all first-hand.
dude, all that work. I am humbled!
Over at Blu-ray.com [url]The Official Arrow Video Thread - Page 516 - Blu-ray Forum someone mentioned in their copy of Arrowās LāASSASSINO they received a postcard of Day of Anger, which can you mean one thingā¦Arrow is bringing it to Blu-ray Beyond awesome news!
If that pans out to be the case, then that is absolutely fantastic news.
Boy oh boy if that happens I am ready to renounce my atheism because there is a god afterall lol.
Any pictures of the postcard?
