BLU RAY SHOULD INCLUDE TV SCENES
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namaGemo — 13 years ago(November 12, 2012 08:25 AM)
I'm trying to think of the last time I saw this on tv in the television version. Maybe 3 years ago. I was wondering where all these "new" scenes came from, because i had not seen it on tv since I was a kid.
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prbronx5 — 13 years ago(February 21, 2013 08:35 AM)
A lot of these 70s & early 80s movies had to shoot extra scenes to justify a two night showing. For some reason, the networks wouldn't run a two and a half hour or three hour movie in one night, but would run four hours split into two nights.
King Kong 1976 was extended as well. Halloween & Halloween II also had extra scenes filmed to pad out the running time. Halloween II was poorly done because they cut so many things, you never knew what happened to some of the characters! -
prbronx5 — 13 years ago(March 26, 2013 05:43 AM)
Yes, unfortuantely Universal doesn't treat it's catalog titles with much respect. Earthquake was their highest grossing film of 1974, you'd think they'd give fans at least a commentary track.
I loved the special edition treatment Fox gave Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno. Universal is pretty shameful. -
DarkWolf69 — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 10:07 PM)
I'll take a bare-bones Blu-Ray release from Universal over the crummy DVD transfer from Good Times DVD I just watched. The video transfer looks good for a 40+ year-old film, but the audio sounds like the speakers are packed with cotton, the captions/subtitles are just paraphrasing the actual dialog, and the "bonus features" consist of two pages of production notes listing a few movies a couple of the actors have appeared in.
I can't complain TOO much, though. I paid a whopping $1.49 for it at a pawn shop, and I grew up watching disaster movies in TV. (Yeah, I'm that old)
At least Lorne Greene's moustache still looks epic. -
aussiebears — 9 years ago(April 06, 2016 11:41 PM)
I bought the Goodtimes dvd when it first came out but never watched the whole movie because of the lousy quality. I then purchased the region 4 version when it was released in the early or mid 2000's and the quality was much better on a standard tv but then when watching it a big screen tv the quality was somewhat questionable, the first 20 mins or so were quite blurry, still it was 400% better than the Goodtimes version and the sound was good too.
I have now replaced both versions with the blu ray, still many faults with the quality but I think it is a good as its going to get, some of the disc looks brilliant then it slips into shoddiness and the pic gets very grainy, pretty poor effort on Universal in all departments considering what Fox did with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. -
singjohn — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 07:41 PM)
I've seen the 2013 and 2015 BluRay releases. Both are bare bones: No trailers, features, interviews, commentary. Not even a disc menu! Sheesh! I got it used for practically nothing on Amazon so I can't complain too much.
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Woodyanders — 7 years ago(February 03, 2019 02:15 AM)
Shout! Factory are releasing a Blu-ray of this film that includes the TV version along with the original theatrical version. It's coming out on May 21st.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.