ah Jim Varney , if you like him you should check out doyle and debbie, doyle i believe was behind verne or worked with him.
only knew of them when moving here.

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Will do !!!

Zeram (1991) [ID3116FL]

has the worst english dub I have heard in awhile. it makes almost unwatchable. I hope to find an original copy with english subs. it is quite a fun romp.

LOL - Scared Stupid is an absolute classic, I loved that flick through and through when I was young. I recently read that the Chiodo bros recycled a couple of the clowns/ghoulies from Killer Klowns From Outer Space into ESS, here's a link to the site. Now I want it on LD.

I love the quote on the cover, "Wacky" - is that the best thing they could find in the reviews? LOL

Last Night: Twister (DVD), volume set to -20, it was loud...and awesome.
note: i manually turned on EX encoding and tested the DTS 5.1 track with NEO:6 (dvd is full bitrate), found that the dolby track gives more bass and better back imaging. now that my DTS copy of goldeneye is here. can't wait.

Elie

Clear and present danger us print.

Watched the '90 pressing of Gremlins tonight, in the words of Will Ferrel it was scrumtralescent. I haven't watched this in hi-def or even DVD yet, so it's the best I've ever seen and heard it, I would recommend this all day every day.

Last night I watched Tales From the Crypt Demon Knight, and the Tales From the Crypt Vol 1 (3 episodes) - both excellent. I did not know Bill Sadler was in the first TFTC episode and movie. The movie I highly suggest, the television episodes as well. The TV episodes I'd skip on LD, you can find the season DVD's extremely cheap used. I even bought a couple new at Best Buy on sale for $10 a while back, and older seasons for less than $10 at resale shops.

Somewhere around 3.5 or so on the fader its not surprising the mix might have been a bit over-loud!

CAV pressing is still in great shape since I brought it around October 1996.
Twister (1996) [20102]

Brightness colour is still marvellous even when comparing to a few 35mm frames I got from a drive-in where I only helped out during the last week as the owner was jacking it all in at the end of the winter season. The frames to one of the scenes in the film was on side 4 where Dusty and others are looking out the window.


"Bill: Jonas Miller. He's a nightcrawler. We all started out working in the same lab, but Jonas went out and got some corporate sponsors. He's in it for the money, not the science. He's got a lot of high tech gadgets... but he's got no instincts... and he doesn't have ... Dorothy."

Dr. Melissa Reeves: "You people are all crazy! Do you know that?!"
Dusty: "What?"
Dr. Melissa Reeves: "And she's the craziest one of them all."



Saw it on its first day release (Friday July 26th 1996) at the local MGM screen 1, JBL 4675A (THX approved) JBL 4645 (THX approved) surrounds was unknown x6 on the back wall and sounded great. watched the film close to 8 times over the weeks as it was the only best sound I have listened to during the summertime.

The Stephen Hunter Flick (Robocop, Apollo 13) sound effects was fantastic awesome.









Switch Preset 7 AUX 2 to Preset 6 AUX 1, turn fader up a bit more -6.8db its still an ear-buster!











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Wacky cool cast for this no brainer, just switch it and enjoy the film.

On the second storm SPL db was just a shade below 100dbC Just Bloody Loud I'll leave fader at -6.8db the level fits the room nice and warmly, with clear dialouge, and lots of directional on screen and off-screen defused surround with some directional ones. LFE.1 is set within a few db of the stage channels so it provides support rather than being in my face and washing out the stage bass which is not what I want Seats still vibrate plenty enough.

Dolby EX or PLIIx gives it greater listening excitement with boat flying though air in the storm on SIDE 3 and passing right behind.

Completely immersive surround with the below matrix surround activated as well with overhead matrix.

Jurassic Park Hi-Vision LD
Mildly Dnr'ed and EE'ed but nevertheless very watchable. Color timing seems correct (how I remember the film). Very low noise, nearly none except the intact film grain. Free of compression artifacts. I don't know which I like better blu-ray or HV-LD. BD gets the flesh tones and shades of green on forests a bit better on some parts but I like the intact film grain on HV-LD and overall its a good transfer.

True Lies DTS
Heavy EE and some DNR. I found the heavy use of EE very irritating. On a lower end high noise player this may be seen as advatage as it shows the video very sharp. On my noise free hld-x0+crystalio II it is annoying. I could only watch 1 side. D-theater tape is EE'ed too. I guess we will wait for a better transfer on this film. DTS audio is good. Nothing bad to say about it. D-theater tape has the same soundtrack.

I saw Unknown Pleasures on 35mm today. Awfully bad and boring film imo, absolutely nothing appealing. The print was in good shape but the film was shot on DV making it look very cheap and soft. I don't think I'll ever see a film by Jia Zhangke again.

Awesome, you've seen/own both the H-Vision version and the 2D Blu-Ray. Would it be possible for you to take a screenshot or 2 comparing the Hi-Vision LD to the Blu-Ray? The screenshots don't need to be perfect, just give a general idea. I'd love to see that.

You know I own all this equipment but don't own a single decent camera. Photography is not really an interest. So far I use my cell phone as camera for everything. It's a samsung galaxy s4. Its a decent camera in specs but I also know specs doesn't mean much when it's optics are the size of pencil head.

I tried taking a few screen shots but they don't show much. I will try a few more over the next day or two and make a review thread for you.

Thank you, substance, I appreciate the effort even if it doesn't work out.

just watched parts of Fellini's Casanova (1976) [15-004] tonight.
what a great film, too bad criterion didn't release this on LD back in the day.

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Watched Legion on Blu-ray tonight. A waste of time IMO. Pathetic.
Watched a VHS of The Big Chill a few days ago. Somehow I missed that one back in the 80's. Enjoyable. Good cast.
Working my way thru Magnum PI on DVD. Halfway thru season 3. Of course I've seen them all before but it remains one of my favorite TV shows of all time. Great cast. Great scenes. Beautiful women.

just watched the Godzilla: The Death Battle Chronicle [TLL 2190]
Champion Matsuri version of Godzilla vs. King Kong
really fun if you don't want to sit through a 90min version, these cut right to the action and are really nice.
you can even watch 2 in a row if you have the extra time.

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Yesterday I watched From Dusk Till Dawn - Hilarious movie, great!
The Puppet Masters - Lots of problem with this one. Sutherlands voice sometimes doesn't sync with the picture. He's speaking, but his mouth is and feels motionless. Didn't go well at the end of side one. Player lost tracking and I noticed a click in the digital audio track. Side two played fine.
Had some time left so I watched The Road Warrior, Mad Max 2 - This one played just fine on both sides.

Thor - The Dark World on Blu-Ray, some nice extras including a short film about The Mandarin (from Iron Man 3) which apparently isn't on DVD.

Legion on blu-ray. IMO, biggest waste of time I've had with a movie in a long time. Hated it.
Tonight was Forrest Gump on blu-ray, I thought the transfer was excellent. Great movie, of course it's probably the 8th or 9th time I've seen it but it's been a few years since the last time.
Also tonight was Planet of the Apes, 35th anniversary on DVD. Another great flick.