Well, it appears that the film has been classified by the BBFC and its 91 minutes 56 seconds long (this is the PAL version) which is no longer than the previous submissions so unfortunately its not an extended cut. Paul
Anyone with any interest in the background to "real" Troy and the "real" Alexander may wish to obtain "In the footsteps of Alexander" and "In Search of the Trojan War", either as DVDs or the books. Author/Presenter is Michael Wood and they are absolutely superb! Both the books and the DVDs...
The Nazis - A Warning from History - the theme tune for this series when shown on the BBC was quite a surprise when I first heard it but is VERY appropriate once it grows on you. The series is superb stuff from beginning to end, very chilling and very informative! Paul
Hi Julian, Bjoern Roy did an extensive NTSC v PAL picture quality review of LOTR: FOTR here at http://www.videophile.info/Review/FOTR/FOTR_01.htm and also compared them to a "homemade" NTSC version derived from a Hi-Def broadcast - very interesting indeed. He is just about to post a similar...
I sold my entire collection of over 300 titles and am now only buying a selected few that I really want to see, (LOTR extended editions etc). I figured that once Hi-Def arrives, I'd only watch Hi-Def titles and wouldn't watch any standard versions. Its a bit like the change from VHS/Laser to...
Or download it from the wonderful "The Thing" fan site! http://www.outpost31.com/books/who.txt Please have a look at the site whilst you are there, its good fun and informative. Paul
When the price was up way above $1000 it looked to me like an expensive folly. With prices now not far above $500 - 600 its beginning to look seriously interesting. Any lower and I suspect many folks would be willing to invest just to have a good close up look at it - I would. Paul
I think a lot depends on whether your display device is properly color calibrated or not. I watched this movie about 3 weeks ago with an uncalibrated projector and thought it looked quite bad. Since then I've had my projector calibrated to D65 and Panic Room looks considerably better! This is...
Mike, Couldn't agree more - if some of the purchase price of the DVD went to a 9/11 related charity it might make the purchase a lot easier in peoples minds. Paul
Heads up fella's!
There are multiple reports of the R1 Jeepers Creepers disc not playing on a number of UK multi-region DVD players. Pioneers seem to be the worst culprits although there are reports of Sony's and Toshiba's also being unable to play the disc (which is apparently NOT an RCE...
I saw Wings on TV during a Christmas holiday. There was nothing else on and I thought "ah well, might as well watch this b&W rubbish". For the next hour and a half (I forget how long it actually lasted), I sat spellbound - Wings was one of the best films I've seen, certainly in my top twenty...