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Can you imagine the opening of The Godfather or the well scene in Laurence of Arabia given the current rapid editing treatment? By the time the Don had begun to give his reply or Omar Sharif had arrived at the well, we'd have had a hundred different cuts and probably a techno soundtrack inserted...

Yes, I'd agree with Ernest. What he says applies to an awful lot of movies I've had to endure over the last decade. I haven't yet seen Man on Fire but I had a similar reaction watching The Mothman Prophecies, a movie so incoherent I don't even want to think about the two hours I wasted watching...

My feelings: BEST PICTURE Will Win: MILLION DOLLAR BABY If it was just the media saying 'it's a lock, it's a lock!' then I'd be sceptical but every pundit I've read who claims to have spoken to the actual voters in and around LA is relaying the same message: its M$B. DIRECTING Will...

I have to agree with the original poster. It is dismaying to see US TV series (some of them childhood favourites of mine) slung out without any attempt at restoration. In the UK we are very lucky to have been considerably better served in this regard. For starters there's BBC Worldwide's own...

Do any non-UK viewers remember this show? It was created by Brian Clemens (The Avengers) as a series of 65 min standalone suspense tales. Although made on tape with 16mm film inserts here in the UK, it was presold to the US and usually featured an imported American star every other week. The...

I enjoyed watching this new Director's Cut very much indeed. It's one of the few SF movies from the 1970's which has not only stood the test of time but actually improved over the years. I can't speak for anybody else but I found it very funny in places, the film has this sort of dry, rather...

And I WAS just teasing you at the top. Don't be mad No problem, it's just that I didn't know if U,D was a niche cult appeal thing in your country or a big success. So I thought I'd better not assume that you knew what it was. :) Is it as well known as Monty Python or The Avengers?

I'm not necessarily anti-PAL, by the way....but I'm none too thrilled about some of the PAL-NTSC conversion peculiarities (that's for another thread, though) Yeah, I've read some horrendously critical comments on this subject. I don't know if you're at all familiar with a 1970's British...

Generally PAL speedup isn't an issue for UK viewers, and I'm always amused by Brit DVD users who piously say 'I won't buy R2 discs because I can detect the speedup' but who happily watched films on Brit TV for years without noticing it once until someone told them about speedup...

posted by Patrick Mirza: I am kinda getting tired of that smug attitude as displayed in the AICN review ("Could you please connect the dots for us any more"). You know what, like it or hate it, these are Lucas's films. If he wants to drag out the negatives and set fire to them so he can have...

posted by David Boulet:The two films feel very different from each other in style...I can't imagine how they would constitute a single continuous movie...unless it was clearly understood that "part A" of the movie was one style and "part B" of the movie another... I disagree with that...

Yeah, a good observation Craig, plus the fact that the reason Budd makes the Bride suffer is because he's avenging the heartbreak she caused his brother. I get the impression that some viewers might not have gotten that when they saw Vol 2.

Robert A, Read the Empire review - the only available review of the complete KB - it explains the differences between the two versions. http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/f...cial/killbill/ The deleted scene - and there is only one, apparently - won't be put back in the film. QT cut it...

EDIT: I can see the ads now: "New combined cut containing ZERO minutes of additional footage!" Ah, but don't forget you've got a minute or so of additional gore and, of course, The big House of Blue Leaves fight - in COLOUR. :D

>>posted by Grant H: That's pretty much the way I feel as well. I was very conscious watching KB 2 in the theater of parts that would likely be cut due to reduncancy issues if it were one long movie. I'd probably end up missing the little bits from the V1 and V2 incarnation. The only cuts are...

>>posted by Elijah Sullivan: Tarantino's original cut of Kill Bill was a single, 2.5-hour film. The Miramax chiefs talked QT into splitting his flick in half -- but that left two very short (75-min) films, so each of them was watered down with deleted scenes to reach a more desireable running...

There may still be a chance of a remastered 4:3 version of Danger UXB via an R4 release. I stress that I don't have any inside info on this but I have noticed that a number of 70's titles produced by Thames - such as 'Man about the House' and 'Minder'- have recently been released in Australia...

Ahem! The aspect ratio for UXB is wrong, wrong, wrong. As befits a UK 16mm film series from the late 70's the correct AR is, of course, 4:3 or 1.33:1. What's happened here is that the owners of UXB - Freemantle Media - have done new telecine transfers in both 4:3 and 16:9 format. However...

Rewatching my tatty old VHS of Gunga Din (1939) the other day reminded me of just how badly this masterpiece is in need of a showcase presentation. A splendid action-comedy with an incredible cast - Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr - brilliantly staged and edited fight...

Network were unable to include the 1974 Armchair Cinema TV Movie 'Regan', because the rights had already been licensed to another company - Digital Entertainment. Incidentally, DE's R2 release uses a transfer from rights holders Freemantle Entertainment which has been cropped from its original...

Craig: Mclaren wrote:

The final, confirmed specs for the Series 1 boxset from Network Video as listed on the Mausoleum Club forum. I tried to post a direct link to the MC site but apparently I don't have a high enough post count. :-( Disk One Ringer (with commentary featuring Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan...

Nice to see a thread on The Sweeney. Anyone who's seen Network Video's previous DVD's - such as their Robin of Sherwood boxsets or The Goodies - should knows they make a considerable effort both remastering & restoring programmes and acquiring extras. The details for the Sept 29 Series One...

Very happy to hear that The Rockford Files is on the way - an excellent show with a likeable cast and good stories. I agree with others who have said it would be good to see Six Million Dollar Man, Kung Fu and The Incredible Hulk. How about Starsky & Hutch as well - or at least the pilot and the...

Patrick, I'd recommend The Story Of G.I. Joe (1945), which depicts the exploits of real life war reporter Ernie Pyle (played here by Burgess Meredith) and his experiences with the men of Company C during the Italian campaign. There's a remarkable physical grittiness to the film - the men are...

I've seen Mad Max both on its original UK cinema release & on home video/tv numerous times. I have never seen or heard anything to justify Larry's claims. Before I get flamed let me just say that it's not impossible just highly, highly unlikely. There's no mention of such a missing scene on any...

My first posting at HTF so here goes - titles I'd love to see; The Cagney/Bogart classic The Roaring Twenties Gunga Din with Cary Grant. One of the best action adventure movies I have ever seen. I Married A Witch with Veronica Lake & Frederic March SF/Horror classics from the 1950's...