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Originally Posted by Derek M Germano
I'm also a fan of THE EXORCIST III and hoping that it too will someday appear on Blu-ray, with both the theatrical cut and William Peter Blatty's long desired director's cut.
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Originally Posted by Travis Brashear
Fixed.
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Originally Posted by Vincent_P
I think you should re-fix it- William Peter Blatty directed THE EXORCIST III, not William Friedkin
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Originally Posted by Travis Brashear
If they'd left the spider-walk in, but left out the cheezy little "Pazuzu-face" single-frame inserts and retained the original theatrical ending, TVYHNS would have been perfection.
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Originally Posted by zackscott5
The potential of Bluray being an archival format preserving all versions of the same film is one of the reasons why I invested in it. CEOT3K and Blade runner are prime examples of that and I hope for more like this.
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Originally Posted by Kyle_D
With all the controversy over the revisionist color timing on The French Connection, and Friedkin's acknowledgment that he's now prepping The Exorcist for Blu-ray, I thought I'd resurrect this thread.
Personally, I don't care if Friedkin wants to go back and recolor the film AS LONG AS THE ORIGINAL 1973 VERSION IS INCLUDED as well. If Warner is reading this, I'd ask that they treat this release similarly to their wonderful How The West Was Won set, with separate versions on separate discs. Disc 1: The Version You've Never Seen (re-colored if Friedkin so desires) Disc 2: The Original 1973 cut (retaining the original color timing) The Exorcist is one of my favorite films, but I will refrain from buying it if the 1973 version is not included. As one of the highest grossing films of all-time adjusted for inflation, I would think the film justifies a 2-disc release. I would gladly pay an extra $5-10 for such a set and, if necessary, wait an extra year for the original cut to be remastered. |
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Originally Posted by Geoff_D
Seconded. With TFC I can grudgingly admit that two different copies of the exact same cut of the film would be a hard sell to the money men (no matter how f'ed up the film might look).
But with The Exorcist having two distinctly different incarnations, there's no better reason to put that extra disc on there. Allow Friedkin to indulge his revisionist ways with one disc, and give us a pristine version of the original on another. I'm kinda hoping against hope that this sort of thinking is applied to the Blu of Apocalypse Now: one disc for the theatrical version in the 2.35 theatrical aspect ratio (hell, I'd take 2.20), and another platter for the Redux edit in whatever cock-eyed ratio Storaro insists upon. |
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Originally Posted by zackscott5
well, since that WArner's has total Control of the film itself (unlike Amadeus where they just have distribution rights) as well as being a very popular film as well as being the primo studio when it comes to classic film releases I feel that they will do a great job with the releasing of this on Blu as soon as they get around to it.
I say this because we don't have this on Blu yet (as opposed to other films that have less of a fan base from the Warner cannon that were released already) also this title was one of the first that warner released on DVD way back when so Meybe we will have a super duper edition...someday. All that I'm saying is that it's almost easter again and still no Exorcist on Blu. I guess that I'll be watching Last Temptation this year. BUt maybe it will come out in time for next year...when I will probably be able to afford it |
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Originally Posted by Kyle_D
I think he was acknowledging that Amadeus was a substandard release, and was implying that the reason why was because Warner was not involved in the mastering. Amadeus is owned and controlled by the Saul Zaentz company. Warner just packages and sells what Zaentz gives them.
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Originally Posted by Michael Rogers
What is the issue about Friedkin's new color timing, what has he changed?
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Originally Posted by Joe Karlosi
ABBY is an awful film!
Regarding THE EXORCIST --- I'd think the way to go is to include both versions, but if I could only have one it would be THE ORIGINAL THEATRICAL VERSION. I probably wouldn't buy it if it was only "The Version You Never Saw". |
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Originally Posted by Brian Borst
Friedkin first oversaturated the color, de-focusing it, and then reverted it back to black-and-white and combined the two images.
The results can be seen here. The caps don't show the bleeding anything red in the picture does. But it doesn't look very good, I must say, from these caps. |
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Originally Posted by Brian Borst
Oh, by the way, here's a link that shows how bad the reds bleed.
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