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post #301 of 315
6/18/05 at 4:20am
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Yeah but those movies deal with 'fantastic' elements (ghosts, aliens, etc.). Granted, killer sharks aren't exactly common but at least it could happen


This is true. Apparently Great Whites seem to enjoy feeding off the New Jersey coast. In the film, Hooper mentions the 1916 attacks. Ironically, the same year the movie was released (1975) there was also an attack on the Jersey shore...the latest Jersey attack on record? Just a couple of weeks ago. I remember having read about it and wondering if the people at Universal aren't just throwing Bruce back in the water everytime they release the movie...When's the HD-DVD of the film coming out? Jersey Swimmers beware!

ADDED: Here's the link to this year's Jersey attack:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../ussharkattack
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post #302 of 315
7/14/05 at 3:29pm
R2 buyers beware, it seems the R2 DVD isn't going to include the original mono track

http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=57768
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post #303 of 315
7/14/05 at 4:33pm
"See that, right there? Universal UK. They broke my heart..."
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post #304 of 315
7/14/05 at 4:51pm
Thank God for Multi-Regional players. Anyway, it's Universal's loss since I was going to pick-up the JAWS giftset but alas, I'll be going for the R1 set instead.

Unless this is some kind of mistake (hopefully!)...
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post #305 of 315
7/15/05 at 5:57am
I'm pretty sure that all European HTF members who visit the Film and Documentary board, have a multi-region player. My first player in '99 was multi. There is no other, as far as I'm considered. It's still disappointed to not see it carried over to the R2 editions.

Does the R2 of Duel have the mono?
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post #306 of 315
7/15/05 at 6:11am
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Does the R2 of Duel have the mono?



Apparently not - but it does contain the documentary which specifically makes reference to the sound of the truck at the end of the film - a sound which is nowhere to be heard on the R2!! Ignorant, irresponsible and utterly typical of the way R2 discs are handled, sadly.
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post #307 of 315
7/17/05 at 3:51am
I can confirm, the R2 has not the mono track on Duel. So I bought the R1 DVD
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post #308 of 315
7/30/05 at 9:06am
Just an FYI...

All those who are annoyed about not having the trailers on the new release, please email me. I have a solution.
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post #309 of 315
7/30/05 at 10:05pm
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The scoring for this film is so brilliant, it really deserves to be offered in it's original mono mix to full appreciate the rich layers on each track
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post #310 of 315
8/1/05 at 1:41pm
its nice to hear the mono track again (and the foley effects i know so well) but Damn! is that track shrill/harsh.
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post #311 of 315
8/16/05 at 7:40am
I have the original DTS only release, is this new set worth the upgrade for someone who dosen't care about extras or the mono track?
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post #312 of 315
8/16/05 at 7:44am
In my opinion, if you don't care about the extras or the mono, then no, it would not be worth it to you. Again, my opinion. But for me, I wanted both the extras and the mono track, so it was a no-brainer. By the way, that documentary is great! Glad I finally had the chance to see it!
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post #313 of 315
9/16/08 at 9:56pm

Re: Jaws 30th Anniversary Edition in June

From nytimes.com

"Frank Mundus, the hulking Long Island shark fisherman who was widely considered the inspiration for Captain Quint, the steely-eyed, grimly obsessed shark hunter in “Jaws,” died on Wednesday in Honolulu. He was 82 and lived on a small lemon-tree farm in Naalehu, on the southern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii, 2,000 feet above shark level.

The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Jeanette, said.

Mr. Mundus and his wife moved from Montauk, on the South Fork of Long Island, to Hawaii in 1991, but often returned to Long Island in summer, when tourists and city-slicker enthusiasts sought to spice vacations with a shark hunt, priced at $1,800 for a party of five.

On just such a venture in August 2007, the tail of a nine-foot thresher shark splashing off the stern of his 42-foot boat, the Cricket II, slapped Mr. Mundus and sent him reeling. He struck right back, planting his gaff — a giant fish hook on a pole — in the shark’s back and hauling it aboard."
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post #314 of 315
9/18/08 at 6:23pm

Re: Jaws 30th Anniversary Edition in June

Wow, and I just watched him on my Shark Week dvd set a week ago. I was figuring out how old he was now and wondering how much longer he'd stick around.
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post #315 of 315
9/19/08 at 5:48am

Re: Jaws 30th Anniversary Edition in June

Sounds like he was the real deal. Not a Good Morning Vietnam Robin Williams person who had to be upgraded.

RIP you loud storytellin, scary grizzled, fish catching old drunk!! (...I say lovingly. )
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