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In the new Criterion Collection Thief of Bagdad commentaries: The Bruce Eder commentary is delightful and informative as is to be expected. The double commentary by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, possibly recorded separately from each other as they don't interract at all, is...

I will, thanks. Donald Bogle More on Dr. Boyd: Todd Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They call it "Alex North's famous New York theme", which is funny because Alex North never wrote a New York theme, famous or otherwise and only started composing for films 10 years or so later. By the way, some idiots will argue to this day that the theme was composed by Cyril Mockridge, the...

Why stop now? The Exorcist... The DVD edition of "the version you've never seen before" is technically perfect. But the director's commentary is dreadful. It is of the "descriptive video for the blind" kind, and spends the whole time describing, without insight or originality, everything that...

I am grateful for this thread that lets me let off some steam... The exquisite Cabin in the Sky by Vincente Minnelli came out on DVD a few years back along with another all-Black musical of the period starring Lena Horne, Stormy Weather. As delightful as both those films are, and although they...

Just recently, on the Fall of the Roman Empire DVD, as much as I was entertained by the DVD commentators' sometimes amusing and always amazing parallels between the careers of Commodus and George W. Bush throughout the film (born into a ruling family, inherited title, early alcoholism, misspent...

Night scenes: The commentary on the disc insists on the long nights spent filming the... night scenes in sometimes very cold weather (as well as telling us at length what the extras actually did to keep warm - groan!). In other films, like the German Nosferatu, the night scenes were...

I was disappointed by the commentary which could have been a little more informative about the changes made to Hugo's original story and a little less about what the stagehands had for lunch. (The only truly "faithful" version is the French film of 1954). The speed was 18 fps and "natural". The...

Yes, it was a pot shot. We're all allowed one. And I saw the film. And yes, martial law was enacted. But that still doesn't explain the "martial law edition" banner unless it's supposed to signal that it's a bare bones edition.

The version I bought is still on sale on Amazon.com. And somebody please explain to me the "Martial Law Edition" banner. Is this a new Bush-endorsed viewing process?

I bought this (probably) subsequent version: The problem is still there but at least they have removed Bruce Willis to the bottom of the picture. This, incidentally, was supposed to be the only film on record to talk about the 9/11 issue before the fact.

The colour on the Legend Films release ain't too shabby either... You might be interested in this dvdtalk.com thread on the latest Legend Films releases. It has lots of screen caps: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....t=legend+films

The green grass (or mulch) is an abomination in my eyes. It certainly jars with the all-orange image that implanted itself in my brain and that of millions of my contemporaries when the film first came out and blew us all away with its spectacle and grandeur.

It is a joke. This Ben-Hur poster is the iconic original art, as you said. The really horrible cover is the four-disc edition where they added green grass under the horses' hooves... Now that's ugly...

I don't think the way a film looks on DVD can be considered "garbage". What are we supposed to talk about, the lovely artwork on the cover?

You're the one who wrote:

There is no sniping and bickering, just a healthy exchange of contradictory opinions. This thread must have been very informative for people like you who were not aware of the colour issues of this latest release and, for that reason, I am glad to say it has more than fulfilled its...

"We thank you for the kind words, sir."

Your position is that this DVD has a good transfer and few artefacts despite its fuzziness and low bitrate and that is reason enough to buy it. You have no opinion at all on the colour values because you never thought about this subject before it was brought up by people like me who are...

I ventured an opinion on Cinderella because Chuck apparently hadn't noticed that the problem wasn't the whites of the eyes of the stepmother being blue but the eyes themselves being green on that DVD, which I think the screen capture I posted pretty well establishes. But, you're not attacking...

Chuck, I agree with you on most things but I also highly approve of the latest Cinderella DVD transfer. For one thing, in that shot, the colour of the eyes suggests to me that the stepmother is green with envy, and lying in wait in the shadows, and the colour of that chair is "vieux rose" ("old...

I think Mary Blair will be turning in her grave when she hears what was done to her colour concepts in the 2007 DVD Edition! Mary Blair's colour concept for the Indian Encampment: The Men are red. Mary Blair's Mermaid Lagoon: Peter Pan is dresed in green. Lots of blue...

And this is what it should look like: (Unless the indians have struck oil, the trail shouldn't stick out like a glow-in-the-dark 3-D pipeline. And smoke is blue-grey, not red.)

I'm thinking maybe the PE came with a pair of blue-green viewing glasses in order to restore the missing colours. Maybe mine fell off or something... I know...

In the PE, Peter looks a little wilted (jaundiced?) in his final confrontation with Hook: I would call that particular shade of yellow "goldenrod" if the word "pukish" didn't also come to mind. :) Reproduction (sericel) of original production cel: From...

Bickering would be very bad form, Mr. Smee.:)

You're not very good at naming colours, are you, Patrick? The important thing about the red in the Chief's face is that it is red and not brown and that it is closest to the animation cel I posted. And you complain about a brownish-green sky when the 2007 sky is all brown? You're getting desperate!

DTS IMages, by definition, only work in the digital domain. They can do anything they please with the colours by just pushing the right, shiny buttons. They have probably never seen a piece of celluloid, let alone a cel. 2002 SE Edition 2007 PE Edition a.k.a. The Beige Edition