Miracles ("Black Dragon" version) -- anamorphic? (1 Viewer)

[Aaron Silverman]

Hi gang,

Anyone know if the recent Columbia release of Miracles re-titled "Black Dragon" (the one with the uncut subtitled version on side 1 and the cut dubbed crap on side 2) is anamorphic?

Thanks!

 

[PaulaJ]

It's the same transfer from the first time they did this double version disc under the original name of Miracles.

I.e., the widescreen version is anamorphic, but it's a lousy transfer -- blurry, faded and enough haloes for all the angels in heaven.

Get the Hong Kong Legends version if you have a multi-region player.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

Thanks! I wonder if Fox is likely to release a better version here.

 

[PaulaJ]

>Thanks! I wonder if Fox is likely to release a better version here.

Not while Columbia/Tri-Star has the rights.

C/TS botched the Tsui Hark/Jet Li Once Upon a Time in China trilogy, too. EWWWW. Does that look bad. Even worse than Miracles. The worst anamorphic transfer I've ever seen.

 

[ChrisBEA]

But at least OUATIC films are uncut, I think. I base this on the included dubbed/shorter version.

 

[PaulaJ]

>But at least OUATIC films are uncut, I think. I base this on the included dubbed/shorter version.


The widescreen version of MIracles (Black Dragon) is uncut too.

But they all look pretty bad. Columbia/Tri-Star really fell down on the job with these DVDs. I wonder what happened.

-- Paula

 

[Matthew Brown]

Paula -
In the case of OUATIC, Columbia wasn't provided with masters that they could make a decent anamorphic transfer from. I guess you could call it a fake "anamorphic" process that they did.

Matt

 

[PaulaJ]

>In the case of OUATIC, Columbia wasn't provided with masters that they could make a decent anamorphic transfer from. I guess you could call it a fake "anamorphic" process that they did

Yikes! Considering how bad the result was, they should have just gone with non-anamorphic transfers. I've seen plenty of decent non-anamorphic transfers that are much nicer looking than the C/TS OUATIC and Miracles.

Thanks for the info.