Red Heat Special Edition (1 Viewer)

[Michael Pakula]

I was on the digital bits browsing the upcoming covers and noticed that there is a special edition coming out for Red Heat. I don't remember hearing about this one. I will pick it up either way for the new transfer alone. Here is the details below and the cover art listed on amazon's site. It will be coming out September 7th which is turning out to be an expensive day.

DVD Features:

Available subtitles: English, Spanish

Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1),

English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)

Remastered print

"East Meets West" featurette

"Bennie Dobbins: A Stunt Man for All Seasons" featurette

"I'm Not Russian, But I Play One on TV: Ed O'Ross

"Making of" TV special

Trailers and TV spots

Widescreen anamorphic format







-Mike

 

[Dan Hitchman]

Talk about crappy cover art.

 

[Dan Rudolph]

I would but people always complain when we do.

 

[Matt Czyz]

Why is "Belushi" stuck allllllllllllllllllllllll the way at the bottom? It should be right underneath the title, right? That's where any sane designer would put it.

 

[JeremySt]

similar to the original poster... but still crappy.

 

[Harold Wazzu]

Don't think it's worthy of an S.E.

Are they making S.E.'s of all of Arnold's films now?

 

[Jeannette Walsh]

LOL in the original Belushi is holding a coffee cup and now he's holding a gun. Is someone taking a cheap jab at Spielberg?

 

[Haden]

Hahaha.. that new cover with "Belushi" in small print at the bottom just cracks me up. Man, talk about completely disrespecting the actor.

 

[Grant H]

Was the original non-anamorphic.

I don't remember. Guess I haven't watched it since I went 16:9. Odd, since I like this movie.

 

[Grant H]

Guess it was non-anamorphic.

The SE is available for $10.63 at Deepdiscountdvd.com

Excellent! Looks like my dad gets another hand-me-down..if he doesn't have the original already.

 

[Erin C]

Anyone found any reviews yet? I'm definately picking this up Tuesday!

 

[Bolivar G]

Dont have the orginal, guess this a good time to pick up this movie. I like the 10.63 price.

 

[Jerome Grate]

5.1 Surround sound, certainly makes it worth the purchase.

 

[Shane Martin]

I bought it.

The 5.1 mix is not very active. It's mostly front heavy to be honest. There wasn't too much dynamic range there. They didn't remix it I would imagine or didn't do a whole lot to it.

The video is average. No obvious EE. I would say around a 3 out of 5 for video quality. About as good as I could have expected. The early parts are kinda ugly while after that it cleans up a bit.

The extras I have not dug into yet.

Overall an OK release but worth it for the anamorphic transfer and the cheap price tag. I think I paid $13.

 

[Andrew Bunk]

I've watched this as well on a large monitor and I agree with Shane's assessment. I never watched the previous version so I can't compare, but I'm sure this one looks better due to the 16:9 enhancement.

 

[EnricoE]

the original release is a flipper dvd (dvd10). on one side is the movie in letterbox and on the other in fulllscreen (open matte).

 

[Magnus T]

The term "flipper" is only used for movies spread over to sides of a disc, i.e. you have to flip (get it?) the disc halfway through the film.