by dinky on Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:46 pm
just trying to take advantage of the impending sequel (rise of the silver surfer) to sell some more dvds (they're actually packaging the $15 disc with a free ticket to see the sequel).
btw: don't bother watching the dvd5 recode. as much as spud bitches about the cgi in the F4 movies, it looks a hell of a lot worse at 3300-4500kbs. skin tones (not cgi, I know) look particularly bad. I haven't bothered analyzing the dvd structure, but it's one of those seamless branching(?) things with two streams (extended & regular). I assume that two streams share a great deal of video in common and just splice scenes. if not, the bitrate would be hella low cuz they kept both pcgs.
extended cuts are often hit or miss. like the mallrats re-edit was interesting. the underworld dc was (to me) literally indistinguishable from the theatrical. the 4 alien re-edits each drastically alter or enhance the theatrical perspective(s). it's definitely a crap shoot with these things.
Life ducks, and you sigh.