Godzilla KOTM... from the Criterion Collection!?!?!

[Joseph Goodman]

The Sony Blu-ray's are a bizarre mix of mostly the Toho 2008 transfers, yet they revert to Sony's own textless or video-generated text transfers whenever there was originally Japanese text on-screen (the exception is G2K). A real egregious example of this was the infamous "Major Spielberg" scene; I saw that Blu projected at an Alamo Drafthouse, and the sudden jump in image quality for the Sony-sourced shots was quite noticeable.

[kiryugoji04]

I was just referring to the DVD. I still haven't picked up their blus yet, haha.

[Benjamin Haines]

[Joseph Goodman]

You've had to post that stuff so many times Benjamin, that it really ought to be stickied. Sure, it will be ignored anyway, but it's the thought that counts.

[Dr Kain]

[Benjamin Haines]

[lhb412]

Ted Thomas busy cashing them Shaw Brothers checks...

[canofhumdingers]

[kiryugoji04]

[lhb412]

^ Ted Thomas is real-life Zero Mostel from The Producers?!

[Dr Kain]

[Gojira69]

[Gojira69]

Question... So, when MB was forced to recall their DAM Blu, did they then re-release it as a bare-bones edition and lacking in the AIP dub?

[kiryugoji04]

[Shokara]

[Benjamin Haines]

[H-Man]

[kiryugoji04]

[lhb412]

^On the one hand, that's such a terrible thing to do to a person. On the other hand, from the point of view of 2019 and some of the truly heinous things that have come out about various people it seems like such a quaint, old-world kind of a crime. It's the kind of crime done by a villainous Jack Lemmon character in some broad comedy from the mid-sixties.

[Gojira69]

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[Gojira69]

After reading this thread seems easy to blame Media Blasters for the current state of affairs. I think its more likely MB is not to blame, and if they had not done the treatment they did for DAM we would likely never have gotten those extras with DAM in the US. As far as I can see, this is all on Toho's side.

[XvGojira]

Originally I thought it was the addition of the API dub, but I've been seeing people say that it was because MB didn't get Toho's approval for the photo gallery and trailers for other movies. If that's correct, then it would seem to me that Toho okayed or at least had no issues with the other special features. They were fine with other commentary tracks and subs, as seen by the CM DVDs, but after MB's DAM Toho nixed a lot of special features. Like isn't that why we never got Ed G's Biollante commentary?

[H-Man]

I think Toho took too long to approve the GvB commentary and Echo Bridge didn’t want to delay the release of the disc over the commentary alone.

Something similar almost happened here, since KKvG apparently wasn’t approved until the day of the Criterion announcement.

[lhb412]

[Joseph Goodman]