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lhb412 wrote:Hmmmm... Okay, apparently Matt Frank's been teasing some special project and...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAVp1EXW4AE ... me=900x900
By comparing it to Mill Creek's Ultraman and Criterion's Godzilla sets it seems to indicate a home video release. Redman? Other Toho kaiju? - but, if you look at the replies you'll see a little angry emoji face from artist and Gamera superfan Sophie Campbell, whose work is included in the Criterion Godzilla set. I may be making something out of nothing, but I think that this is something to do with Gamera.
lhb412 wrote: but I just have a feeling it's Gamera. Mill Creek's releases have been out of print for a little while now and are fetching outrageous prices, the Japanese studio now has done far better transfers, and it just feels like interest in kaiju movies is stronger than ever in the West.
- add to that Sophie Campbell posting a few comments about how Matt has got some new project that she really wishes she could have had and add her status as a huge Gamera fan, moreso than Godzilla, and it just feels really plausible for me.
The Shadow wrote:New releases of the Showa Gamera movies would be great, especially if we can get Gammera the Invicible this time. The English dubs for the other movies would be welcome too. If MillCreek's Heisei releases could be improved upon, I'd double dip for them as well.
lhb412 wrote:^ The were only provided dubs for some of the Showa Gamera films, so they decided to just askew the English dubs for uniformity (those were more like one of their value releases anyway, what with the substandard 1080i versions provided).
lhb412 wrote:Hmmmm... Okay, apparently Matt Frank's been teasing some special project and...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAVp1EXW4AE ... me=900x900
By comparing it to Mill Creek's Ultraman and Criterion's Godzilla sets it seems to indicate a home video release. Redman? Other Toho kaiju? - but, if you look at the replies you'll see a little angry emoji face from artist and Gamera superfan Sophie Campbell, whose work is included in the Criterion Godzilla set. I may be making something out of nothing, but I think that this is something to do with Gamera.
- Sinister Cinema has a slightly better version of WOTM but it's basically the same master. Alpha just snipped the AI-TV logo and their encode isn't quite as good, IMO.
- Return of the Giant Monsters - The best version is a recording from UPN in 2002, but even that isn't perfect (compressed video/audio to account for more commercials). It was an official MGM transfer which I'm sure will never be resurrected since they lost the rights years ago. Sinister Cinema has a copy that is quite like their WOTM transfer but doesn't have any of the time-compression problems the UPN recording suffers from.
- Destroy All Planets - The 2010 (?) Retromedia DVD used a new transfer that looks and sounds good and has a commentary track with Carl Craig.
- Attack of the Monsters - The 2003 Retromedia DVD. AFAIK, all other releases since have been copies of this.
- Gamera vs. Monster X - Sinister Cinema; the Retromedia double features adds a lame video-generated copyright notice over the title.
Obviously if you only care about the audio and not the visuals or the 4:3 framing these movies were originally seen with on TV, then the Shout! DVDs are fine, although the dubs are rarely ever properly synced.
lhb412 wrote:Just FYI; on Arrow Video's Sister Street Fighter set they included the original American release version of Sister Street Fighter via editing a Japanese print to the American one's soundtrack and including standard-definition inserts from whatever copy of the original American release version they had for things like credits and other English text.
lhb412 wrote:Just FYI; on Arrow Video's Sister Street Fighter set they included the original American release version of Sister Street Fighter via editing a Japanese print to the American one's soundtrack and including standard-definition inserts from whatever copy of the original American release version they had for things like credits and other English text.
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