Australian region-4 Godzilla DVDs (subtitled) thread!

[Elliot Gay]

[KaiserGhidorah]

[Benjamin Haines]

[Gigan71]

[GFan]

[KaiserGhidorah]

[GFan]

[KaiserGhidorah]

[GFan]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[RyanClark]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[GFan]

[JimPV]

[briizilla]

[larryw3158]

[Gigan71]

Godzilla vs Megalon R4 Cover

[Benjamin Haines]

^ Again, they've opted to use the Final Box cover. Bad idea, I must say, as most of the Final Box covers suck, including that one. Hopefully Madman is keeping the original Japanese posters on the other sides of the DVD covers to use instead, and that wasn't just a one-time thing with Destroy All Monsters.

I ordered Madman's Destroy All Monsters DVD by the way, and it's taking a while to get here. Not surprising, though, because it does have to ship all the way from Australia after all.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

About that Oppo can you give me a model number? I'm going to try to find it on Ebay for cheap.

[Gigan71]

I gotta admit the R4 megalon cover sucks..Where is megalon ??? Reminds me of the sony godzilla vs gigan cover where gigan didnt even appear at all on the front..

[WaverBoy]

[GFan]

[JimPV]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[Benjamin Haines]

My copy of Madman's R4 Destroy All Monsters DVD arrived last week, along with several other DVDs. I finally watched it today. On my TV, it looked absolutely fantastic, just like the R2. But once I put it in my computer and started analyzing it closely to write a DVD review for Tokyo Monsters, I noticed that there is actually a LOT of artifacting on the image. It's very subtle, and not noticeable on a TV. But if you're watching it on the computer, it's definitely there, for the entire course of the movie.

The other aspects of the video are all spot-on. No grain, no speckles, no edge enhancement, and the colors all look just as good as the Japanese R2 (not too weak, and not as strong as Sony's Showa R1s; just right, not complainable at all). The artifacting wasn't noticeable for me when I watched it on my TV, so it certainly wasn't distracting in the least. But just know that the video quality on this release is, unfortunately, not perfect. I assume this is the case for the other Godzilla DVDs Madman has released.

The DVD itself is still great, miles ahead of ADV's "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" R1 Destroy All Monsters releases, with good audio and special features options, and optional English dubbing and accurate English subtitles. Indeed, artifacting is the one and only flaw I can find with this DVD, and it didn't distract or bother me a bit on the TV. I definitely recommend it.