Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

by **king_ghidorah** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:01 am

Unfortunately, I can't see us getting an upgrade to this release any time soon, if ever.

Sadly, this will have to be as good as it gets.

by **John Schuermann** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:31 pm

by **Alpha OTS** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:18 pm

Watched the bluray last night and then popped the dvd in to compare. The bluray is *MUCH* better than the dvd, and a definite step up. However, everyone that is criticizing the picture quality aren't far off the mark either because of how dismal the dvd starting point is. There were a couple instances where the suit looks fantastic, but most of the time the picture's not very crisp and feels oversaturated. At best it looks like a half-decent dvd transfer, not a bluray and it's definitely more than watchable. If the restoration footage extra is really a sample of the source material they had to use, then it wasn't going to look any better than this. In fact, they did a fairly decent job if that's the case. Although I question the vertical lines that pop up in certain scenes that look like they could have been easily fixable/masked.

I kind of miss the 5.1 from the dvd. Yeah, I know it was overdone and nothing like the theatrical soundtrack, but I liked it. Although the extras on the bluray far suprass the dvd, so I really have no reason to keep the dvd now. I'm planning on passing it along to a friend. To be honest, I was much more dissappointed by the Biollante bluray than this.

by **gamereviewgod** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:32 pm

by **Henry88** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:06 pm

by **gamereviewgod** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:25 pm

by **Alpha OTS** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:28 pm

by **SeaHawk** » Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:02 pm

by **GaryT** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:21 pm

by **Joseph Goodman** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:17 pm

by **gamereviewgod** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:15 pm

by **king_ghidorah** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:17 pm

Watching this now...you guys weren't kidding. Looks really grainy and distorted for a blu ray. Better than the dvd but it's a very uneven release. I recommend it though as I doubt we'll get a better one.

by **Joseph Goodman** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:41 pm

What do you mean by "distorted"? As being grainy, those opticals and stock footage shots are going to be grainy no matter what, whether they transferred the film on a camcorder pointed into a projector, or scanned it in 8k on a Northlight II... it's just the nature of opticals and stock footage, particularly with the duplication stocks available at the time of the film's production.

by **GaryT** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:25 pm

by **John Schuermann** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:28 pm

by **StevenScrivello** » Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:53 pm

Just finished watching the disc, and after reading all the semi-negative reviews, I was pleasantly surprised by how decent the transfer is. Sure, it's not a Criterion restoration or even a Blue Underground, but it's the best the film has ever looked on home video, and is likely to ever look. Some sequences look great (mostly the monster sequences)!

by **Gwangi** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 1:36 am

Honestly, this is the best version I have ever seen! Pretty happy with it. Heck, when I first bought a copy of this movie back in 1989, it was a public domain video, but still was happy to have it!

Kudos to all involved in the disk.

by **lhb412** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 1:45 am

Just watched my copy. I thought it was a pretty good quality Blu-Ray of a film that's not in fantastic shape and is really grainy in a lot of places naturally because of the composite footage and stock shots. Best it's gonna look unless someone does an intensive restoration. Some wonderful extra features, too.

Website · by **Silver Kamen** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:20 pm

I really loved this release, it was excellent! Restoration, Extras etc. They were all great.

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