New James Bond Ultimate editions - R1 Single Films ANNOUNCED

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 16 Jun 2006, 22:00

Also the French will get the case too but there Cover for A View To a Kill will be edited to remove the eifel tower which is on our cover, odd but true apparently.

That's curious. You'd think it would be the other way round and that the Frog, er, French would add their national landmark. C'est la vie.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 16 Jun 2006, 23:44

grim_tales wrote:Anyone seen any reviews/screenshots yet?

Well you have because I pointed you to the trailer

MLAM wrote:No not yet, but apparently it has been confirmed that the R1 release will be when Casino Royale hits the cinema's and the specs WILL BE IDENTCAL to the R2 releases.

What like it was confirmed they'd ALL have Mono then only some would. I've learnt not to believe rumours or more to the point when I see an official press release.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Jun 2006, 17:17

Fair enough Brad but I meant more detailed reviews

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 17 Jun 2006, 17:41

Like reviews I do

10 pages per dvd.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Jun 2006, 18:29

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Jun 2006, 16:40

No I want to be able to understand what I'm reading

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Jun 2006, 21:12

Lots of screen captures and menu captures:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61903

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 23 Jun 2006, 00:34

Looking good. But which idiots at DVD Times think screen cap comparisons aren't necessary?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 23 Jun 2006, 11:55

Looks good. Dr No looks very good, nut first I'll upgrade what I have.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 23 Jun 2006, 19:39

It's worth going back to that link from time to time as Dave F keeps updating it.

For those who were thinking of upgrading Die Another Day Don't Bother:

Originally Posted by DaveF:
Die Another Day only has the material you see in the menus, which does mean it's the only one in the set to be seriously lacking. There is no Ministry of Propaganda section, so there are no trailers, tv spots, music videos etc. It's also missing the 'Inside Die Another Day' 77-minute documentary, the scene evolutions, equipment briefings, title design featurette and digital grading featurette. So definitely keep your old release if you want all that.

In terms of captions, what i've caught so far is:

Die Another Day & Tomorrow Never Dies - Player generated
The World Is Not Enough - Burnt in.

Originally Posted by MLAM:
Here is a caption I mean Dave in The Living Daylights, well the one at the start of the film anyway.

It's a poor picture from a VHS rip off a ITV recording a few years back but you get the idea.

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/372/ ... ion1mm.jpg

Originally Posted by DaveF:
Thanks for the sample image, seeing that I can confirm there is no caption of any kind for that on the UE DVD. I did a test though, and turned on the Dutch subtitles for the film and "Bratislava, Czechoslavakia" is displayed as that scene opens. The same is not true for the English subtitle tracks.

IronMonkey · Post by **IronMonkey** » 23 Jun 2006, 20:30

So basically there are some botch-ups on these "Ultimate Editions". When will DVD companies ever get a DVD right?!

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 24 Jun 2006, 00:41

So basically there are some botch-ups on these "Ultimate Editions". When will DVD companies ever get a DVD right?!

Never..... ever.

And I see 'OHMSS' is still not quite uncut. The "In my shoulder" line shouldn't be there.

I expect none of the films bar 'Licence' to Kill will be.

MLAM · Post by **MLAM** » 24 Jun 2006, 02:00

Markgway wrote:
So basically there are some botch-ups on these "Ultimate Editions". When will DVD companies ever get a DVD right?!
Never..... ever.

And I see 'OHMSS' is still not quite uncut. The "In my shoulder" line shouldn't be there.

Eh? shoudn't be there? IT's in all prints I've seen.

How is it not quite uncut if its there?

Clarify please Mark

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 24 Jun 2006, 06:53

I'm sure Bond is supposed to say "I feel a slight stiffness coming on...", the added "in my shoulder" line ruins the gag.
Mark if you get them can check GE/TND for true uncutness

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 24 Jun 2006, 15:51

Grim's right. The BBFC forced them to dub in Bond saying "...in my shoulder" to disguise that the fact that he was obviously takling about his cock. The BBFC would not have a problem with this today so it's sheer silliness for MGM to leave it in. This is the easiest film to render uncut and they screwed it up again. I have little hope for the others, bar Licence to Kill, which the BBFC have already confirmed. I asked the BBFC a while back about those two films but they didn't know at the time and haven't gotten back to me since. I know pretty much what all the original cuts were to the 007 series so I could tell quite easily if the new ones were uncut just by checking. But it's not like I have review copies is it?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 24 Jun 2006, 16:01

Yeah, but if/when you get the DVDs when they come out

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 24 Jun 2006, 18:24

I'm not gonna buy DVDs without knowing if they're uncut or not, lol.

If they were budget priced, maybe...?

If reviewers did their job properly it wouldn't be necessary would it. 8)

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 24 Jun 2006, 19:20

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 24 Jun 2006, 19:52

Well wait until someone else buys them or views them then

MLAM · Post by **MLAM** » 24 Jun 2006, 22:58

Markgway wrote:Grim's right. The BBFC forced them to dub in Bond saying "...in my shoulder" to disguise that the fact that he was obviously takling about his cock. The BBFC would not have a problem with this today so it's sheer silliness for MGM to leave it in. This is the easiest film to render uncut and they screwed it up again. I have little hope for the others, bar Licence to Kill, which the BBFC have already confirmed. I asked the BBFC a while back about those two films but they didn't know at the time and haven't gotten back to me since. I know pretty much what all the original cuts were to the 007 series so I could tell quite easily if the new ones were uncut just by checking. But it's not like I have review copies is it?

Oh Come on, It's always been like that since it was shown in the theatres so I doubt they'll bother taking the line out ever, if they did then people will bloody complain that the line is missing!

Cheez some people are just too picky these days.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 25 Jun 2006, 00:05

The line wasn't supposed to be there. Stating a simple fact.

I guess you can say the same about restoring any of the cuts from Bond movies.

They've been cut so long... why bother?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 25 Jun 2006, 00:10

Since the R2/R4 releases of the pre-Brosnan films are all missing their original audio tracks, their existence is redundant (we know your stance on remixes already Brad, so don't bother to rebut).

MLAM · Post by **MLAM** » 25 Jun 2006, 00:57

Markgway wrote:The line wasn't supposed to be there. Stating a simple fact.

I guess you can say the same about restoring any of the cuts from Bond movies.

They've been cut so long... why bother?

I know, my point is that they aint bothered reinstating cuts made long ago so its clearly unlikely they'll bother taking out alterations made at request from the BBFC.

I guess there trying to show the films As They Were when shown in the theatres intentionally. BBFC Cuts not included of course.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 25 Jun 2006, 09:46

I thought the Pre-Brosnan Bonds would be the same?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Jun 2006, 14:19

MLAM wrote:Cheez some people are just too picky these days.

Here here

LOL @ Grim expecting Mark to be the guinea pig. You could always by them. It's unlikely the Brosnan Bonds won't be uncut when the cut footage is much more wildly known about.

Quite frankly I'm much more interested to hear/see if they've actually been remastered than all this talk of cuts (IMO). Isn't that at least half the reason for these re-releases?

EvaUnit02 wrote:Since the R2/R4 releases of the pre-Brosnan films are all missing their original audio tracks, their existence is redundant

Huh? Which DVDs are you talking about? The R4 UE's aren't out yet so you couldn't possibly know and the original R2 DVDs anyway some of which do have the original audio tracks.

EvaUnit02 wrote: (we know your stance on remixes already Brad, so don't bother to rebut).

And the fucking point in that comment was? Where did it come from exactly? I wasn't even part of the conversation.

Talk about hypocritical. Tell me who sounded luck a stuck record repeating themselves into oblivion over the Matrix? You said it was cut fine but then decided to repeat yourself just so it's rammed down everyone's throat.

Do you know my stance on remixes? Because if you think I think it's perfectly acceptable to only include the 5.1 remix you clearly don't know my stance.