Road Warrior & Battle Of The Bulge out on HD-DVD & Blu-ray on May 8th

KevD · 14-03-2007, 6:38 PM

Just noticed this over at DVDTalk.

Both due for for release on both formats on May 8th.

Looking foward to Road Warrior

Nic Rhodes · 14-03-2007, 6:59 PM

two more good titles for HD.

7hil · 14-03-2007, 7:11 PM

Battle of the Bulge? Never heard of it.

Wish it was Mad Max 3.

Moan moan....

Nic Rhodes · 14-03-2007, 7:39 PM

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Originally Posted by 7hil

Battle of the Bulge? Never heard of it.

.........

Jim Morrison · 09-05-2007, 2:38 PM

Just had an email from Movietyme saying my Road Warrior BD has been dispatched. Absolutely can't wait to get my grubby hands on this!

stu8 · 09-05-2007, 6:18 PM

saw a thread on hi def digest saying the PQ on road warrier is on a par with the thing

this ones going in me collection

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=7284

Racquel Darrian · 09-05-2007, 7:41 PM

My HD DVD of Road Warrior has been dispatched.

MJeeves · 11-05-2007, 10:57 AM

Watched "ROAD WARRIOR" on HD-DVD last night.

I can confirm that it IS the UNCUT version !

The picture for the most part is very impressive for the age of the movie. The daylight scenes look very good, clean, and vibrant. The night-time scenes fair less well being VERY grainy in places. Overall, this is a good step up from the SD release.

The extras are all good too.

Now... the sound. I was listening via Anlog 5.1 outputs and I found that the centre channel was getting lost in the mix. The voices particularly were VERY low in the mix (distractingly so). Also very little surround use. Disappointed in the sound which was quite poor I thought.

Overall a mixed bag for me.

I forgot how gripping this film was though!

Kevo · 11-05-2007, 3:41 PM

'The Road Warrior'

It's called MAD MAX 2 !!

Mjeeves, it's not the 'American dubbed' version is it ?

MJeeves · 11-05-2007, 3:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevo

'The Road Warrior'

It's called MAD MAX 2 !!

Mjeeves, it's not the 'American dubbed' version is it ?

I agree with you. The cover says "ROAD WARRIOR" but the opening credits of the film say "MAD MAX 2".
It was renamed "ROAD WARRIOR" because the original "MAD MAX" was NOT a hit in the US.
So, Warner Bros thought that nobody would pay to see a movie sequel to an original film they had never even heard of before. Hence they renamed it "ROAD WARRIOR" and it was a hit!

Weird but whilst the original "MAD MAX" was a hit in most territories. It didn't make any impact in the U.S. at all. This often happens. Big UK films like "Layer Cake", "Shaun of Dead", "Lock Stock..." etc etc make TONS of money in the UK but relatively little on the worldwide stage.

Oh... and no, it's not dubbed for US audiences. But.... the sound is not that great (especially the dialogue!)