Chris McEneany
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Look at the tabs at the top or bottom of the thread. Click the one named Review to read the reviewI don't see any link to click
One of the few films that can mug me for a double/triple/quadruple dip without too much protest.
Can't remember it being anything other than murky when I saw it back in '81 so a gentle upgrade is the most I ever hope for.
Great review, ordered.
I went with RoundMediaUk through Amazon, hope to have a speedier delivery than my last Marketplace experience which had me thinking they were sending via carrier pidgeon.
LA is poor in comparison to New york, the films that is!!I've still never watched this properly, I was too scarred after Escape from LA....
I've still never watched this properly, I was too scarred after Escape from LA....
I watched it for the first time since its release last year , 10mins in I was like ok this is not bad then the rest of the film happened truly awful , the effect are so so bad that surfer board scene with Snake is shocking and it looked shocking in 96 , it makes the effects in Die Another Day look good.
One of he funniest things about EFLA that was on Letterboxd this year was someone ranked it higher in his list of Carpenter films than The Thing
Extras-wise perhaps, but as far as the visuals go I disagree. With the the exception of The Fog and Body Bags, every single Carpenter film Shout! has released has as good a/better looking version in another territory. So that's Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, They Live and Prince of Darkness (and even the Halloween films given that the Shout discs auto-cleaned some detail away). Shout!'s encodes are pretty bad and the masters it uses aren't always great to begin with.Scream always give his films the releases they deserve.
Is this really a 9 or is that rose tinted glasses talking? It looks utterly poop.
In my head I can't see how this could possibly have aged well?