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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      Non-Film Score Discussion: One Million Years B.C. finally coming to Blu-ray!    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3       Last Post   Posted:   Nov 11, 2016 - 8:47 AM     By:   RoryR   (Member) I like desert movies (OMYBC, Sands of the Kalihari, Flight of the Pheonix, Lawrence of Arabia, POTA), so I'm fine with the location. Also, you can imagine that the makers of the '66 version meant for their film to be set as dinosaurs were on their way to extinction. Maybe they remembered that segment of Fantasia?    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 5:49 PM     By:   msmith   (Member) The details are finally here: http://www.dvddrive-in.com/    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 6:43 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) Wish I had an original poster from this movie. I tried getting one twenty years age but even back then the prices were too high for me.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 7:32 PM     By:   Joe E.   (Member) I don't understand the sense of having both cuts of the film. Is the shorter US release version better than the complete UK version? Not for me. I may have to go with the StudioCanal Blu-ray -- if it's this supposed 4K restoration -- because it'll probably be a better Blu-ray in terms of the transfer's bitrate, assuming Kino plans to put both cuts on one disc. I assume it would use seamless branching to include or exclude the additional material for the U.K. cut, as I'm sure the overwhelming majority of DVDs and Blu-rays do that feature multiple cuts of movies, as opposed to completely duplicating the entirety of all footage found in both versions. If the difference between the two cuts is simply that the U.K. one has everything the U.S. version does plus nine more minutes (as opposed to each version having something the other doesn't), then it's simply a matter of mastering the disc in such a way that selecting one version from the menu will play the entire 100-minute thing, while selecting the other will play most of it but skip over the parts that aren't in the U.S. release. And given that, it's a fairly trivial feature to include. Even if hardly anyone prefers the shorter version, why wouldn't they include the option? It's an easily added feature they can use as an additional selling point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamless_branching    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 8:15 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) It probably will be done that way, now that I think about it, but I still can't understand wanting to view the shorter US version. Even if I'd seen OMYBC when it originally came out and had a nostalgic childhood love for it, I'd still want to only watch it in its original version. Wouldn't you think it ridiculous if, for example, Universal put out SPARTACUS in both its complete 1960 version AND the edited '67 reissue? Or, KING KONG in both its '33 version and censored later version? But, whatever! I'll be getting the Kino release for the commentary track.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 8:34 PM     By:   Joe E.   (Member) It probably will be done that way, now that I think about it, but I still can't understand wanting to view the shorter US version. Even if I'd seen OMYBC when it originally came out and had a nostalgic childhood love for it, I'd still want to only watch it in its original version. Wouldn't you think it ridiculous if, for example, Universal put out SPARTACUS in both its complete 1960 version AND the edited '67 reissue? Or, KING KONG in both its '33 version and censored later version? I wouldn't think it ridiculous. If a movie was released in multiple cuts, there's probably legitimate historical interest in the different versions, and probably every version also has at least a couple fans who feel that's the ideal or "true" version, regardless of how most others feel. I'd certainly want the fuller, more complete versions of both of your examples myself, but there's probably someone out there somewhere who prefers one of the shorter versions of one of those. There are also probably some devoted fans who just want to be able to see the movies in every form they've had, and compare and contrast the merits of different cuts.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 9:28 PM     By:   Eric Paddon   (Member) I think there's one other difference beyond the fact that the US cut is shorter but I believe there are some different credits in the US cut with Hal Roach, Sr. getting an Associate Producer credit (due to his involvement with the original film) that isn't in the credits of the UK cut. I think the difference in the films are more like how we think of the two versions of "Strangers On A Train" as two distinctly different versions.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2016 - 10:08 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) Yes and there are two versions of MY DARLING CLEMENTINE and THE BIG SLEEP and probably others I can't think of, but those are different edits with alternate scenes (and I have both versions of each on DVD and Blu-ray). They are not edited, shorter versions of the complete version, which is the case with OMYBC. But again, whatever, to each his own. But for me, the shorter version is an inferior version -- but it's not like we're talking CITIZEN KANE here.     Non-Film Score Discussion: One Million Years B.C. finally coming to Blu-ray!    << < 1 2 3  >   Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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