Maximum Overdrive (1986) - Koch Films - 05 Sep 2019

[shocker2]

Coming in two 3 disc (2 BDs + 1 DVD) Mediabooks.

Cover A:


Amazon.de order link: https://www.amazon.de/Stephen-Warnung-Mediabook-Bonus-BR-Blu-ray/dp/B07TPYX3YZ/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85Z%C3%95%C3%91&k eywords=4020628737245&qid=1562100497&s=gateway&sr= 8-1


Cover B:


Amazon.de order link: https://www.amazon.de/Stephen-Warnung-Mediabook-Bonus-BR-Blu-ray/dp/B07TKNGMD7/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85Z%C3%95%C3%91&k eywords=4020628737238&qid=1562100596&s=gateway&sr= 8-1


Tech. specs:

Video: 2.35:1 (16:9)
Audio: German, English; BD: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0/5.1; DVD: Dolby Digital 2.0/5.1
Subtitles: German
Runtime: 98 min.


Extras:

- German and English trailer and TV spots
- Audio commentaries by King biographer Tony Magistrale, actor Jonah Ray and Blumhouse producer Ryan Turek
- Audio interview with Mick Garris and Stephen King
- Interviews with producers Matha de Laurentiis and John Short
- Interviews with actresses Laura Harrington and Yeardley Smith
- Interview with actor Holter Graham
- Interview with make-up artist Dean Gates
- Featurette "The Wilington Factor" about the film technicians
- Featurette about AC/DC
- Featurette about the "Goblin Project"
- Behind the scenes
- Picture gallery
- Booklet by Uwe Anton

[McCrutchy]

That German title is...less effective.

[Bumblefeet]

Rhea M is the name of the drug Stephen King was on while he shot this.

[Transdimensional]

Anyone pick this up? Wondering how it compares to the Vestron release.

[Grimmy]

Originally Posted by Transdimensional

Anyone pick this up? Wondering how it compares to the Vestron release.

Same transfer than Vestron, but better compression and encoded with a much higher bitrate. Not a surprise as apart from the obvious - commentaries, a few trailers and other short bits, all the other extras have been thrown on the bonus blu disc so the feature has more room to breathe. Includes also English subs even if majority of places selling the mediabooks don't mention them.

Backcover does feature some wrong info too.. it states DTS-HD MA 2.0 when in fact it's LPCM 2.0 and feature length is stated as 124 mins instead of 98 mins.

[DMRI2006]

Originally Posted by Grimmy

Same transfer than Vestron, but better compression and encoded with a much higher bitrate.

Thanks, that's what I was hoping for. Same deal as WARLOCK then, the German mediabook has much better encoding/compression than the Lionsgate disc. Will place an order

[Filmmaker]

So what exactly does “Rhea M” translate to in English? Even online translators can’t seem to make heads or tails of that one for me.

[slybone]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

So what exactly does “Rhea M” translate to in English? Even online translators can’t seem to make heads or tails of that one for me.

Actually, "Rhea M" is the name of the comet which Earth temporarily is in the tail of, which sets off the series of events in the film. This is explained in the screen of text which appears at the very beginning of the film, before the opening credits.

So, in short, "Rhea M" is not a translation at all, but rather an alternate title that was used for the German market.

Hope that helps!

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by slybone

Actually, "Rhea M" is the name of the comet which Earth temporarily is in the tail of, which sets off the series of events in the film. This is explained in the screen of text which appears at the very beginning of the film, before the opening credits.

So, in short, "Rhea M" is not a translation at all, but rather an alternate title that was used for the German market.

Hope that helps!

It helps indeed, thank you! Clearly, I should spend less time collecting and more time watching, LOL.

[Grifter02]

Originally Posted by slybone

Actually, "Rhea M" is the name of the comet which Earth temporarily is in the tail of, which sets off the series of events in the film. This is explained in the screen of text which appears at the very beginning of the film, before the opening credits.

So, in short, "Rhea M" is not a translation at all, but rather an alternate title that was used for the German market.

Hope that helps!

Speaking of the screen of text, is it still in English on the German disc?

[spannick]

all original English screen text (has voice over for the opening text in German dub)

[shocker2]

New Mediabook edition - Amazon.de exclusive - coming on 17 Dec 2020:



Order link:
https://www.amazon.de/Stephen-Kings-Rhea-Mediabook-Amazon/dp/B08LHHS1N9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3 %91&dchild=1&keywords=rhea+m&qid=1603776038&s=dvd& sr=1-1

[shocker2]

Screenshot comparison:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=4948

[The Mole]

Wow. I did not expect the Koch disc to actually show more grain and be much sharper than the US disc. Now I am tempted for a double dip.

[NLScavenger]

Lionsgate tends to low-pass filter the video, probably to make encoding easier at the expense of high frequency detail and color intensity. Other examples of low-pass filtered Lionsgate BDs are John Wick 2/3 and Suspiria.

I have the French release which falls somewhere in between the Lionsgate and Koch BDs.

Comparison of the FR and US BDs that I made a while ago

https://slow.pics/c/ZJVMKnOc

[agenda]

Originally Posted by The Mole

Wow. I did not expect the Koch disc to actually show more grain and be much sharper than the US disc.

Wow. I did not expected to witness that someone still surprised thing like that when it comes to absolutely dogshit quality like Vestron series release.

[sa5150]

Originally Posted by agenda

Wow. I did not expected to witness that someone still surprised thing like that when it comes to absolutely dogshit quality like Vestron series release.

Hope this gets 4K .


The French is the middle ground but once I buy it they will announce a 4K somewhere .

I see that the French edition would be the one to have with 5.1 DTS and PQ is better then the Vestron . What I do find interesting is the French and USA are Lionsgate and the German is Studio Canal . De Laurentiis Entertainment Group was eventually acquired by Studio Canal , And that's probably why the German is the best looking of the bunch plus a maxed out bitrate/encode . There is one media book that's cropped to 1.85 so careful which one you guys buy . Though all the Germans are OOP .

[DMRI2006]

Lionsgate has the option to distribute Studio Canal titles in the US so they just released the Studio Canal master here but did a lousy job with compression/encoding on their disc. As they have sadly many times with "Vestron" titles.

German release remains the best of the group out there, Koch/Plaion typically does it right in terms of compression/authoring/etc.

Will be interesting to see if this nabs a 4K down the road...