Night of the Living Dead (1990) - Out of Print

[thephantomcat]

Originally Posted by whitesheik

The co-owner of Twilight Time is a friend of mine. He knows very well I will call it as I see it. However, I, unlike others here, refuse to judge anything based on ANY comments on this board - I will wait until I see it, which will be late next week. I am a defender of ANY good transfer, but just because it's Twilight Time does not mean I don't call it as I see it.

But let's just look at the situation, shall we? First we have, I don't know, twenty pages or so of people saying really pithy things like, "I got mine today!" and "I didn't get mine today!" and "Mine came at 7:08!" and "I got a shipping notice!" That was twenty exciting pages, I tell you. Then we immediately had two posts from people who'd seen the disc and those two posts were extremely positive. Then there were some who thought it was crap and posted screen caps to prove it. Then we had several people say their Blu-ray disc's image looked nothing like the screen caps. Then we had a whole slew of people angry BASED on the screen caps and not the actual disc.

And then we had you. Who felt it necessary to bring my name up. A little obsessed?

Well said.

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

The blue tint issue lasts for around 20 minutes and somebody, somewhere messed up. After that it looks pretty darn good. The sound is solid throughout the movie.

You've got the disc and I haven't, so obviously you're in a better position to say. But if this tint starts when the first zombie attacks, and ends 20 minutes later, then it occurs between 00:05:00 and 00:25:00. Some of the proper caps above take place during this time frame, and I do not see a blue tint. Just an extreme darkening of the image. Tony Todd certainly doesn't look blue.

[junyab]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

Cool story bro, now stop trolling!

weird...thought I was speaking of the current topic

now let's get back to talking about the ebayer's

[kingsoprano718]

Originally Posted by EddieLarkin

So what happened with all the previous caps guys? Unless these caps have been tinkered with in photoshop to remove the blue, I see nothing wrong them. Yes they're dark but the intention behind making these scenes darker makes sense. As long as the colour is still there I'm happy, and it appears to be. These are a huge difference compared to the others, which looked like they'd been dipped in blue paint beforehand

Have to agree here. If I can be honest in how I feel, I always looked at the DVD version as "too cheerful". It was way too bright and it exposed certain effects weaknesses. Savini once wrote that he never had the chance to do the things he wanted to on this film. It could be possible that those scenes were scenes he was not happy with being so bright. The "blue" as people are calling it actually looks right for a dusk to evening scene and if it was that way theatrically and on DVD no one would be complaining. I understand we hate updates to our favorite movies but imo this change makes the film a bit scarier and darker to the tome of the original.

[whitesheik]

Originally Posted by ScooterMan

Me, neither. I will never support this company again, regardless of how this is handled in the end. They've shown that they cannot be trusted to release a quality product, and with the biggest title they've ever released, no less!

I want a refund, and I'm out.

Night of the Living Dead 90s version is the "biggest" title they've ever released? Man, I must live on a different planet because some B-movie from the 1990s is not something I would ever consider to be a "big" title. Budget - around four million. Gross, around five million = box-office loser. But you know what the most frightening thing about this Night of the Living Dead is? The people who are admitting to seeing this film over 100 times. THAT'S scary.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by EddieLarkin

You've got the disc and I haven't, so obviously you're in a better position to say. But if this tint starts when the first zombie attacks, and ends 20 minutes later, then it occurs between 00:05:00 and 00:25:00. Some of the proper caps above take place during this time frame, and I do not see a blue tint. Just an extreme darkening of the image. Tony Todd certainly doesn't look blue.

He def looks blue when he initially gets of the car (11:30) and into the house ...also while in the house. At exactly 27:50 you will note an obvious color change in the film. The transfer is NOT an DVD upconvert nor does it look like one. Looks really good,.but for the 20 minutes or so in question.

[manta53]

Ok since so many people are complaining (I personally don't see anything wrong with the screenshots, they just look dark not blue) I want to know who LIKES the blu ray quality?

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

He def looks blue when he initially gets of the car (11:30) and into the house ...also while in the house. At exactly 27:50 you will note an obvious color change in the film. The transfer is NOT an DVD upconvert nor does it look like one. Looks really good,.but for the 20 minutes or so in question.

I'm sure you're right. I guess I'll just have to wait for the reviews and my own copy to make a final decision.

[Ned Schneebly]

I like it

And I have to respectfully disagree with some here I don't see blue I see darkness. At no point did I see Ben or anyone as blue colored.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by EddieLarkin

I'm sure you're right. I guess I'll just have to wait for the reviews and my own copy to make a final decision.

That is what I always recommend...for people to make up their own minds . The fight between Tony Todd's character vs the first zombie is particularly problematic.

[HyperRealist]

Originally Posted by manta53

Ok since so many people are complaining (I personally don't see anything wrong with the screenshots, they just look dark not blue) I want to know who LIKES the blu ray quality?

I'm sure ROclockCK and whitesheik love it

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

The fight between Tony Todd's character vs the first zombie is particularly problematic.

I haven't seen the film for awhile now, but isn't that fight this scene?

http://postimage.org/image/mes0qdkpx/full/

Like I say, doesn't really look blue there. Just dark.

[HyperRealist]

Who is at fault for the butchered audio?

Originally Posted by Clownunderthebed

Another alteration noticed.... kinda nitpicky.... during the still photo montage at the beginning of the end credits, the camera clicking sounds between each image shown has been removed. Saw this in theater and I have owned every home format release so the audio change definitely jumped out at me.

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

I'm watching the credits right now and I noticed that too. I thought there was camera "shutter" sounds when each picture changed.

[nolfoc]

well opening bids are already starting at 70bucks on evilbay

[whitesheik]

Originally Posted by HyperRealist

I'm sure ROclockCK and whitesheik love it

Obviously you couldn't pause for just a moment and actually read my post on the previous page. If you had, why you wouldn't look quite so ridiculous now.

[DNinja]

I just finished watching the Blu-ray and it's definitely darker than the DVD, but not overly blue like some of the posted screenshots.

[geomon]

Originally Posted by nolfoc

well opening bids are already starting at 70bucks on evilbay

Well there should be quite a few cheap copies going now that this release has been branded as inferior here...

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by geomon

Well there should be quite a few cheap copies going now that this release has been branded as inferior here...

I seriously doubt it. Most of the people purchasing off ebay will not be forum frequenters. If they were, they would have picked up a copy during the order window.

[geomon]

Originally Posted by EddieLarkin

I seriously doubt it. Most of the people purchasing off ebay will not be forum frequenters. If they were, they would have picked up a copy during the order window.

I was talking about the unhappy owners here selling off their copies.

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by geomon

I was talking about the unhappy owners here selling off their copies.

Ah I see. I'm sure they'll still clear a tidy profit if they put it up for auction, rather than BIN