Army of Darkness -> Sept 15

[Josey Wales]

Hi! to all,

First of all I am a fan of "Army of Darkness" and I've lost count of how many different DVD version's I've owned, but I was still pleased to hear about a Blu-ray release.

However, I have to be honest and say that the Blu-ray version looks very disappointing on the extra's front, it already looks to me like there's bound to be another Blu-ray version released in the future because this "ScrewHead Edition" just don't cut it IMO.

With all the space you get on a Blu-ray disc I can't believe that the disc will not include both the Director's Cut & Theatrical versions, also because of the lack of the Director's Cut we miss out on the commentary track as well, plus the confirmed extra's look pretty poor, I for one am pretty gutted about this.

So what do the rest of you guys think?

Cheers!
JW

[Mr.White]

Originally Posted by Josey Wales

Hi! to all,

First of all I am a fan of "Army of Darkness" and I've lost count of how many different DVD version's I've owned, but I was still pleased to hear about a Blu-ray release.

However, I have to be honest and say that the Blu-ray version looks very disappointing on the extra's front, it already looks to me like there's bound to be another Blu-ray version released in the future because this "ScrewHead Edition" just don't cut it IMO.

With all the space you get on a Blu-ray disc I can't believe that the disc will not include both the Director's Cut & Theatrical versions, also because of the lack of the Director's Cut we miss out on the commentary track as well, plus the confirmed extra's look pretty poor, I for one am pretty gutted about this.

So what do the rest of you guys think?

Cheers!
JW

Anchor Bay did a pretty good job in the extras dept., well just have to wait and see what Universal gives us, It has the potential to be great, so let's not knock it 'til we see it,not sure if Universal will give us a 1.85 or 1.66,the ratio the Anchor Bay release had!

[TeresofBlood]

I will only buy for the director's cut, but it needs to be a film print transfer. You may remember the bootleg edition DVD, where all of the director's cut footage was transferred (badly) from a VHS tape. There is a region 2 director's cut DVD that is sourced from a beautiful print. If the director's cut on blu-ray is presented from that source, I will surely buy. Otherwise, I think I will pass.

[benricci]

It's the theatrical cut. These are the only features announced:

Creating the Deadites featurette
Alternate Ending
Theatrical Trailer
U Control - Production Photos

[UniSol GR77]

What about the PQ?

[benricci]

Originally Posted by UniSol GR77

What about the PQ?

From all accounts, should be pretty good. The UK release got 4.5 stars for PQ on this site, and the US release should be equal to that, if not better.

I don't really care for the director's cut, but I can understand how people would be bummed.

[Josey Wales]

These details went up on IGN just a couple of days ago, so my bet is that this is all we will get on this release of Army of Darkness:

Creating the Deadites featurette

Alternate Ending

Theatrical Trailer

U Control - Production Photos (BD only)

BD Live (BD only)

LINK: http://uk.bluray.ign.com/articles/100/1007638p1.html

Personally, I feel this is a very poor effort, and I'm not at all impressed by the lack of the Director's Cut and Commentary track, I'm not questioning how good the quality will be picture/sound wise but in regard to the extra features it looks like a very average release IMO, and I think the film deserves much better.

JW