Dog Soldiers (2002) (Collector's Edition)

[AKORIS]

I just cancelled my pre-order... this movie has a long history of awful releases... think I'll wait to read a lot more reviews before biting (pun intended) on this one...

[Nissen]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

It was, Neil said as much

Okay. So that's already one generation of dupes away from the neg right there. While Neil and you were sharing, did he mention why they didn't go for a negative scan? Just ribbin', M.W.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Okay. So that's already one generation of dupes away from the neg right there. While Neil and you were sharing, did he mention why they didn't go for a negative scan? Just ribbin', M.W.

Lost he says, not sure I buy that

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Robert Harris over on the HTF is of the opinion that this release of Dog Soldiers was scanned from a 35mm blowup of the original 16mm negatives. If the rights holders went back and scanned the actual 16mm negative directly (like I assume Evil Dead was) things would improve immensely. Makes sense to me.

As I also thought: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...&postcount=391

[Geoff D]

And if these are indeed theatrical prints that they used and not, say, a 35mm IP blowup then that would account for the shocking lack of detail, being a dupe of a dupe of a blowup.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

And if these are indeed theatrical prints that they used and not, say, a 35mm IP blowup then that would account for the shocking lack of detail, being a dupe of a dupe of a blowup.

Yep plus their Stevie Wonder attention to encoding detail.
Plus the mess a print would be in, unless it was his personal one.

[Geoff D]

Folks are saying there's plenty of scratches and whatnot on there, which is no surprise coming from Shout. They do dirt removal (probably at the automated level) but manually painting out scratches = no-no. They gotta pay for the new cover art and/or the slipcovers and posters, right?

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Folks are saying there's plenty of scratches and whatnot on there, which is no surprise coming from Shout. They do dirt removal (probably at the automated level) but manually painting out scratches = no-no. They gotta pay for the new cover art, right?

Slip cases don't grow on trees.

[StingingVelvet]

Slip covers are the packaging thing I care about the least, too. I would much rather they use thicker cases like Arrow or Criterion, or include a booklet like they did with the Roger Corman stuff. A slip cover is so pointless IMO.

[Nocturnaloner]

Here's my insightful, technical analysis of Shout's Dog Soldiers blu-ray, based on the caps-a-holic screenshots:

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleich...ess=#vergleich

Holy crap, what a mess!

[HotRats]

Amazingly, it looks worse than the widely panned original blu ray. Was going to get a signed copy from Dark Delicacies but I'll stick with the UK DVD

[pinballmaster]

This is one of the worst transfers I've ever seen..... Why wouldn't they properly color correct this? The original DVD looks better. They literally mutilated this.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

This is all getting very interesting.

[vhjhj]

YES! Dog Soldiers really does need a new transfer, hopefully they can work something out. And I have been waiting forever for a Ginger Snaps Blu-ray. The old DVD Special Edition from Canada was packed with features. I think that was technically my first ever import back in the day.

[nerdy916]

I am a Scream Factory fanboy and this is piss poor work.The transfer looks awful. I wish I would have saved my $20. It's not pretty. I am starting to lose interest in scream factory.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by vhjhj

YES! Dog Soldiers really does need a new transfer, hopefully they can work something out. And I have been waiting forever for a Ginger Snaps Blu-ray. The old DVD Special Edition from Canada was packed with features. I think that was technically my first ever import back in the day.

They did a Ginger Snaps blu-ray and it was one of their better efforts.

[Nocturnaloner]

My fingers are crossed that Arrow can get the source materials for Dog Soldiers and do a proper release.

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by Nocturnaloner

Here's my insightful, technical analysis of Shout's Dog Soldiers blu-ray, based on the caps-a-holic screenshots:

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleich...ess=#vergleich

Holy crap, what a mess!

To be fair I think a couple of those look better on the Scream one (ex #4). But yeah, it's more than balanced out by the hilarious blowout on anything close to white (ex the incredible disappearing windshield in your link, or the trees all getting trimmed in #3, or most of the features on the guy's face disappearing in the #8). This is a surprising case of looking way worse than the initial alarmist-sounding reports suggested.

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

They did a Ginger Snaps blu-ray and it was one of their better efforts.

Yep, I like their Ginger Snaps release a lot, wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. Probably my favorite thing they've ever released.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by Nocturnaloner

My fingers are crossed that Arrow can get the source materials for Dog Soldiers and do a proper release.

It would be interesting. However if this really is what he wants then this might be the only transfer from here on out,