The Dollars Trilogy - Sergio Leone

[AnimeOnBlu]

http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/fi...utm_source=fr1

According to movie mail, all 3 movies will be released on June 7, 2010. 20th Century Fox Release. No specs or Region coding info currently available.


Thanks to adsldave for pointing this out

[nametag]

Cool, I have the US region-free release of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the transfer for that is pretty good, hopefully this'll be the same!

[gvortex7]

I just finished watching The Good, The Bad and The Ugly a few minutes ago, and I also thought that it looked good. I can't wait to get my hands on the other two "Dollar" movies.

[Arkadin]

Great news!
unfortunately the MGM release of "The Good, The Bad.." is not nearly as good as the recent Italian release.
the Italian release is noticeably sharper, and much more filmlike in appearance than the MGM US release.
unfortunately the Italian release doesn't have English subs.
The Italian "A Fistful of Dollars" DOES have English subs, and the English dub, and has been universally hailed as one of the best bds of an older title that exists.
I have it, and it is truly an amazing looking bd.
"For A Few Dollars More" has also been released in Italy without English subs,
and is said to also look very nice.
I can only hope that this Fox version is closer to the Italian versions, and not the mgm bd.

[nametag]

Originally Posted by gvortex7

I just finished watching The Good, The Bad and The Ugly a few minutes ago, and I also thought that it looked good. I can't wait to get my hands on the other two "Dollar" movies.

ha, I watched it earlier today as well...

I've not seen the other Dollars movies, are they as good?

[GGX]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

Great news!
unfortunately the MGM release of "The Good, The Bad.." is not nearly as good as the recent Italian release.
the Italian release is noticeably sharper, and much more filmlike in appearance than the MGM US release.
unfortunately the Italian release doesn't have English subs.
The Italian "A Fistful of Dollars" DOES have English subs, and the English dub, and has been universally hailed as one of the best bds of an older title that exists.
I have it, and it is truly an amazing looking bd.
"For A Few Dollars More" has also been released in Italy without English subs,
and is said to also look very nice.
I can only hope that this Fox version is closer to the Italian versions, and not the mgm bd.

Yeah I was pretty unsatisfied with the US release of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. To much of a waxy, DNR look to it.

[Arkadin]

nametag--they are seminal classics.

[QUOTE]

Originally Posted by GGX

Yeah I was pretty unsatisfied with the US release of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. To much of a waxy, DNR look to it.

yeah, you think the US version is pretty good until you compare.
After you look closely at the Italian version, you realize how much better the US version could have been.

[Xorp]

The US/Fox release of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is truly atrocious. I knew it was crap way before the Italian version comparison showed up. Fox should really re-release it with the superior Italian transfer.

[gvortex7]

Originally Posted by nametag

ha, I watched it earlier today as well...

I've not seen the other Dollars movies, are they as good?

They're both classics in their own right, and they're both excellent as well, but nothing comes close to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's the greatest Western ever made.

[HotRats]

A Few Dollars More will be interesting as the DVD editions made by MGM were missing one scene and had slight cuts to two others. The German edition by Paramount had a different restoration http://dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=618

[Chief.]

Originally Posted by gvortex7

They're both classics in their own right, and they're both excellent as well, but nothing comes close to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's the greatest Western ever made.

I think once upon a time in the west comes pretty darn close!

[McCrutchy]

Out of curiosity, did MGM/Fox use the new restoration for the USA disc of TGTBTU (and just DNR it to hell), or not?

[nametag]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Out of curiosity, did MGM/Fox use the new restoration for the USA disc of TGTBTU (and just DNR it to hell), or not?

In the review on this website it said it was based on the '2002 remaster' or something, I think?

The USA one looked fine to me, really detailed with the close ups etc, but I did watch it on a pretty small TV, and am quite new to BD so may not be noticing bad transfers yet!... This site has different reviews for the video quality for the Canadian and US releases of the films, are they actually different or just had two different people review the same film and give it different ratings? In fact, I'm sure that the video review has been changed recently, because I don't remember it being rated that low and other parts of the review refer quite positively to the video quality.

Italian release sounds good, any screenshot comparisons anywhere? no English subs, or dub either?

[nightcrawler]

Definitely day 1 purchases for me

[ArieS]

Originally Posted by IbanezACA

I think once upon a time in the west comes pretty darn close!

Agreed. I wish it would come out on Blu

[gvortex7]

Originally Posted by IbanezACA

I think once upon a time in the west comes pretty darn close!

True. That, Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven are in a class of their own. Then again I'm not a big John Wayne fan, so I'm biased in my opinion. Some of his Westerns could be classified in this category as well.

[gvortex7]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Out of curiosity, did MGM/Fox use the new restoration for the USA disc of TGTBTU (and just DNR it to hell), or not?

I noticed plenty of picture noise, so I'm not sure what some refer to as an image that's "DNR'd to hell".

[GGX]

Originally Posted by gvortex7

I noticed plenty of picture noise, so I'm not sure what some refer to as an image that's "DNR'd to hell".

Doesn't look natural or film-like at all. More of a waxy artificial appearance than anything.

[adsldave]

Came across this release the other day on moviemail but couldn't find it anywhere but it has now appeared on the bva website so it seems to be confirmed

http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/fi...utm_source=fr1

http://www.bva.org.uk/node/513740

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by gvortex7

I noticed plenty of picture noise, so I'm not sure what some refer to as an image that's "DNR'd to hell".

The dnr is way too extreme on TGTB&TU. Numerous face shots look horrible imho. A great shame because I couldn't imagine watching the film w/out the english s'track...