The Crow: City of Angels / The Crow: Salvation

[Sky_Captain]

A quid cheaper at HMV.

[M3n747]

I just hope that Salvation will be framed properly at 1.85:1. I searched high, I searched low, but all I could ever find was either a 4:3 version or a 4:3 version cropped to 16:9.

[Daytrader]

Im still waiting for a proper release of The Crow.

[Judex]

I'm only interested in City of Angels so I'll wait for it come down to around £10 which with this release will be in no time at all, Not intrested in Salvation it's horrible and has the ever dreadful Kirsten Dunst in it.

Have they mentioned any extra's on this? or is it barebones?

[cris555]

if anything the extras will get ported from the previous dvds, which is just a few short featurettes on Salvation. To be honest i reckon it'll be barebones.

Urm, my UK DVD of Salvation was 16:9 anamorphic, and im pretty sure it wasn't zoomed from a 4:3 :/

UPDATE:
The Crow: City of Angels
Behind the scenes featurette
The Crow: Salvation
Production Design featurette

source

[Sky_Captain]

I have these sat on my desk, here at work.

Pics and impressions to follow later this evening.

*edit* Just looking at the discs themselves, they both appear to be BD-50s.
City of Angels is listed as 91 mins, Salvation 102. Both are 1.85:1 with DTS-HD-MA 5.1 audio.

[Sky_Captain]

Okay, so I've watched most of City of Angels and flicked through Salvation.

City of Angels looks good to me. There some very minor sharpening going on and I mean incredibly minor. The film has a weird hazy look and I never felt anything looked over-sharpened. No DNR, nice healthy grain structure. DTS-HD-MA 5.1 English and German, with an English PCM track as well. English subs and two German sub tracks. You're asked to chose English or German upon disc bootup.

Two featurettes, neither of which I've checked out.

Onto Salvation...

It still looks like a TV movie, I don't give a shit what anyone says. The whole thing screams Movie of The Week. This is a very dated master, with a fair smattering of EE applied. It's still watchable, though, if only because it still has grain, or at least the illusion of grain present. English is the only language option, both in DTS-HA-MA 5.1 and LPCM 2.0. HoH English subs also included.

Extras are a single featurette. Also has one of the worst looking menus I've seen, in a very long time.

Both movies are encoded in AVC and region locked to B.
City of Angels runs 01:30:44
Salvation runs 01:41:54

Pics of the set:

[Show spoiler]

[Judex]

Im guessing these will get separate releases if it's just two blus shoved into some flimsy box.

[WhySoCereal]

Sorry to resurrect such an old topic but I was wondering if anyone knew if this was Region A compatible?

Edit: After further investigation it appears that it is indeed locked to Region B :/ At least now it's stated in the official thread.

[Sky_Captain]

You only had to read two posts above yours.

[saltysam]

It's years since i saw City Of Angels-is this release the DC version?

[Sky_Captain]

Correct.

[Blu Myers]

I think I will buy this just to finally add Salvation to my collection.

Edit: Just purchased for $17 shipped from Amazon UK.

[Blu Myers]

I ordered this a month ago and still haven't received it. Hopefully soon. UK to the states btw.

[CelestialAgent]

Icon are reissuing The Crow: Salvation.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=34528

[DrunkMrKeevans]

Does the Icon release contain any extras? I saw one review that says it ports the Shout disc, but it was unconfirmed at the time of review and the packaging doesn't make any mention of them.

[Moviefan2k4]

Quick question - how does the picture and sound quality of Salvation's UK version compare, to the Shout Factory version from the USA? I really enjoy the film, but the review for the stateside offering has a terrible video score.

[jordanjabroni]

Why is City of Angels so hard to find on Blu-ray? I find it wild that they've re-released Salvation to coincide with the 4K of The Crow (and perhaps the theatrical release of the 2024 movie) but haven't done anything with City of Angels.

[JackForrester]

Originally Posted by jordanjabroni

Why is City of Angels so hard to find on Blu-ray? I find it wild that they've re-released Salvation to coincide with the 4K of The Crow (and perhaps the theatrical release of the 2024 movie) but haven't done anything with City of Angels.

I don't know the reason but it should be because they're finally working on a DC of the film.

[-shadow-]

Who owns the rights to the film these days? Really wish a smaller distributer could arrange a DC. There is a good film in there, just not as is