First Blood / Rambo: First Blood Part II / Rambo III 4K UHDs (1982-1988)

[Brian81]

It'd be nice if they put the original artwork on these and not what they put last time around. The original UK Studio Canal/Optimum releases did that. The Lions gate editions didn't have that, but they weren't flat out terrible looking like the first 4K editions with the alterations, color changes, and ugly title font.

[Dr. T]

Originally Posted by batman2000

I’m going to say this much If it’s really happening I wish they’d confirm it sooner rather than later because rumors even if from trusted sources isn’t officially confirming it.

It's really happening. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who said another Rambo UHD set is coming at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

[Muyfa666]

I ordered the Scandinavian releases as my last effort to have these in best possible quality (for now). Here's to hoping...

[Fat Phil]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

You can always count on more Rambo boxsets.

Lol, exactly. *Looks at stack of old Rambo Collection boxsets*

[batman2000]

Originally Posted by Dr. T

It's really happening. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who said another Rambo UHD set is coming at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

Thanks for proving my point anyone can say it’s coming out remastered until their blue in the face until it’s officially announced this is what it is a rumor.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Brian81

It'd be nice if they put the original artwork on these and not what they put last time around. The original UK Studio Canal/Optimum releases did that. The Lions gate editions didn't have that, but they weren't flat out terrible looking like the first 4K editions with the alterations, color changes, and ugly title font.

Last I heard they're looking at putting some OG artwork on the covers.

[Cliff]

Originally Posted by batman2000

Thanks for proving my point anyone can say it’s coming out remastered until their blue in the face until it’s officially announced this is what it is a rumor.

Ugh... Fine. This will be the only post I make and there will be no follow up because I no longer post/participate at Blu-ray.com. I was banned twice by some anonymous mod after refusing to play nice with people who clearly like to cause trouble. I don't need the aggravation and have spent the better part of two years deleting my posting history.

BUT... I'm the one working on the upcoming LG Rambo set and I'm the source of both Geoff's and PeterTHX's info. Here's everything I can tell you at this point in time and, again, there will be no follow up.

All five films with both the theatrical and extended cuts of Rambo and Last Blood (Last Blood will be the final cut that appeared on Amazon).

New Dolby Vision grading on 1-3 (Rambo III is particularly in need of correction as it's colors are not only off, but it's highlights are terribly clipped. We're fixing that.)

Rambo III's subtitles are also being corrected and, while they'll be player generated, they're designed to match the font and timing of the optical theatrical subs. One thing to note about Rambo III's subs is that a lot of what people THOUGHT was subtitled originally, WASN'T. This has led to a lot of confusion about various releases missing them and one of the Blu-ray releases actually ADDING them when they weren't there theatrically. We're fixing all that and if it was subtitled theatrically... it'll be subtitled on the UHD.

1-3 have all been given brand new Dolby Atmos mixes. Part II, in particular, has sounded terrible for 20 years. We found the original 70mm 6-track mag for Part II and that was the basis for the new Atmos mix. But each of the first three movies will include: Theatrical Stereo PCM, TrueHD 5.1 (the 2002 mixes for First Blood and Rambo III and the unaltered 70mm 6-track for Rambo II) and the new Atmos mixes. Rambo: First Blood Part II sounds INCREDIBLE now... both it's original 6 track mix and the new Atmos. It's night and day and probably the thing I'm most excited about with this set.

We're looking to include EVERYTHING that was ever created for any of the various Rambo releases (globally) in the special features department. We're also creating a few new bits and one of those is dedicated to the original Drew Struzan art.

This release has been my baby for over a year and I've been dedicated to making sure this gets produced from the perspective of a fan and the Ghostbusters set that Sony put out earlier this year has been the model for this all along. Packaging is likely to be more of a gatefold style, but we've also secured the original lobby cards for the first three films and I'm hoping to talk to the studio into also including preprinted case inserts that use all the "style A" artwork so you could migrate the set to traditional cases if desired.

Everyone is completely committed to making this the very best Rambo set ever released which is why we missed the First Blood 40th (which was the plan) to give ourselves enough time to get all the details right.


So... that's it and that's everything that'll be said for now.

[Geoff D]

Thank you Cliff! If you could include inserts for regular cases with the OG art on that'd be one of the things I'd be most excited to have, not gonna lie

[GOMEZFAN69]

And please return the Tri-Star logos back where they belong.

[Esox50]

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by Cliff

Ugh... Fine. This will be the only post I make and there will be no follow up because I no longer post/participate at Blu-ray.com. I was banned twice by some anonymous mod after refusing to play nice with people who clearly like to cause trouble. I don't need the aggravation and have spent the better part of two years deleting my posting history.

BUT... I'm the one working on the upcoming LG Rambo set and I'm the source of both Geoff's and PeterTHX's info. Here's everything I can tell you at this point in time and, again, there will be no follow up.

All five films with both the theatrical and extended cuts of Rambo and Last Blood (Last Blood will be the final cut that appeared on Amazon).

New Dolby Vision grading on 1-3 (Rambo III is particularly in need of correction as it's colors are not only off, but it's highlights are terribly clipped. We're fixing that.)

Rambo III's subtitles are also being corrected and, while they'll be player generated, they're designed to match the font and timing of the optical theatrical subs. One thing to note about Rambo III's subs is that a lot of what people THOUGHT was subtitled originally, WASN'T. This has led to a lot of confusion about various releases missing them and one of the Blu-ray releases actually ADDING them when they weren't there theatrically. We're fixing all that and if it was subtitled theatrically... it'll be subtitled on the UHD.

1-3 have all been given brand new Dolby Atmos mixes. Part II, in particular, has sounded terrible for 20 years. We found the original 70mm 6-track mag for Part II and that was the basis for the new Atmos mix. But each of the first three movies will include: Theatrical Stereo PCM, TrueHD 5.1 (the 2002 mixes for First Blood and Rambo III and the unaltered 70mm 6-track for Rambo II) and the new Atmos mixes. Rambo: First Blood Part II sounds INCREDIBLE now... both it's original 6 track mix and the new Atmos. It's night and day and probably the thing I'm most excited about with this set.

We're looking to include EVERYTHING that was ever created for any of the various Rambo releases (globally) in the special features department. We're also creating a few new bits and one of those is dedicated to the original Drew Struzan art.

This release has been my baby for over a year and I've been dedicated to making sure this gets produced from the perspective of a fan and the Ghostbusters set that Sony put out earlier this year has been the model for this all along. Packaging is likely to be more of a gatefold style, but we've also secured the original lobby cards for the first three films and I'm hoping to talk to the studio into also including preprinted case inserts that use all the "style A" artwork so you could migrate the set to traditional cases if desired.

Everyone is completely committed to making this the very best Rambo set ever released which is why we missed the First Blood 40th (which was the plan) to give ourselves enough time to get all the details right.


So... that's it and that's everything that'll be said for now.

[batman2000]

Originally Posted by Cliff

[Show spoiler]Ugh... Fine. This will be the only post I make and there will be no follow up because I no longer post/participate at Blu-ray.com. I was banned twice by some anonymous mod after refusing to play nice with people who clearly like to cause trouble. I don't need the aggravation and have spent the better part of two years deleting my posting history.

BUT... I'm the one working on the upcoming LG Rambo set and I'm the source of both Geoff's and PeterTHX's info. Here's everything I can tell you at this point in time and, again, there will be no follow up.

All five films with both the theatrical and extended cuts of Rambo and Last Blood (Last Blood will be the final cut that appeared on Amazon).

New Dolby Vision grading on 1-3 (Rambo III is particularly in need of correction as it's colors are not only off, but it's highlights are terribly clipped. We're fixing that.)

Rambo III's subtitles are also being corrected and, while they'll be player generated, they're designed to match the font and timing of the optical theatrical subs. One thing to note about Rambo III's subs is that a lot of what people THOUGHT was subtitled originally, WASN'T. This has led to a lot of confusion about various releases missing them and one of the Blu-ray releases actually ADDING them when they weren't there theatrically. We're fixing all that and if it was subtitled theatrically... it'll be subtitled on the UHD.

1-3 have all been given brand new Dolby Atmos mixes. Part II, in particular, has sounded terrible for 20 years. We found the original 70mm 6-track mag for Part II and that was the basis for the new Atmos mix. But each of the first three movies will include: Theatrical Stereo PCM, TrueHD 5.1 (the 2002 mixes for First Blood and Rambo III and the unaltered 70mm 6-track for Rambo II) and the new Atmos mixes. Rambo: First Blood Part II sounds INCREDIBLE now... both it's original 6 track mix and the new Atmos. It's night and day and probably the thing I'm most excited about with this set.

We're looking to include EVERYTHING that was ever created for any of the various Rambo releases (globally) in the special features department. We're also creating a few new bits and one of those is dedicated to the original Drew Struzan art.

This release has been my baby for over a year and I've been dedicated to making sure this gets produced from the perspective of a fan and the Ghostbusters set that Sony put out earlier this year has been the model for this all along. Packaging is likely to be more of a gatefold style, but we've also secured the original lobby cards for the first three films and I'm hoping to talk to the studio into also including preprinted case inserts that use all the "style A" artwork so you could migrate the set to traditional cases if desired.

Everyone is completely committed to making this the very best Rambo set ever released which is why we missed the First Blood 40th (which was the plan) to give ourselves enough time to get all the details right.


So... that's it and that's everything that'll be said for now.

Thanks for the update I hope I didn’t get you in trouble it’s just you can’t always tell the truth from the facts online.

[DanFan]

Originally Posted by Cliff

I was banned twice by some anonymous mod after refusing to play nice with people who clearly like to cause trouble. I don't need the aggravation and have spent the better part of two years deleting my posting history.

Thanks for the update. You are the man!

I feel your pain about the mods and the suspensions. They definitely abuse their iota of tenuous power.

And cue my suspension in 3... 2... 1...

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by batman2000

Thanks for the update I hope I didn’t get you in trouble it’s just you can’t always tell the truth from the facts online.

[Filmmaker]

Losing Cliff as a regular contributor is very possibly the worst thing to ever happen to this forum. So delighted to see his post today.

[Bostonyte]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Losing Cliff as a regular contributor is very possibly the worst thing to ever happen to this forum. So delighted to see his post today.

Second to the lifetime banning of noremaC miJ

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Losing Cliff as a regular contributor is very possibly the worst thing to ever happen to this forum. So delighted to see his post today.

I didn't even realise he'd gone all scorched earth and deleted virtually his entire post history on here! That's hardcore, man.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I didn't even realise he'd gone all scorched earth and deleted virtually his entire post history on here! That's hardcore, man.

Hey, man, I get it. You bust your ass to add immense insider value to a community only to be repeatedly penalized for piddly shit. Why allow that place to keep benefiting from the fruits of your labor while you’re in exile, ya know? But of course, we, the community, are the real losers in these battles.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Hey, man, I get it. You bust your ass to add immense insider value to a community only to be repeatedly penalized for piddly shit. Why allow that place to keep benefiting from the fruits of your labor while you’re in exile, ya know? But of course, we, the community, are the real losers in these battles.

At least we still have the Kino Insider.

[batman2000]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

At least we still have the Kino Insider.

I wish they would have answered my question on if the original voice of Judy jetson recordings were even attempt to be found for the jetsons movie.

[DR Herbert West]

Wouldn't say no to a new Expendables boxset.