It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

[BohemianGraham]

I want this! Argh, why doesn't Walmart Canada or Best Buy Canada carry exclusives like this!?

I also want TRAC, TRAC!, because that film is just all kinds of awesome. Emergency, evrybody to git from stret!

[Maggot]

I got lucky on the phone and found a Walmart about 30 minutes away who had one copy ONLY. They were nice enough to hold it for me until I got there. So I'm a happy camper. I always loved this movie, although I never had it on DVD. From what someone mentioned earlier in the thread, it sounds like it has a good transfer considering it's only 10 bucks. These things can be so hit and miss, although I found Quigly Down Under and City Slickers to be far better then I thought they were going to be. Real upgrades over the DVD for sure. I look forward to watching this a little later.

[ckocher]

Originally Posted by Kamdan

It looks like it's in the 2:35:1 scope to me. There's an hour worth of "extended scenes" and I don't know if that stuff is from the longer 3 hour long cut. This is my first time seeing the film and if it's good, I might pick up the longer version on Laserdisc.

Its definitely not 2.35... I just compared a 2.35 release to this and it looks like it is indeed 2.55

[Arkadin]

found 2 copies at the closest store to me.
very psyched, although the cover is atrocious.
do they even pay people to do artwork anymore?
so many classic bds have artwork that looks like a 15 year old intern did it on his ipad while he was taking a dump.

[Betamax001]

Does this Blu Ray have the overture music on it? I love that song.

"I know it may sound jeeerrrkky,but in Tuuurrrkkeey who eats turrrkkeey?"

[LimeiBook86]

Yes before the film starts the lyrical version of the song plays on the Blu-Ray

[plinfesty]

I don't remember the print being that wide at 2.76 - was the 70mm prints reframmed to the more common 2.20 aspect ratio?

No, the 70mm print made was an Ultra-Panavision 70 print (standard 2.20 70mm print with an added 1.25 squeeze to it - actually added at the time of shooting and a part of the negative). For this reason an original UP70 lens was sent out on bookings that attached to the theatre's prime lens for 70mm. However, if the theatre used their normal 70mm lens as the prime, it would mean the image would keep the same top and bottom size, meaning the theatre would have to crop the sides once they ran out of screen width. In order to show the entire 2.76 image (as they did at the L.A. showing at the Dome and I believe at the subsequent showings at the American Cinemateche), gthe theatre would have to get another prime lens that projected a smaller image on the screen.

[plinfesty]

Robert Harris has posted on Home Theater Forum a chronology of the edits made ton IAMMMMW. I think it pretty much demonstrates that this is actually the roadshow version that most people saw (minus the Entracte - and those Intermission calls were eliminated early on from other sources I read around the same time). You'll need to scroll down about two thirds.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/foru...-in-blu-ray/30

[Douglas R]

Originally Posted by plinfesty

Robert Harris has posted on Home Theater Forum a chronology of the edits made ton IAMMMMW. I think it pretty much demonstrates that this is actually the roadshow version that most people saw

Exactly. What's on the disc is the same as the roadshow version which I saw (apart from the missing Entr'acte of course). I've been trying to make this point myself but people have continued to refer to it as the general release version.

[Jay_J]

Does anyone know how long Wal Mart has an exclusive on discs like IAMMMMW? The crappy Wal Mart's we have in Canada don't stock them, and have no intention of bringing them in. You can't order them online from Wal Mart because they don't ship to Canada. Thanks, Wal Mart!

[rezpekt]

Originally Posted by Jay_J

Does anyone know how long Wal Mart has an exclusive on discs like IAMMMMW? The crappy Wal Mart's we have in Canada don't stock them, and have no intention of bringing them in. You can't order them online from Wal Mart because they don't ship to Canada. Thanks, Wal Mart!

Usually it two or three months but it might be longer.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by Jay_J

Does anyone know how long Wal Mart has an exclusive on discs like IAMMMMW? The crappy Wal Mart's we have in Canada don't stock them, and have no intention of bringing them in. You can't order them online from Wal Mart because they don't ship to Canada. Thanks, Wal Mart!

You can order from Amazon marketplace: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Blu-ray

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by davidoak

Greetings from UK...the Bluray.com review tempted me to purchase this disc from USA as it was confirmed as region A and B. The disc has arrived and the film plays great - and looks better than I'd ever hoped. The big BUT is that the 2 main extras (something less serious and deleted scenes) do not play. Instead the disc stops and reverts to the players normal screen. The 2 trailers play fine. Is this because the extras are coded region A - in which case the disc is NOT A and B as mentioned - or could the disc be faulty? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Those two extras would be in "NTSC" (480/60Hz). The other two extras that play are HD. Can you play other 480/60Hz material on other BDs?

Originally Posted by Banned User

I'm still amazed that Buster Keaton got such a small part for his cameo. Makes me wonder if there was more that was cut from the working print. Oh well great movie. I've never found this film too long it moves along great and is hilarious.

One of the cut scenes from the film is Spencer Tracy phoning Keaton.

Originally Posted by The Valeyard

So is everything from the first MGM DVD on the Blu-Ray? All the deleted/expanded scenes accounted for? If I upgrade, would I need to keep the DVD?

Thanks.

The It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Blu-ray Review describes what's on the disc extras. Seems to me to be the same listings as in side B of my NTSC DVD.

[davidoak]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Those two extras would be in "NTSC" (480/60Hz). The other two extras that play are HD. Can you play other 480/60Hz material on other BDs?

Thanks for the reply. Interesting. This is the first BRD imported from the US. Only because of the report that it was region A+B OK. So I've no experience of playing 480/60Hz material here. There's nothing lost of course as I just keep my region 1 flipper DVD for the 2 extras. I've gained everything as the picture quality on the new BRD is better than I'd hoped for. Maybe a RegionB disc will emerge here in the UK - and there's always 2013....!

[Deciazulado]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Blu-ray

[Douglas R]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Blu-ray

Maybe MGM will reinstate the Overture for this? I won't hold my breath though.

[LimeiBook86]

Well that's good news! I doubt it'll be different from the Walmart release, but you never know!

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by LimeiBook86

Well that's good news! I doubt it'll be different from the Walmart release, but you never know!

For $14.00 you can count on it being identical. The WalMart UPC was just a stick-on; when you peeled that off the MGM/Fox code was printed on the actual back cover.

[LimeiBook86]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

For $14.00 you can count on it being identical. The WalMart UPC was just a stick-on; when you peeled that off the MGM/Fox code was printed on the actual back cover.

Exactly what I expected.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by LimeiBook86

Exactly what I expected.

I'm glad they're getting it out there though LimeiBook86. This transfer of IAMMMMW is full width 2.76:1 Ultra Panavision scanned at 8k...simply spectacular, and among the best I've seen, this or any other year.

With such heady disc specs this Blu-ray didn't last long on Wal-Mart shelves. So whatever stock MGM/Fox does have left from that 'testing-the-waters' run will likely get snapped up pretty fast.