John Beresford
12-18-2003, 02:15 PM
I am a die hard John Carpenter fan. I have almost all of his films in my DVD collection, as I try and replace my VHS collection: Halloween, Vamipres, Escape From LA, Christine, The Fog, The Thing....I was waiting for this new rumored Escape From New York remastered DVD because MGM messed the first one up so bad, it was a travesty....TERRIBLE looking transfer with terrible 2.0 audio, to boot.
On Tuesday, the Collector's Edition of this landmark cult-followed film came out, and wow, people....if you are fans of this film, as I was, this is the DVD to own this year----THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOOKING TWO DISC BOX SET ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW. The letters for "Escape From New York" and Kurt Russell's picture on the cover are raised in relief and look GREAT; another box pulls out from the outer box, where the two DVDs are hidden with all kinds of graphics and lines from John Carpenter inside. VERY VERY impressive. I thought Pirates of the Caribbean was going to take honors for the most beautiful DVD packaging this year, but Escape From New York is gorgeous---really. There's even a comic book about Kurt Russell's character, called the Snake Plissken Chronicles, inside.
Lets get to why you are reading this: while I HATE watching anamorphic widescreen DVDs on my 27" monitor, we have no choice sometimes because the DVDs are just coming like this now; Escape From New York, even in widescreen only as it is here, looks much, much better than the previous MGM single disc release, and the sound is much better in Dolby Digital 5.1, where in the past, it was in stereo 2.0, which decoded to Pro Logic II. There are times you can hear the original audio elements peek through and the sound gets muddy and hollow---but then the remastering process kicks in, and the helicopters and the haunting typical John Carpenter score sound great in 5.1 coming from your surround system.
What a nice package. Fans of this film wait no more and get this. I picked it up for $25 on sale at FYE---ON RELEASE NIGHT.
On Tuesday, the Collector's Edition of this landmark cult-followed film came out, and wow, people....if you are fans of this film, as I was, this is the DVD to own this year----THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOOKING TWO DISC BOX SET ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW. The letters for "Escape From New York" and Kurt Russell's picture on the cover are raised in relief and look GREAT; another box pulls out from the outer box, where the two DVDs are hidden with all kinds of graphics and lines from John Carpenter inside. VERY VERY impressive. I thought Pirates of the Caribbean was going to take honors for the most beautiful DVD packaging this year, but Escape From New York is gorgeous---really. There's even a comic book about Kurt Russell's character, called the Snake Plissken Chronicles, inside.
Lets get to why you are reading this: while I HATE watching anamorphic widescreen DVDs on my 27" monitor, we have no choice sometimes because the DVDs are just coming like this now; Escape From New York, even in widescreen only as it is here, looks much, much better than the previous MGM single disc release, and the sound is much better in Dolby Digital 5.1, where in the past, it was in stereo 2.0, which decoded to Pro Logic II. There are times you can hear the original audio elements peek through and the sound gets muddy and hollow---but then the remastering process kicks in, and the helicopters and the haunting typical John Carpenter score sound great in 5.1 coming from your surround system.
What a nice package. Fans of this film wait no more and get this. I picked it up for $25 on sale at FYE---ON RELEASE NIGHT.