The first disc presents the film in
a widescreen video transfer and a Dolby Surround 5.1 soundtrack and also includes the 2005 MTV Video Awards Batman spoof, but it's on the second disc where you'll find all of the goodies.
Presented in an anamorphic 2.35:1
widescreen video transfer and a 5.1 Dolby Digital audio track, the «Garden State» DVD has plenty of entertaining special features to make fans of the film excited about picking up this new disc.
Presented in
a widescreen video transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio soundtrack, the «Man on Fire» DVD includes two full - length audio commentary tracks (the first by director Tony Scott, and the other with producer Lucas Foster, screenwriter Brian Helgeland and star Dakota Fanning), as well as deleted scenes and an alternate ending (also featuring optional director commentary).
Offered on one platter in 1.85:1 and full - frame versions,
the widescreen video transfer, enhanced for 16x9 displays, exhibits a certain degree of grain endemic from the low - budget source material, but it does offer considerably bright flesh tones and vibrant colour depth.
A 2.35:1, anamorphically - enhanced
widescreen video transfer, after a few line flaws on the negative during the opening credit sequence, is remarkably clear and saturated with the deep greens of Argento's moody colour palette.
Not exact matches
But that, of course, is problematic on home
video, and it was quite apparent to those who saw the film in cinemas that the original
widescreen transfer of Se7en did not accurately recreate the intended look, mood or intention of the film.
Video: It's a very crisp and lovely anamorphic
widescreen (2.40:1)
transfer.
Video: The
widescreen, enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs
transfer of Into The Wild looks awesome, with beautifully realistic colors and sharp, clear imagery.
Presented in a
widescreen 2.35:1
video transfer and a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track, the director's cut of «Daredevil» is a completely different film for the better.
Presented on two discs are the first season's eight episodes (four to a disc)
transferred over in a 4:3
widescreen video and a 2.0 Dolby soundtrack.
THE DVD Innerspace is available on DVD from Warner Home
Video in a presentation that contains a 1.78:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer of the film along with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound likely based off the six - track mix that accompanied 70 mm prints.
The remaining extras are a cheesy two - minute
video trailer (presented in its native SD and pillarboxed to 1.33:1) and a more effective one - and - a-half-minute theatrical trailer (
transferred from 35 mm and presented in 1.77:1
widescreen).
Found footage movies are supposed to look real, not great and Deborah Logan aspires to that with its jerky
video that is capably but unremarkably presented in the DVD's 1.78:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer.
Making his feature debut, director Richard Wong shot on digital
video but
transferred the final product to a 2.35:1
widescreen frame, and he uses it with amazing finesse, emphasizing wide, empty spaces and dramatic positioning within.
The DVD boasts a
widescreen transfer which, though surprisingly not enhanced for 16x9 displays, makes the digital
video footage look fine and a 5.1 track which is largely limited to the front and center speakers.
The Film: 1.66:1 Anamorphic
Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, THX - Certified, New Digital
Transfer; Spanish, French, and Mandarin Audio Disc 1: Deleted Scenes including Alternate Openings, Audio Commentary, «Keep»Em Guessing» never - before - heard deleted song, DisneyPedia: «Mulan's World», Music
Videos: all - new «I'll Make A Man Out Of You» by Jackie Chan, «Reflection» by Christina Aguilera, «True to Your Heart» by 98º and Stevie Wonder, Mulan Fun Facts trivia track Disc 2: The Journey Begins: Discovering Mulan, The Ballad of Hua Mulan, Early Presentation & Progression Reels; Story Artists Journey: Finding Mulan, Storyboard to Film Comparisons; Design: Art, character, and color designs, Still Art Galleries, character design galleries; Production: production demonstrations, Digital Dim Sum, Digital production; Music: «Reflection» music
video in Spanish, Songs of Mulan; International Mulan: Mulan's International Journey, Multi-Language Reel, Publicity Art Gallery
THE DVDs Red Dawn drops onto DVD in a two - disc «Collector's Edition» sporting a nifty 1.87:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer that frees the picture of the excess grain found in previous home
video incarnations but doesn't do much to animate what is frankly a flat - looking film.
THE DVD by Bill Chambers Universal Home
Video presents About a Boy on DVD in a 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer * that looks fine.
The
video transfer is in crisp 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen while audio is provided in an excellent and immersive Dolby 5.1 English dub (and here my qualification of a «general» lack of a western bias comes into play) that is, nonetheless, inferior to the Japanese - language 2.0 surround track, which features the original vocal talent who have, not including this film, logged over twenty - six hours of finished time voicing these characters.
Individual episodes sport brilliant
video transfers that improve as the mythology progresses, of course, but are never shoddy besides, and though it's not noted anywhere on the packaging, the series switches from fullscreen to 1.78:1 anamorphic
widescreen for the two episodes («Redux» and «Redux II») that close out «Black Oil», never to return.
Don't get me wrong: I'm happy as a clam that the films (remastered in effervescent 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfers — pan-and-scan sold separately — supervised by co-creator Bob Gale with Dolby Digital 5.1 remixes that beef up the re-entry effects especially) look and sound as good as they do and that, for the first time in home
video's history, each picture is now being seen as it appeared in theatres (more on that below).
Whether it is in the eerie intimacy of Aron's analog consumer
video or the larger than life exuberance of the boundless photography of the mountainous Utah desert, the 1.85:1
widescreen transfer packs a punch.
THE DVD The bare - bones 2 - disc set from Columbia TriStar, packaged in a dual - platter gatefold with a cardboard sleeve, contains a clean and vivacious 1.77:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer of a digital
video source.
Still, it's a very good
video transfer, and it's heads and shoulders above most other»60s and»70s live action fare that Disney releases, not to mention that it preserves the film's 1.75:1
widescreen ratio and has been enhanced for 16:9 television sets.
THE DVD Blue Underground reissues Zombie on DVD in an apparently definitive 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen presentation; this is one of those
transfers that won't be appreciated by newcomers to the film, but anybody who's had previous experience with Zombie on home
video will marvel at the clarity of the image.