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Drama queens complaining about the DVD or what?


I don't understand why there's so much complaining about the new U.S. release of this movie. Maybe because I hadn't seen the bootleg version so many others have, but the sound was fine to me. This was my first time ever seeing the movie, and nothing about the sound pitch detracted from the film for me at all. I heard people say the women sound like husky men and stuff...they don't. If that sounds like a man to you, you've got problems. From all the comments, I was expecting something awful, and what I got was nothing nearly as bad as people made it out to be. Also, how is the audio slowed down? If it was, wouldn't the audio track be out of sync with the film? This is what I don't understand. Whenever I look at the actors lips moving, the words perfectly match. Now I know it is dubbed, but the dubbing is on par with their lip movements in all scenes. Were the audio slowed down, wouldn't it be out of sync? That's what I don't get.

And people say there's 40 seconds of missing footage...well, I don't know what it was, but it must not have been consequential to the plot at all because the movie makes sense as it is. They even reinserted the one and a half minute that was missing from the U.S. theatrical release.

Honestly, I expected a horrible disc and I was glad to see people were being just way too over-dramatic about this...

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I thought the DVD was very good, the German bootleg is crap compared to the US release. About the illegitimacy of the MYA release, I'd like to know where they are getting that info, sounds crazy to me.

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"but you'd be better off keeping your lame opinions and name-calling to yourself when you don't understand the realities of a situation."

Sounds like someone here is being a total drama queen!

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I agree. Apparently I'm not a massive, true Argento fan because I didn't spend 100s on one title either.

Hell, I ain't no quitter. I've been smoking for 30 years...

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Right? That made me laugh. I own every Argento film, even the awful Phantom of the Opera, yet I also never saw Four Flies on Grey Velvet until the U.S. DVD release. Guess I was never a true Argento fan. Maybe some of us knew we wouldn't be satisfied with a bootleg VHS and didn't want to waste our FIRST time seeing an Argento film on a crappy bootleg. I mean who expects great quality from a bootleg anyway? That makes no sense. Yeah of course you wouldn't have a perfect copy. I would rather not see a film at all if some scratchy VHS print is all I have access to. The quality would be so far removed from the director's intention there would be no point.

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I like the german dvd more than the god awful mya disk(Absurd is worse),its a shoddy pal to ntsc conversion

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I bought the UK Blu-ray a few weeks ago, so I'm satisfied with that. I had the MYA DVD, but I jump at any chance to own an Argento film on Blu. That, and it has the missing 40 seconds of footage, although there is noticeable print damage. You have the option to watch the movie without the missing footage, too, and frankly the missing material doesn't really add much anyway. The release is also region free, so people in the U.S. like me can enjoy it as well.

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