30th Anniversary ??
Is there been any word on the 30th anniversary edition? Kind of crazy it's 30y are old. Hopefully, they'll be some kind of Blu-ray or something this year being that 2015 marks 30 years since initial release.
shareThat would be AMAZING!
sharebeing released this august.
can now be preordered on blu ray from amazon.com
Got mine a little early. The film looks gorgeous. Sadly, the only special features are some trailers.
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any idea why they changed the english dub?
I think its not even the same actors voices as before and other little things and dialog are changed. not all for the better either.
but the video looks flawless not like the dvd i had seen before which was so dark.
ryan
I think I prefer the darker video. Seems to fit in more with the atmosphere of the movie.
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The reason why the dub was redone was because Sentai couldn't get the elements for the Streamline version.
And frankly, the older dub, in my opinion, was not a very good one at all. Compared to today's efforts it sounded stiff, corny, monotonous, and laughable. The voices were a mixed bag, with some, like Dan, coming off as truly horrific. The dialogue was not very good either, with a lot of sentences sounding choppy. It was also guilty of shuffling around the music in certain scenes; sometimes this can be done effectively, but here the added in pieces, while still from the original OST, feel out of place with the visuals.
Sentai's dub dials all of that back and aims to produce a version more closer to the original Japanese. And frankly, I think they did a great job with it. David Wald sounds especially impressive as Count Lee; his performance is far and away superior to that of Jeff Winkless.