Hello fellow Deep Rising fanatics. I just learned that Deep Rising will finally be coming to Blu-Ray as a double feature with The Puppet Masters, on October 9th! Great news!
shareSounds great love the movie, but there are so many other new releases that are coming out in the same month that I wanted to get first.
"Jason's Got Nards"
Where is it going to be sold? I freaking love this movie.
shareOh Yeah! I came on here to post this and I'm so happy! Time for an anamorphic HD transfer. I'm so stoked! 6.99 on Amazon....Boo-yah!!
Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up!
Yeah, I saw that. Very cool.
What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!
So I just finshed watching the blu-ray and the picture quality is excellent, for a standard DVD. It appears that Mills Creek did not bother restoring neither of the movies in this double feature.
The picture at least is anamorphic.
By the way, Deep Rising has not aged well at all. Poor digital effects, bad acting, horrible dialogue. Man I loved this movie 15 years ago!!! The Relic has aged much better, but it also suffers from a bad blu-ray transfer and some iffy dialogue at times.
The picture on this Blu-ray looks FANTASTIC, infinitely better than any prior standard DVD edition, probably as good as 90% of the theatrical projections back in the day (only without all the projector crap getting on the print!), and shockingly good from a company with Mill Creek's record. The film is barely 15 years old. A restoration or remastering was not necessary.
While the future of disc medias is limited, I would love to see this get a special edition release some day, though probably by another company that would have to buy the rights from Mill Creek to do so. I'm particularly thinking of Shout Factory,s recent Scream Factory line of Blu-rays, which have lavished special edition treatment on several Studio horror movies, some of which are not even in the same quality ballpark as DEEP RISING. The film proved to be a harbinger for Stephen Sommers' entire oeuvre, love it or hate it. People can argue the worth of the man's films until the cows come home, but barring the his first couple of directing efforts, from JUNGLE BOOK onward, they're wholly the product of a singular vision. I find something to love in all his films, yet I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge their flaws, and often find them excessively bombastic.
I think DEEP RISING holds up extremely well, but then I don't compare it to movies that came along later when CG technology was even better. I think it holds up AS a 1998 big budget action picture only SLIGHTLY hobbled by the lack of commitment of its intended star Harrison Ford. Clearly the thing was ready to shoot before Treat Williams had to be swapped into the role and the budget undoubtedly downgraded. In this regard, it reminds me of another 90's action movie, TERMINAL VELOCITY (also on Blu from Mill Creek, and somehow deemed more worthy of its own disc than the slightly better DEEP RISING), which was well past pre-production when Tom Cruise backed out, forcing his replacement ith Charlie Sheen.
Had either of these films proceeded with their intended stars, people would be having much different conversations about them today. :-)
I had no idea this finally came out on Blu-ray.
Buying it NOW.
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Wait a minute... who am I here?
Any truth to Mill Creek's Blu being edited? I'd like to snap it up, but not if this holds true. From an Amazon reviewer:
This review is for the DEEP RISING PUPPET MASTERS combo blue-ray disc....
Just when you think you have the most awesome copy of
your favorite movie... something unexpected happens:
Now, get this,I LOVE,no totally, LOVE, the movie Deep Rising. I love it so much so, in fact, I watched it more than STAR WARS fans watch their movies.
I have it memorized, right down to the soundtrack and effects,
so of course, I want the BLUE RAY DTS soundtrack and enhanced video version.
So I bought the only BLUE RAY I could find...
But the disc I got was CUT. I don't know if I got a defective disc, or if they cut the movie to make it fit on the disc with The Puppet Masters, but
it cuts out the entire scene where: the camera zooms up to the cruise ship for the first time, sees a guy on the balcony, goes past him through the doors to a LOUD casino atmosphere with Asian dancers and a roulette game, female bartenders, and a Brian Setzer orchestra song BLASTING through the speakers. We pan over the entire cruise ship lobby and floors and see Hawaiian dancers and then Kodo drummers start playing until Mr. Canton stops them with a lift of his champagne glass and toasts to the Argonautica. "Good Times Forever!" Then Famke Jansen is introduced and
she's blowing bubblegum and walking past the Captain of the ship. She bumps him
and(in the American version) says pardon me in FRENCH and grabs a bottle of champagne. Then she goes out to the balcony we saw on the original fly in through the doors, and checks out the Captain's wallet she just stole from him. She comments on his picture and throws the wallet off the side of the ship. Then hears a weird sound from the creature although we don't know it's that yet.
This BLUE RAY SKIPS ALL THAT. And goes to Famke breaking into the safe on the ship.
NO introduction to the cruise ship, Mr. Canton, The Captain, or Famke. Can this really be a defective disc or did they do it on purpose to save disc space????
I am mortified. Horrified and totally depressed. It only cost 8$ with shipping, but
it is my favorite American movie of all time, so I hope its just my disc that is defective and the rest of you aren't getting ripped off and deprived of those awesome scenes and character development.
I've got the double feature disc (paired with The Puppet Masters).
The scene that reviewer refers to is on the disc.
Maybe he/she (the reviewer) accidentally hit the chapter skip, was high or went to the restroom and just missed it.
Know what I mean?
The picture on this Blu-ray looks FANTASTIC, infinitely better than any prior standard DVD edition, probably as good as 90% of the theatrical projections back in the day (only without all the projector crap getting on the print!), and shockingly good from a company with Mill Creek's record.
I beg to differ.
The film is barely 15 years old. A restoration or remastering was not necessary.
It's being transferred to Blu-Ray, hi definition, a remaster IS in order.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Deep-Rising-and-The-Puppet-Masters-Blu-r ay/52739/#Review
This feels like a movie Shout Factory should try and get the rights to and do a proper Collector's Edition Blu-ray of. I'm not sure if they've ever worked with Disney before, but if there is a cult film from them that deserves a stronger release than "Deep Rising", I'd like to know what.
"[Redmayne] is so thirsty for awards and not in a fun way but in a sad, desperate way" - Twitter
Really....? Puppet Master? Why of all films would Deep Rising be paired with Puppet Master. If your going to double bill this with something put it with Leviathan, or Deep Star Six.
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