The Worst DVDs Ever Made: A Special Edition List - Page 2

Charley Varick..I cant beleive they released one of the greatest crime films ever made in a shitty cropped version.Especially when its showed time to time on TCM letterboxed.

I'm glad Colossus:The Forbin Project was the first one mentioned.This is one of my favorite science fiction films and deserves better.I bought a dvr-r copied from a laserdisc to tide me over until they do.

Republic Pictures, THX, widescreen 1.85:1, languages: English DD 5.1 [CC], subtitles: Spanish, single side-single layer, 30 chapters, rated R, 116 min., $9.99, street date 11/11/97.

This is the info I found but regardless you are right, the transfer is still crap for Highlander. I kind of just chalked it up to to being a rush job or they did not fully give a crap. It's kind of what we are starting to see from blu ray, the early release of T2 was crap regardless of the fact it should have been much better. But hey! It gives them a chance to just re- release another version!!!

Here's one that deserves a place here... back in 2001, 20th Century Fux released 'Predator' onto R2 DVD but guess what? The stupid pricks accidentally used the wrong master and instead of the full version we had all grown up loving we were instead given the film in a censored, butchered cut with horrifically bad picture quality (I heard it was an airplane version).

Predator had never looked wonderful on DVD anyway, but this was just shockingly shit. Add to this that, instead of an apology and any kind of refund, exchange policy... they just went on to release a 2 disc version a year or so later boasting a 'special uncut version' sticker on the packaging.

Cunts.

I am genuinely honored.

Thanks!

I love how there's Amazon links to buy The Worst DVDs Ever Made. Gotta catch 'em all!

And now that it's been confirmed by Buena Vista/Miramax, I'd like to officially suggest the forthcoming butchered Miramax reissues of IRON MONKEY (cut - it was barely 90 minutes long in the first place, no original score or sound effects, rewrite-via-inaccurate subtitles) and DRUNKEN MASTER II (no original title, music, sound effects, spoken language, or ending) on Blu-ray.

What more can possibly be said other than "Eat a dick, you fucking bastards"? Wasn't the fact that the post-Miramax Weinstein Company had to start Dragon Dynasty enough of an indicator that treating films like this wasn't really producing the desired results, sales-wise - even if Dragon Dynasty itself eventually turned out to be something of a "fuck you" bait-and-switch? They knew they had to at least pretend to make an attempt to get it right.

At least proper, reasonably high-quality versions of IRON MONKEY can be imported - though none look as good as Miramax's transfer. The last legally released proper version of DRUNKEN MASTER II was the long out-of-print VCD in 1997. Mind-boggling.

True fact: if you were to count the fifty worst DVDs ever made, they would all be DVDs of films from Hong Kong. Next time: Anchor Bay's first edition of A BETTER TOMORROW.

A few spring to mind:
Every release of Don't Look Now due to the horrible sound quality, which is as fuzzy and uneven as they come.
The original R2 release of Re-Animator, which was heavily censored with no warning to that effect.
On a similar note, every "special edition" of Night of the Living Dead that uses the cut version.

The pissed-off-iest I've ever been over a DVD was when I sat my brother down to watch Barton Fink, and the fancy-schmancy menu screen spoiled a significant character reveal from the film's climax.

Come to think of it, I'm annoyed in general by menu screens that show bits from the film.

Buffy and Angel box sets are notorious for this.

Cut version? Does that mean John Russo's 30th Anniversary abortion?

Not really the DVD's but I hate it when the inlay for TV show discs have pictures from each episode that are big spoilers.

On the The Wire season 3, the second to last episode is called "Mission Accomplished" or something and the image is obviously Avon being arrested by McNulty.

Only a small thing but pissed me off at the time.