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Author Topic: Grease on Blu-Ray... John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-15-2010 05:22 PM                     First of all, it looks fabulous... ...but that's about where it ends. There is so much bottom end in the track my head was hurting. I all but had to switch off my sub-woofer to make it possible to listen to the track. The re-release audio track was always crappy even in the cinemas but it's crappyness is more pronounced at home. The opening titles have been shrunk into a black all-round border. Some of the lettering was always tight, but really...this sucks. Here's a screen grab over the top of the first picture to show you just how much it's been shrunk. Bleccchhhh! The removal of the Coca Cola ads in the milk bar scene is as rough as it always was. I wonder why they removed them and yet left the large Coca Cola ice box on prominent display though... All that being said, on the whole and apart from the dumb and pointless opening title shrinking, it's never looked so good. Image Quality: 10/10 Sound Quality: 5/10 Stupid Opening Title Shrink: 0/10  |  IP: Logged Robert Harrison Expert Film Handler Posts: 239 From: Harwood Heights, Illinois, USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 11-15-2010 07:53 PM                     Are you sure that was a Coke sign on the wall? I always thought it was a mirror which was fuzzed out to alleviate the reflection of the camera and crew it most likely picked up. As you said, why fuzz out one Coke ad and leave another?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-15-2010 10:09 PM                     I'm pretty sure it was because it was an (obvious) advert, which was a naughty thing to do as Pepsi objected. The cooler is not so much an advert as a prop.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-15-2010 11:40 PM                    I have the Grease Special Edition THX Dolby Digital laserdisc...SEALED No need for blu ray  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-16-2010 12:39 AM                        If you want to watch it there might be. That sealed LaserDisc won't do you much good unless you sell it.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-16-2010 12:43 AM                    quote: Joe Redifer If you want to watch it there might be. That sealed LaserDisc won't do you much good unless you sell it. None of the (800+) laserdiscs are for sale. I doubt I will ever watch it, I have never actually seen it. I paid $1 for it. The orignal sticker of $64.99 is still on it. What a different time that was!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-16-2010 01:21 AM                        Whenever I buy something that is sealed (such as an old videogame, etc), my first action is to unseal it and use it.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-16-2010 02:33 AM                    quote: Joe Redifer Whenever I buy something that is sealed (such as an old videogame, etc), my first action is to unseal it and use it. Meh, I bought the disc along with 250 others for $250. It just so happened that is was in there along with DTS Long Kiss Goodnight LD  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-16-2010 03:32 AM                        I don't get it. You don't want to use it, you don't want to sell it, what the hell good is it?  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-16-2010 03:51 AM                    quote: Mike Blakesley I don't get it. You don't want to use it, you don't want to sell it, what the hell good is it? I am more of laserdisc hog than anything, I didn't get back into lds for selling them. I have no real interest in watching the movie. Its just sits there next to Titanic which I opened  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-16-2010 07:12 AM                     Thanks for the info, John. The first thing I thought when I saw the subject heading was literally, "I wonder if that Coke sign is still blurred out." Seriously. That has bugged me from the first itme I saw it. Nice to know I'm not the only one that grates on.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-16-2010 08:31 AM                     I have no clue how a Blew Rae can play with Grease on it ... Wondering what solvent could be used to clean it off with out damage...  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 11-16-2010 08:32 AM                     > The removal of the Coca Cola ads in the milk bar scene is as rough I don't know if the sign is blurred out in the original release prints, but it was blurred out in the late 1990's SRD re-issue. As to the LaserDiscs, they were the best that standard definition had to offer prior to DVD, but the bottom line is that they are still standard definition, and while there were some really good looking LaserDiscs, and some really sucky looking DVDs, overall DVD looked noticeably better. Back when DVD's first came out, my local LaserDisc rental store started renting them along with renting a player. I rented the player along with 4 DVD's of movies I owned on LaserDisc. Doing some comparisons on my big screen tv, DVD blew away LaserDisc. The next week I struck a deal with the now defunct used LaserDisc mail order company, "Big Mama's", drove up to Boston with 200 LaserDiscs and drove home with $3000. Smartest move I ever made. A few months later you could not give LaserDiscs away.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 11-16-2010 10:22 AM                        The problem with the Grease Blu-ray (and the Grease DVD, actually) is that the musical numbers are mixed so differently than the dialogue, sound effects, and non-hit music. The musical numbers sound like you're playing the songs on your stereo at a louder volume with the movie muted, while the rest of the movie is equalized...like a movie. If you set your volume to the beginning of the movie and have it relatively loud, you are in for a shock when the main title song hits.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-16-2010 12:24 PM                        I used to own a full length version of GREASE on Super 8. The sound was mag Mono and the picture was panned and scanned but I was very happy to have it because I love the movie. The 8mm picture quality was not the best but was blown away when I saw the difference between it and the DVD. I was even more impressed when I got the Blu-Ray. Got to look at it again because I did not notice the changes made with the Coke sign in the background in the dinner scene. -Claude  |  IP: Logged

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