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Author Topic: Indiana Jones Trilogy Coming To DVD FINALLY! Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-07-2003 12:21 AM                     Paramount has announced that it will release the entire Indiana Jones trlogy on DVD later this year. The Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete DVD Movie Collection will hit stores November 4th. The set will include 4 discs, with the fourth being dedicated to special features. Extras will include a documentary by Laurent Bouzereau detailing how the films were made, from stunts to visual effects to the music and sound, and the history behind the legends used in the films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Steven Spielberg will not be doing any audio commentaries for the DVDs, since he doesn't like doing them. The box set will be available in Widescreen and Full Screen, and retail for $49.95.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-07-2003 02:31 AM                        Remember when they changed Star Wars so that Greedo shoots first at Han Solo in order to make the attack seem provoked? I wonder if they will take the scene where Indy just shoots the fancy sword guy instead of fighting him in Raiders of da Lost Ark so that the fancy sword guy shoots first? After all, George Lucas is involved. Maybe Steve will slap him. Or maybe Steve will replace Indys' gun with a walkie-talkie. I know they want to put the "Imperial March" theme in Star Wars and release yet another addition.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-07-2003 10:02 AM                     Second Thread running over on AFTER LIFE about the Indiana Jones Trilogy.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-07-2003 12:49 PM                        From the official Paramount Home Video press release, the film will not be altered from it's original version in any way except for the restoration of the image quality and a new 5.1 digital soundtrack. I have been waiting for these film to come out on DVD for years after selling my laserdiscs in anticipation of the eventual release of the movies in the new video format. The prologic sound on the laserdisc was great but I expect the DVD to be much better because of newly created discreet surround soundtrack. I do not recall if "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" was released in 70mm but I saw all the others in the large film format in theatres and I believe the surrounds was not split but mono. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-07-2003 12:51 PM                        From the official Paramount Home Video press release, the film will not be altered from it's original version in any way except for the restoration of the image quality and a new 5.1 digital soundtrack. I have been waiting for these film to come out on DVD for years after selling my laserdiscs in anticipation of the eventual release of the movies in the new video format. The prologic sound on the laserdisc was great but I expect the DVD to be much better because of newly created discreet surround soundtrack. I do not recall if "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" was released in 70mm but I saw all the others in the large film format in theatres and I believe the surrounds was not split but mono. -Claude  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-07-2003 01:07 PM                        Didn't a few "select" theatres show Last Crusade in 70mm Dolby SR with split surrounds? But most 70mm prints had mono surround with A noise reduction, not SR.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-07-2003 02:47 PM                     Yes, Last Crusade had some 70mm SR split surround prints (I saw it this way at the Chinese I).  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-07-2003 04:05 PM                        David & Paul, It is good to know "THE LAST CRUSADE" had some split surround Dolby SR prints in circulation. Do you also know if there were some prints of "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" and "THE TEMPLE OF DOOM" with split surrounds? -Claude  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-07-2003 05:46 PM                     I watched "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" in 70mm Dolby SR when it played at the Loews Astor Plaza theater in New York. I don't know if the theater was rewired for split surrounds at that time (my hunch is the surrounds were still mono).  |  IP: Logged

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