BLU-RAY EDITION - June 15th, 2010

[Vigilante]

www.thehdroom.com/news/Sam_Raimis_Darkman_to_Visit_Blu-ray/6504

www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4304

www.highdefdiscnews.com/?p=39754

The 1997 DVD version was very good. Then we got a terrific HD-DVD treatment (in terms of PQ), where Universal just did an excellent job with the remastering. NO extras as always.

Since the HD-DVD was a kind of bestseller...

[kooshmeister]

No special features? Really? This is getting annoying. I'd kill for an audio commentary or some deleted scenes.

[Vigilante]

Mar 22, 2010 0:35:46 GMT -5 kooshmeister said:

No special features? Really? This is getting annoying. I'd kill for an audio commentary or some deleted scenes.

Blame Universal. They never treated Darkman seriously.

[Vigilante]

It looks like the BD release is barely good, but good nonetheless. But don't expect the best from a low-budgeted movie and total lack of any restoration.

These are the positive reviews.

www.dvdfile.com/reviews/blurayreviews/102236-darkman-bd-review

www.dvdtown.com/review/darkman/blu-ray/8151

[Vigilante]

I'm 100% glad, because I'm sure UNIVERSAL will release a 25th anniversary BD (2015) or even a 30th anniversary edition (2020), given the cult impact the movie always had, but in the while the studio managed to deliver a pretty good BD transfer in terms of picture quality the same.

[Gun4ALeg]

Any reviews of the bluray?

[Vigilante]

Jun 6, 2011 19:11:46 GMT -5 Gun4ALeg said:

Any reviews of the bluray?

Plenty of them.

[michael]

Hi, I am Michael from Koch Media, we got the Darkman rights for Germany from Universal. We have just released another hero-movie from Universal: "The Shadow" on DVD and Blu-ray, including interviews, behind the scenes, music video and so on. Now I look for proper special features for darkman. We will get the extras which were used on the British videocassette and I try to find a proper version of the pilot. If you have any more ideas it would be great if you could write a PM.

[Vigilante]

Jul 1, 2011 9:04:44 GMT -5 michael said:

Hi, I am Michael from Koch Media, we got the Darkman rights for Germany from Universal. We have just released another hero-movie from Universal: "The Shadow" on DVD and Blu-ray, including interviews, behind the scenes, music video and so on. Now I look for proper special features for darkman. We will get the extras which were used on the British videocassette and I try to find a proper version of the pilot. If you have any more ideas it would be great if you could write a PM.

Will you use a better digital master this time?

UNIVERSAL used a cheap 1080 HD master, not even 2K.