Gremlins Edition [4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray]

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Randall tells his wife and son “Billy Peltzer” ( Zach Galligan) there are three strict rules he must follow to take care of the Mogwai. The rules include not getting it near bright light, not getting it wet with water, and lastly to never feed it after midnight. Let’s just say one of those rules will be broken and as a result, some not-so-cute or friendly creatures are spawned – referred to as gremlins. These pesky little creatures decide to cause all kinds of mischief all throughout the small town where the Peltzers reside. Along the way, Billy will get some help from his co-worker and obvious crush “Kate” ( Phoebe Cates). The local law enforcement does not prove to be much help and it’s essentially up to these two young adults to save the day. I won’t get into any further detail to avoid any real spoilers, for those who have never seen this film. Gremlins is a blast. The film still has a devoted following thirty-five years since it was released for a reason. I consider it to be one of the funniest family films to ever be released and fans of Joe Dante will adore it. There are not that many family films that I re-watch every year, but this film makes the cut. Video: How’s it look? Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code of Gremlins gives this comedy classic the best presentation yet possible, showing how top quality hard-media home video blows away compressed video streams. This is one UHD presentation that I had been extremely excited about. There are very noticeable improvements over the unimpressive and outdated Blu-ray from 2009. Fine detail shows vast improvement. Keep in mind that the film is visually fairly reserved with brown, grey, and muted colors for the most part. For collectors like myself, the old disc will become a frisbee. That said – is this UHD impressive on par with the amazing presentations we have seen on newer films or Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Not so much. But fans of the film are going to be excited to finally have a truly quality release of this classic film. Audio: How’s it sound? even if the scan were down-rezzed to 1080p. But in true, native 4K, the result is by far the finestSelected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Starring: Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Corey Fleldman, Zach Galligan, Harry Carey Jr., Kate Beringer, Polly Holiday Jason’s Sneak Peek features the director on the set briefly speaking about how excited he is to be making the film. Last is a series of trailers for the film. It should also be noted that each of these bonus discs comes with subtitle options in English, English SDH, Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), and Thai. Making-of Featurette (6:21) is a short promotional featurette from 1984 with behind-the-scenes footage. Reitman Squared Scene Commentary again features video commentary by Ivan and Jason Reitman on two scenes from the film, with Jason providing interstitials about his connection to the film and his father. Once again, a full commentary would have been more preferable. Scene Cemetery not only carries over all of the previous deleted scenes, but adds a number of new ones as well, presumably from a workprint. Since the film went through a number of reshoots, plenty of deleted material was leftover. Despite the wealth of material, there are still a few things missing. Ray being possessed by Vigo and driving the Ecto-1 like a maniac, more of Louis’ cousin played by Eugene Levy, the oversized “frog” ghost in the underground tunnels, the full version of Ray and Peter catching the ghost jogger, the full version of the Ghostbusters in the jewelry shop, the Ghostbusters returning the Statue of Liberty and receiving a key to the city, and the original version of Vigo walking out of the painting during the climax. Whereas most if not everything that fans have wanted to see in the deleted scenes from the first film are almost all accounted for, Ghostbusters II still has a ways to go when it comes to major deleted material.

Note: The screen captures were taken from the Blu-ray disc and do not represent the 4K Ultra HD transfer. Wing's shop that were previously obscured, and the enchanted small-town world of Bedford Falls—excuse me, Kingston Falls—is more

Gremlins: Other Editions

evaluated the 1080p disc's video, nor can I say whether I would have given it the same score as Dustin, had I been the reviewer

Inventor/Salesman Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) stumbles across a mysterious fluffy creature called a Mogwai in an old Chinese artifact shop, and ends up slipping it out under the owner’s nose (against his recommendation) as a Christmas present for his son Billy (Zach Galligan). Billy is ecstatic about his gift, and even accepting of the strict rules that the shop owner’s son gave Randall. Don’t subject them to bright lights, don’t get them wet, and DO NOT feed them after midnight. However, as these things go, the new pet (dubbed Gizmo) is soon subjected to a little bit of water, prompting a form of mitosis wherein Gizmo spawns dozens of fluffy little clones. These clones are not exactly nearly as nice as Gizmo is though, and after Billy sends off one of the clones to a lab where it is subjected to the before mentioned feeding after midnight, things get out of control. This release comes with a glossy slip cover and inside is a redemption code for the Digital HD copy. All of the features have been ported over from the original Blu-ray release: choice on the part of the colorist, because it isn't pervasive. In the final scene, for example, Mr.Regardless, this film still sounds good here in the new DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless mix. Dialogue is delivered distinctly through the center channel with no volume adjustments needed. The sound effects come across as pretty realistic and are effective here. Still, with that being said, I found this mix to be pretty much identical to the original Blu-ray’s audio presentation – but if it’s not broken, there is really no reason to fix it. Right? It is enough to certainly do the film the justice that it deserves and should leave most of the fans pleased. It is a solid mix with a handful of somewhat impressive moments along the way, namely near the end of the film during some of the action scenes. Every couple of years we hear about a revival or remake of Joe Dante’s Explorers, the wonderful fantasy about junior high schoolers that fly an amusement park capsule into outer space. I hope something happens, just to get Paramount off its duff for a Blu-ray of the original show. So many genre favorites have hit Blu-ray this year, that anything seems possible.

All three films are presented on separate 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray discs, representing six of the discs in this new Ultimate Collection. The other two discs are devoted to additional bonus materials for all three films, including a mix of brand new and vintage material. Each disc includes the following: DISC ONE: GHOSTBUSTERS (UHD) Jerry Goldsmith’s delightful score helps maintain the farcical tone, in case any particular gag scores as too much of a gross-out. The main ‘circusy’ theme should have been adopted by fun-fair carousels.Audio is included on the 4K disc in the same English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix that was available on the previous Blu-ray edition. It offers excellent clarity, clean dialogue, a medium-wide front soundstage, lightly atmospheric use of the surrounds (except when the chaos begins, when there’s very nice directionally and movement), and a full sound. Low end is moderate but sufficient. This isn’t a mix that really wows, but it’s never sounded better and it serves the film well. Audio is also available in French, German, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Latin Spanish, Czech voice-over, Hungarian, and Russian 5.1 Dolby Digital. Subtitle options include English (for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing), German for the Hearing Impaired, French, Italian for the Deaf, Castilian Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Latin Spanish, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, and Thai. Plot: What’s it about? Video: How’s it look? Audio: How’s it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about? Six of the aforementioned alternate TV takes from the original 1987 broadcast version of the film are presented separately. Entertainment journalist Geoff Boucher hosts the Who You Gonna Call? retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd. The Ecto-1 featurette is dedicated to showing a team of experts restoring the original car to its former glory. Following that is the Library Ghost Scream Test from the original Laserdisc, a set of Multi-Angle Explorations and Storyboard Comparisons, and extensive Photo Galleries featuring a total of 939 stills. Finally, there’s the music video for Ray Parker, Jr.’s Ghostbusters, four trailers—all presented in HD, and a promo for the 1999 DVD release featuring Ivan Reitman. DISC EIGHT: BONUS DISC #2 (BD)