Well I have just finished "Blueprint For Murder" the last episode of Season 1 and there is no question that Kino's remastering REALLY screwed up in the sound mixing. Like in "Dead Weight" there are scenes where what should be background noise is literally drowning out the dialogu...

I'd note that we had the Mystery Movie intro in the DVD releases of "McMillan And Wife". It was admittedly a case where they used one opening and then "branched" into the episode but at least we got to see it there. It is true that in recent years, with the publication of David K...

So I got it for Christmas. The transfers are certainly an upgrade and the evidence of the original commercial fade-outs are more apparent than on previous releases of Universal TV shows where they tended to streamline those out. The isolated music F/X tracks are interesting in spots (like for instan...

Thumbs down on the fact that Paramount didn't take advantage of Blu-Ray to fix the butchery they did on "The Odd Couple" (specifically Seasons 3-5. Season 1 was free and clear and Season 2 had only one minor piece of background music replaced) Some of the stuff they cut was public domain f...

Andy thanks for mentioning that, because that may well be something I missed because of my angst distraction caused by my boss's e-mails that like I said were making me overly self-conscious about the time. Next time I see it, I know I'll be watching for those points with a more discerning eye than ...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) 8.5 of 10 =In honor of those who lost their lives on a day of infamy that is sadly being remembered less and less with each passing year, I gave this film a look for the first time in a decade. I had forgotten the Blu-Ray has an "extended" Japanese version with sl...

I saw it today but my viewing experience was a bit disrupted by a circumstance unrelated to any rude audience members. I had gotten a message from my boss about a new project at 11 AM. I worked on it for two hours then went to the cinema for a 2 PM showing and planned to return to it when I got back...

I couldn't stand her character in "The Abyss" or Harris for that matter. In fact, the reason why I ended up disliking the film so intensely is because their characters make a totally bad first impression (They don't give a damn about wanting to help the Navy try to find the missing sub and...

My worst experience with an annoying audience member was at a Broadway musical. I was seeing a preview of the Titanic musical and the guy sitting next to me was constantly mumbling under his breath disdainfully, "hit the damned berg and get it over with" or making some other disparaging co...

I saw it Thanksgiving night. The problem is it wastes so much time on the relationship with Josephine (and her failure to give him an heir) that when the battles come up there is ZERO context for why Napoleon is invading Europe in the first place. Not a peep about Napoleon's ambitions of conquest (o...

I admit, I'm still upset about the commentaries. But I asked my sister to get it for me Christmas anyway. (at least this way it's for free!)

Got my copy the other day too. The partial first episode "Hot Snow" is presented a little differently this time in that I noticed the title credits were windowboxed for some reason which I don't recall in previous releases on DVD. After the extant portion there's another five minutes of te...

Napoleon 6 of10 -My first trip to a cinema post-COVID. My cousin in Nashville who invited me down for Thanksgiving asked me to go out after dinner and you don't say no to that. The R-rated violence scenes (a cannon striking a horse in the entrails, the rather pointless scene of Marie Antoinette's b...

When you get down to it, Lucas has done nothing but give us idiotic fan-edits of the SW trilogy and totally shirked his responsibility to rational archival preservation. New cuts should exist *alongside* the originals, not at their expense. And the irony is that I think it all stems from a petty des...

My other issue with this movie is the useless tangent of introducing Boba Fett, as if he is some important figure in the Star Wars universe. In fact Boba Fett is actually a less-significant character than Admiral Piett or Admiral Akbar. He is potentially badass, but other than making-off with Han S...