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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great movies, insulting DVD releases and mislabled amazon entry as Widescreen, July 9, 2008
Others have reviewed these 2 excellent films, this is focused on the DVD product here. No remastering, horrible PLII sound (no 5.1) and the complete slap in the face of a 4x3 cropped "fullscreen" version of Phamtasm. Not to mention the amazon listing shows both 4x3 and "widescreen" this is flat out false information. The menu for Mask shows in widescreen, as soon as you play the movie, it shifts to 4x3 and even has the dreaded "Has been formatted to fit your TV" insult. Umm my tv is 720p 16x9. This cropped DVD has *not* been formatted to fit "my screen" it was formatted to fit portable DVD players for kids on airplanes, the mistaken target audience.
The true target audience is adults who enjoy a darker batman instead of the chawrrible flaming camp of the Schuemacher films.
In short this disc was a mistake purchase, I assumed I was getting a 16x9 anamorphic Mask movie and a native 4x3 Freeze movie.
Also beware this is a double sided disc, on print art on the disc. It's almost as if they are encouraging people to pirate the movie instead as this release was straight up robbery.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The movies are both great, but don't bother with this DVD. Buy them individually., December 12, 2008
Both of these Batman animated films are great (though Mask of the Phantasm is by far the better of the two), but this DVD is a waste of money. Yes two films on one DVD sounds great, but for some reason WB decided to only include the "full screen", or as it should truthfully be called the "half the film image chopped off at the sides" versions of the films. Both films are available individually as widescreen versions (and they also include the "full screen" versions as seen here, but as far as I'm concerned it's never worth watching those hacked up versions of any films), and buying them each separately would only cost you a couple of dollars more. This double DVD was released in 2008, and in this day and age when everyone is buying widescreen HDTVs it is very stupid to not include widescreen versions. I can't imagine why studios even release so called "full screen" cropped DVDs at all anymore. Are there really that many ignorant people still buying them? If there are I can only laugh at them for buying "full screen" DVDs all these years to avoid having black bars on the top and bottom of their screen, and now they are all going out to buy widescreen HDTVs only to have a collection full of DVDs that will leave them with black bars on the sides of the screen instead, and still losing half the films image on top of that. In short go with the individual releases, and if you only go with one of these films make it "Mask of the Phantasm".
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Those that don't own the films: Recommended. Already Own the Films: Skip It., February 24, 2008
While initially thought to be a two-disc release of the previous releases for the films, Warner Home Video has pressed a whole new flipper disc for this DVD release, putting SubZero on one side and Mask of the Phantasm on the other (featuring the films fullscreen transfer). Also confusing is the DVDs packaging that puts SubZero before Mask of the Phantasm in nearly every respect.
The two sides of the discs are complete duplicates of the original releases and contain nothing new. Exact same menus and exact same video transfers. They could've taken the time to hunt down that 5.1 surround track for SubZero that was released on LaserDisc and tossed it on here, but that's not what this release was meant for. A quick cash in on the ever growing popularity of one of comic books most famous heroes. Here's hoping we'll see a more worthy release for Mask of the Phantasm come it's twentieth anniversary.
For those that don't already own these two films, it's a cheap alternative to buying two different DVD releases, but for those that already have these two releases it's a definite downgrade. Not only do you have to still deal with a flipper disc, you lose the widescreen transfer of Mask of the Phantasm. Not a huge loss considering the film was animated in fullscreen, but still. This is really just a cash cow release that, one can hope, was just released to check the interest in these two films to see if future special editions are warranted. Let's all hope for a Phantasm special edition to coincide with The Dark Knight DVD release, shall we?
Those that don't own the films: Recommended.
Already Own the Films: Skip It.
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