so if I already own the previous MGM Dollars trilogy on BRD, then for this new release I should only get the GBU disc since FOD/FAFDM discs are the same as the previous release?
You have to make your own calculation. Currently, the imported GBU discs are more expensive than the domestic box set, so if your ONLY consideration is price, you should buy the box set. But in another year MGM is probably going to come back at you to buy a NEW box set, which will include all the restorations playing at Cannes this year. How many box sets do you want to own? And anyway, the stand-alone GBU being offered in Europe comes in a cool Steelbook. My solution--obviously, not everyone's--is to get the GBU steelbook now, and wait for the future MGM box of all the restored films.
on an unrelated note: on Beaver's GBU BRD page http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare3/goodbadugly.htm he lists the European Fox Pathe Europa BRD from 2008 but not the MGM BRD: he just says he believes the releases will be the same, and that he will compare when the MGM version is released, to make sure it is indeed the same. Well, Beaver, it's now 5 years later and you still haven't compared? Even if it is indeed the same, at least post a follow-up note confirming that it is the same, which would mean that e.g. all the screencaps you posted for that European BRD are the same as the MGM one.Anyway, can anyone confirm if that Fox Pathe Europa BRD is indeed identical to the MGM BRD that was released a few years ago?
price isn't the only consideration; I want to own every version of a Leone film available in Region A. (And I don't wanna wait a year). And I don't give a damn about a steelbook, unless it comes with really cool stuff.So, to clarify, two questions: A) Is this new version of GBU being released by MGM is the same version being offered in Europe in the steelbook?B) Is the European steelbook of GBU region-free?
Speaking of red tinges etc.I own both the MGM and Ripley's BRD's of FOD. Beaver has four sets of screencap comparisons between the two versions (first 4 caps at this page http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews51/man_with_no_name_trilogy_blu-ray.htm to me, in the third set, the Ripley's version looks so much better; the mountains and trees are so much nicer, a beautiful shade of green; the MGM colors look faded by comparison. Anyway...) point is, people complain about the red-tinged MGM BRD of GBU, but to me, looking at the screencap comparisons of the FOD BRD, doesn't the Ripley's version look red-tinged compared with the MGM version?(on another note: I love the Ripley's, think it looks beautiful, but if you compare the two discs, it seems to my completely untrained eye that perhaps the colors on the MGM look a little faded, but the colors on the Ripley's look fake, like it was "enhanced" in later; I wasn't alive in 1964, but I really wonder if the film actually looked anything close to the Ripley's colors when it was released....
DJ, I'm specifically wondering what you think of the Ripley's BRD of FOD. I know you ordered it, you never told me what you thought of it. Cuz you've been bashing the red tinges in GBU; well, if you compare the Ripley's FOD to the MGM FOD as in Beaver's screencaps I linked to above, I think there is a red tinge in Ripley's as well.
Why can't we have both blue skies and correct skin tones? Dunno. Maybe some day . . .
I wouldn't be half as bothered with the upcoming "special DJ" yellow edition of GBU if these rules were followed (they're not: the sky is yellow, the skins are yellow).
Fashion is a circle. Pink-and-blue will come back. I just have to hold on until then. In 5 years from now, I'll be the new Bill Gates.
You'll be the new Iguanadon.