Another disappointing DVD transfer-RATS!!!
346994
I really enjoy this movie (it's one of my favorite Moore roles), but we're STILL waiting for a remastered, widescreen version of the complete movie without missing blips of dialogue (and this may never happen).  This latest version is no better than some of the earlier VHS tapes/DVDs.  Don't be fooled.
1549660
As with "A Touch of Class", I couldn't enjoy the undeniable artistic merit of this film because of the lousy technical transfer to DVD. Once again, the DVD box blurb states a 4:3 screen ratio, but what you actually see is a 16:9 image made to fit into the 4:3 frame. In this transfer we see less of the "black bars" at the top and bottom of the screen as the 16:9 image has been cropped to fill up more of the 4:3 space. So, while we see an almost full 4:3 picture, in reality we have actually lost peripheral screen detail in the process. Additionally, my copy has an annoying purply-blue vertical line at the leftmost edge of the frame which is most distracting to screen content. For me, this is another great film ruined by those (who should know better?) taking dodgy technical short-cuts!
257562
Very disappointed in this Blu Ray copy by Kino Lorber of Duel At Diablo!! Yes, what was in Blu Ray was great BUT there were way too many scenes that were very fuzzy. Even one scene looking like 3D without looking wearing your 3D glasses.  Very poor transfer to Blu Ray. If you have an older regular DVD copy put out by MGM years ago, it is really a better copy of Duel AT Diablo.
3657024
Like another reviewer here, my copy of "Rise of the Lycans" (Bluray) was so grainy I felt like I had been magically transported back into the 1970's!  Since "Rise" is such a recent movie I would have expected it to be the best of the three, but it was BY FAR the worst.  In fact, it is the worst bluray transfer I've ever seen.

For those of you who may have bought the older DVD transfer of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I can tell you that this bluray was WORSE than that DVD was.  My 13 year old daughter kept asking me what was wrong with the TV because it looked so bad.

The other two movies were excellent, as you would expect in a bluray.  I don't understand how they could be of such relatively good quality and "Rise" could be so poor.
2176960
I basically mirror the comments of previous reviewers who give this film high marks for storyline and action.
My main complaint is the outrageous quality of the transfer over to DVD. I have yet to come across a DVD that has such terrible image quality.  It is like looking at an old VHS tape.  Image outlines shimmer and fluctuate.  Lighting and shadow effects darken and lighten. Sound quality is OK in my opinion. Nonetheless, the image quality is an annoying distraction which degrades the overall enjoyment of this finely done Sci Fi thriller.
If you must get this DVD, write to Warner Studios and tell them how lousy a job they did on this DVD transfer.  This film deserved much better attention to image quality. I am sure many of you would have screamed bloody murder if "Alien" had been so poorly done.
Warner needs to come out with an "Outland SE" to rectify this problem. ...
1402783
The movie itself is good. But the "Madacy" Company copied a lousy, badly worn, faded, repaired 16mm copy on to the DVD and is miserable to watch! The film must have been shown 100's of times. It is so badly spliced, in some scenes you can't even understand the dialog! The whole last half of the movie, the sound is extremely garbled! Very poor visual quality. You would expect a DVD to be higher in quality - not this one. Record the movie off of TV!
565490
Another great show getting the crap DVD-R treatment from the idiots at Warner Archives. Don't bother. There is no guarantee these inferior transfers will play on your equipment. They even tell you this! Save your money and force this miserable studio to give us legitimate DVD releases for TV shows and movies!
4268269
I bought this dvd set at Wal-Mart for $10.00 and was extremely dissapointed at the "GoodFellas" dvd. First off, the movie transfer was just awful. Very grainy & gritty picture plus the audio was not great. To make things worse there are no special features other than a recommended movie page and a theatrical trailer. (To be fair, this did not really bother me too much as I was not interested in special features. I just wanted the movie.) But the very worst thing about this dvd to me is that the movie is CUT IN HALF with the first part of the movie playing on one side of the disc and the rest of the movie on the reverse side of the disc. That's right, you heard me! This is a freakin' TWO SIDED DISC!!! TWO SIDED DISC!!! TWO SIDED DISC!!? What the heck kind of stone-age sh*t is that!!? That sort of thing just irritates me! This is 2012, man!  A movie that is 2 hours and 26 minutes long should be able to fit on one side of a friggin' dvd. What the cheese is up with this two-sided disc crap!?  I mean come on! "GoodFellas" was a friggin' Oscar nominee!  It deserved a much better dvd treatment than this!

I have never seen the movie "Heat" and as of right now I have not viewed the dvd of it included in this set. (I only bought this set for "GoodFellas".)

Anyway, if you are looking for "GoodFellas" on dvd I recommend you buy the 2 disc edition because it has a better transfer and the whole movie on one side of the disc.

Also I would stay away from the 1 disc edition of "GoodFellas" because I am pretty sure it is the same crappy dvd sold in this set. I hope that this review helped you. Have a good day and happy shopping.
2306250
BEWARE, Save your Money!  This appears to be a Non legitimate factory DVD.  The prints are obviously washed out VHS to DVD-R transfers.  Even the cover art is just as horrid; it's a blown up, quality degraded photo.  To top things off, the DVD menu looks like it was produced with some "cheese bag" software.  I am SHOCKED & amazed that Amazon is allowing this DVD-R to be sold at all.  Yecchh!
1827011
After having enjoyed this film in the theater, I couldn't wait for the home video to hit the market. After continuing to enjoy the film on VHS, I finally bought a DVD player and began to update my movie collection by purchasing DVD's of my favorites.
Titanic was one I couldn't wait to have on DVD. I must say I was never so disappointed in a single DVD purchase as I was with Titanic.
The single DVD contains one trailer and the movie...that's it!! No bonus material at all! But my biggest complaint was the video transfer. For a DVD, it is no better than the VHS tapes, in both video and sound quality. And if you put any zoom on it at all, it goes grainy even with a minimum amount. One would think that for the exorbant price of this DVD it would have been of top-shelf quality. Nothing could be further from the truth! This has to be the worst buy of any DVD in my collection, and I am really disgusted with it because it was one of my all-time favorite films.
1283619
Terrible transfer. Letterboxed to a 4:3 display ratio. Looks awful on 1080p widescreen. Looks better on my old VHS tape.
252593
Get the full version on dvd this version is a ripped off !
3871657
I love this movie, and was so disappointed to see all the mars on the dvd image that you'd expect when watching an old VHS tape. I've never bought a DVD that had this problem before, and would not have purchased the product had I known the situation. In addition, the audio, is not the best quality--sounds almost non-stereo, maybe a bit hollow and shallow. I definitely do not recommend purchasing this item until the studio restores it.
2753654
Just got my copy in February 2010 and have only watched (or tried to watch) two films so far. Kiss of the Vampire played fine, but Nightmare on the same side of the same disc pixelated and froze in the same spot on two different DVD players and a computer. The discs appear pristine to the naked eye, but clearly they are substandard as many previous reviews have noted. I add my warnings to the chorus: don't buy these DVDs!
4586265
I am a Spaghetti Western fan. Because of this I decided to purchase a number of rather rare films on DVD by Wild East Entertainment. One of films was "If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death."

The first DVD I recieved was the Lee Van Cleef classic Day of Anget. It had some major problems. I ordered the disc BRAND NEW from amazon directly and the disc contained many DEEP scratches, fingerprint smudges, and the center of the disc was even cracked. I sent the disc back to get a replacement. The second disc I recieved was also scratched badly. I'm not sure who is in charge of making these Wild Eest Entertainment discs but holy hell, give me a break! For brand new discs they look and play like a an ex-rental that had been used as a frisbee. I sent the disc back for a second time because the film skipped. The third disc I recieved...what a surprise...was also really scratched. Enough is enough! How many times do I have to send a disc back in order to get a disc that is in LIKE NEW condition and plays fine!

That was only the first problem I had with a Wild East disc. I also ordered the DVDs Sartana and Gentleman Killer. I will say up front that I have a normal television (not some fancy widescreen TV) and a normal high quality Sony DVD player. When I played either one of those DVDs...the image come up scruntched on my TV. It's not like I have a widescreen TV playing non-anamorphic discs. I have a normal everyday TV. I emailed Wild East Entertainment about the problem and they eventually responded that it was a manufacturing defect on their part and the person has to switch their DVD player manually to 16x9 to play properly on their TV. Sadly I was unable to do this on my DVD player and the company offered my money back if I sent back the discs along with my amazon receipt. I sent the DVD to them. It's been months and I have not recieved any refund and they refuse to email me back. They took my DVDs and never sent me a refund and refuse to answer my letters and emails. I have NEVER been treated so poorly and they basically robbed me of $40.

The "Matalo!" DVD also has some extremely poor encoding but I assume I warned potential buyers enough about "Wild East Entertainment". I respect the work they are trying to do by releasing hard to find Spaghetti Westerns but they need to shape up or ship out. Releasing defective discs that are poorly manufactured (like the Day of Anger disc) is upsetting. Their customer service promising refunds that never arrive and ignoring emails and letters is childish. It's a shame because I bought a LOT of their DVD's but the defective discs and their customer service giving false promises ensures that I will NEVER buy another one of their products again.
3574309
Boycott this DVD !!!!

MGM has released only 1/2 of the movie !!!!

The other 1/2 has been arbitrarily cut off and thrown away !!!

This film was shot in CinemaScope 2.35:1 aspect ratio in 1968, but on MGM's DVD you are getting a 1.33:1 (Full Screen) aspect ratio !!

So, MGM has cut off the left side or the right side or some from each side of the frame leaving you with NOT EVEN ONE frame of film as the director shot it -- not even ONE frame as this fine film was shown in theaters !!!!

MGM hang your head in disgrace !!!!
1450739
This review is specifically about the DVDs themselves, not about the movie "Trancers" or its sequels.  Good or bad, I happen to love these movies...which is why I keep subjecting myself to the repeated disappointment of testing each DVD release in hopes of finding one that is adequate quality.

I'll try not going to go into too many details about this "Ultimate Deth Collection" because...well...it is nothing but a repackaging of Kangaroo Video's "Trancers: The Definitive Collection".  Everything about the content of the discs is identical, right down to the "Definitive"-labeled menus.

The only real difference is the price and the packaging.  This "Ultimate Deth Collection" retails for roughly half the price of the "Definitive" set.  And, the discs are packaged in a single-width 5-disc DVD case, which saves quite a bit of space compared to the "Definitive" box.

For those not yet familiar with the "Definitive" boxed set, the quality of the film transfers is passable.  Movies II through V appear to be sourced from the video masters Full Moon created for their original LaserDisc releases.  So, they're roughly standard-definition broadcast quality.

The movie that, sadly, suffers the most in quality is the original "Trancers".  It has been mastered directly from the Vestron LaserDisc.  So any visual artifacts from that disc are present in this release.  Additionally, since that LaserDisc was double-sided, the movie abruptly cuts to black midway through and then fades back in.  The DVD authors could not be bothered to edit that portion out.

Also, the framerate of the LaserDisc was slightly off from that of whatever recording device was used, resulting in an improper telecine and an excess of interlace lines.  I've compared it to the original Vestron LaserDisc and can confirm that problem does not exist on the original source.

All 5 movies are presented in a 4x3 full screen aspect ratio.  This is appropriate for movies II thorugh V, as they were released direct-to-video.  But, the original "Trancers" was matted to widescreen for it's theatrical release.  By failing to properly letterbox the presentation, there is an over-abundance of head room...and even a visible boom-mic in one shot.

Oh, I should also mention that the "Ultimate Deth Collection" is missing "Trancers 6".  The same was true for the previous "Definitive Collection".

Moral of the story:
This is the same, shoddy presentation we've seen before, but at a lower price and with sleeker packaging.  So long as Full Moon actually owns the rights to these films, I doubt we're going to see any better release.  If you don't already own these movies, this is the collection to buy...but that's not saying much.