Reviews written by vultural

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April 23, 2023
Overall rating
 
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Overview - Replicants loose in downtown Los Angeles, near future (anyone who thinks we will be offworld by 2049 is myopic). Anyway, replicants roaming free, who ya gonna call?...

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vultural
February 20, 2023
Overall rating
 
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
8.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Three Fveking Bears (Rambo, et al) - Vilgefortz Filesize = 7.6 GB, Video = 1920 X 1080p AVC, Audio = 192 kbps AC-3, 2-Channel...

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vultural
February 20, 2023
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Miami Vice: 03 Redemption - RangerKris Filesize = 5.14 GB, Video = 512 X 384p AVC, Audio = 317 kbps AAC, 2-Channel stereo. No...

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vultural
November 04, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0
TV-to-Movie

Miami Vice: Score - RangerKris Filesize = 5.47 GB, Video = 512 X 384p AVC, Audio = 317 AAC, 2-Channel stereo. No subs....

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vultural
November 04, 2022
Overall rating
 
8.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
6.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Blade 3 Behead The King (Blade Trinity) - CBB Filesize = 5.4 GB, Video = 720 X 480p AVC, Audio = 316 kbps 5.1...

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vultural
November 04, 2022
Overall rating
 
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

The Man With The Golden Gun (LESS IS MOORE Edition) - MusicEd Filesize = 12.4 GB, Video = 1920 X 1080p AVC, Audio = 384...

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vultural
October 09, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Alien3: Third Cut - 15MaF Filesize = 6.8 GB, Video = 1920 X 808p h265, Audio = 640 kbps, 5.1 AC3. No subs. ...

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vultural
September 11, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

**Halloween: The Doctor’s Cut** (Halloween I and II) - JNisch ![](https://afewr.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/fehallowndoc.jpg) Filesize = 5 GB, Video = 1920 X...

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vultural
September 11, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Dick Tracy: The Noir Edit - Wakeupkeo Filesize = 8 GB, Video = 1920 X 1040p AVC, Audio = 637 kbps, 5.1 AAC. Subs...

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vultural
September 11, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
8.0
Visual Editing
 
8.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Shattered Island (Shutter Island) - Heavysyde Filesize = 13.5 GB, Video = 1920 X 1080p AVC, Audio = 509 kbps AAC, 2-Channel stereo. No...

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vultural
August 31, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Filesize = 11.3 GB, Video = 1920 X 1090p AVC, Audio = 221 kbps 2-Channel Stereo AAC, No subs. A substantial edit, removing the...

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vultural
August 31, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Filesize = 1.7 GB, Video = 710 X 386p AVC (m4v), Audio = 290 kbps AAC, 2-Channel stereo. No subs. Man, for a “lite” trim,...

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vultural
August 13, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Memento: Parallel Cut - INH5 Filesize = 4 GB, Video = 720 X 480p mpgv, Audio = 448 kbps 5.1 AC3, No subs. ...

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vultural
August 13, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Godfather II Extended Edition, The - hal_over_9000 Filesize = 10 GB, Video = 1920 X 1080p AVC, Audio = 157 kbps 2-Channel Stereo, AAC. ...

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vultural
July 18, 2022 (Updated: July 18, 2022)
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
7.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0
FanMix

Filesize = 4.16 GB, Video = 720 X 480p mpgv, Audio = 320 kbps 2-Channel Stereo AC3 Ambitious story of humanity from the genesis of...

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vultural
July 18, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Filesize = 3.9 GB, Video = 1280 X 720p AVC, Audio = 448 kbps 5.1 AC3. No subs. “The fans want Freddy back,” ...

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vultural
July 13, 2022 (Updated: July 13, 2022)
Overall rating
 
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0
Extended Edition

Alligator – Elongator’d (Alligator - 1980) - MusicEd921 Filesize = 9.8 GB, Video = 1920 X 1080p AVC, Audio = 221 kbps AAC, 2-Channel...

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vultural
July 13, 2022 (Updated: July 13, 2022)
Overall rating
 
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Silent Hill: Christopher’s Story - Spence This review is for the bonus feature, following Christopher. Filesize = 413 MB, Video...

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vultural
February 15, 2022
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Filesize = 7.2 GB, Video = 1920 X 1036p AVC, Audio = 317 kbps 2 Channel Stereo AAC, no subs. This is the second edit...

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vultural
October 25, 2021
Overall rating
 
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

How many times have I viewed Jaws 2? Five? A dozen? I live with two shark obsessed females, which means I get to see good shark flicks...

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vultural
October 25, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

The first film is a hardboiled caper gone to hell. As always with this editor, matters are trimmed to bare essentials. Not that viewers care...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - Editing the possibly whitest bread of all serials, “The Adventures Of Captain Marvel”, must have been a labor of love for Mr. Batson. Indeed, for those familiar...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Overview - One of the first released edits trying to “fix” narrative errors. Video - 854 X 356 AVC. Higher resolution would have been...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Overview - Stellar work assembling various outtakes and scenes from various editions. Video - 1920 X 1080 AVC. Odd bit of TV business at...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

A film I have watched numerous times. Indeed, I first saw this the way it was meant to be viewed, at a drive-in, in the early 1970‘s. This...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Part of the Time travel Consecution, this is a haunting, at times perplexing, love story. I watched it three times, to get the feel of the story, because...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0
FanMix

Overview - An audacious, ballsy effort, removing one of the singular characters from a feature. Mad Max, without Max. This cannot work. It has “fail” all...

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vultural
August 28, 2021
Overall rating
 
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
7.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Overview - Mr. Willins takes three apocalyptic films, “The Mist,” “In The Mouth Of Madness,” and “Deep Rising,” tosses them into the chopper, and makes a dark homage to...

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vultural
April 29, 2021 (Updated: April 29, 2021)
Overall rating
 
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

“History shows again and again, how Nature points out the folly of men.” What a shrewd idea. Combining the 1954 Japanese version with the...

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vultural
December 21, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Overview - The original Christmas Horror Story was quite a bouncy affair, four storylines weaving back and forth throughout. MusicEd aims for a more traditional anthology style. ...

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vultural
December 21, 2020 (Updated: December 21, 2020)
Overall rating
 
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
8.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - A trim of Mel Gibson’s naturalistic masterpiece, removing much of the dialogue. Video - 1280 X 696p AVC. Image is razor sharp,...

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vultural
December 21, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Aside from my BluRay player, none of my other tools could read this, even VLC which I found puzzling. Consequently, I’m not going to list some of the...

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vultural
June 09, 2020 (Updated: June 09, 2020)
Overall rating
 
8.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
7.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Overview - “The Mummy Returns” was a pisspoor sequel to 1999′s “The Mummy.” The editor intends to reduce the nonsense, minimize the action overload, keep the charm. ...

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vultural
June 09, 2020 (Updated: June 09, 2020)
Overall rating
 
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - Another entry in Mike’s ongoing series, this time a twofer. First source, “The Dead Next Door” remains a bad cheapie, though with heart. None of the...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

“A space mind trip on the evolution of evil and violence.” There seems to be two edits here, both stitching Kubrick’s 2001. The first half traces physical (and...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0
Shorts

I watched the Tarkovsky original at a revival house in the 1970’s and exited annoyed with myself for failing to understand the film, and annoyed at the director for being...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - The original was a film I really wanted to like. Set during 1950’s added several political elements, and explained Indy’s age. Mutt is no Brando, however,...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
8.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
8.0
Audio Editing
 
8.0
Visual Editing
 
8.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

I really like this condensation of “Airplane II: The Sequel.” Lots of scenes are missing, but adds to the mayhem and confusion. More to the point, the storytelling...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Superlative short here, mixing two (in my mind) incongruous films, WALL-E and Final Fantasy. Does it work? Absolutely. The intro is helpful, explaining WALL-E’s desire to depart...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
8.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
7.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - This time out, Mr Soderbergh mixes 1949’s “Criss Cross” with his own remake, “The Underneath,” from 1995. A damaged male, longing for a corrupted ex, allows himself...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
7.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

I must confess I have a fondness for AvP, and rewatch it frequently. Early on, some odd business relocates AvP from the Pole to the pyramids. It feels...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
8.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0

Other low scores, c’mon. I think people miss the point of this. This is HAL 9000’s version. The stressed out AI who more or less unravels before...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

Overview - After some long forgotten war, earthlings have relocated to Saturn. OK premise, excellent production values, but the script is thin, weakening the movie overall. ...

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vultural
June 09, 2020
Overall rating
 
9.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

One firefight incident detailed in the Clone Wars. Obi-wan stalls while Anakin, with a young, untested Jedi, tries to sabotage opposing forces. Editing is tight and to the...

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vultural
August 31, 2019 (Updated: August 31, 2019)
Overall rating
 
8.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
8.0
Audio Editing
 
8.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Man, what a rush! For fans of old school Hong Kong this is pell mell action. The image is not the best, 640 X 480p. Appears VHS...

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vultural
August 31, 2019
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
8.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0
FanMix

Ha ha ha ha. Banned but not forgotten! I wondered why only 60 of Maniac’s 100+ edits were listed on the Fanedit Database. Bummer, dude. Ah...

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vultural
August 31, 2019
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

DMPD’s short of Time Cop was somehow not approved for the Time Travel Consecution, but it was on the DVD, and damnit, I’m putting my comments here. (Note: I...

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vultural
August 31, 2019
Overall rating
 
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
8.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
8.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0
FanMix

Overview - Van Zant famously made a shot for shot of the Hitchcock classic. Mr Soderbergh rendered the 1998 remake into black n white, then interweaved it and the...

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vultural
August 31, 2019
Overall rating
 
8.6
Audio/Video Quality
 
8.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
8.0
Narrative
 
9.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - Extend the Miami Vice pilot to include “Calderone’s Return” (E04-E05). Video - 512 X 384p AVC. The picture quality is a little soft, particularly...

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vultural
August 31, 2019
Overall rating
 
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
8.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0

Overview - As kids, my brother and I used to buy 8mm reels of movies. They never had sound, so we put on a movie soundtrack and hoped for...

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