![]() ![]() Simply reworking a four decades old story for modern sensibilities isn’t easy, nor is trying to squeeze some forty plus episodes of material into 2 hours. Harlock is a veritable national institution, although surprisingly that nation is France, where as Albator, Leiji Matsumoto’s creation ruled the airwaves in the seventies and early eighties. Conclusion: The Blu-ray One hour and fifty one minutes at 24 frames per second, one hour forty minutes of which I kept wanting to eject the disc and put Titan AE on instead, a movie which tells a similar story but is much, much better at it. A real disappointment! The images for the Blu-ray section are provided by the PR, and might not represent the final retail release.Įxtras: The Blu-ray Just a slightly animated menu screen, scene select options, and when you press play, you have the choice of 2D or 3D. I might have expected it of the 3D version, to compensate against those idiotic glasses that people have to wear, but this is the 2D version, and if it was accomplished by just displaying one side of the 3D image, then the film could have easily fit on a BD 25, this is a BD 50. But the brightness is whacked way up, layering the image with a milky haze, shadow detail that should be black is pale grey, and the film is plagued by digital banding and macro-blocking to the point where it’s distracting. The character designs too avoid the uncanny valley, and instead look like high quality cut scene animations from a recent Final Fantasy game, with a whole lot of hair physics, and it does look proper HD, rich in complex detail. Sure enough you get a fair amount of detail, the CG animation is smooth and fluid, and the animators really went to town in terms of world and mecha design, going the full Star Wars when it comes to developing the future planets and cities. Picture: The Blu-ray The 2.35:1 widescreen 1080p transfer is. We’re actually getting the best deal out of the English speaking world when it comes to this movie. Manga Entertainment are releasing Harlock Space Pirate as 2-disc editions, DVD and Blu-ray both, so everyone gets the longer subtitled version on DVD. And pity the poor Americans, they aren’t getting Blu-ray at all, it’s DVD only for them. If you want the longer subtitled version, you’ll only be able to find it on retailer exclusive 2-disc Blu-ray releases, but it’s still DVD only. In Australia, you can pick up the International cut on single disc Blu-ray, or single disc DVD. This is down to the express requirements of producers, Toei. But this is not the distributor’s fault this time. ![]() I’m not the only one who wishes that was on Blu-ray. The Director’s Cut, or the domestic Japanese version, longer, and with extras is bundled in on A subtitled DVD only. After all, just take a look at how Harlock Space Pirate is being released, with the International version, only in English on a barebones Blu-ray. Introduction This is where the whinge ought to be. ![]()
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