Laserdisc Turtle (Ewan)

It's a beauty!

Very nice!

Guilty.

A picture of three laserdiscs laying on a white table; The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 (on blood red laserdisc), and Evil Dead 3 (Captain Supermarket)

At last! I finally have the complete #EvilDead Trilogy on #laserdisc!

A screenshot showing a portion of the S-Mart ending.

A screenshot showing a portion of the Director's Cut ending.

A picture of the back of the laserdisc, a close up of the chapter listing. If you could read Japanese you'd see that the listings include both endings.

A picture of the opening of the Japanese laserdisc showing Japanese title of Captain Supermarket.

It includes some footage from the DC but loses some from the US. Crucially it's a longer cut but it retains the "S-Mart" ending.

Even more fun is that the disc includes the DC ending after the credits, so you can program it to include whichever ending you want!

The Japanese "Captain Supermarket" #laserdisc includes the 88 minute International Cut of the film, which is somewhere in between the 81 min US Cut, and the 96 min Director's Cut.

The front cover of "Captain Supermarket" (also inferiorly known as Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness). It shows the standard poster artwork of a muscular Ash (Bruce Campbell) posing heroically with a gorgeous woman clinging to his leg. A castle and a skeletal army are shown in the background. The laserdisc includes the Obi strip, and the Japanese title is also shown: 死霊のはらわたIII キャプテン・スーパーマーケット

The back cover of the laserdisc, showing plenty of images from the film, a bit of text about the film (in Japanese), and the chapter listing.

A close up of the back cover of the disc showing a picture of Ash with a stylised English language logo that reads "Captain Supermarket...the hero you've seen before"

A picture of the laserdisc label.

One of my "holy grail" #Laserdiscs just arrived!

CAPTAIN SUPERMARKET!

The western version of the film had some boring title like #EvilDead 3 #ArmyOfDarkness, but only Japan released it with the true, superior title.

#キャプテンスーパーマーケット
#Laserdisc

A screenshot from the film Flash Gordon showing Flash and a group of Hawkmen flying through a red cloudy sky.

1958: Free Speech for Fascists? | Panorama | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

67 years later and we're still having the same arguments.

BBC Archive - 1958: Free Speech for Fascists?

youtu.be/AJCw2BCnr0E

Lol 😅

Enjoy!

Davina McCall hosting a big brother eviction

Andrew, you have been evicted. It's time to leave your big brother's house

I did, but I hadn't realised the difference was so extreme. I'll have to track down the longer US cut some day.

Also everyone I've known who've read the book and seen the film always seems to want to comment on the topiary animals...but all I could think after finishing the book is that Kubrick did Hallorann dirty.

A photo of a hardback copy of a collection of three Stephen King novels in one. They include The Shining, Carrie, and Misery.

Last night I finished reading The Shining, my first (but not last) Stephen King novel.

While reading it I kept wondering why Kubrick left out all the crucial character backstory from his film, but it turns out I've only ever seen the International Cut which is missing 25 minutes of backstory.

If elected PM I will demolish Number 10 and build a cyber cafe in its place with up to 10 computers on a 56k modem Internet connection. This is my pledge to the British people.

A picture of the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) with the quote "The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

Doctor Who already knew this in 1977.

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

youtube.com/pipmadeley

Since yesterday's AI chat I've had a few requests/questions about what happened to all my old YouTube videos - God knows why - so I've just made (most of) them public again to avoid repeating myself. I'll probably take some back down again once I've settled on my long term plans.

So yeah, go nuts.

YouTube video by Pip Madeley Is A.I. worth it?

Wow, @pipmadeley.bsky.social is one of the most laid back and fun loving characters in Doctor Who fandom...and even he seems pissed about the AI shenanigans on the new Doctor Who Blu Ray.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hw...

YouTube video by Pip Madeley A.I. - is it worth it?

If you're a #DoctorWho fan who cares about sensitive video restoration that preserves the integrity of the original images, and is concerned about the introduction of unintended artefacts from the use of AI, please watch this short video, share widely and discuss.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hw...

For UK viewers who haven't seen it yet you can catch "Last Night in Soho" on Channel 4 this Sunday at 10pm. Highly recommended!

That too.

Gorgeous!

Todays Old Tat Arrival at AVAV Towers

Something rather special for you #LaserDisc Deviants out there

Philips #LaserVision In-Store Display POS from back in the day

No idea of its history, but saw it & snapped it up. Couldn’t leave it could I

28” x 17” it’s a beauty

@laserdiscturtle.bsky.social

Riker tooting on that boner

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

A hand holds up a copy of Last Night in Soho in front of a shelf of Blue Rays and DVDs.

Tonight's spooky season film was Edgar Wright's incredible "Last Night in Soho."

It's become a bit of a Halloween staple for us and is possibly my favourite film of the decade.

Yep. It's the way they always say "the technology is getting better" as if it isn't an admission that they've used something before it was ready.

Oof, the Doctor Who Season 13 Blu Ray looks like an AI nightmare. I thought these were meant to be definitive restorations rather than an experiment.

Sure AI *may* improve in the future but it's already being used to ruin "restorations" now.

@nothinglane.bsky.social @petercrockersvs.bsky.social