MOVIE |
I Know What You Did Last Summer was written by Kevin Williamson who wrote Scream
and it is just as good and certainly beats Scream 2 in the scare stakes. The story
revolves around four friends, Julie, Helen, Ray & Barry who are spending the last few
days of their summer together before going off to university.
On the drive home they run
over a man and kill him, Barry in his drunken state does not want to get into trouble
about this, so he convinces the others to throw the body into the water and leave it and
the make a pact to never talk about it again. As they are throwing the man into the water
he awakens but they decide to throw him in for fear of being caught.
A year passes and not
to put to finer point on it all there lives have gone to crap in one way or another. When
Julie arrives home from university she receives a strange letter with no sender address
that just says I know What You Did Last Summer, naturally freaked by this the four friends
get together to discuss it and they come to the conclusion that it may be a prank but
Julie isn't so sure.
Soon enough people begin dropping like fly's, they are being
hunted by a man with a fish hook who has a nasty knack of making a mess when he kills his
victims. The movie itself is very well conceived and played out and it has a nice twist in
it about the killer.
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VIDEO |
This disc has very good video quality, there is virtually no visual problem with
this transfer. This is the best video transfer I have seen from Village Roadshow so far.
Excellent
I Know What You Did Last Summer is framed at 2:35:1 and
is 16:9 enhanced.
This is a single-sided, single layer disc.
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AUDIO |
Like all Village Roadshow discs this movie has two audio formats MPEG
Multi channel 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1. I listened to the DD5.1 soundtrack. The mix
itself seemed a little distorted for about half the movie and a little out of sync. The
movie did seem immersive and the surround channels were used quite well and the .1 channel
was lightly used, mainly just to underscore the music. It's a pity the sound was so
muffled for the first half.
The dialog itself was very clear, except during scenes
with a lot of ambient noise but on the whole it was easy to hear.
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EXTRAS |
Just your usual set of Roadshow Extras, the theatrical trailer that is encoded in
Dolby Digital 2.0 sound and is in a window boxed 16:9 format, this format really sucks. If
your reading Roadshow, get rid of this stupid format. The other extras involve a really
weak Featurette and the usual interview snippets. Basically these extras suck weenie.
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FINAL THOUGHTS |
Why wreck such a good movie Roadshow? The video quality is good but the rest
sucks. Don't waste your money people, there are a lot better titles out there. |
REVIEW
EQUIPMENT
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Display:
48" Sony RPTV.
DVD Player: Panasonic A350 Player using S-Video Cables.
Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D508
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
Speakers: Accusound speaker
system. |
Copyright © 2000 by [Roger
Ward].
Revised: 25 May 2000 14:56:08 +1100
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Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
No of
Discs: |
1 |
OFLC Rating |
MA15+ |
Running
Time: |
100
Mins |
Case
Type: |
Clip
Case |
Release
Date: |
17/12/98 |
Catalog
Number: |
1015349 |
List
Price: |
$34.95 |
Distributor: |
Village
Roadshow |
Disc
Format: |
PAL |
Disc
Type: |
Picture
Disc |
Disc
Format: |
SS-SL |
Chapters: |
28 |
Macrovision: |
Yes |
Manufacturer: |
DVM |
Aspect
Ratio:
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2:35:1 |
Anamorphic: |
Yes |
Film
Format: |
35mm |
Dolby
Digital:
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5.1
Surround |
DTS: |
None |
PCM
Stereo: |
None |
Other: |
None |
Languages:
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English |
Subtitles: |
None |
Audio
Commentary: |
None |
Theatrical
Trailer: |
Yes |
Teaser
Trailer: |
None |
TV
Spots: |
None |
Dolby
Trailer: |
None |
Documentary: |
Yes |
Cast
& Crew Bios: |
Yes |
Deleted
Scenes: |
None |
Music
Videos: |
None |
DVD Rom
Content: |
None |
Collectable
Booklet: |
None |
Scene
Access: |
Yes |
Animated
Menus: |
None |
Production
Notes: |
None |
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