| MOVIE |
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Funny flick actually, this is the story of 3 drag queens who hit the road on
their way to Alice Springs to play in a show of their own.
Along the way the encounter,
rejection, misunderstanding and violence from all the locals at the towns they pass
through. The 3 are played brilliantly by Hugo Weaving, Terrence Stamp and Guy Pearce.
Oh
and or course there's the bus as well. Take some getting used to, but the music is great
and there's more than a few laughs in it.
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| VIDEO |
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Can I scream now, Roadshow what are you doing? Yet
another movie in Pan & Scan, when will you guys learn. For starters the movie was
released in a format of about 2:35:1 so your losing a heap of the picture. On the quality
side also, I found quite a few problems with the transfer.
1. There was quite a lot of
MPEG noise in the print
2. It also seemed as if the flesh colors were a little out as
well.
Please Roadshow don't waste your time with P&S shit, do the proper thing and
release your movies in the proper widescreen format.
Priscilla is framed in
4:3 Pan & Scan format. You loose so much picture it's not funny!
This is a single-sided,
single-layer disc.
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| AUDIO |
|
Again another wrongly labeled disc, the only sound formats on the disc are Dolby
Surround and MPEG 2, but it does sound quite good, the surround speakers get a little
workout, mainly when the music tracks are playing.
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| EXTRAS |
|
Scene selections, trailer and a featurette, so not overly bad on the extra side,
it's actually a lot like the Shine DVD, but again not subtitles or production notes, just
cast notes.
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| FINAL THOUGHTS |
| A terrible buy, but the fact that it is P&S puts me off somewhat, there's a
few extras to push it up a couple of steps, it also could have done with some extra
chapters, but that's about it. |
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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 21:10:39 +1100
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| Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
| No of
Discs: |
1 |
| OFLC Rating |
M15+ |
| Running
Time: |
104
Mins |
| Case
Type: |
Clip
Case |
| Release
Date: |
31/10/1997 |
| Catalog
Number: |
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| List
Price: |
$34.95 |
| Distributor: |
Warner
Bros. |
| Disc
Format: |
PAL |
| Disc
Type: |
Picture
Disc |
| Disc
Format: |
SS-SL |
| Chapters: |
24 |
| Macrovision: |
Yes |
| Manufacturer: |
DVM |
| Aspect
Ratio:
|
4:3
Pan & Scan |
| Anamorphic: |
Yes |
| Film
Format: |
35mm |
| Dolby
Digital:
|
2.0 Surround |
| DTS: |
None |
| PCM
Stereo: |
None |
| Other: |
2.0
MPEG |
| Languages:
|
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: |
Yes |
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