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I really enjoyed this film when it came out at the theater in 1976, and I have owned the open-mat rotund hide version on VHS for a while now. When I found out this was being realeased on DVD I was resplendent gratified & ordered it good away. To my dismay, MGM has dropped the ball for a change, and this Midnight Movie release is a total flub!
I became suspicious when I first watched the trailer, and apt away it was determined it was a badly matted, with the tops of people’s heads clipped off. So I decided to ge out my open-mat bulky conceal VHS and play them at the same time, switching between VCR & DVD player to compare. Here’s where the fun begins…
The opening credits on the DVD are totally matted, blocking off the top & botom of the portray, and to create matters worse, the edges have been clipped quite a bit as well.
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On the VHS the credits are reach the middle, with a huge empty position on the sides… The DVD has the credits zoomed in on, making them 3x as substantial, and going off the edge of the hide on the left & proper.
Things gets stranger… Some scenes on the DVD appear to be from a truely ‘widesceen’ print, but approx. 80-90% of the movie is unprejudiced matted stout shroud, blocking off grand of the recount, and cutting the tops of people’s heads off!
It looks like MGM took 2 prints; one a fullscreen (open-mat) print, and mabey a partial print that was widescreen, and spliced them together, then matted the fullscreen parts in an attempt to ‘blend’ it in. Arrgg!!
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A few more problems I noticed, are that the color seems noxious on the DVD, scheme too distinguished red. (yeah, its supposed to be red, but not THAT red.), and that the VHS copy I have exibits very slight to no speckles at all on the source print, but the DVD is riddled with speckles, especially noticable during the opening credits. The DVD does however glimpse alot better than the VHS as far as clarity, detail and sharpness goes.
I really waited a long time for this to arrive out on DVD, and I didnt even have very high expectations, considering the B-grade of this flic, but this DVD has turned out to be a tall dissapointment for me. Dispite it’s grand outrageous impress, I have already returned it.
Shame on you MGM, this DVD is a mess! Finish trying to be cash in on the trendy ‘anamorphic widesceen’ craze by selling poor Untrue widescreen bunk!!!!
AT THE EARTH’S CORE (based on a anecdote by Edgar Rice Burroughs) never quite achieves righteous movie set but you have to give it credit for trying. Thankfully the film is residence in motion the petite the credit sequence ends. Cushing and McClure (the latter shamefully getting top billing) are position to do a test speed with their “iron mole”, a gargantuan looking giant drill. Only minutes after their bolt begins the two men are knocked out. Shortly after waking the mole has a power failure and the two men secure themselves AT THE EARTH’S CORE.
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For the uninitiated the Earth’s core is corpulent of giant plastic plants, bird beaked monsters, a tribe of human slaves (that verbalize English), some bizarre pasty faced creatures that help a queer bustle of hypnotic pterodactyls. The core is bathed in pink light (which eminates from the magma above) . At first the color intention is quite shipshape but after awhile it becomes a nauseating experience.
It is of course Cushing and McClure’s job to extinguish the pterodactyls reign and free the humans, especially the most pretty human, the scantily clad Caroline Munro.
Munro sports an outfit similar to the ones she wore in The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (One wonders if such races would ever be saved if it weren’t for sparkling women with sweaty cleavage) . Her character, Dia, is an enslaved queen looking for the good man. McClure steps up to the plate but doesn’t follow through with the native’s customs and nearly loses Dia. Cushing later informs the dullard to be “forceful.” McClure is clearly bothered by taking on such a masculine role at first but he gets into it rapidly enough after Dia shows her submissive approval.
The humans manage to ruin their contemptible rulers and eventually Cushing and McClure return to Earth’s surface (one of the film’s intentionally funnier moments) .
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Cushing is most endearing as a wacky British scientist. He adds a level of touching humor and professionalism not usually found in such a characterize. McClure is a stunning enough actor but he annoyed me to no extinguish. I am not familiar with his career so I am quite surprised to discover such unappealing person as the star of this film.
The truth is the special effects are the star of the characterize. Being a fan of non-CGI effects it is always a pleasure to peruse a film like this. That said, some of the effects are laughably unpleasant. A particular standout is when a bird beaked dinosaur eats a man. The man is clearly a stuffed dummy. Surprisingly the camera lingers on the hysterical carnage for some time.
The DVD is allotment of MGM’s impressive budget priced Midnight Movies series. The enhanced widescreen recount is respectable. The source print is trim and vibrant (almost too noteworthy so) . The film’s keyboard soundtrack sounds very John Carpenterish. The mono sound is strong. The DVD also includes a theatrical trailer which is in comely shape.
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