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Paul Adsett
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posted July 13, 2007 12:09 PM

Well Gary, at least it won't fade like my original U8 print has! As far as the ending music, I plan on dubbing that part of the track over from my existing U8 print and splicing in the old U8 end logo. Plus, of course, I still have the existing U8 clamshell box and the nice cover art of the creature and 3D logo, so Derann's print brings me more or less back to what I had 20 years ago when I first purchased the creature digest.
Incidentally, I would highly recommend Universals 2-disc special edition DVD of this title, which has all three of the creature movies, plus a special feature on the making of CFTBL with interviews with Julia Adams and Ben Chapman, and a lot of technical stuff about the special effects, creature costume, and the difficulties of making an underwater 3D movie.

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Paul Spinks
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posted July 13, 2007 10:47 PM

I wish that U8 had originally released this film in a standard black and white 400ft version as well as the 3D version. Then we could have spliced in the additional scenes from the excellent 200ft version and made up an excellent digest. Red and green 3D is always disappointng, or maybe it's just my eyes.

Paul.

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Frank Picaro
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posted July 14, 2007 11:07 AM

Paul, It's NOT your eyes. [Smile]

Red/blue 3D is inferior to polarized 3D, but it's the only game in town, it seems, and the occasional 3D effect is still worth it.

I recently purchased the DVD 3D version of CREATURE. Again, some scenes are full of depth, while others are just two shots(red-blue) unconverged. Hard on the eyes!!! [Eek!]

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Paul Adsett
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posted July 14, 2007 11:26 AM

I agree Paul that a 400ft (non-3d) digest would have been great. But you have to give credit to Universal for releasing a 3D digest on S8. I seem to remember that they even printed up a little promotional 2-page leaflet explaining the anaglyph 3D process and how they used it to get the S8 prints of CFTBL. Anyone have a copy that they could scan into this forum?

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Joe Taffis
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posted July 14, 2007 04:41 PM

thanks for that post Gary, i'm not going to buy the Derann re-release. I'll keep my U8 print, which is still nice, but I was hoping the Derann print was much, much better.

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Marshall Crist
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posted November 26, 2013 07:43 PM

Picked up a reddish print of this recently--my first viewing of this edit. Surprisingly, the 3-D effect was still very strong. My only gripe: too bad the prologue--which made it into the shorter 200' flat version--was omitted. Not only did it set the film up nicely, but it contained one of the best 3-D moments.

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Osi Osgood
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posted November 27, 2013 12:12 PM

Some screenshots from the print would be much appreciated for this review!

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Paul Adsett
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posted November 27, 2013 03:06 PM

osi, screenshots would look awful, remember this is anaglyphic 3D.
Here is a 3D shot of the gorgeous Julia, which you can view with red/green glasses:

And some more 3D from the film:

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Osi Osgood
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posted December 27, 2013 12:32 PM

I do remember that this film had absolutely gorgeous 3D effects underwater that had a tremendous amount of depth to the image. I was really stunned by just how good the 3D was. The 3D effects were far superior to those in the other 3D classic "It Came From Outer Space".

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Paul Adsett
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posted December 27, 2013 02:47 PM

And of course 'Creature' had one outstanding feature absent from 'It Came from Outer Space', namely Julie Adams! [Big Grin]

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Osi Osgood
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posted December 28, 2013 12:43 PM

Mmmmm ... Adams!

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