The Truth The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth About This Set
To start with, this is a 2 disc set with 3 movies on each disc. The discs are one sided, so that's good. Each movie has only 4 chapters scene select. Now as far as aspect ratio is concerned, 5 of the 6 movies are presented in 1.33:1 standard full screen. Only Return of The Giant Monsters is presented in 2.35:1 widescreen. I suspect the print for that one is from Shout! Factory double feature vs Gyaos/ vs Viras. It seems the only thing they did was paste a large title card of Return of the Giant Monsters over the original Japanese title. Gammera The Invincible, War of The Monsters, Destroy All Planets, and Attack Of The Monsters appear to be the same prints used by Alpha Video. Gamera vs Monster X is from whatever source it came from. What bothers me is the opening of the Gamera dn dn dn dn Gamera dn dn dn dn is omitted from Gammera The Invincible. If you have an interest in Gamera and don't have any dvds this is a good place to start. 6 movies for a very low price is a pretty good...
Good for the average collector, NOT GOOD FOR KAIJU MOVIE BUFFS
This DVD set is decent. Not for the monster movie enthusiast/purist like myself. 5 of these 6 movies are not widescreen, which is good if you're looking to re-experience your days watching these movies during "Creature Double Feature". However, these full screen movies look like they are digitized directly from VHS versions of the films themselves. I would know, I've been putting my Godzilla tapes to DVD. The quality looks about the same, decent but washed out and with some grain.
Gamera vs. Gyaos aka Return of the Giant Monsters is the only movie on this DVD that even looks remotely "remastered".
That said, for the price, and the number of movies included, if you aren't worried about quality you will enjoy this purchase. Each disc has only one side, and has packed 3 movies on each disc (2 in total). This may explain why many of the movies are such low quality visually. But again, if quality isn't your concern for these movies then you'll be proud...
Gamera rules...
All the great Gamera movies from the 1960's all on 2 disc's , I would recommend any Kaiju fan pick this up for your collection....
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