TEhy changed the opening WB logo to the new more updated logo I HATE WHEN they do this I was pissed the whole tim eI was watching it. They need to leave the logos alone I want to see the original logo that opened the film, not the New one ti DOES NOT fit.
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Yes, this pissed me off as well. Watching this DVD with the new WB logo made me want to search the web for an old VHS copy.
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The only movie I can recall that has the original WB logo from back when is SUPERMAN.
shareWow! I also kept my mouth shut because I thought people would think I was to anal about stuff like this. Yeah, it bugs me too. All the studios have started doing it.
It's weird to watch a movie from the 60s or 70s and see the opening or closing of mgm.com, ua.com, warnerbros.com. etc. We KNOW that was not the original placeholder on the film! There was no internet at that time.
The one that bothers me most is the "screaming" SONY log that comes up at the end of the movies they now own. Doesn't really surprise me though. They are notorious about butchering movies for TV and pan and scanning almost everything.
Really guys? Is it that big of a deal? A logo?
share"Really guys? Is it that big of a deal? A logo? "
Yes. It obviously doesn't ruin the film, but it changes the feeling at the begining. Like the old Tri-Star Logo, with pegasus and that music, it was perfect till they changed it.
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"I've never seen a sight, that didn't look better lookin' back".
Yeah I felt like it kinda takes you out of the movie a little bit at the get-go. Just the time period it was made was a simpler time and the old WB gave you that feeling that you were watching an older movie.
shareCheck out the new deluxe edition DVD of Deliverance (Burt Reynolds, Jon Voigt). They actually put a vintage WB logo at the beginning. Very cool. I'm guessing it was the original logo that displayed during the original theatrical release.
Here's hoping that's a new trend.
On a similar note, check out the vintage Paramount logo that David Fincher put at the beginning of his latest - Zodiac.
shareTotally agree. West Side Story is another good example. I loved it starting silently with the UA logo and then the first sound you hear is the clashing symphony. When you start with a synthesizer and the streaming gold text with the "glimmer" streaking across the screen, it ruins the whole thing.
Remember how horror films used to ALWAYS start with the MPAA blue slate with the rating? It always made the movie better when you were five years old and watching a horror film that you stole from the store cuz your mom wouldn't let you rent it. The 'rated R' slate at the beginning helped grow some huevos for the horror film fans out there that were way underage, like myself.
i like the new logo because it tells me that the movie has been remastered. I don't want studios to put out copies of the same transfer over and over.
shareWhat Pissed me off is when I bought the first 2 superman movies on dvd, they left the original logo in the 1st movie, but changed the logo to the current 1 for the 2nd movie. I've noticed that warner bros. has done this before with the 1992 video releases of the 1973 movies magnum force and the exorcist.
on a similar note, check out the back to the future dvds, they show the new universal logo before the old one. now that's better than replacing the original logo.
I AM A HUGE MOVIE FAN, AND I ALSO NOTICED THIS! THIS MAKES SO.....
Whatever. I don't really care at all. I like the old and new one. Doesn't bother me at all. And I must own waaaaaay over 100 movies.
are you all referring to the Warner Bros. logo from the 1970's that resembled a Maytag logo, more or less?
shareDon't feel bad! How about on some releases or cabel/tv airings of Poltergeist they remove the soundtrack album listing from the end credits?
shareI agree.
The same thing had been done to the United Artist logo for the films "Audrey Rose" (1977) and "The Secret of NIMH" (1982), and the Samuel Goldwyn logo had been removed from the films "The Care Bears Movie" (1985) and "The Chipmunk Adventure".
At least it's some small consolation that the Universal 75th Anniversary logo (which shows four different versions of that logo) had been left untampered with.
I just wish they'd stop doing this and leave them the way audiences saw them then when first shown to keep with the period. :(
It bothers me too.
When you've seen a favourite film as many times as I've seen Twilight Zone: The Movie you really know what's coming next and you feel comfortable about it. The change in logos subverted my expectations but not in that good way, it took me out of the movie simply because I noticed it. I know that sounds stupid but I am a purist and believe the film should play exactly as it was when it was originally released because that's exactly how I remember it. Of course, I'm not against digitally enhancing a film but I am against tampering with what was originally on screen be it any actual scenes or even a logo.
There, I've said it. If I'm anal so be it.
Haha, this is exactly the kind of thing that would piss me off and drive me crazy too. I don't own this movie because I am too terrified of it, but that is annoying that they changed the opening! I can practically see the original one in my head after all this time, wasn't it an orange screen with that old logo in black or brown moving towards the center, and the opening bars of that song playing...
shareActually, the "worm" logo is silent, unless music is laid over it for the movie (as is done with "The Midnight Special" in Twilight Zone)!
I consider myself very lucky to have a recorded version of both Twilight Zone: the Movie and Creepshow with the original logo on them!
I'm HYSTERICAL! And I'm WET!
The HD-DVD/Blu-Ray version of the movie has the original Warner logo on it, I'm surprised the DVD doesn't as well. The only new Warner logo is at the beginning of the disc before the movie actually starts, which is how all Warner titles begin.
sharethe new logo at the beginning of the dvd sucks.
sharecheck out the 2008 dirty harry box set. all of the warner bros. logos are the older ones as seen in the theaters.
shareYou wanna talk about flashbacks!!! I got your non-studio replaced logo's available on DVD's right here!!! Also listed: Cause of Death for said logos.
1) Redemption's release of Burke and Hare (1972): Features the old United Artists: A Transamerica Company Logo. Cause of Logo's Death: Heaven's Gate (Heaven's Gate had the original United Artists logo, which is seen on the DVD.)
Heaven's Gate was too costly for Transamerica, which sold the company when the
losses of Heaven's Gate began to be too much to bear.
Change of logo: 1) After sale of United Artists by Transamerica, logo went
through 3 changes: Static screen that just said United
Artists (Just imagine the Transamerica logo screen with
no mention of Transamerica Company and that's what you got)
Followed by the revolving UA logo screen with fanfare.
Finally the MGM/UA Entertainment Co. screen which finally
made UA's sale complete.
2) Anchor Bay's release of The Manitou: Features the old Avco Embassy Pictures
Logo. Although the company that has the rights to the film, Canal Plus, has it's logo first, the logo for Avco Embassy Pictures is then shown in all it's
glory.
Cause of Logo's Death: Norman Lear. Norman Lear bought the company in order to
extend his multimedia empire, to no avail. The company
died a few years later.
Change of Logo: The logo changed two times, first, the logo was a simple EP,
with the word Embassy below that and below that the word
Pictures. Then the logo changed to the rotating E that had
a cutout of a star inside the E.
3) Anchor Bay's release of Can't Stop The Music!: Features the Associated Film
Distribution Logo.
Cause of Logo's Death: The most devastating movie bomb one-two punch of 1980:
Can't Stop The Music! and Raise The Titanic!, wherein
seeing the performance of the films at the box office,
Lord Lew Grade basicly said "Screw this noise, I quit.
and sold AFD's remaining productions to Universal
Pictures for distribution. Lord Grade's participation
in film production ended with The Legend Of The Lone
Ranger, although released by Universal Pictures, still
came out performing like a bomb.
Of course you can still find old logos for Warner Bros (The W7 logo in Finian's Rainbow, the "A Kenney Company" Logo in Dirty Harry, and "A Warner Communications Company" in Magnum Force) and old logos for American International Pictures in certain MGM/UA releases and through other sources.
Hope this helps...
Ollie, just because poison happens to exist is no excuse to commit murder with it.
Anytime an old movie or TV show is released in a new medium it has the most current logo. If you where to get it still on a video cassette then it would have the old logo or even a lazer-disc. it would have the old logo. With Blu-ray and digital downloads the logos of many of the older films and shows will be updated.
And when the next new thing [medium] comes around it will have that newer logo as well. Sometimes they use both but not often.
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." -Douglas Noel Adams
I like how Universal pretty much just uses the old Universal logos that were originally attached to a film.
And, yes, I get a kick whenever a new filmmaker uses an old studio logo to open his film, as an homage to the good old days!
Fincher does this with "Zodiac"and Paramount, and Tarantino does this with Universal and "Inglourious Basterds".
With differing studios or production companies, whoever owns the rights 'at that moment' can put whatever logo they want. Tarentino etc. who use retro logos are doing it out of kindness. If you want a vintage logo you're going to have to buy the same vintage DVD, if one exists.
shareThe new WB logo is at the beginning of the feature on the DVD, but the trailer retains the original logo.
sharei bought this movie and a stephen king 4 pack at wal mart and not only did they change the logo for this movie but on the creepshow dvd in the stephen king for pack they changed it on that movie too. but i've also heard that warner bros. has recently used the zooming w logo on the new movies magic mike & argo
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