Arrived in the mail this morning with double Laserdisc package.
ALIVE (1993)
Dolby Stereo AC-3 / Lucasfilm Ltd THX Sound System / JBL professional x73 speakers
Now playing.
Spiritually moving story of
miracle of the Andes out of 45 and flight crew that crashed and no food the survives were forced to do the unthinkable of eating their family/friends if they were to make it out of this bad situation, Alive.
Only a few braved the perilous trek though the mountains to seek help. 16 only made it of the mountains after 72 days.
Disc 1 side 1 starts off in CAV nice.
Opening prologue to the story tells it nicely with clear warm dialogue centre stage.
The sound of the tail of the plane roars along the right surround arrays to the front LCR stage channels, just like at Empire Leicester Square, Empire 1, 5th May 1993.
Pilots throttle up the planes engines to clear the jagged mountain tops.
Aft end of the tail smashes against the top of the mountains in one of cinemas most horrendous miracle plane crashes its amazing so many where alive after a crash like that. Bass slams over LCR accompanied with LFE.1 for rocker seat jolt!
At around frame 12913 the top part fuselage rips apart on the surrounds that make me look upwards alarmingly!
With PLIIx switched ON I hear it ripping apart behind me, looking over my shoulder as I would if at a cinema.
If that wasn't enough the plane glides though the air powerless where starboard wing clips the top of mountain, too much.
The plane comes to puffy muffled, full abrupt STOP! As the plane hits a large pile of snow The jolt throws the passengers over the tops of seats and seats being buckled at same time, it makes my skin crawl.
The picture is better quality over the PAL pressing that I have, were the whites appear slightly pink-ish. The whites on the NTSC pressing have a bit of white to the snow.
