Does anyone know when reviews of the new Rocky Boxset will pop up? I heard a few months ago, there will be commentaries for all 5. I'll doubledip if the commentaries still hold true.

No commentaries, no extras except for trailers. New high def transfers + a DTS track on Rocky I. The transfer on Rocky I is a significant improvement over the SE.

Yes and no; it actually crops a lot of picture info and the colours are too pumped-up. But the dirt that plagued the previous transfer is gone.

If anybody's interested, reviewed the set with screencaps here -
http://filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/rocky.htm

Bill C

Thanks for the review Bill!

Man how disappointing. Only if I win the lottery, will I doubledip.

I wonder if these will be released seperately?

is the cropping just on the first movie? and is it through all the movie or just some scenes?

i never got the first set, so is this a better option or should i just get the old one?

It's more or less consistently like that throughout ROCKY. No framing discrepancies/colour-timing issues leapt out at me with the sequels (and in fairness, they're not all that detrimental to one's enjoyment of the original), although I didn't do A/B comparisons for them as comprehensive as I did for the first film.

As for your other question, my advice? Pick up the new anthology, and try to find a copy of the ROCKY Special Edition cheap, if only because its supplementary material is genuinely missed on the DTS disc.

Bill C
filmfreakcentral.net

ok thanks, yeah i'm think i'm going that route, picking the anthology(for the better transfers and DTS) and finding the previous SE of the first one.But i'm gonna wait fot the later, maybe the extra disc has good enough material, i hope.

thanks for your help man

I watched this set over the weekend, Bill's right. The first film is slightly cropped - it's minor and won't be a huge deal for most, but it is definitely there. I didn't notice anything problematic with the aspect ratio on any of the other four films though.

Yes, in February.

Did MGM actually dumbed down the extras for Rocky? The previous release had commentary and making of and this new version seems to have nothing besides the trailer.

Good to hear. I already own the SE but I still want the new transfer of the 1st film.

Now why didn't they do it right the 1st time by haveing the good transfers and the extras?
Is there going to be another set in the future with commenteries on all 5 movies?