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Sven-Ole Thorsen

Sven-Ole Thorsen

18 films on Best Blurays16 in 4K2 in HD

Sven-Ole Thorsen photo

Sven-Ole Thorsen (born 24 September 1944) is a Danish actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Thorsen won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

16 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Supporting role · Director: John Woo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Universal UK 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

(caveat: missing extras included on the Kino Lorber US and Plaion Germany UHDs)

Supporting role · Director: Richard Fleischer

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Kevin Smith

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow caveat: the 4k drops some extras like the TV Cut

Small role · Director: Paul Michael Glaser

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount US 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

70mm 6-Track: Paramount US 4K Blu-ray

35mm matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1995 Live Home Video US LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

Although the provenance of Paramount's 5.1 track is not confirmed, the fidelity is outstanding and speaks for itself.
The 7.1 track on the Capelight/old Lionsgate release is just an upmix with nothing gained over the 5.1.
The original stereo mix is only present on older DVDs and LaserDiscs; all Blu-ray 2.0 tracks are downmixes.

Additional Info:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray has no extras, Capelight 4K Blu-ray has most of the extras, Olive Films Blu-ray has a exclusive commentary

Small role · Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount/Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Paramount/Universal 4K Blu-ray but: it has a few shots that are blurrier than the older Blu-ray, for unknown reasons see BR post.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS or Signature Collection DVD AC-3

Small role · Director: John McTiernan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Richard Fleischer

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray > StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has solid encode but controversial colors by Hiventy

Small role · Director: Sam Raimi

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

US Cut: Sony 2025 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray

International Cut: France 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Cut: Sony 2025 Steelbook 4K Blu-ray (2025 Steelbook has Dolby Vision)

International Cut: France 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: John Milius

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 MCA LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1991 MCA LaserDisc vs Arrow 4K Blu-ray, the Arrow is noise gated.

Small role · Director: Walter Hill

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Superior Imports
Video Notes:

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal

Small role · Director: John McTiernan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Richard Donner

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray see comparison https://slow.pics/c/e4V4RORi

Audio Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray has original stereo and sounds better than US LaserDisc and about the same as earlier Japan LaserDisc.
WB 4K Blu-ray Atmos has worse fidelity than the stereo as expected.

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray is missing featurettes from the old Blu-ray

Show all 16 in 4K

2 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Small role · Director: James Cameron

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2015 Lionsgate Blu-ray 

Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · originaltrilogy.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:
  • 2015 Lionsgate Blu-ray (but it's missing the extra scenes in the Ultimate Edition)

  • 2017 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray and subsequent 4K Blu-rays are notorius for being heavily denoised and smoothened. Alternatively, 35mm scans for the theatrical cut is also available.

  • For the Ultimate Edition with the T-1000 searching John's room and the happy future ending, the 2009 Skynet Blu-ray, which is the older pre-2017 transfer, but has DNR.

Best Audio:
  • Original Kodak/ORC CDS mix:  Japan Pioneer DVD in DTS/ac3 5.1

  • Original Dolby Stereo SR: USA Widescreen LaserDisc and others.

Audio Notes:

Differences of mixes on various releases: see thread and more info here.

Additional Info:

2017 Blu-ray (which has the DNRed transfer), the 2009 Skynet Edition Blu-ray, and the 2000 Ultimate Edition DVD have exclusive extras. The 2003 Extreme Edition DVD has some exclusive easter eggs.

Small role · Director: McG

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Sony Blu-ray

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