X-Men: First Class (2011)
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure • 2h 12m
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Lucas Till, Zoë Kravitz, Caleb Landry Jones, Oliver Platt, Jason Flemyng, Edi Gathegi, Matt Craven, Álex González, Rade Šerbedžija, Glenn Morshower, Laurence Belcher, Bill Milner, Morgan Lily, Beth Goddard, Éva Magyar, Corey Johnson, Demetri Goritsas, Don Creech, James Remar, Ludger Pistor, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Greg Kolpakchi, Andrei Zayats, Ray Wise, Michael Medeiros, Olek Krupa, Yuri Naumkin, Gene Farber, David Agranov, Katrine De Candole, James Faulkner, Annabelle Wallis, Juan Herrera, Greg Savage, Jarid Faubel, Gregory Cox, Josh Cohen, David Crow, Kieran Patrick Campbell, Sasha Pieterse, Brendan Fehr, Michael Ironside, Jason Beghe, Venya Manzyuk, Tony Curran, Randall Batinkoff, Peter Stark, Leonard Redlich, Carlos Peres, Sean Brown, Neil Fingleton, Georg Nikoloff, Arthur Darbinyan, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Romijn, David Joseph Martinez, Johnny Otto, Josh Ramsay, John Snowden, Leonardo Castro Sitiriche
About the film
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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- X Men First Class, X-Men 4 - First Class, X: First Class, XMFC
Director: Bryan Singer
4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?
Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set
Director: Bryan Singer
4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?
Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set
Director: Brett Ratner
Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set
Director: James Mangold
Theatrical: Fox 4K Blu-ray
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Both come from a 4K scan of a 35mm film out which was made from the original 2K DI but the Lionsgate release has visible dust and damage marks while the Universal release is cleaned up more thoroughly. Both releases suffer from DNR which seems to have been baked into the DI. The colour grade is basically the same for both releases but the Lionsgate has Dolby Vision whereas the Universal is HDR10 only. The compression on the Lionsgate UHD base layer is apparently fine so the FEL doesn't make much of a difference.
The Lionsgate UHD has Dolby Atmos whereas the Universal UHD has DTS:X. Kick-ass was originally released with a 5.1 track which may be on the Universal Blu-ray.
The Lionsgate UHD is on a BD-100, the Universal UHD is on a BD-66.
The Universal UHD has no extras.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Director: Mike Judge
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: David Fincher
Digipack release includes an Amazing Amy book the standard edition doesn’t have.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: David Butler
Video format: Only Unofficial Sources
Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:
This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel
Director: James Cameron
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling
Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling
An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908
Director: Peter Faiman
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut
Australia Cut: Laserdisc
The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).
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