Alright, I just bought all three movies, and have just watched Purple Rain (first time in widescreen since 1984! ) Okay, is this my imagination, or what?

At the top of Chapter 2, after Let's Go Crazy, when Prince is getting razzed by The Time, I could clearly hear Jerome say "So s-", followed shortly thereafter by the same word in the line "So sexy".

Then later, in the Clarence Williams suicide scene, the sound totally cuts out when Prince looks down the stairs, and I'm sure there's usually a really scary sound effect of Clarence's gun cocking, but here there's only silence.

And then there's the really bad change in timbre in the beginning of the solo in Purple Rain, but I think this has been that way since Day One.

So is it my dvd, or my imagination?

it ain't just you. i noticed that "so s--" too when i first watched it...kinna made me go "wha?" dunno about the other parts yet, cuz i've only half-watched the dvd. i've been payin more attention to the extras disc.

that, I'm gonna watch RIGHT NOW!!!!

eyewishuheaven said:

i just got done watchin a bit of it...i'm probably gonna end up wearin out that dvd before the year ends.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I noticed that too, but I just assumed it was my imagination, in anticipation of the line.

I haven't actually watched it yet. I just thumbed a couple of chapters for sound and picture quality evaluation.

The symbol glyph menu pointer is so stupid.

Where's my damn Purple Rain Booklet? I don't care if there's nothing in it, I hate it when I buy a DVD with a case that clearly has clips for a dvd booklet, and there's no booklet. It makes me feel as if I lost it, or something.

savoirfaire said:

that's what I thought too. what's up with that?


the sound on the extras is really loud with the music playing on top of people talking.

OH. MY GOD. I had no idea there was a whole video for the album version of When Doves Cry. The video I'm used to cuts to the painted face with the teardrop rolling down at the point where the single version ends. Holy moly!!

and by the way - UTCM and GB don't have booklets, either...

see...ya'll need to stop buying the bootleg copies from Pookie and rayray.....

Rhondab said:

you wrong for that

savoirfaire said:

Yeah! Where is your booklet? got my booklet right here! And it's thick 2!

ThePurplePeopleEater said:

don't you dare mess with my head! grrrr.

I am watching it too right now and noticed those exact sound problems. I was gonna take mine back in the morning to Best Buy,It really bothers me that this is like this. What should we do??? I wonder if alot of other people have the same problem?

camilleblue said:

I don't think there is anything u can do b/c I think it's a problem all the dvds have

Ugh ugh ugh... the sound editor is gonna hear from me... that's after I check mine out tho... hehehe

camilleblue said:

Don't blame Best Buy for it -- write a letter to Warners or whoever made it -- see if they fix the problem and send you a new copy -- that'd be cool. In the meantime, don't let it ruin the rest of the movie for ya. Life is tougher in other worlds outside of your own.