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I think groups should start using the shitty asf quality that was around back in the day for a while to shut the ungrateful whiners up. These look like dvds to that pixellated .asf crap.

Superb Maven quality again. Oh it's a tad grainy, very slightly dark in places (although my HD big screen fixes that nicely), and oh there is just a wee bit of hollowness in the sound. Life's a bitch eh.

V: 8, A: 8, and M: 8. And the last 8 is for those who are big on Superman. I'm not.

Now if Maven and Jack Sparrow could get together in the very near future.....

Another maVen release! I love these guys! Now, on with the rating.

Video - 7.5
Not their best, not their worst. I'd put this one against their Pink Panther and Big Momma's House 2. They stated in the .nfo that it's dark tho.

Audio - 7
Sounds fine to me.

Movie - 3
I wanted to give it a 4, but that's *too* kind. Ok, so I'm to understand from the beginning that Superman left earth for 5 years. He comes back to find Lois moved on with her life, and has a family now, which includes a boy who is in school. This would make him 5. If he's 5, and Clark's been gone for 5 years, then that means he was concieved 9 months *before* he left. Also makes you wonder about how she was supposed to meet the father first. Aside from that, Lex Luthor seemed "not so Lex". Spacey was a good cast for him, but he was written badly. There's more I could go into, but I don't feel like attempting to recall what memories of this film I have already successfully repressed. I'm glad I didn't go to the theatres to see this piece of shit. NOTHING like the first two Superman movies...or even the last 2...

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Originally posted by Smoka
I think groups should start using the shitty asf quality that was around back in the day for a while to shut the ungrateful whiners up. These look like dvds to that pixellated .asf crap.

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7/7/?--Will watch this weekend.

maVen made my summer by producing the best X-Men 3 and Superman Returns releases. This isn't their best work, but I don't expect anyone to beat this effort.

On a side note, the NFO feud between maVen and maVensupplieR is hilarious.

Witty subject goes here

Fired this up on the XBox last night. Fairly good.

Video: 7.5 - It isn't exactly pretty, but by and far you can see everything that's going on save for the nighttime flight with Lois towards the middle of the film. The video is very grainy, but like I said it doesn't get in the way of seeing what's going on. The graininess does make things difficult for the codec to compress though, and you can spot plenty of chroma issues and artifacts if you look close; nothing you'll spot casually though. I would guess that this was recorded from a significant distance away based, e.g. a drive-in/etc., based on the quality.

Audio: 7 - There's something off about the audio. It's a little distorted and a little hollow, but I would honestly guess that the distortions are from the original listening source, in this case most likely a small FM rebroadcaster at a drive-in. (e.g. the volume is up too high going into the rebroadcaster) The audio frequency doesn't help though; fortunately the 'Box outputs it just fine.

Movie: ? - Haven't finished it yet. So far it hasn't grabbed me like Batman Begins or the Spiderman flicks did, except for Kevin Spacey. (I mean it's freakin' Kevin Spacey) Brandon Routh does certainly look the part though.

THANKS MAVEN

superman

v7
a7
m7

As stated a little dark but the picture is good and the audio is great
V - 8
A - 8
M - 8

I almost felt that this was a sequel to a film I hadn't seen. A lot of back story that was different from other supes films, was this in smallville or something? weird, but who bets on a sequel/prequel or both?

Plenty of room for a group to TOP a maVen release

First thanks maVen.

Well the video is 7 - grain, dark, soft
the audio is a 7 - tinny, out of sync only a few times
and the movie is a 7 - liked it but not as good as hoped

Well, here's ANYONE's chance to out do maVen
Who dares? Ne1 gotz da bAlZ?

YA I agree, this is great for an ORC release

Look forward to these release dates
Czech Republic 13 July 2006
Slovenia 13 July 2006
Chuckle chuckle
V=7
A=6.5
M=7.5
BB

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V-8
A-7
M-6

gd release could of toke a bit more time & cleaned it up a bit but over all great work maven

wow, after reading the comments in here, it looked alot nicer than i was expecting

usually i find that the best way of judging quality is from the studio logo at the start because you know what it should look like:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3956/untitled6ew.jpg

v 8.5 (i dont care if its not maVen's best, this looks damn nice, the graininess hasnt really affected the compression as there is no actual pixelation to be seen, maybe *slightly* dark but nothing bad or distracting)

a 9 (excellent direct audio, sounds the same as click and cars in terms of quality/recording levels)

m ? (havent watched yet)

thanks maVen

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Originally posted by pHo
the difference between compression and encoding is:

compression software works the same way as trying to get The 404, who is 350lbs, through a normal door. its method is to basically keep kicking The 404 until he gets thru the door. This works quickly, but leaves a nasty mess.

encoding software is the equivalent of The 404 going on a diet and walking thru the door. takes longer and sometimes more skill, but ultimately worth it.

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V - 7.5

A - 8.0

Movie 9/10 but I always love hero movies

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My god people did any of you watch the real movie on a theather?!!!!This irelease is missing about 2-3 minutes in the boat scene in lex luthors boat when shes trying to send a fax and the bad guy is playing piano!!! if you see it skips to the part where she gets caught and doesnt show the bad guy start to play piano with the kid, and louis all nervous to send the fax without the guy noticing!!come on at least watch the movie in the theater before you say is complete by just watchin the releases in the net!! Anyway this is the best release so far, but not perfect!

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Originally posted by prking
My god people did any of you watch the real movie on a theather?!!!!This irelease is missing about 2-3 minutes in the boat scene in lex luthors boat when shes trying to send a fax and the bad guy is playing piano!!! if you see it skips to the part where she gets caught and doesnt show the bad guy start to play piano with the kid, and louis all nervous to send the fax without the guy noticing!!come on at least watch the movie in the theater before you say is complete by just watchin the releases in the net!! Anyway this is the best release so far, but not perfect!

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Originally posted by Roger
I'm sure you downloaded this from p2p torrent or other shit like that, get lost or prolly a life ? maybe some real site and not a stupid reencode of the real thing.

fucktard

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Originally posted by prking
My god people did any of you watch the real movie on a theather?!!!!This irelease is missing about 2-3 minutes in the boat scene in lex luthors boat when shes trying to send a fax and the bad guy is playing piano!!! if you see it skips to the part where she gets caught and doesnt show the bad guy start to play piano with the kid, and louis all nervous to send the fax without the guy noticing!!come on at least watch the movie in the theater before you say is complete by just watchin the releases in the net!! Anyway this is the best release so far, but not perfect!

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Superman.. not so Super

V 7
A 7
M 4

Gave Superman movie a 4 because it wasn't as good as expected, see Pirates of the Carribean 2, it's more fun!

V8 (Just a tad dark)
S7 (Slight buzz)
M10 (Best one so far IMO)

First downloaded *dubmoodsux* release, a fatal error on my part, as his name suggests, it sux!!

Read about maVen, downloaded his release, never going to any other until DVD-SCR or DVDR comes out.

Nice one maVen!!

C

Another excellent maVen release...

For all of you that don't really know what Xvid is... you can easily view it lightened up by simply going to the Xvid Decoder GUI and slide the bar to the right until it is as light as you want it...

And for these 'groups' that re-encode and call it a 'proper' yet somehow forget to slide that decoder bar over and do tests until the lighting is good enough and THEN upcode to MPEG... well.. no comment...

The quality of these releases is getting unbelievable.. maVen IS THE TOP DOG.. if you think otherwise.. then 1) you are in a 'competing' group or 2) you don't know how to watch digital images correctly..

Please.. learn how to encode re-encode video and audio streams before you make comments about Dark, out of synch... I'll be honest.. if it wasn't for that guy Adywan... well.. then I'd have to still be doing most of it myself.. =)

Video - 9
Audio - 8
Movie - 7

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7 a tad dark

7 hollow in places

6 okish