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Title: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Dec 02, 2007 at 03:54 PM
From dvdempire.com:

Zapped!  /  DVD-Video

Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color
Standard 1.33:1 Color

Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:
English, Spanish

$10.49
LIST: $14.98
SAVE: $4.49 (30%)

Scheduled for Release on 2-12-2008
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: thegoodbyeguy on Dec 02, 2007 at 04:02 PM


              Yes, saw this one already on dvdempire, no cover artwork yet. I had a feeling this one's a barebone. Hopefully, I'm not. This is one of my most rented titles in betamax before. Really dig its soundtrack, David Pomeranz's ballads and Plain Jane's Ready or Not. I still have its soundtrack on cassette tape! :D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Dec 02, 2007 at 06:26 PM
Now #1 on my most-awaited DVD list.  ;D

Those of us in a certain age range had to endure that song at our high school proms...  :o

 ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pjayg on Dec 02, 2007 at 06:37 PM

Scheduled for Release on 2-12-2008

Feb pa?! tagal hehe
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: aszamora on Dec 02, 2007 at 07:14 PM
Hey, I still remember that chest bursting scene (not of the Alien variety). ;D To a budding teen that time, it was enough to get the adrenalin flowing. ;D I hope they include some extras kahit 1-disc lang siya.
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Dec 02, 2007 at 09:33 PM
Hope there would be a reunion interview of the cast. Let's face it, it was one of the most memorable sex comedy films during the 80's.  ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: yoshi1089 on Dec 02, 2007 at 09:59 PM
can't wait to get my hands on this one  ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: gearhead on Dec 02, 2007 at 10:33 PM
pang-LSS lang.  :D   ;D

Take me to your heart
Show me where to start
Let me play the part
Of your first love
All the stars are right
Every wish is ours to make
My love


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Zapped.jpg)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: seph1018 on Dec 03, 2007 at 12:03 PM
finally! ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: DVD_Freak on Dec 03, 2007 at 12:06 PM
oh!!!  will surely order a copy!!!!  i think i still have this on laser disc!
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: nerveblocker on Dec 03, 2007 at 12:25 PM
Been waiting for a long time.  There were a lot of VHS copied DVDs for sale at ebay for more than the price of the orig!  >:(
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: keilu on Dec 04, 2007 at 04:55 PM
yay! its finally going to be out in dvd! will definitely get this one.....hopefully, di sya barebones release  ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45 PM
"You're next Gary Cooter"

"Do I have to Miss Burnfart?"

"Read us your poem Gary or your next year would be your fourth as a senior"    ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: yamota on Dec 05, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Mmm, Heather Thomas was every teenage boy's wet dream in the 80s :P I am definitely getting this one

(http://www.zieak.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/heather_thomas_bra_big.jpg)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Mo®pHeOu$ on Dec 06, 2007 at 06:07 AM
I also remember this movie! I was indeed a great comedy movie.  I used to wish that I had the same powers....hehehehe  ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: seph1018 on Dec 06, 2007 at 12:28 PM
yeah! being able to open bras at will is indeed a great power to have! ;D Heather Thomas was indeed one of my fantasies as a boy. ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: thegoodbyeguy on Dec 06, 2007 at 01:24 PM


          I saw David Pomeranz during one of his interviews on TV promoting an album and when this movie was brought up along with his famous theme songs, he abashedly rekindles his participation in the movie as one of the soundtrack's (top) contributor. Man, his songs in Zapped! made him a 'household' name in radio during the '80's and the movie a cult hit in videos! I happened to dig Felice Schachter, the nerdy Bernadette in the movie. ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: gearhead on Dec 06, 2007 at 01:47 PM
medyo OT: saw a copy of "Weird Science" sa CD Blowout in Universal Tower Q. Av. i think same genre din ito. who remembers this movie?
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: thegoodbyeguy on Dec 06, 2007 at 01:56 PM

   
medyo OT: saw a copy of "Weird Science" sa CD Blowout in Universal Tower Q. Av. i think same genre din ito. who remembers this movie?
 
            I do! Hehe...Kelly Le Brock is the object of desire, right? ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: DVD_Freak on Dec 06, 2007 at 02:32 PM
Kelly LeBrock was featured in a segment of ET.  She seems to have let go already and is heavier now.

Heather Thomas was really hot here.  I remember her being in a series with Lee Majors where Lee played a stuntman.  Those tight jeans...man!!!!
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Moks007 on Dec 06, 2007 at 03:29 PM
Heather Thomas was really hot here.  I remember her being in a series with Lee Majors where Lee played a stuntman.  Those tight jeans...man!!!!

the fall guy is the tv series..I want to get this movie too, cant wait, My wife really like this hehe..
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: otogi on Dec 08, 2007 at 05:32 AM
I want special edition!!! since the start of DVD, this is the one I'vebeen waiting for, then barebone release only :-(
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: boredfilmmaker on Dec 21, 2007 at 03:53 AM
yay! its finally going to be out in dvd! will definitely get this one.....hopefully, di sya barebones release  ;)

sadly, it is.. and from the looks of it, it's going to be a flipper disc.. from DVDTimes (http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=66577):

MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of four contemporary comedies making their Region 1 DVD debut on 12th February 2008. Old college friends get together and share laughter, tears, nostalgia and make new discoveries, all the while making absolute fools of themselves in the British comedy Peter’s Friends, directed by Kenneth Branagh, written by comedian Rita Rudner and starring an ensemble cast including Branagh, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie among others.

The funny, touching and irreverent romantic comedy Some Girls follows Patrick Dempsey as Michael, who travels to Canada to visit his girlfriend Gabriella, played by Jennifer Connelly, only to discover some unexpected and bizarre twists about her family that force him into an exploration of love and relationships.

Writer-director Paul Shrader brings Elmore Leonard’s satiric novel to the screen with Touch, a comic lampoon on the American evangelism industry featuring Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken and Tom Arnold. A teenage science nerd gains telekinetic powers in the screwball comedy Zapped! starring Scott Baio and Willie Aames.

All are barebones, with AV specs below…


Peter’s Friends - Widescreen, English, French and Spanish Stereo, English and Spanish subtitles.
Some Girls - Widescreen/Full Screen, English Stereo, French and Spanish Mono.
Touch - Widescreen/Full Screen, English Dolby Surround, French Stereo, Spanish Mono, English and Spanish subtitles.
Zapped! - Widescreen/Full Screen, English Stereo, English and Spanish subtitles.

Retail is $14.98 SRP each.
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: 1ringwd4s on Dec 26, 2007 at 12:37 PM
ITS ABOUT TIME!
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: coffeetiger on Jan 09, 2008 at 12:25 AM
All are barebones, with AV specs below…[/b][/i]

barebones?  :-\   
it's one of my favorite movies during my pre-teen years.  ;D might as well wait a few more months.  they might come up with a special collector's edition. 
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jan 09, 2008 at 12:48 AM
barebones?  :-\   
it's one of my favorite movies during my pre-teen years.  ;D might as well wait a few more months.  they might come up with a special collector's edition.

I really doubt it, but... I'm guessing if you do wait a few more months, you'll be able to get it at bargain basement prices.  ;D

Happy waiting!
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Marl☆1 on Jan 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Worth waitin' for I reckon, hehe...  ;D
Scott, Willie and Heather - instant landmark names triggered by this cult-teen flick  ;)

Poor Heather though, got lulled into drugs during her peak (Fall Guy duration), and never recovered I guess.  She still looks gorgeous but what time can do...

(http://www.jasonbennion.com/photos/albums/Misc/Heather_Thomas.jpg) (http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/columbia_pictures/black_hawk_down/heather_thomas/hawkpre.jpg)

Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Battousai on Jan 12, 2008 at 01:25 AM
(http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/columbia_pictures/black_hawk_down/heather_thomas/hawkpre.jpg)



I'd still hit it!  ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Marl☆1 on Jan 12, 2008 at 07:08 PM
Yes sir, she can indeed be 'zapped' still  ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Gideon on Jan 13, 2008 at 03:12 AM
Nothing special!?!

Di bale na lang!
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: boredfilmmaker on Jan 17, 2008 at 05:58 PM
cover art from Amazon:

Pre-order link from Amazon:

Zapped! (http://www.amazon.com/Zapped-Willie-Aames/dp/B0010AN7XQ/pinoydvd-20) $9.99

(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5880/zappedkh1fy0.jpg)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Clondalkin on Jan 17, 2008 at 06:19 PM
My HS classmate who was soo madly in love for the 1st time during that time told me that Zapped was the best movie he and his girlfriend then (in the neighboring exclusive school for girls) had ever seen.   Ha ha ha.   Then we both entered UP and he got zapped right away by another girl in freshmen year.

Ok, it would be easier to verify if those were indeed Heather's Thomas' b**bs or not.
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jan 17, 2008 at 07:47 PM
I think it's already a well-documented fact that Heather used a body double.

Pardon me, but that's hands-down the UGLIEST DVD cover I've ever seen!  :o
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Jan 18, 2008 at 07:52 AM
cover art from Amazon:

(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5880/zappedkh1fy0.jpg)
Ngek! Binago pa yun movie promo pic.  :(
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: keilu on Jan 18, 2008 at 09:41 AM
hope that cover art is not the final once....its soooo freaking...ugly!!! 
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: DVD_Freak on Jan 18, 2008 at 11:09 AM
It's so cheesy and so 80's!   :D  Maybe it's intentional?
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: ESi on Jan 18, 2008 at 02:13 PM
(http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1010/48247.1010.A.jpg)

I'd go for this one  :)any day.
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Jan 18, 2008 at 02:31 PM
(http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1010/48247.1010.A.jpg)

I'd go for this one  :)any day.
Hands down. Seems they paid an artist pa to "revise" the pic. Such desecration for an 80's cult classic.  >:(
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: ESi on Jan 18, 2008 at 02:44 PM
(http://www.geocities.com/sayswamp/ZappedBreast.jpg)
This was used for the cassette tape and LP format released in the early 80's

(http://i18.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/d3/19/506c_1.JPG)
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k144/nostalgiamanila/fans/zapped_front.jpg)
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k144/nostalgiamanila/fans/zapped_back.jpg)
here's the evidence

(http://www.geocities.com/Sayswamp/Zapped_Cut.JPG)
(http://i17.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/cf/9f/7772_2.JPG)
This I believe was for the BETA and VHS format - old and new

(http://i4.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/ce/85/92ef_1.JPG)
Laserdisc format

Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Jan 18, 2008 at 02:49 PM
Ok sana kung 2-disc edition. Disk 1 for the film proper and Disc 2 for cast interviews (present time).

Tapos yun porma ng casing is like the scene when Barney revealed Jane's pink bra with Peyton by his side.
(http://www.zieak.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/heather_thomas_bra_big.jpg)

The casing would be pink (resembling Jane's sweater). The opening would be in the middle. When opened, Disk 1 (resembling Jane's left boob) is on the left and Disk 2 (resembling Jane's right boob) on the right.

Can you picture how it would look? Wala lang hehehe.  ;D

Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Jan 18, 2008 at 02:51 PM
GARY COOTER (reading his English poem): Chicks. Sometimes I feel like I'm so much above them. And sometimes I feel like I'm so much below them. Sometimes I hate them. And sometimes I love them. But if I was a caveman,I think I'd just club them.     8)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: ESi on Jan 18, 2008 at 03:00 PM
Ok sana kung 2-disc edition. Disk 1 for the film proper and Disc 2 for cast interviews (present time).

Tapos yun porma ng casing is like the scene when Barney revealed Jane's pink bra with Peyton by his side.
(http://www.zieak.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/heather_thomas_bra_big.jpg)

The casing would be pink (resembling Jane's sweater). The opening would be in the middle. When opened, Disk 1 (resembling Jane's left boob) is on the left and Disk 2 (resembling Jane's right boob) on the right.

Can you picture hpw it would look? Wala lang hehehe.  ;D



What a GREAT idea...Unbelievable!!! Bravo cousin!!! Maybe you could write to MGM but I think this was one of the controversies of that film.

Controversy
An unusual contract situation arose on the set because the script called for Heather Thomas to be photographed topless in one scene and stripped to her panties in another. However, during shooting she refused to be filmed topless, insisting that the nudity was neither necessary nor appropriate. In post-production, the producers inserted close-ups of a topless body double into the scenes and Miss Thomas complained to the Screen Actor's Guild that moviegoers might think it was her. In an unusual move, the producers added an advisory to the end credits that a body double was used for Miss Thomas for the photograph and her nude scene. (She claimed, however, that the people who watch such movies never pay any attention to the closing credits.)

Controversy also erupted during the promotion of the film when readers of the Los Angeles Times complained about the movie poster advertisement, not because of what the readers could see but because it was suggested that the illustrated Scott Baio and Willie Aames could see up the skirt of the illustrated girl character. The poster artist re-drew the advertisement to block the suggested view.

Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Marl☆1 on Jan 18, 2008 at 04:57 PM
Ok sana kung 2-disc edition. Disk 1 for the film proper and Disc 2 for cast interviews (present time).

Tapos yun porma ng casing is like the scene when Barney revealed Jane's pink bra with Peyton by his side.
(http://www.zieak.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/heather_thomas_bra_big.jpg)

The casing would be pink (resembling Jane's sweater). The opening would be in the middle. When opened, Disk 1 (resembling Jane's left boob) is on the left and Disk 2 (resembling Jane's right boob) on the right.

Can you picture how it would look? Wala lang hehehe.  ;D



@pioneer
Hehe... nice pics Gerbs!  Don't you have any pics of the body-double of Heather?  ;D

@esi
Nice piece of triva you got there.  Poor Heather, I mean the whole time all of the puberty boys with raging hormones thought it was her.  Guilty as charged.  ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: pioneer on Jan 18, 2008 at 08:26 PM
Ok...what the hell is this one?  ???

http://www.raritiesondvd.com/zappeddvd.html
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: boredfilmmaker on Jan 18, 2008 at 08:38 PM
Ok...what the hell is this one?  ???

http://www.raritiesondvd.com/zappeddvd.html

a bootleg? maybe ripped from a laser disc?
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jan 18, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Yeah, although the picture and rating implies it's an R2 release, my best guess is that it's a bootleg.

But I'd gladly buy the bootleg to use the jacket to replace the butt ugly one MGM came up with...  ;D
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: thegoodbyeguy on Feb 02, 2008 at 04:34 AM

    They really messed it up with that cover, if it is the official DVD cover for this much-loved cheesy cult classic! ???
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: thegoodbyeguy on Feb 02, 2008 at 04:39 AM


        By the way, the cover pic (caricatures) is very much similar to the poster of Dolphy movies in the '80's!
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: thegoodbyeguy on Mar 17, 2008 at 10:02 PM

   (http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/thegoodbyeguy/PINOYDVD%20POSTS/ZAPPED.jpg)
                  What a pair! ;)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: ranran on Mar 19, 2008 at 08:08 PM
i hope they release this locally and revert to the original poster for the cover art.  :)
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: otogi on Mar 24, 2008 at 07:54 PM
I'm waiting too for its local release since R1 has no special features.
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: DVD_Freak on Mar 24, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Is this release really just fullscreen?
Title: Re: Zapped! (02-12-08)
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Mar 24, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Is this release really just fullscreen?

No, as indicated on the very first post on this thread, it's both fullscreen and widescreen (DVD-10 flipper).