Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Region 1 disc was released in 2002. As far as I can tell, the discs are pretty much the same, except that we get more in the way of extras (choke! gasp!): the R1 disc doesn't have the Japanese closing, the Madman propaganda (hmm), the Australian trailer (hmm), or the cast profiles. They do get the critical extras: the commentary and the booklet, plus the reversible cover and an image gallery. It sounds as though their transfer is just as good as ours.

    With the R4 getting more extras, a superb transfer, and costing less, I'm definitely not going to recommend the R1.