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  1. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    Yes, I meant what the film-makers are implying with these alterations. Despite my tendency to passionate hyperbole, I never mean to for anyone to take any comments of mine as personal affronts. They aren't meant to be and I will always regret if they are perceived that way. No harm, no foul.
  2. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    Go back and read the original post I wrote. I was implying that the way the technology was being used was 'perverse' - not that the technology itself was perverse. Contrary to the impression I may have erroneously given, I'm not a Luddite arguing against the use of digital grading tools...
  3. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    You're right. I should be applauding seeing this technology used to revise these musty old oft seen catalog titles, and push them into this brave new world of orange faces and blue green everything elses. How could someone not like seeing formerly nuanced and complex things reduced to such...
  4. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    dbl post
  5. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    Sorry- I meant that the way these tools were being used was a perversion. There's nothing 'expansive' or creatively liberating about using these tools to push the T&O aesthetic- which is what this thread concerned with. Look at Ridely Scott's Thelma & Louise- it looks like ass now- the exact...
  6. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    Prior to the late 90's early Aughts, with the introduction of digital color grading, it was impossible to time a scene so that the faces were warmer while at the same time the backgrounds , or specific objects in the background, were timed cooler. This is all one of the wonderful perversions of...
  7. Paul_Scott

    Movies On Blu With A Teal Tint.

    The main subject of most films are people, and the the main people represented in film are Caucasian with skin tones that are generally pink-yellowish, and can easily be pushed to orange. Bluish-green (teal) is the compliment of these (exaggerated) skin tones and it makes these 'pop' more...
  8. Paul_Scott

    TCM Dark Crimes: The Glass Key, Phantom Lady and The Blue Dahlia

    Sorry Robert, but I have to agree with John. I'll go even further and say that Glass Key (the only one I've looked at so far) looks like it's been mastered from something intended for analog display (like Laserdisc, though I could have sworn the old LD of this looked superior to what is here)...
  9. Paul_Scott

    NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS -- blu-ray restoration

    I finally got around to spinning this last night. Never saw it (or House...for that matter) until these Bds. I was aware going in of all the kvetching about studio imposed cuts, and was fully under the impression that House was the 'good' film while Night was seen to be the stake in the heart...
  10. Paul_Scott

    Eight Is Enough Is Finally Happening

    Received my S2 set today. Pressed as expected. Just watched the first ep, and quality looks solid- as good or better than S1. Usually I don't pull the trigger this quick on a $50 set, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed the first season. It became a morning ritual to have a cup of tea and...
  11. Paul_Scott

    BREAKING NEWS: Warner Archive Collection Announces First Blu-Ray Releases

    I hope that 12-24 is just a lowball estimate quick to be overtaken because I could easily come up with 24 titles across all genres and have hundreds left over. OTOH, it does give me hope that I may actually see certain things sooner now (for example, The Accidental Tourist which will have an...
  12. Paul_Scott

    BREAKING NEWS: Warner Archive Collection Announces First Blu-Ray Releases

    Great price point. I'll definitely be up for that (at least initially, and for titles I'm anxious to get in better quality). Dare I dream now that I may actually see The Wind on Bd? I still enjoy the sales to pick up a bunch of deep catalog titles I never would have seen or known about otherwise...
  13. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    It may seem like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth, but while I'm feeling relieved about some aspects now and generally pleased with the purchase (since Raiders constitutes the lion's share of that $65 expenditure for me) at the same time I do have to agree with Dave MJ in regards to the...
  14. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Thanks for your sympathy, Robert, but I'll have to pass them along to Dave who seems to have picked up the baton that slipped out of my grasp. My full comments are in the spoiler box
  15. Paul_Scott

    Blu-ray Review Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures Blu-ray Review

    Doug, mine slip out quite easily. I just turn the case over and let gravity work. Unlike some of the Fox books, I find this is a much easier design in terms of not having to touch the surface of the disc. Package design , graphics wise, is quite sharp. Love the spot varnishing on the cover of...
  16. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I put it in, but after about ten minutes I just couldn't watch anymore. sorry
  17. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I have it here but won't get a chance to watch it for a few hours yet. I have a lot of respect for your knowledge and experience, Bruce, so I hope I see the same things you are when I do sit down with it. Other people have supported the notion that the caps accurately represent the colors of...
  18. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I'm going to spoilerize much of this post so that the people that are fed up with me and my illustrations can easily move past them. I honestly was going to try to avoid adding anymore to this discussion- but that comment and a few others several pages back that I've been mulling over, gave me...
  19. Paul_Scott

    Shout! Factory's 2012 DVD Line-Up (Tentative)

    The Brink's Job was foremost on my mind when I saw that they were releasing SAGN on Bd. I own a serviceable NTSC R2 copy of it , but would upgrade in a heartbeat. Universal has a bunch of 70's era titles alone, never released or shuffled to MOD, that I would love to get on Bd. I hope the deal...
  20. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season -- in Blu-ray

    Just started watching the second season the other night and just finished ep 4. I'd heard rumblings as this season originally aired that fans weren't happy with the direction or pace or whatever of these first eps, and IIRC Darabont exits not too far from where I am now. All I can say is that...
  21. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Thanks for that post Stephen- You got across many of the points I was trying to express more efficiently and elegantly in one post than I have in seven (and without pictures, no less). I had thought about attempting to try to explain how changes in the shading and saturation of a single hue...
  22. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I don't deny I could be wrong and misremembering certain specific details. But overall I feel pretty confident I remember what I remember because from about '78-'82 I practically lived at the movie theaters. I would get dropped off at a 12pm matinee and stay 7 or 8 at night. This happened more...
  23. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    We went through nearly the exact same thing with the Alien Bd. No way I could possibly remember what the film looked like theatrically 30 years ago. Mr Harris and legions of other reviewers and consumers were ecstatic with the release and Mr Scott himself had personally signed off on it so who...
  24. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    I pre-ordered it when it showed up in my Goldbox and was debating over the last few days whether I should let the order stand or not. When I saw the caps with the ark, and the two with Marion, I decided no amount of setting manipulation on my projector could overcome what has been done to this...
  25. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Oh for crying out loud. What's really frustrating is that if that second HDTV transfer had been used as is, and not manipulated to look like a matched set with Crystal Skull*, would any of these reviewers giving it high marks have said it was a travesty because detail wasn't blown out or...
  26. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    BTW, welcome to the forum Mr Boucher! I hope you'll stick around. this discussion may seem contentious, but the general age/maturity of the members here and the moderation seems to make sure that everything ultimately remains civil and respectful. And I should note to the people who I may...
  27. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    sorry, but that is not the 'natural' coloring in that illustration. It has been consciously, and digitally manipulated to pull the blues in an aqua/teal direction. And it is far from the only instance of blues in the frame being pushed in that direction. and frankly, I can't agree now with...
  28. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    It's interesting that Paramount released a promotional trailer released in conjunction with the initial announcement of the Bd set, just as Universal did with Jaws, that contains those two still images in a glitzy little before and after demo. It also shows the sequence below, live action...
  29. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Whoa, I was responding the assertion that the Bd wasn't crushing shadow detail that the DVD was. It's amusing how the goal post keeps moving. First it was the crushing of shadow detail was one key that the DVD was not a faithful translation. Now it's that the non Bd HD transfer has too much...
  30. Paul_Scott

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    Kenneth, look at the trunk of the sub in the background of the first shot. The Bd most definitely is pushing that towards teal. The coloring in the second is far more more natural, more neutral, less manipulated, and consistent with what you would have seen at a theater in 1981.
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