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  1. haineshisway

    UHD Review Paint Your Wagon UHD/Blu-ray Review

    There is not a truly terrible film musical in history that doesn't have ten immediate posters saying they love it. Not one. Not even Mame. Not even Man of La Mancha. Not even Lost Horizon. :)
  2. haineshisway

    The Greatest Story Ever Told renovation

    If that thing on the Blu-ray is from a 2001 scan of the large format negative it is the worst transfer ever made. Then again, it is twenty four years old now. A maxed out bitrate is not going to help anything in regards to that transfer.
  3. haineshisway

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Poor Things -- in Blu-ray

    I'm a discerning viewer and I couldn't take more than an hour of it.
  4. haineshisway

    Press Release Paramount Presents! Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) (4k UHD)

    You know, I posted about this new transfer ages ago. It is great and a HUGE improvement over the old Paramount Blu-ray from the year one.
  5. haineshisway

    Press Release Paramount Presents! Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) (4k UHD)

    I've seen the new transfer - I bought it from Vudu and it's great and I posted about it ages ago. Unless they author it poorly, it should look even better than Vudu.
  6. haineshisway

    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    At long last. A wonderfully entertaining film from start to finish - I saw it again via streaming recently and it's still splendid. Great score, great Belmondo and Delon and Paradis is delightful. Leconte is the real deal and I cannot recommend this highly enough. The streamer looked great -...
  7. haineshisway

    The Sound of Music on 4K Disc?

    What does "now that Fox has the rights back" regarding Sound of Music mean? Someone please explain it to me real slow.
  8. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Torn Curtain -- in 4k UHD

    Someone suggested that despite saying UHD they hadn't updated yet - and I think that's probably accurate.
  9. haineshisway

    Pre-Order Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Happy to report that this new 4K transfer looks pretty damn good. Some softness in the opticals, of course, but mostly sharp and with the very garish color it should have. Fun to have the HypnOvista opening. When I saw this at one of my neighborhood theaters on August 19, 1959, no horror movie...
  10. haineshisway

    John Wick 4 – UHD Review

    I know exactly what they are. The fourth one goes on way too long, and it just another sequel case of bigger, louder, more. The first one got the recipe just right.
  11. haineshisway

    John Wick 4 – UHD Review

    I forgot about it. It was on a par with two, but one could see they were running out of steam.
  12. haineshisway

    John Wick 4 – UHD Review

    I enjoyed the first John Wick movie a lot. The second wasn't as good, but was still fun and the fight scenes were really well done. This one was horrible.
  13. haineshisway

    The Greatest Story Ever Told renovation

    You don't add the intermission to the running time - that's just confusing everyone. 221 is the version. Any other longer version is not THE version that was released. I'm pretty sure they have the original release version in 70mm - they just don't want to go the expense of scanning it, clearly.
  14. haineshisway

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Searchers -- in High Defintion

    They have a reference dye transfer print - that they didn't bother looking at back in the day.
  15. haineshisway

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Searchers -- in High Defintion

    For starters, it will hopefully have the correct colors.
  16. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Torn Curtain -- in 4k UHD

    I'm on Prime and have Max, so I guess it's one of those two. All I know is, three days ago they didn't have the UHD and yesterday they did. They still don't have the others in the set in UHD so I'm wondering if they jumped the gun in listing it that way but still using the older transfer. I'll...
  17. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Torn Curtain -- in 4k UHD

    I've been streaming these new UHD transfers and tonight it was Torn Curtain. I've been hugely impressed with everything I've seen, but either this thing I'm watching is NOT the new transfer, despite clearly saying UHD or, for me, it's a fail. It looks ugly and brown to my eyes (which is why I...
  18. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - Volume Two -- in 4k UHD

    Just streamed the new transfer of The Trouble with Harry and it is one of the greatest, most beautiful transfers ever. Want to know what To Catch a Thief SHOULD look like? THIS. Period. Stunning. Not my favorite Hitchcock, but this presentation makes me like it more than I ever have.
  19. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Topaz -- in 4k UHD

    I get it. So why is Vudu showing the theatrical and is it just an uprezzed UHD? Or did they scan BOTH versions?
  20. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Topaz -- in 4k UHD

    Okay, based on someone's earlier post, I watched the UHD of Topaz on Hudu last night. And it's the theatrical version NOT the extended version. So, are both on the 4K disc or not? And if not, what exactly are they showing on Vudu because other than having okay color, it doesn't really look like...
  21. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) -- in 4k UHD

    Just watched the streaming UHD of this - fantastic-looking, gorgeous, even the process work looks better than it ever has and it's really not good. A beautiful job. Watching the UHD streaming Marnie now - that one on Blu-ray was a huge disappointment and very weird-looking. This is much nicer.
  22. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) -- in 4k UHD

    It doesn't need any reappraisal from me - I saw it at the Lido Theater in LA in 1956 on a double bill with Autumn Leaves and it instantly became one of my favorite movies. While I enjoy the earlier version, the 1956 telling of the story is much better and Hitchcock's direction is superb as is...
  23. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Topaz -- in 4k UHD

    What's really fascinating about Topaz is that the version released on home media (save for the very first VHS release and maybe the first laserdisc release, is not the version shown in theaters. It is about twenty-something minutes longer and was a preview cut, apparently. But they make NO...
  24. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Topaz -- in 4k UHD

    I think almost all these UHD transfers are streaming on various platforms. They all say UHD - only this latest batch seems to not all be UHD yet.
  25. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Frenzy -- in 4k UHD

    That is so annoying about the Blu-rays, I'm sorry. A major faux pas in my opinion.
  26. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Frenzy -- in 4k UHD

    Do these sets come with blu-rays and if so are they the new transfers.
  27. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Paramount Scares -- in 4k UHD

    First of all, are you and RAH saying that the 4K of Rosemary's Baby isn't good??? Say what??? They did a new scan and it isn't better than the Blu-ray of old??? And yes, you are 1000% wrong. Rosemary's Baby is a gorgeously photographed film by William Fraker. I still have a 35mm dye transfer...
  28. haineshisway

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Paramount Scares -- in 4k UHD

    I cannot understand Paramount having the chutzpah to do a new 4K transfer of Rosemary's Baby and include a Blu-ray that has the over a decade old transfer. What is wrong with them? And then to do this set and also include the old transfer. Is anyone awake over there?
  29. haineshisway

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    Read back in the thread. I was the guinea pig/idiot who bought that and no it's the same old, same old and does NOT look good. Unless it's been updated in the past five months or whenever I took the chance.
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