Vincent-P
Second Unit
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2004
- Messages
- 337
finally had the chance to watch this tonight. I'm pretty happy with the transfer. once I adjusted some of my settings. I saw this in the theater and at first thought it was very desaturated and washed out, but besides the Peony Pavillion, I couldn't really remember much of how it looked, until I got to the Bamboo Forest. I remembered that those sequences were very saturated with color and deep green. So I adjusted my color, tint, and brightness settings and was able to make it look just like I remember it from the theater. Going back and rewatching the earlier parts it looks a whole lot better and very pleasing to me.
The main concern I have, besides the cuts to even the US theatrical showings, which I did not know about until after I saw it in the theater (please Columbia, if any film needs an "unrated" version, give House of Flying Daggers an uncut release, and "Kung Fu Hustle" if it will be altered on DVD) is that there is no subtitle/translation to the title card of the film. Why does it not say "House Of Flying Daggers" during the opening? I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was there in the theaters, and DVDBeaver shows a title card with an English translation that must come from some release. I can't believe I haven't seen this mentioned in any post or any review. Anybody have more information about this situation?
The main concern I have, besides the cuts to even the US theatrical showings, which I did not know about until after I saw it in the theater (please Columbia, if any film needs an "unrated" version, give House of Flying Daggers an uncut release, and "Kung Fu Hustle" if it will be altered on DVD) is that there is no subtitle/translation to the title card of the film. Why does it not say "House Of Flying Daggers" during the opening? I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was there in the theaters, and DVDBeaver shows a title card with an English translation that must come from some release. I can't believe I haven't seen this mentioned in any post or any review. Anybody have more information about this situation?