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"Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
My two cents on the BD of "Dark City" after I watched the disc yesterday.
This is what you'll get for your money:
A very sharp, edge-enhanced picture with high detail in the foreground.
An almost totally degrained and heavily DNR-ed picture with the minimal remaining grain appearing static and unnatural.
Greetings from Madame Tussaud and General Patton:
The wax figure faces are back again! Poor William Hurt looks like he underwent ten or more facial liftings. (example: chapter 12, time code 1.11.10)
Although the picture seems to appear very sharp on the first glimpse, there is hardly any 3-dimensionality in this travesty of a transfer. Poor background detail, obviously due to low-pass filtering with robbing the 1080p stream it's high-frequency information.
This Blu-ray disc has absolutely nothing in common with the 1998 film elements. This picture was shot in Super 35 with lots of beautiful grain in the theatrical presentation as far as I remember.
I know what answers there will come up: "Just wait a little longer...." "the studios got the message.....". But this will not excuse this new travesty.
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