Anthony Neilson
Tony N
Ha! I hadn't even heard there was anything wrong with RIO BRAVO! Please don't tell me - ignorance is bliss. I suppose it all varies, too, according to your love for the film in question; and what access you've had beforehand. I watch the LOTR debate with some ambivalence as, truth be told, I've always found them widly over-rated anyway; comfort food, certainly, but not fine-dining. I don't think Peter Jackson is God and so I'm not at all surprised at the heavy-handed use of digital wash. Most of his films have their excesses. However, I'm ecstatic to have my bare-bones copy of the original TAKING OF PELHAM 123 - a film which I've only seen on TV or in non-anamorphic form. I don't care if it's a bit dark, or a bit basic - I'm just really pleased to have it; all the more so because I thought it'd never happen. With LOTR, I wonder if some good old-fashioned "spoiling" hasn't gone on. Jackson went so overboard in giving its many rabid fans every last scrap of detail on its making (both before and after production) that now they feel an entitlement to their very own customised version of the film. (Perhaps this is the future - just give them the rushes and a bunch of post-production tools; let them make their own and argue that out, ad ad ad nauseam.) But I'm the same when it comes to the films I really love. So I sympathise over DON'T LOOK NOW, John - I'm quaking in my metaphorical boots. It's in my top ten movies of all time and I sooooo want this edition to be good. But I've seen what pro-B has said, and I respect the good Dr as not being one of the loonies; I've also seen some screengrabs which make it look almost posterised, and I'm worried. The fact that you like it is a comfort, though, John. I know you don't make mountains out of molehills, nor vice-versa. I shall share my opinions with you, once I have vetted them for joy-diminishment. And my apologies to the OP - I didn't mean to hijack the thread. Well....maybe a little.