Enough to prefer the Blu-ray but when watching it the overall impression is of a flat picture that is lacking in contrast, detail and color. At least they did not try to make it prettier with excessive sharpening and/or noise reduction.
Wow! That was a very special screening, from in70mm.com:
"Ryan's Daughter" has a new 70mm print, made for color grading prior to manufacturing new 65mm and 35mm interpositives. The original negative is in excellent condition, and did not need any "restoration". This is the only print, and it...
I have never said it was normal viewing distance but it is my viewing distance and I am not watching stills. I also found it quite visible at 2 screen distances away on my OLED and I consider that a normal distance for enthusiasts. The overriding question is if a medium that is capable to look...
I sit at about 1.05 screen widths away from a scope screen and it works quite well for movies that have not been tempered with too much. I guess I could increase my seating distance up to a point where more movies are tolerable but why do it when many movies look great at that distance. As for...
True Lies did look beautiful theatrically.
Cameron can obviously do as he pleases and we have to accept that but even with Titanic I found the new look to be uneven and often distracting and from what I hear True Lies is the worst of the bunch with the new releases.
Oh well, I will get the...
I read somewhere that MGM was kind of taken for a ride on this one with a lot of money spent and little to show for it.
As the resolution it comes from is low I also do not see much potential for improvement with the higher bitrate which is why I recommended to first wait for some kind of...
You would think so, but the Blu-ray that one would have to assume was released from this work in 2011 looks rather deplorable:
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screenshot.php?movieid=20494&position=10
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screenshot.php?movieid=20494&position=14
It will be interesting...
Looks like there is a discussion to be had here about the quality of Frenzy as a movie but it certainly got a very nice UHD release that puts the previous Blu-ray to shame.
So that is another excellent release brought to us by one of the Universal Alfred Hitchcock collections!
My only gripe is...
This is a difficult one. I will say this:
Warner when they finally embrace Ryan's Daughter as an important movie regardless of how some critics perceived it.
It will make a fine UHD / BD combo release, maybe there will even be a tie-in of some kind with Dr. Zhivago for the two post-Lawrence...
Well of course I meant no harm done to the studio in a case where the customer is being unaware of possibly buying a bootleg like our member Indy Guy and then later he buys the "real" Blu-ray once it gets released. Should we encourage people to buy known bootlegs? Of course not. But do we...
I will say this:
In practical terms I see no harm done if the person who bought a bootleg in the absence of studio product also buys the regular Blu-ray once it is released.
Dine with me in Wadi Rum and then the push-in through the rocks and the music - the second scene that sent shivers down my spine with the first one being the initial cut to Lawrence in the desert.
Yes you have but the casual reader afflicted with a short attention span may invariably skip to the ratings.
Maybe you could think of some clever moniker where you give a rating that indicates how much a release succeeds in looking like film or something similar. So as an example:
True Lies...
I am sure they are but it is not as if we had a "normal" Blu-ray release of either The Abyss or True Lies so for most of us that modern variant is the only available high resolution option.
Definitely what they Could have something to do with preserving the look of film.
While film preservation status per se as in the negative being in good shape and so on is nothing to be worried about for these movies it looks like it is getting more difficult to also see the movies in a way...
Thanks for posting that.
Everybody encounters some limitations in production but only some very rare directors go back and try to "fix" things after the fact and James Cameron now is right up there with George Lucas and Peter Jackson when it comes to making their older movies a moving target...
Pauline Kael is just one critic and one that I disagree with quite often so let me be a movie critic critic and say that many of her reviews just plain suck.
How can this approach to releasing True Lies result in a simple 10 out of 10?
Sorry but that just doesn't look right to me - without some qualifier next to that image score it looks just like an excellent regular release when in fact it is a complete departure from what it meant to even try and...
It is quite sad as people like these are one of the reasons that we have this kind of processing in the first place.
I will however say that when going all AI on these movies there really is no excuse to not fix that scene. In the James Cameron world where anything goes it would be easy to do...
Comes from the same old master as previous releases. They have a movie only disc which will help with the bitrate and all the - extensive - extras are on a second blu-ray, including an extra scene.
That's a nice line indeed and it would be very interesting to see a rundown of the financial side of things for Ryan's Daughter.
When I somehow flippantly said it flopped I did however think more of what David Lean managed to do with his three previous movies that all were intelligent and very...
Capelight has been so kind to get back to me and indeed the release is as follows:
Disc No. 1 BD movie only, maxed out bitrate
Disc No. 2 DVD
Disc No. 3 BD bonus features including trailers
This is still the old master but it is a long movie and they have maxed out the bitrate as the first...