I own both the Alliance and German blu-rays of The English Patient. The new disc is clearly superior to both of the earlier ones. The Alliance disc has undersaturated colors and shows heavy grain and print damage at times - it looks kind of like watching an old, faded print in a 99 cent...
Perhaps Lucas "does what he does" because he realizes that the type of people who carry on in these threads will never be pleased no matter what he does.
I recently saw Super 8 and the amount of grain looks very similar to or perhaps more than the CE3K BD. In fact it reminded me of CE3K. The dark scenes are particularly grainy. I wonder if this was accomplished through use of vintage film stock or was digitally 'enhanced'?
Kevin, I took another look at the closing credits last night. I'm seeing what you see. I think it's just dirt on the 'cloud' matte painting material that's under (over?) the credits. If I remember correctly the longer cut fades to black from the cooling tower shot, no clouds, so the credits run...
I enjoyed the compromise cut. It's a good version of the movie - not butchered by any means. I hadn't seen it years at least and I'm not sure if I had ever seen it - although I'm pretty sure I had Brazil on either the Universal LD or VHS. I like the clouds at the ending as opposed to the longer...
I watched Brazil on Blu-ray last night on a 92" screen viewed from 10' away - so pretty big. It's a nice transfer - better than the usual Universal catalog title, and nice upgrade over the anamorphic Criterion DVD transfer. I didn't notice halos, but I wasn't particularly looking for flaws. The...
What I noticed is that TTT looks much more saturated right at the start. The New Line logo and the balrog scene are very saturated. I found the look of the following Rohan scenes to be very similar to the look of the outdoor scenes in FOTR, though. Interestingly, the New Line logo at the...