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I'm reasonably sure that you're correct and this is a rhetorical question (unless Dean Cundey happens to pop in here) but why would he associate his name with a transfer that he probably had little to do with? I doubt there was any financial incentive for him to give the OK to and why he would...

No but he did say something to the effect of (and let me emphasize that I'm paraphrasing) that the intent of the scene was always that Greedo fired first but it was just difficult to tell that in the 1977 version so he made it more clear to the 1997 version. For the record, I love George Lucas...

I'm still at loss as to why anyone is talking about the video (however anyone feels about it, it's approved by the DOP) and no one is mentioning the mono track that is without a doubt messed up.

Don't forget the dead leaves all over Laurie's lawn but none at any of the other houses.

The audio commentary with John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis is pretty fun. Curtis is funny & enthusiastic and it's just nice to hear her spend a good chunk of time talking about the movie.

While I don't have a print to prove it, I would still absolutely guarantee it. The dialogue where Laurie is talking with Tommy on the way to the Myers house is now buried under music. Since that dialogue sets up what she'll be doing for the rest of the movie, there's no way that it would sound...

None of the Friday The 13th movies have had as much variance in looks as Halloween has had. Maybe it's because there's a good number of releases over the years or because I'm very familiar with the movie but I'm hard pressed to think of any movie that has had as many fairly distinct colorings as...

I'm glad to read confirmation one way or the other. It won't happen but I hope people stop talking about the video and start talking about the messed up mono audio.

I'm not trying to argue with you but I think people are taking issue with you saying that the VHS is an indication of what the movie looked like in theaters and not the look of the new disc.

I like Cundey's 1999 recoloring but I don't believe that the movie looked like that in 1978. However, there's no reason to think that the VHS is what the movie looked like in theaters either. As far as I'm concerned, the new disc looks great and the 7.1 mix sounds fine. The only real problem...

I know what the movie sounds like so I know it's wrong but due to undiagnosed mental illness :), I noted the times while watching and then went back to rewatch those scenes. You can hear the 'new' thunder sound effects when Loomis and Marion are driving to pick up Michael that are laughably on...

The new disc looks great but the mono track is absolutely not the original one. I can hear the new sound effects from the 5.1 (and presumably 7.1) mix.

The LD jacket doesn't specify if John Carpenter (who did do a commentary for it) was actually involved with the transfer. This is going out on a limb but Criterion used to make digest-sized catalogs with all of their LDs and I think it actually specified when it was Director-approved. If any...

I haven't seen an original print and I know you can't use previous video releases as a guide but my question is why does the cinematographer have two fairly distinct color choices for the same movie? For what little screencaps are worth, I'm fairly pleased with the look of the new disc so I'm...

I'm making that judgment based on literally nothing but my own guess so it's not a fair 'accusation' to make. However, the colors on the transfer that he OK-ed in 1999 are so markedly different from how the movie looked before or since that it seems like a solid guess.

My hope (based on nothing) is that Cundey got the 'playing with a new tool' thing out of his system with the 1999 DVD and this disc represents something closer to the original.