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  1. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    I think the UHD disc looks fine, but it didn't compress well for streaming during the movie's premiere on HBO Max. That left me with a rather negative first impression of the photography. I probably wouldn't have questioned it had I watched the disc first.
  2. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    Yes, I agree that the UHD disc does look better than the 4K stream on HBO Max. It's still a little soft by 4K standards and quite grainy, however.
  3. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    I did not (and still do not) care enough about either version of Justice League to read a thread devoted to it. :)
  4. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    This sounds like an after-the-fact rationalization. Every movie shot on 35mm with spherical lenses will expose the full 137:1 camera negative, yet they're still composed for matting to 1.85:1. In any case, my statement about Zack Snyder's fetish for the IMAX 1.43:1 ratio stands. Other directors...
  5. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    I believe that's all down to Zack Snyder's fetish for the IMAX 1.43:1 ratio. He reframed his director's cut of Justice League entirely to 4:3 despite not actually shooting one second of the footage in that format.
  6. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    Are you sure about that? I would assume that the workflow went: Photography -> Film Out -> Rescan to DI -> Post-Production (including editing and VFX) -> 3D Conversion last. Or are you saying that the entire movie was completed digital-to-digital, then output to film, and then scanned back to...
  7. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    You'll occasionally find a filmmaker who will sound off when they're unhappy with the way their movie was released on home video, but I suspect in a lot of cases they fear biting the hand the feeds them and opt to keep their mouth shut. So unless you hear affirmative confirmation that the video...
  8. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    If you want 3D as well, yeah you're probably out of luck. Those are one-shot deals at this point. But Dune was shot using IMAX's new digital cameras, and the original data is still available for the studio to use for a future reissue (probably UHD) if they choose. Dune wasn't shot in 3D; it...
  9. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    Never say never. Star Trek into Darkness and Batman v. Superman got remastered as VAR after the initial Blu-rays were 2.35:1 only. All of the Marvel VAR or open-matte films that were released on disc as 2.35:1 are now available on Disney+ in both versions.
  10. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    There's really no way to watch a Cinerama movie on a flat screen without distortion. If you flatten down the smilebox, you're just distorting the image another way. I recall comparing both Blu-ray transfers for How the West Was Won. There's a shot of a canoe traveling from screen left to right...
  11. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    Fair enough. I wasn't trying to change your mind. I just wanted to provide some context on possible reasons (failing an official statement on the matter) the decision was made not to include the IMAX version on home media. Keep in mind that for some of these movies (not Dune specifically), the...
  12. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    I'm currently in the middle of a heated and contentious argument about this topic on another site, and it is really not my intent to carry that tone over here, so I will ask for your forgiveness in advance if anything I write here comes off as being dismissive. That is not my intention and I...
  13. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    You have a 50-foot-tall IMAX screen in your home? That's impressive. :)
  14. JoshZ

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dune (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    If I'm not mistaken, the movie was shot digitally, output to film, and then rescanned back to digital for esoteric reasons about wanting it to look more "analog" or something (which, apparently, shooting on film in the first place wasn't good enough to accomplish). I haven't seen the disc...
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