Judging from these caps, this transfer is the double edged sword I was expecting. The color is better and Universal's infamous late-2000s overly aggresive dnr is absent.
That being said...there is no fine detail here...at all. I mean look at this. Its just exchanging one kind of smear for...
Lynch has repeatedly stated in interviews when he's willing to talk about Dune (and that's not very often) that he did not have final cut on the film (the only version he worked ran about 45 minutes longer than what was ultimately released). And in order to have that on Blue Velvet, he had to...
I have never seen an 80s De Laurentiis film that didn't have something off about it visually. Whether its bad lab work or those rotten cameras, films like Firestarter and Conan always come out quite mushy looking.
That's the Todd AO 35 look for ya. Crappy cameras. Crappy lenses. All because DDL didn't want to pay Panavision a rental fee (he'd later invest in an even cheaper/lousier process in J-D-C Scope for his DEG films)..