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- Robert Harris
While I find it disturbing to read about people spending their hard-earned dollars on replacement packaging for the garbage that Universal is using for Back to the Future, it is what's inside that matters -- once you get past the packaging.
I've sampled all three discs, and have come away generally pleased. In no way is this reference quality. Images appear to be softened and then sharpened, and any desire to have the look of film is nowhere to be found.
However...
Step back and consider this set for entertainment value, which is absolutely there -- the films feel as if you're visiting with old friends -- and you realize that from a proper seating distance, ie. not a foot away from the screen seeking problems, that the release is far better than alright. From a normal distance it looks very, very good.
Colors are beautiful. Blacks, shadow detail, and the entire look of the films is wonderful.
What it comes down to with BttF, is whether one is viewing the software as a scientific experiment, or as good, old-fashioned pulp entertainment, albeit very, very expensive pulp entertainment. These are not message films.
These are wonderfully entertaining films, which work their magic as well today as they did in when released.
Viewed as very high level entertainment, and not art, these films come off well in their new Blu-ray form. There is certainly a digital look, with occasionally lines seen around objects, but the end result, for what it is, is far more than acceptable, and from the proper distance, beautiful.
Audio is thrilling, and fully rendered in uncompressed form.
Are these films perfect? No.
Are they far more than acceptable, with no major flaws?
Absolutely.
Still deplore the packaging, as I do that used by Warner for their special edition Harry Potters and Clint Eastwoods, only this is annoying to use.
That said, I can still...
Recommend the set, albeit extremely expensive for what it is. If I had to choose between BttF and Fox's Alien Anthology at twice the price, my money would go to Fox, with the incredible work performed by Charles De Lauzirika. The Alien Anthology is a class act.
RAH
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Before viewing, I already hate this set, based only upon the horrific packaging. People are going to be breaking discs, discs are going to attract dirt and dust, and it just feels... cheap in every way imaginable.
You pick up the package, and the cardboard and plastic thing holding the discs falls out.
And the price on this is $80?
Who thinks these things up? The only rational reason behind it would be if the brother-in-law of an NBC exec owned the packaging company.
This is the absolute worst that I've seen since Baraka's original paper pack.
RAH
I've sampled all three discs, and have come away generally pleased. In no way is this reference quality. Images appear to be softened and then sharpened, and any desire to have the look of film is nowhere to be found.
However...
Step back and consider this set for entertainment value, which is absolutely there -- the films feel as if you're visiting with old friends -- and you realize that from a proper seating distance, ie. not a foot away from the screen seeking problems, that the release is far better than alright. From a normal distance it looks very, very good.
Colors are beautiful. Blacks, shadow detail, and the entire look of the films is wonderful.
What it comes down to with BttF, is whether one is viewing the software as a scientific experiment, or as good, old-fashioned pulp entertainment, albeit very, very expensive pulp entertainment. These are not message films.
These are wonderfully entertaining films, which work their magic as well today as they did in when released.
Viewed as very high level entertainment, and not art, these films come off well in their new Blu-ray form. There is certainly a digital look, with occasionally lines seen around objects, but the end result, for what it is, is far more than acceptable, and from the proper distance, beautiful.
Audio is thrilling, and fully rendered in uncompressed form.
Are these films perfect? No.
Are they far more than acceptable, with no major flaws?
Absolutely.
Still deplore the packaging, as I do that used by Warner for their special edition Harry Potters and Clint Eastwoods, only this is annoying to use.
That said, I can still...
Recommend the set, albeit extremely expensive for what it is. If I had to choose between BttF and Fox's Alien Anthology at twice the price, my money would go to Fox, with the incredible work performed by Charles De Lauzirika. The Alien Anthology is a class act.
RAH
*******************
Before viewing, I already hate this set, based only upon the horrific packaging. People are going to be breaking discs, discs are going to attract dirt and dust, and it just feels... cheap in every way imaginable.
You pick up the package, and the cardboard and plastic thing holding the discs falls out.
And the price on this is $80?
Who thinks these things up? The only rational reason behind it would be if the brother-in-law of an NBC exec owned the packaging company.
This is the absolute worst that I've seen since Baraka's original paper pack.
RAH