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Sydney Pollack's 1972 Jeremiah Johnson is a 108 minute film, or thereabouts.
The new Blu-ray from Warner Home Video has an Overture and (I've read) Intermission runs 116. The DVD had the same, and I still don't get it. I'm trying to figure out what an audience that's gone to an under two hour film does with a 15 or whatever minute intermission. Not a clue.
Only thing I can reckon is that there might have been a much longer cut early on, and that an Overture and Intermission might have been planned, but as it is, it really doesn't make any sense.
I mention that I've heard that there's an intermission, as I've not seen it. I didn't get that far into the film. I wanted to. I really did. This is a wonderful film.
It's just that it never looked in focus. And it was so soft at times, that I found it distracting.
Sound seemed fine. Would've been nice to view it with 5.1 running.
Wondering if possibly the image was taken from an IP, that was just ever so slightly out.
Pity that the image just doesn't hold up in projection. And it should.
Image - 3
Audio - 5
RAH
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ir?t=afewwordsabout-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B006UANERU
The new Blu-ray from Warner Home Video has an Overture and (I've read) Intermission runs 116. The DVD had the same, and I still don't get it. I'm trying to figure out what an audience that's gone to an under two hour film does with a 15 or whatever minute intermission. Not a clue.
Only thing I can reckon is that there might have been a much longer cut early on, and that an Overture and Intermission might have been planned, but as it is, it really doesn't make any sense.
I mention that I've heard that there's an intermission, as I've not seen it. I didn't get that far into the film. I wanted to. I really did. This is a wonderful film.
It's just that it never looked in focus. And it was so soft at times, that I found it distracting.
Sound seemed fine. Would've been nice to view it with 5.1 running.
Wondering if possibly the image was taken from an IP, that was just ever so slightly out.
Pity that the image just doesn't hold up in projection. And it should.
Image - 3
Audio - 5
RAH
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ir?t=afewwordsabout-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B006UANERU