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During the isolated scores, there's a track marker. Does that match back to the expanded CD releases of the scores or something?
Originally Posted by Kevin EK
I'm still hanging onto the 1999 DVD - just for the production audio track now.
Originally Posted by oscar_merkx
Yes I am keeping the 1999 dvd for the very same reasons.
Originally Posted by dvdvision
I don't think Landau is far off -- there is definetely a balance to strike between art and commerce to make successful movies, if Landau think Vincent Ward didn't have the handle, it's probably true.
Think about it, all mass success films that last in time are striking that balance... the fun is, with time, we forget whatever genre they borrowed from (say, Terminator is really Halloween with a robot in place of the supernatural killer), and see more and more the arty things in them, the subtext etc
But you can't, and that what I think Landau means, make a successful movie if art take over the commercial elements.
My definition is simple : art in movies does not exist, as soon as a movie is produced to sell tickets, it cannot be 100% art anymore.
Successful directors strike a balance.
"As for the "Alien Anthology" bluray box set, the adds says: "In bluray, everyone can hear you scream."
Damn straight they can! A cry of rage! Contrary to what Fox have said here and there, the filmmakers haven't been involved in the restoration process, at least I haven't. From what've I heard, Fox have been working on this thing for two years . It seems that Americans have never heard of something called denoising. Let's just say that the bluray looks like an average DVD."
Originally Posted by robbbb1138
My reaction to Jeunet's comments depends on what he means by "de-noising"...
Originally Posted by dvdvision
I don't think so -- the bottom of this is probably that he is pissed he wasn't given the royal treatment like Scott and Cameron did (Fincher doesn't count because he doesn't care about the movie and do not want to get involved). But one has to realise that to remaster Alien Res., would have mean to go back to the negative, and digitally restore the ENR (bleach bypass) look to achieve the same look as the current master, only with improved resolution (the current master is probably transfered from an IP, or other source with the ENR work already done on it), at a cost.
As one can see how massive the Box set is, and the budget for it not being unlimited, something probably had to give. Would 100% of the people who bought this set be happier to see AR remastered from scratch in it ? I think that would be at the bottom of anyone buying this set list (I myself just watched like 5mn of the film to sample the PQ, and will never play it in full again. For the record, I think A very Long Engagement is a masterpiece, and would rather throw that in the player instead).
People complaining (other than Jeunet) are just thinking in absolutes. My guess is that if money was spent to remaster AR, it wouldn't change a thing (apart probably for the director), and it would still be sitting on the shelf, never watched ever again, by 97% of the people who bought this set.
In fact I suggested a while back, the idea that this film be included with the AVP films in box sets, rather than this one. That would actually enhance the value of any AVP set, and the movie feel more at home with the cross-over franchise, than with the original trilogy.
People complaining (other than Jeunet) are just thinking in absolutes. My guess is that if money was spent to remaster AR, it wouldn't change a thing (apart probably for the director), and it would still be sitting on the shelf, never watched ever again, by 97% of the people who bought this set.
Originally Posted by J-Syxx
People complaining (other than Jeunet) are just thinking in absolutes. My guess is that if money was spent to remaster AR, it wouldn't change a thing (apart probably for the director), and it would still be sitting on the shelf, never watched ever again, by 97% of the people who bought this set.
This is a pretty self-centered view. Obviously, most people view it as the least of the films, but it does get decent rewatch value by most fans. I think Fox was too cheap on this set. The quality should've been consistent, or at least each film should've received a new scan. I'm glad about the amount of work that went into the set, including the fixing of the audio on Alien 3, but the bean counters at Fox I think deserve to be criticized for refusing to give it a bit more budget to make sure the set was perfect and not flawed like it is with Alien 3 and AR's picture quality. All the films should have been preserved in archival quality. I'm not really convinced they wouldn't have made their money back.