Michael Osadciw
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I posted this in the preorder thread, but I think it's important to have its own thread.
I'm eagerly awaiting for this title to arrive. I'm grateful that Arrow Video has created a fresh 4K scan on this film. Preliminary reviews of the video quality is overwhelmingly positive.
My biggest concern is the film score, which is the best best part of this film. I am hoping this Arrow release has the complete score intact.
Universal botched the Blu-ray in 2011; there were many parts missing from the sountrack of the film (see additional thread below), most noteably the choir tracks were absent from the battle sequences which completely ruined the intensity of those sequences. Universal never reissued the title because of the errors nor do I remember it being acknowledged (did anyone notice?) It was a complete disservice to Basil Poledouris's incredible score.
Of this 4K release, I read over at The Digital Bits that:
"the Atmos mix was produced in part by adapting the legacy 5.1 Blu-ray mix provided by NBC/Universal."
Of all the reviews I've read thus far, no one has mentioned whether the choir/missing sound elements have been restored in the multichannel mix. It's likely these reviewers don't know the film well enough nor do they know the film score intimately. Intrada did an excellent release of the score about a decade ago remixing the original multitracks (see notes in the link below). It would have been incredible if this 4K film release used these multitracks to create a fresh, new music stem.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (3CD)
Let's hope Arrow got the full score/choir tracks in there on the first go.
I'm eagerly awaiting for this title to arrive. I'm grateful that Arrow Video has created a fresh 4K scan on this film. Preliminary reviews of the video quality is overwhelmingly positive.
My biggest concern is the film score, which is the best best part of this film. I am hoping this Arrow release has the complete score intact.
Universal botched the Blu-ray in 2011; there were many parts missing from the sountrack of the film (see additional thread below), most noteably the choir tracks were absent from the battle sequences which completely ruined the intensity of those sequences. Universal never reissued the title because of the errors nor do I remember it being acknowledged (did anyone notice?) It was a complete disservice to Basil Poledouris's incredible score.
Of this 4K release, I read over at The Digital Bits that:
"the Atmos mix was produced in part by adapting the legacy 5.1 Blu-ray mix provided by NBC/Universal."
Of all the reviews I've read thus far, no one has mentioned whether the choir/missing sound elements have been restored in the multichannel mix. It's likely these reviewers don't know the film well enough nor do they know the film score intimately. Intrada did an excellent release of the score about a decade ago remixing the original multitracks (see notes in the link below). It would have been incredible if this 4K film release used these multitracks to create a fresh, new music stem.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (3CD)
Let's hope Arrow got the full score/choir tracks in there on the first go.
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