Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1 Viewer)

[Vincent_P]

Actually there's no technical reason a Techniscope film couldn't look as sharp as a conventionally shot, standard flat film- all other things being equal- because they would have the same horizontal negative area. The difference is the "standard" flat film will have greater height, but the width of the two negatives is the same. Also, a Techniscope film could look sharper compared to anamorphic- at least horizontally- since anamorphic lenses tend to be softer than spherical.

Vincent

 

[john a hunter]

Originally Posted by Vincent_P

Actually there's no technical reason a Techniscope film couldn't look as sharp as a conventionally shot, standard flat film- all other things being equal- because they would have the same horizontal negative area. The difference is the "standard" flat film will have greater height, but the width of the two negatives is the same. Also, a Techniscope film could look sharper compared to anamorphic- at least horizontally- since anamorphic lenses tend to be softer than spherical.

Vincent

Techniscope was usually processed by Technicolor who put all the their considerable experience in getting the most off the ON. It always looked very good in the theatre. I remember especially being impressed by TGTBATU when first released.Soft it wasn't.

 

[OliverK]

If anybody wants to get an idea of how this Blu-Ray could have looked with the proper care and attention just google:
"rigby rearden the good the bad the ugly"
At the moment there are a lot of screencaps to be seen in the second link fromt he top that are from a european release with nicely reproduced grain structure and also with considerably improved detail. That release has some other issues but overall it is much nicer visually than the MGM version.

 

[EnricoE]

just a quick notion: the italian blu-ray blows the mgm release right out of the water. the master used for it is so much better. maybe mgm will go back and use that one, which i doubt.