Christopher a
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I normally don't post early reviews like this, but since there seems to be a total lack of reviews elsewhere on the net...and the quality of the disc is quite surprising, here goes.
First, the good. True-HD sound is phonomenal. Best I've heard, period.
Now, the not so good. Video quality terribly inconsistent. The most dissapointing part of the video seems to be the compression, which is noticebly poor. The scene where Sup's is hanging outside Lois' house and looking in on her and Richards conversation...look at the brown wall behind Richard. Movement all over the place. This is only one example..there are others. The really strange part is scences that I thought would look bad (like the the fake Krypton scene at the end) looked pretty great. The scence where Sup's gets beat up by Luthors henchman I thought looked really good. Good color and great contrast. Detail captures everything here too. But other scenes in the Daily Planet bathed in daylight don't look that great. ..very noisy.
If I could think of one way to describe it...if anyone has seen a movie that was shot digitally, but downconverted and projected on film, its close to that. When I saw "Once upon a Time in Mexico" on film I remember seeing the same type of grain and "unnatural" color. I can't totally blame it on the way the film was shot as I do think the poor compression job is most of the culprit. I'm just not happy with the fact that Warner decides to make this a single disc with extras, lossless soundtracks, and what the hell, lets throw in the 480p version on the other side of the disc for the hell of it(never was a fan of combos).
Don't get me wrong, some scenes do display great color and detail, but for a film this length and that has such a wide color palette, its pretty dissapointing.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. (I am looking forward to the extras and will probably watch the documentary this weekend).
Chris
First, the good. True-HD sound is phonomenal. Best I've heard, period.
Now, the not so good. Video quality terribly inconsistent. The most dissapointing part of the video seems to be the compression, which is noticebly poor. The scene where Sup's is hanging outside Lois' house and looking in on her and Richards conversation...look at the brown wall behind Richard. Movement all over the place. This is only one example..there are others. The really strange part is scences that I thought would look bad (like the the fake Krypton scene at the end) looked pretty great. The scence where Sup's gets beat up by Luthors henchman I thought looked really good. Good color and great contrast. Detail captures everything here too. But other scenes in the Daily Planet bathed in daylight don't look that great. ..very noisy.
If I could think of one way to describe it...if anyone has seen a movie that was shot digitally, but downconverted and projected on film, its close to that. When I saw "Once upon a Time in Mexico" on film I remember seeing the same type of grain and "unnatural" color. I can't totally blame it on the way the film was shot as I do think the poor compression job is most of the culprit. I'm just not happy with the fact that Warner decides to make this a single disc with extras, lossless soundtracks, and what the hell, lets throw in the 480p version on the other side of the disc for the hell of it(never was a fan of combos).
Don't get me wrong, some scenes do display great color and detail, but for a film this length and that has such a wide color palette, its pretty dissapointing.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. (I am looking forward to the extras and will probably watch the documentary this weekend).
Chris
Sorry, not comparing apples to apples here.... Anyhow Blu Ray version Thumbs up!!!
