The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Announced in Region B - now in Region A as well (1 Viewer)

[Brandon Conway]

Having seen it first hand, I pretty much agree with Gary Tooze's assessment at dvdbeaver:

(emphasis mine)

 

[Danny_N]

I don't know on what size of screen Gary Tooze watches his BDs but on my 2m wide screen TGTBTU looks like crap and I could hardly see any improvement over the DVD. I can deal with some DNR (I even defended Zulu) but I can't see anything positive in this release. There's absolutely no fine detail. It almost looks like an upconvert of the DVD with additional DNR applied and not true HD. It's BAD.

 

[OliverK]

I can very much understand where you come from - Having had the pleasure to watch the Italian Blu-Ray of the first dollar movie it is very saddening to see what they have made out of TGTBTU. I still think that the Blu-Ray is the version to get if one HAS to watch the movie at home but I would recommend to rent now and wait for a better version to purchase the movie later.

 

[Tino]

I'm a bit confused , have you watched the bd oliver?

 

[OliverK]

Yes I have, the German version.

 

[Brian Borst]

EDIT: Nevermind

Can someone change the topic title to:

"The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Announced For All Regions"?

 

[Osato]

DVD Beaver review of the French blu ray:

The Good the Bad and the Ugly Blu-ray - Clint Eastwood

I'm going to wait for a box set of the films in the US. I wonder why they are releasing them individually?

There's also a review of Fistful of Dollars blu ray, but I'm not sure what region this is.

A Fistful of Dollars Blu-ray Clint Eastwood

It would be great to have a box set of these films in the US...

 

[Carlo_M]

Maybe to avoid being criticized by those who will feel robbed of having the choice to buy them separately? Witness some reactions here to The Matrix Trilogy and The Godfather Trilogy.

 

[ChristianLiemke]

Here's my screenshot comparison of the German Blu-ray and the German "2-DVD Gold Edition" from two weeks ago.

 

[Brian Borst]

Christian, does the Blu-Ray look DNR'ed to you? The screenshots of both you and DVDBeaver imply this. Any comments about that?

 

[Powell&Pressburger]

Also was the First Screen shot on the link the DVD then the second one the Blu? I take it?

 

[Paul Arnette]

Yeah, I couldn't easily tell either, which I suppose is a bad thing, and gave up trying.

 

[OliverK]

You are cracking me up there - and I mean that in a good way

Your post pretty much sums up the stance of a lot of people that have tried with so many words to voice their disappointment with this Blu-Ray and you brilliantly put it in just one short sentence

 

[Brandon Conway]

I can easily see the improved picture quality on the dvdbeaver images. The Good the Bad and the Ugly Blu-ray Clint Eastwood

 

[Powell&Pressburger]

the second image seems more clear and shows slightly more detail, but it isn't Nite and day... so if the first Image is DVD and the Second the BluRay then the BD looks better but that goes without saying.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

As a Techniscope film, there may not be much additional detail to get out of the elements, but if whatever fine detail there is is going to be mostly obscured by filtering/DNR, I'll be passing.

 

[Alex cosmo]

Pass. And would it have killed them to include the theatrical US version? I know the extended scenes were cut without Leone, but it's still valuable. (and it seems like having a soundalike for a dead actor isn't automatically preferable to having the scene cut)

 

[Lyle_JP]

The sound-alike was never the problem. In fact, his scenes are the least jarring and out of place. It's the voices of the 70-something Eastwood and Wallach emanating from their 30-something bodies that suddenly rip me out of the moment every time I try to watch this extended cut. Had the producers tried to digitally "youthen" their voices (as was done with great success on "Lawrence of Arabia") than maybe it could have worked. But really, they should have gone with all sound-alikes or just left the scenes alone.

 

[Alex cosmo]

That too.

 

[Brandon Conway]

A lot of money was spent to restore the original cut. You better believe that'll be the one they sell for a long time to come.