Blu-ray Review Thoroughly Modern Millie Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Drew Salzan]

LINK: Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) audio comparison

I own all three. It really Is strange that the blu-ray, which is awesome, didn’t include the stereo tracks for for the Overture, Entr’acte and Exit Music. Oh, well.

 

[Chuck Pennington]

LINK: Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) Video Release Comparison

 

[Drew Salzan]

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LINK: Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) Video Release Comparison

It looks like the LaserDisc is open matte. There doesn’t seem to be a huge difference between the DVD and Blu-ray, but I viewed the video clip comparison on my phone.

 

[Chuck Pennington]

It looks like the LaserDisc is open matte. There doesn’t seem to be a huge difference between the DVD and Blu-ray, but I viewed the video clip comparison on my phone.

You need to watch it in 1080p on a TV, not your phone.

Notice how back in the day they squeezed and windowboxed the ending with a green border. Now the image isn’t distorted, but the color fading on the optical has gotten worse. The background is no longer an olive green. Surely some additional color correction on the new master was in order - not to match the LD, per se, but it does seem like it has more accurate color for this optical even if the resolution is terribly limited by home video technology of the time.

 

[MovieBill]

Just got the Blu Ray. Looks beautiful.

 

[Mark Mayes]

Is anyone going to check out the French release?
Probably not much difference in the sound (like there wasn't one in the case of Sweet Charity.)

 

[Indy Guy]

No difference that I could see. I like the original art on the box but setting up the disc for English is more hassle than the US version.
It may be slightly less robust than the US version visually, but that is just an eyeball observation. The mono overture is identical

 

[MBrousseau]

I own the Éléphant Films Blu-ray edition of Millie. Not only the audio version of the overture and intermission are still in mono, but they didn't include the Exit music. The movie looks just the same as the Kino Lorber release.