rutger_s
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The Frighteners
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Citizen Kane
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Citizen Kane
I don't find Moulin Rouge soft at all on my FP.
What it doesn't have is EE. What is does have is a beautiful sharp image with resolution that shows every detail, freckle and skin blemish.
Probably one of the two best looking DVD's in my extensive collection.
Ted, what type of FP system do you have? Right after the amazing "window like" picture from several other DVDs (not suffering from EE) I was really dismayed to see how soft and lacking in Detail Moulin Rouge looked. When I saw this in the theater my viewing angle was about identical to what I was getting on my friend's screen (I was near the back of the theater so I had a nice 30 degree viewing angle). I remember that Moulin Rouge looked amazingly detailed...I could easily discern details in the fabrics and textures that made me think "Wow...this will look GREAT in HD". Then with the DVD on the projector all those details had been obscured. The scene where from a distance you're looking at the elephant before the "your song" scene was a major dissapointment...all those fine micro-details were blurred on the DVD. Sure the DVD looks good...but compared to the detail that was visible in the film print at the theater it's clearly lacking.
Before someone jumps in and says "well DUH...the DVD will I *never* have all the detail of the original film print"...the reason why it bummed me out is that so many *other* DVDs *preserve* this sense of detail to a much larger degree (sure the DVD is never going to equal the resolution of film, but it can at least not leave you feeling cheated). The disc may look good on its own terms, but when compared against the level of detail that was present in the theatrical projection, it leads me to believe that while in most every other way the transfer of M.R. is reference (no sign of EE like you mention), it looks ever-so-slightly filtered for high-frequency detail.