Robert S
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I respect the right of anyone's opinion, but frankly, anyone who damns the disc on a bunch of screenshots without seeing it in motion themselves wants their bumps feeling; another review
I think the reviewer in question has seen the disc in motion.
BTW, watched it through tonight - if this is not THE perfect movie, a flawless piece of film-making, then it's damned close. And they'll have to prise the BD from my cold dead hands...
Personally, what I'm seeing bears no relation to those 'caps. YMMV. You hate it when you've seen it, fine. You love it when you've seen it, equally so.
I was going to post the other day when I got the disc, but I have to agree with Mr McKenzie to some degree (he's usually correct). Something looks off with the image to my eyes. It looks heavily processed and quite unnatural in places.
John: Oh God! The deeper we get, the more Byzantine it gets. I'm restoring a fake!
Laura: Incredible that you can't change your course?
John: They haven't got enough bread. The options are restore the fake or let it sink into the sea...
Laura: This one who's blind. She's the one that can see...
Just had a look at this on my projector. Yup, some DNR has been applied, but it's rather subtle and it doesn't distract from the cinematography and it certainly doesn't ruin the film for me.
Just had a look at this on my projector. Yup, some DNR has been applied, but it's rather subtle and it doesn't distract from the cinematography and it certainly doesn't ruin the film for me.
I watched the film last night. Our review will be up in about 24 hours.
To make a long story short, I am unsure how anyone could think that this is an acceptable presentation. Something went terribly wrong - even though clearly the transfer is struck from a newly restored master (color reproduction and contrast levels are vastly different in comparison to various SDVD releases that I have seen), there is a very thick layer of machine noise that affects the integrity of the presentation. At times detail is extremely poor. On a very small screen the machine noise could be - perhaps - mistaken for grain, but anyone with a projector is in fact better off with the SDVD (UK) release. This is a very strange situation because under the machine noise most everything appears to be fine.
thankfully i have a 'tiny' 50" kuro...so hopefuly it shouldn't be that bad.
this is terrible news on all accounts, i got so excited about the early ravings regarding the quality of presentation.
did anyone attend the screening a few weeks ago in london with nic roeg q+a....how was the 35mm presentation ??
Why do you already assert that this is terrible news ? Why not wait and judge for yourself ? It looks like you've already accepted something as fact that is merely an opinion of forums. That's exactly how these things snowball out of control with people bleating about how this is a terrible transfer without having seen it for themselves. Look at the LOTR controversy, which a week ago was a major drama sweeping though forums around the world and has which died down now since people have actually seen the Blu-ray and apparently it looks great.
The Don't Look Now Blu has a perfectly acceptable transfer. Maybe it could have been better, but the film has never looked so good on any home video format.
regarding the lotr debate - sounds like you like me are yet to see it, so how on earth would you know if the controversy was indeed warranted or not ??.....actually it looks like you've already accepted something as fact that is merely an opinion of forums. that's exactly how these things snowball out of control with people bleating about how this is a terrible transfer without having seen it for themselves.
I haven't accepted the LOTR PQ as a fact, please notice my use of the word "apparently". I have on the other hand noticed that the hysteria on forums has died down. Can you see the difference there ?
Watch the film people, be amazed by the story and the virtuoso direction, cinematography, editing and performances. let the story carry you away!