Pecker
Distinguished Member
Having never seen 'Traffic' before I was extremely disappointed with just about every aspect of this disc.
I thought the film was poor - I don't know how it won Best Film Oscar. It didn't so much tell a story (or stories), more than meandered through several character's dubiously interlocking lives.
Fair enough if you come up with a nice slice-of-life drama, but it fails worse there than it does as a story.
Or fair enough if it has some sort of message, but it doesn't. It doesn't even succeed in saying "We can't give a clear message".
Steven Soderbergh's vision is expressed in using radically different shooting styles for each story. This is quite commendable, if a little ham-fisted. But in High Definition you're left with quite jarring changes in PQ where you're left watching the mountains (dunes?) of grain in some scenes when it arrives.
Perhaps this is merely a problem of high def viewing being so relatively new, and the viewer (me?) studying at the PQ a little too much.
SQ is good, but undramatic.
All-in-all, not a waste of 148 minutes of my life, but a disappointment.
Two high def films watched this weeken, two disappointments.
BAH HUMBUG!
Steve W
I thought the film was poor - I don't know how it won Best Film Oscar. It didn't so much tell a story (or stories), more than meandered through several character's dubiously interlocking lives.
Fair enough if you come up with a nice slice-of-life drama, but it fails worse there than it does as a story.
Or fair enough if it has some sort of message, but it doesn't. It doesn't even succeed in saying "We can't give a clear message".
Steven Soderbergh's vision is expressed in using radically different shooting styles for each story. This is quite commendable, if a little ham-fisted. But in High Definition you're left with quite jarring changes in PQ where you're left watching the mountains (dunes?) of grain in some scenes when it arrives.
Perhaps this is merely a problem of high def viewing being so relatively new, and the viewer (me?) studying at the PQ a little too much.
SQ is good, but undramatic.
All-in-all, not a waste of 148 minutes of my life, but a disappointment.
Two high def films watched this weeken, two disappointments.
BAH HUMBUG!
Steve W