one flew over the cuckoo’s nest - another point less 5.1 mix w/ added foley.
Well, besides that any LFE is pure legacy to begin with and wouldn’t really be required in any PCM form, in case of such movies, that “.1” doesn’t make any sense at all of course. Given the dialog-heavy genre, here it boils down to being essentially a 3.0 mix disguised as marketing-friendly 5.1 as usual.
Anyways, since I recently acquired the LaserDisc mono track from a friendly member at fanres.com, I have to say that I actually prefer the remix to that one as the LD’s audio for some reason has a noticeable metallic/tinny/roary sound in the background in several scenes which I personally find awful. I have no idea what causes this as I’ve already noticed that in other, way more modern releases from time to time. Sounds a bit like the effect called “sleepy hollow”, like being played through an echoing metallic tube (also the newer mix of “Léon - the professional” has it as I reported here).
Apparent scenes are:
08:57 (McMurphy having a seat in the doctor’s office)
59:10 where they are on the boat
In both cases, the LD sounds very tinny with the sounds of the waves in the boat scene barely hearable whereas none of this happens with the 5.1 AC3 provided by the Blu-ray.
Since I cannot say for sure whether it is just the way it was originally recorded (and magically removed later on) or something which went wrong with the contact’s capturing, any other of your experiences to be shared would be appreciated.