adywan said:
why the hell do the blu-rays look so bad? If they looked that good then it would have saved me years of work regrading them.Yeah, same experience here man. They looked better on screen for some reason. Perhaps the version shipped out to cinemas is graded differently? the shot entering mos eisley is by far the worst one. the foreground characters look nice and sharp and so do the mice, but the background is like 360p.
My wife and I saw Empire in theaters over the summer and I had the exact same reaction. Beautiful color grade, removal of the '97 Luke yell as he falls, and overall way way better than anything I expected out of an “official” showing. I immediately thought of this crew haha. I agree that it would be fascinating if there were an additional version of the OT floating around meant only for theaters.