I felt like i was actually watching real movies not artificially/ digitally cleaned up versions.
The commentary rocks also.
Why criterion never released these on dvd , and cancelled and recalled the initial release On LD and substituted it with a Censored commentary one wonders, why?
And why In the hell did they not have a commentary by Sean Connery?
I also really wish criterion took as much care in the presentation of there dvd's as they did the former laser releases. Japan for instance has much cleaner dvd versions of Kurosawa's films. And plus they lost a lot of rights to movies they had only been licensed for LD, and not dvd as argued by the companies that licensed them out originally in court. We obviously know who won, and it was'nt criterion. Although generally they have been able to keep the rights on the commentary tracks for the same film companies have to pay them to use them on dvd releases.