Originally posted by: JediFlyer06
As time goes by, I care less and less about the 5.1 surround mix. More often than not, the surround mixes are used improperly and in more gimmicky ways than they probably should be. And with the OT discs, aural inconsistencies abound. The surround mixes on the SW DVDs aren't that great. In a few instances they are effective, but are mostly used to just hit you over the head. Surround sound should be used to create an atmosphere, to make the walls of the theater room disappear. To my ear, very few films use surround sound to proper artistic or dramatic effect. It's all just, "whoosh", "boom", "bigger boom", "vroom-vroom". It gets boring real fast, and this is coming from someone with a pretty fine HT set-up.
I care very little about the inclusion of surround mixes. Sonically, they don't mesh with the film and stand out in most cases as balatantly as the CG additions. Unless they make them acoustically match the quality of the original tracks, it takes me out of the experience. Spare us the amateurish surround mixes and focus entirely on getting the picture quality right...consistent color that isn't oversaturated would be nice, and fix the damn lightsabers! Give them back their cores for christ sake! Give a great picture with a 2.0 mix and I'll have all I need from the OT.
Originally posted by: Krycek87
I could care less about a 5.1 track, 2.0 sounds good enough for me! There is no need for that, as for just an anamorphic treatment, good! I could care less for a remaster, as long as it anamorphic, I can live in nostalgia. This is to be the way we remember them! The only thing that bugged me was the anamorphic thing. If this is all true, for me atleast, my bitching is over! I am getting what I want!
As time goes by, I care less and less about the 5.1 surround mix. More often than not, the surround mixes are used improperly and in more gimmicky ways than they probably should be. And with the OT discs, aural inconsistencies abound. The surround mixes on the SW DVDs aren't that great. In a few instances they are effective, but are mostly used to just hit you over the head. Surround sound should be used to create an atmosphere, to make the walls of the theater room disappear. To my ear, very few films use surround sound to proper artistic or dramatic effect. It's all just, "whoosh", "boom", "bigger boom", "vroom-vroom". It gets boring real fast, and this is coming from someone with a pretty fine HT set-up.
I care very little about the inclusion of surround mixes. Sonically, they don't mesh with the film and stand out in most cases as balatantly as the CG additions. Unless they make them acoustically match the quality of the original tracks, it takes me out of the experience. Spare us the amateurish surround mixes and focus entirely on getting the picture quality right...consistent color that isn't oversaturated would be nice, and fix the damn lightsabers! Give them back their cores for christ sake! Give a great picture with a 2.0 mix and I'll have all I need from the OT.
Originally posted by: Krycek87
I could care less about a 5.1 track, 2.0 sounds good enough for me! There is no need for that, as for just an anamorphic treatment, good! I could care less for a remaster, as long as it anamorphic, I can live in nostalgia. This is to be the way we remember them! The only thing that bugged me was the anamorphic thing. If this is all true, for me atleast, my bitching is over! I am getting what I want!
I agree with both of you- I'm happy with a good, clean 2.0 mix. As a purist, I'm not crazy about movie soundtracks being "remixed". "Remastered" is fine, but to me, remixing is like taking a car apart, and putting it back together- there's always a bolt or 2 left over that you don't know where to put back. LOL
Same goes for music- I'm very happy with my original soundtrack for Yellow Submarine, thank you. I don't need the newer remixed "songbook" version.
Frankly, I'm not crazy about surround sound that much anyway. I don't like sound coming from in back of my head- I find it distracting. I think the sound should draw you towards the screen, not away from it. But then, I'm a bit of a fuddy-duddy, so don't mind me.
This whole anamorphic development is very interesting indeed. I can't imagine that they'll release anamorphic in France, but not in the US???
BTW, I don't see anything on the French Fox website that mentions the DVDs:
Fox France Link