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Post #243622

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Obi Jeewhyen
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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13-Sep-2006, 11:36 AM
It almost sounds like a conspiracy theory to say they added film grain.

I don't know about the crawl specifically, but the entire film looked properly grainy .. that is - no more and no less grain than I am emminently familiar with from seeing this movie at the movies nearly a hundred times.

That said, it also looked like a fairly messed-up print ... with some scenes looking unacceptably damaged and others looking rather well. It was a very mixed bag ... but I'm marginallly satisfied with the image quality. Mostly because the color balance seems pretty accurate to film screenings of Star Wars.

I don't think the controvery over the fake or real opening crawl will ever be solved to my satisfaction. Certainly the words "Star Wars" remain visible long after the first two lines of text appear on the screen, and this seems to contradict the version seen in 'Empire of Dreams' (though I haven't yet done my own visual comparison).

I hardly matters to me ... because the audio track screams non-'77 in four places, and the experience of watching this disc does not seem like an original theatrical version ... because it's not. So whether the opening crawl is original or not is frankly moot.






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