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Post #244471

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Mielr
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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Date created
14-Sep-2006, 10:37 PM
Originally posted by: boris
Originally posted by: umdesch4
Well, I've watched the so-called OUT from the new DVD on my reasonable DLP projection setup. The bottom line was that I had fun watching it, but there's one thing that bothered me.

If you're going to call it 'Original', doesn't it need to have those blue matte boxes around the ships, and all the other artifacts that I remember so well from seeing in the theatre when I was a kid? Hell, it was those blue boxes that first got me interested in how movie special effects are made. It was charming in the way that seeing the monster's zipper in an old horror film is charming.


WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!!!!!

They're still there, but not as obvious as they may have been on some cinema screens in '77.

Actually, I don't think the garbage mattes were very obvious at all in the original theatrical prints. I think they're much more noticeable in all of the home video incarnations (except for these DVDs, for some inexplicable reason....)