Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
yes but if there are no edits to the picture surely you could replace the soundtrack/dialogue track with one without cuts or censors.
as for the commercial cuts I for one could live with them, as the film is not retouched digitally.
I have read reviews and I would have to concur that the picture on the dvd's suffer from compression and they picture is darker than it should be and the constrast was was too high.
No one should ever trust Lowry to retouch the color of there films, they did a complete hack job on star wars.
and now the color job as nice as it looks on the new bond dvd's is not what the orginal cinematographer intended the shots look overly blue hued and way too much brightness/contrast ajustment just like on the afforementioned films. I also find their "Digital film grain" to be extremely annoying and laughable.
If you watch any of the old criterion bond laserdisc releases you will see what the cinematographer and terrence young wanted the movie to look like, although by the time it was presented on disc the print was dirty amd dammaged a bit.
yes but if there are no edits to the picture surely you could replace the soundtrack/dialogue track with one without cuts or censors.
as for the commercial cuts I for one could live with them, as the film is not retouched digitally.
I have read reviews and I would have to concur that the picture on the dvd's suffer from compression and they picture is darker than it should be and the constrast was was too high.
No one should ever trust Lowry to retouch the color of there films, they did a complete hack job on star wars.
and now the color job as nice as it looks on the new bond dvd's is not what the orginal cinematographer intended the shots look overly blue hued and way too much brightness/contrast ajustment just like on the afforementioned films. I also find their "Digital film grain" to be extremely annoying and laughable.
If you watch any of the old criterion bond laserdisc releases you will see what the cinematographer and terrence young wanted the movie to look like, although by the time it was presented on disc the print was dirty amd dammaged a bit.
The old Criterion laserdiscs were often director-approved, but it just means it was as good as they could make it with the available materials. Only recently has MGM gone back to the camera negatives and made new transfers in HD. Criterion constantly had to put up with mediocre prints and ended up having to clean up a lot of stuff. Only for the last few years has Criterion had the pull to force prime materials from companies to use for DVD. An old composite transfer from 1991 has no relevance to today's technology. Today, they're able to do director-approved or cinematographer-supervised transfers from original negatives and fresh prints made off the negatives.
The DVDs for the Indiana Jones films are pretty much perfect. They didn't erase all the grain (per Speilberg's instructions since he approved the transfers) and only took out debris and other artifacts. The compression is excellent from what I can tell. I'm not sure why anyone has to be so anal about the digital fixes. It's a waste of time and effort to go through three films, edit out commercials, re-do audio, and recompress from HD because of some mistakes being corrected. Warner Bros. had wires painted out in their North by Northwest and The Wizard of Oz restorations. The Fugitive had a few frames corrected due to an effects gaffe. It's not like they redubbed a character or replaced a background with CGI.
LDI (now DTS Digital Images) only does what their patron wants them to do, anyways. In the case of Star Wars, the only work they did was grain reduction, dirt/scratch removal, and any other repairs needed. ILM did all the color correction and CGI revisions/additions. The LDI guys complained about the short time span they had to work on the films, so ILM probably had to rush through the films as well. Pretty much all of their other restorations are excellent. The James Bond films are a little spotty (again, any faults were decisions made by MGM).