Originally posted by: GoodMusician

Minority Report I remember reading suffered a bit not really from grain, which as you said it had for effect, but for certain color losses compared to the original image.

MR was treated to a bleach-bypass silver retention process, which gives it that cold, desaturated look; its one of Kaminski's trademarks, along with the grain--he developed this look on Saving Private Ryan. The desaturation is intentional.

I can't say I noticed the blurriness on the AMC broadcast, but I think I know what you mean because I've seen it before on a number of films shown on television--what its caused by I'm not sure, though for some reason I associate it with that subtle speed-up that is also sometimes applied (as you claim JP has had). Thats usually just a television thing. Unless you are talking about softness, which is probably just due to a less-than-steller transfer.