TV's Frink said:
walking_carpet said:
it is interesting to hear people say that TPM is the best or 'most star wars like' and cite the film grain as one of the reasons. I guess its kinda like how some people don't like Diamonds are Forever because it has such a plain look to it compared to the 60s Bond movies.
The difference is that AOTC and ROTS weren't shot on film but rather video, and THAT is why it's nice to see some grain. There is no grain in the other two, making them look more like video games.
Unless I'm mistaken, they were still using film in 1971.
right i understand. DaF was on film, but it looks much different than Dr. No or FRWL. i was just making a comparison that how a movie looks can affect how we feel about watching it and its happened with other movies before. It makes sense.
It really wasn't until i got my HDTV i started to understand this. You know how TVs have that weird setting that adds frames to make it smooth? no matter how good everything else is, this setting throws it off.
a really crazy example from my point of view is when CFL light bulbs first came out several years ago. didn't matter if they were efficient, I could not stand them because I felt like I was living in a hospital :( no comfort.
anyway, from what Im hearing, grain was removed from TPM blu ray and added to AOTC and ROTS. So if all 3 were on a level playing field, I would think TPM is hurt the most.