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Jonno
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Info: Mad Max Rarities/Road Warrior Japanese DVD
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11-Jul-2014, 12:26 PM

Sorry, forgot to feed back.

To be honest I wasn't wowed by either film's DCP presentation. Mad Max was probably as good as that film is going to look - it seemed sharper than the (now fairly old) BD, but still a little soft overall (perhaps an inevitable by-product of the low budget photography). The colours were appropriately muted, so no problems there.

Mad Max 2, on the other hand, had a great deal more detail - impressively so, in fact - but it still suffers from the uncorrected colour timing of the Blu-ray. If this is indeed a new transfer, and the studio has paid any attention at all to the feedback on the earlier HD releases, it's disappointing that this hasn't been addressed. As such, this was hardly a definitive or archival restoration - more a higher format release of the versions we're used to seeing.

Bring on the spoRv...