althor1138 said:

Can anybody explain the crazy amount of grain present in the tantive hallway shootout scenes on the gout? It's not present on any other release afaik.

Those scenes are grainy on original prints as well but it doesn't look like it does on the GOUT. I guess the reason it stands out and looks so coarse on the GOUT is probably because of the contrasty and sharpened picture quality. And the reason you don't see it on the '93/'95 LD's is the overall soft image. Less detail and analog video noise obscures it. That's my take on it.

I agree it's a bit odd due to the severe detail loss of the crude DVNR, but it seems like the grain and noise survived somehow in some of those scenes.

What's funny is that those scenes were partly recomposited in 1997 and still noise reduced to hell in 2004. But we're talking about the same company who let the 1997SE Home Video release go through an equally as bad DVNR process as the THX release had gone through four years prior despite its "completely restored" moniker.