Yeah, the first French Connection release was stupefyingly bad, and in some really bizarre ways, too. The noisy pastel look was just...strange. The Filmmakers Signature Series release isn't perfect, but it's a massive improvement.

I have a particular distaste for how the early James Bond films look on Blu-ray. There are many releases that are objectively worse, but Lowry just can't seem to help themselves.

Oh, and Robocop looks like shit. The earlier Blu-ray had a nasty teal shift to it. The most recent one fixes that...but still looks like shit. Why bother with a 4K master and corrected color timing only to muck it up with a bunch of nasty processing? Everything in motion strobes so much that it's still unwatchable. It's sad that the best quality release of Robocop is still the Criterion DVD from the late 90's.