Fang Zei said:
jimbotron235 said:
Top of my list is Star Trek VI:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tuchd/tuchd0188.jpg
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tuchd/tuchd0999.jpg
Ditto.
For some reason, this is always the first thing that springs to mind whenever I think of the worst blu-ray transfers. Maybe it's because I'm just barely old enough to remember when my Mom took me to see it in the theater. She actually surprised me with a theater-used ST6 poster this past Christmas.
It's the blu-ray equivalent of the GOUT for me.
The source master is apparently a 1080i they IVTC'd to 24p, as evidenced by the stair-stepping. My guess is that while they probably had a decent-looking 1080p of the director's version (the fresh transfer done in 2004 for the collector's dvd to replace the old non-anamorphic transfer), this 1080i from whenever/wherever was the best looking transfer of the theatrical cut they had lying around. So rather than spend the money on a fresh transfer they simply gave us this.
Voyage Home arguably looks the worst, like someone applied the watercolor filter and turned it up to eleven.
I keep hoping that for the 50th anniversary, Paramount will finally do some proper transfers for the Star Trek films. But my hopes are not high.
Fang Zei said:
GoldenEye is another truly atrocious set of screenshots. It's baffling how it looks that bad when we've seen it look much better in hd broadcasts and RMW's show reel. The home video department at MGM/Fox/Sony must've somehow thought nuking it with the watercolor filter was a good idea.
BTTF, Jurassic Park and theatrical LOTR fall into the category of middling but acceptable for me. Could've looked better, could've looked way worse.
I wish there was a way to stop this DNR fetish. Goldeneye and Predator were the worst. I just got the first Predator Blu-ray, kept my old two-disc set and called it a day.
Is the new BTTF set going to have new transfers? I thought that as opposed to the DVD versions, the LOTR BDs came right off of the DIs? Haven't looked at my JP BD yet. The Vudu version I've seen a bit of actually looks OK. I'm waiting on the the Mega Middlle Earth collection with all six movies before I get LOTR, hopefully with the BOTFA EE due out next moth, the boxed set can't be far behind.