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#227755
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Info: DC & Faces - Original audio sources (lots of information)
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Well, the September discs will have Dolby Stereo audio. I'd like it to be matrixed from the 4-track master (despite the lack of total theatrical authenticity) but I don't think that's possible:
Originally posted by: belbucus, quoting Dave Schnuelle
The mixes that are on these discs are all redone directly from the furthest back material that we had...
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#227357
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$36 pre-order (AR) for all 3 titles...anyone found it cheaper??
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The fades won't be on the DVDs.
Originally posted by: bgx90
Not buying the September release won't send the message that demand for the OOT doesn't exist; it will send the message that fans want a release of the OOT that is a transfered from the restored film sources and treated with the respect it deserves.
Hmm...or perhaps it'll send a message that the Sultan wishes for a bottle of Tokay.
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#226897
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A Scanner Darkly - First 24 minutes
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Originally posted by: none
THX: Cinematically i'm not sure what issue you forcusing on which was lacking from this presentation. It's not a blade runner-esc future we're talking about. These are basic schlubs on the burbs doing they're thing.
If you read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," I think you'll see what I mean. That's not a Bladerunneresque future either, but the film brought out Dick's ideas better than a faithful adaptation would have. Dick's novels usually have many levels, he starts with a small story and then just when you're getting comfortable with it, he steps out into a bigger one. This movie just got stuck at the first level.
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#226888
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OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
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Originally posted by: Mike O
...doesn't anamorphic offer a 33% resolution increase regardless? Even on my computer screen the anamorphic picture looks crisper.
That's because your computer has enough resolution to display all that an anamorphic DVD has to offer, unlike the majority of 4:3 CRT sets. The 33% resolution increase is lost when anamorphic discs are displayed on a regular 4:3 TV, sometimes by simply discarding every 4th line (which obviously leads to a less accurate picture). There simply aren't enough lines in the letterboxed area to display the increased resolution on the disc. The exception to this is in sets with a "widescreen" mode like the one Mielr described above, which squeezes the lines closer together in the center of the screen, so you can see all the resolution. However, most sets don't have this feature. The compression artifacts thing was kind of facetious, although anamorphic discs do require more compression. For these reasons, though, most viewers (i.e. those with 4:3 sets without "widescreen" modes) will actually get a better image from a letterboxed disc (especially in the case of a letterboxed master). None of this is intended as an excuse for the September discs, which should be a new anamorphic transfer.
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#226594
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A Scanner Darkly - First 24 minutes
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"A Scanner Darkly" is one of Philip K Dick's best novels, and also probably had the best cinematic potential of all his previously unfilmed novels. All the more reason why this TV-movie version is very disappointing. It needed to be opened up in the way that Bladerunner was. Instead it was closed down to make a story that is much smaller than the novel. Most movies these days tend towards being overlong (Superman Returns, Pirates 2) - this was definitely too short. The animation was an interesting idea, mainly because it allowed the option of creating cityscapes and special effects that would have been expensive in photorealism. However, other than the scramble suit, this option was not exploited. It could have worked as an "Akira" style anime, but as it was the film would have been a lot more watchable in regular live action. Richard Linklater is great at some types of material: "Tape" is a good example, but not this. Ridley Scott, Alan Parker, Adrian Lyne, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, Tarantino or David Lynch could have made something great from this novel. Philip K Dick, a notorious drug user, was able to write about a world fuelled by drugs from a position of personal insight, but his tremendous imagination made his writing transcend the milieu. Linklater's film comes across as a film made by and for stoners.