In Reply to: The Coppola restoration is fantastic...you haven't seen or heard this film until you have this version posted by Jazz Inmate on September 24, 2008 at 22:58:49:
...and am disappointed. It has been brightened so much so that it seems like a different film. I liked the darker original. It reminds me of the complaints about the chemical clean up done to the Sistine chapel many years ago: that the chemicals stripped away some of Michaelangelo's artistic intent, along with the muck and mire of 400 years of candles and tourists. I know that Coppola and the cinematographer oversaw the color correction for the BD, but this is just another video abuse of a film original. I think they made a serious creative change, and it doesn't work for me. I have a Panasonic BD30 player and a Panasonic 42 inch plasma monitor. I tried to tweak the setting, turned down the brightness, and it didn't help much. Oh, well.
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Follow Ups
- I've rented part one... - eppis1 00:42:23 09/26/08 (6)
- Sorry you're disappointed, but this is an incredible achievement with gobs of detail not previously visible - Jazz Inmate 09:38:18 09/26/08 (5)
- Copolla's changes are evident... (sorry, longish) - eppis1 11:27:23 09/26/08 (2)
- I meant "Coppola" nt - eppis1 22:52:38 09/26/08 (0)
- I hear you - Jazz Inmate 22:50:14 09/26/08 (0)
- I didn't know Robert Harris was involved-I'm in for sure - padreken 10:54:21 09/26/08 (1)
- Harris knows what he's doing NT - Jazz Inmate 22:30:53 09/26/08 (0)