Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on February 17, 2006 at 06:01:50

In Reply to: Did you see it on DVD or film? posted by R Browne on February 16, 2006 at 22:24:05:

I guess I am not one of the new age videophiles - I accept poor quality quite easily... heck, I still listen to 78's sometimes. I don't get stuck on video quality as long as you can still recognize the faces... just partially true, but having grown up watching horrible VHS's, this was not even close. I still recall things like Teorema and Persona, which you simply could not watch in those days.

Now that you mentioned it, it is true, the quality was not great, but one has to deal with it when watching older films, so I immediately forgot about it. On a scale of 10 it was probably 5 or 6... not Star Wars, but not the most horrible either.

Ditto for dubbing. It irritated me for a few minutes, but actually, the two voices selected for the lead actors were not bad at all, and as far as dubbings go that one also wasn't intrusive after you started going with the flow. The voices were indeed quite close to the familiar ones of Sophia and Marchello, and you know, with bad dubbing it is usually the intonation that bothers you most of all, and here it sounded quite natural most of the time.

So yes, those are valid points, but it would be a shame if they kept you from taking a look at that film.