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I guess the issue has been how to make them look like they're all part of the new series of releases. Just putting the poster art on the front won't do that as the posters are so varied. And putting them in some sort of holding device like a box or something is naff and does no favours to the original artwork. The 90s Special Edition covers were aiming to create a unified series of covers too, as much as I'm not keen on them with their weird little hands grafted on to everything. There were those ones in the early 90s or 80s where the posters appeared inside a sort of blue gunbarrel, I'm not too keen on those either.
I think these are possibly the most stylish and artistic set of covers we've had, but I sympathise with folks who would like a bit more action on there. I guess ultimately, these films are so old that you're not really trying to appeal to new buyers on the shelf, folks will either know the films or they won't so having the title big works for that.
I mean I watch the complete Blu Ray set, and that comes in completely white, blank covers! These new ones are much cooler.
If I were making these covers, I'd probably choose a very recognisable image or some form of recognisable imagery from each film, with the title featured prominently. Not necessarily big, but still prominently. It might not have been something that different to what we have seen done before, but it could have worked I guess.
It's a fine release. My only real issue was the goof in the Atmos track.
The disc looks great in my opinion.
Even on reviews he’s generally positive about, he does have a tendency to strongly emphasize the negatives more than the positives.
“This is a very good release and probably the best it’ll ever look BUT MY GOD THEY DESECRATED THE PICTURE, AND IF YOU SIT A FEW INCHES FROM YOUR TV YOU CAN SEE SOME ARTIFACTS! RECALL! RECALL!”
The goof on the Atmos track definitely took me out though. A pity because I would have loved a perfect Atmos that was more true to the sound aesthetic of the mono, but at least the actual mono mix is available. Otherwise I thought the disc looked great. You have to be REALLY nitpicky to call the picture quality unworthy.
Funny enough, I wouldn't have ever known about the Atmos thing because despite my desire to have the best picture possible, I'm not a die hard audiophile with respect to surround mixes. Give me a stereo or mono mix any day. I watched with the theatrical audio.
What does he mean by frozen film grain?
They’re basically what looks like botches of film grain frozen. It’s an artifact due to use of DNR (a fairly common practice from big studios). It’s not something that really jumped out at me, but I’m sure if I get close enough to the tv I’ll pick up on it.
The worst I’ve ever seen of frozen grain was for the 2009 blu-ray for STAR TREK VI. That was a very grainy film due to being shot in Super35, and the DNR applied was so aggressive that so much of the picture detail was ruined. Made the characters have a waxy look. Even fabrics of their uniforms looked like clay.
Thanks, but I think I'll skip this. Sometimes I just don't need to know and willfully be blissfully ignorant rather than overly informed so that I'm looking for it. If I see something on my own then so be it.
That's all.
I mean are these films worth shelling out now for 4k or should I wait till they do a redo or is this the only remaster they will do?
I don’t think they’ll fix them, but even IF they do WB does have a disc replacement system.
Yeah the most recent ST releases look stunning, especially next to that waxy VI, you’re right.
What’s wrong with the Atmos on these Bonds?
I only sampled the films rather than give full watches, so there’s only two instances that stuck out to me.
DN - After Bond tells Mr. Jones “get up”, the music score has a weird hiccup effect. It just sounds to me that in sound mixing they accidentally goofed up on the music cue and so for a few seconds it’s out of sync before being abruptly cut off.
Only other thing I noticed is that the Atmos for DAF isn’t faithful to the original sound mix, but has some foley effects that were added in the 2006 5.1 remix. It’s a little weird because it restored some sounds from the mono that the 5.1 replaced, like Blofeld’s cat screeching before the title credits.
I haven’t had time to give these movies a full rewatch. I was only halfway through DN when I tried. I’ll eventually get around to them.
he is on the forum? @MakeshiftPython
And nope, I haven’t updated it with 4K discs. https://007homemedia.blogspot.com/2021/11/dr-no-1962.html