Blade Runner - so many versions
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So the region 2 set comes without the briefcase then?
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Has anyone heard just how "limited" the briefcase sets are. I'm wondering if my HD-DVD version that is preordered from amazon will arrive by Christmas. I assume it would as long as they have them in stock.
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My 5-disc HD version shipped from Best Buy today. I got it back when I bought an HD player. They have been really good about shipping this and Bourne III the Thursday before release day.
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Two excellent reasons to keep your 1997 DVD of the Director's Cut:
1. It's the only version that is slightly pillarboxed in anamorphic widescreen so that most viewers will see a wider picture than in any other version, after overscanning caused by most TV monitors.
2. It's the last version (with the 2006 limited edition of the Director's Cut) to preserve the original colour values. The Final Cut is following current fashion trends by skewing everything towards blue-green.
1. It's the only version that is slightly pillarboxed in anamorphic widescreen so that most viewers will see a wider picture than in any other version, after overscanning caused by most TV monitors.
2. It's the last version (with the 2006 limited edition of the Director's Cut) to preserve the original colour values. The Final Cut is following current fashion trends by skewing everything towards blue-green.
Last edited by baracine; 12-13-07 at 11:09 AM.
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Originally Posted by baracine
Final Cut is following current fashion trends by skewing everything towards blue-green.
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Originally Posted by Drop
Having seen it in the theatre, nothing about it skewed towards current film or fashion trends. I didn't notice any of that blue-green stuff that's in the captures.
Even if you have and the colours were normal, we have to believe the evidence of the screen caps for the DVD transfer, don't we?
I guess the idea is if you make everyone look like a corpse that has just been fished out of the river, it'll be harder to tell the replicants from the human beings.
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Originally Posted by baracine
2. It's the last version (with the 2006 limited edition of the Director's Cut) to preserve the original colour values. The Final Cut is following current fashion trends by skewing everything towards blue-green.
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Originally Posted by jmj713
That version is presented on Disc Three, isn't it?
FINAL CUT:
THEATRICAL CUT:
INTERNATIONAL CUT:
DIRECTOR'S CUT:
... but still a long way from the original transfer. This is how the same still looks in the Director's Cut 1999 DVD transfer: Realistic flesh tones, blue tuxedo (not black) and textured écru silk shirt (not flat, white, drab, urine-soaked or greyish). A real person in a real suit, not a corpse in a fish tank.
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Picked up the Blu-Ray version at Best Buy in LA yesterday and went through the Final Cut this afternoon and the Dangerous Days documentary yesterday night.
To be honest, the documentary is a bit bloated. At three hours and thirty minutes, it's just too long and looses focus when it goes off on tangents that aren't that interesting. I'm not saying it isn't an informative documentary. It is. I'm just saying that it could've been trimmed by an hour and I still don't think you would've lost any important information.
The best featurette on the set is "All Our Variants Futures" where it picks up right where Dangerous Days left off about the resurrection of Blade Runner on home video and the restoration of the film. At 28 minutes, it's just fabulous...very imformative. The attention to detail on the restoration and fixing of flaws is spectacular.
As for the Final Cut, it's great. I've never been a hardcore fan of Blade Runner but I appreciated the film over the years and have come to admire it in some respects while still question it in others, but the final cut went along way for me to appreciate it's place in film history. This is the preferred version.
I still have disc four to go over with all those featurettes. I don't think I really have a use for disc three with the three different cuts via seamless branching. I might look at them much, much later after I go over the Close Encounters Blu-Ray set.
Still, one of the great DVD sets so far. It's up there with The Ultimate Matrix Collection, the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions, the Prequel Trilogy, and the Alien Quadrilogy when it comes to informative information and presentation on all levels.
To be honest, the documentary is a bit bloated. At three hours and thirty minutes, it's just too long and looses focus when it goes off on tangents that aren't that interesting. I'm not saying it isn't an informative documentary. It is. I'm just saying that it could've been trimmed by an hour and I still don't think you would've lost any important information.
The best featurette on the set is "All Our Variants Futures" where it picks up right where Dangerous Days left off about the resurrection of Blade Runner on home video and the restoration of the film. At 28 minutes, it's just fabulous...very imformative. The attention to detail on the restoration and fixing of flaws is spectacular.
As for the Final Cut, it's great. I've never been a hardcore fan of Blade Runner but I appreciated the film over the years and have come to admire it in some respects while still question it in others, but the final cut went along way for me to appreciate it's place in film history. This is the preferred version.
I still have disc four to go over with all those featurettes. I don't think I really have a use for disc three with the three different cuts via seamless branching. I might look at them much, much later after I go over the Close Encounters Blu-Ray set.
Still, one of the great DVD sets so far. It's up there with The Ultimate Matrix Collection, the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions, the Prequel Trilogy, and the Alien Quadrilogy when it comes to informative information and presentation on all levels.
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Originally Posted by baracine
Two excellent reasons to keep your 1997 DVD of the Director's Cut:
1. It's the only version that is slightly pillarboxed in anamorphic widescreen so that most viewers will see a wider picture than in any other version, after overscanning caused by most TV monitors.
1. It's the only version that is slightly pillarboxed in anamorphic widescreen so that most viewers will see a wider picture than in any other version, after overscanning caused by most TV monitors.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRev...laderunner.htm
2. It's the last version (with the 2006 limited edition of the Director's Cut) to preserve the original colour values. The Final Cut is following current fashion trends by skewing everything towards blue-green.
Last edited by Jay G.; 12-13-07 at 10:08 PM.
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Originally Posted by baracine
DIRECTOR'S CUT:
... but still a long way from the original transfer. This is how the same still looks in the Director's Cut [1997] DVD transfer: Realistic flesh tones, blue tuxedo (not black) and textured écru silk shirt (not flat, white, drab, urine-soaked or greyish). A real person in a real suit, not a corpse in a fish tank.
... but still a long way from the original transfer. This is how the same still looks in the Director's Cut [1997] DVD transfer: Realistic flesh tones, blue tuxedo (not black) and textured écru silk shirt (not flat, white, drab, urine-soaked or greyish). A real person in a real suit, not a corpse in a fish tank.
The Director's Cut on the new set also seems to match the image from the 2006 Remastered DVD exactly:
Interestingly, I found this "screen capture" of the HD version of the Final Cut, which seems to have been taken with a camera off a TV screen. The blue suit looks much more vibrant here than on the DVD capture:
The HD pic suggests that maybe the new transfers were optimized for viewing on an actual TV, instead of being picked apart on PC monitors.
Giving credit where credit is due, all image captures (including those baracine used) are from these links:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRev...laderunner.htm
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...ner-4-disc.htm
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...HD_Blu-ray.htm
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
What makes you so certain that the DC DVDs preserved the film's original color values?
In this shot from the HD transfer ( http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...D_Blu-ray.htm), the shirt shouldn't be white to begin with since it is directly lit by a spectacular yellow-orange sunset (now a spectacular blue-green sunset, thanks to modern technology) and it should be textured not flat:
Disclaimer: I am not disputing that the new transfers are higher-resolution, higher-bitrate, less blotchy, less contrasty and have less edge enhancement. I'm talking about colour values.
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Originally Posted by slop101
Perceived value. People are retarded (though no one here) and will think "more discs = more content". A 2-disc HD set would have to have a sticker saying "same content less discs!" in order for these retards to get it - but that's still asking too much from them.
I was at dvdPlanet this morning buying the Bourne HD, and the sales person asked if I had an HD player - and I said "wait, you mean people have returned HD discs not knowing they need an HD player?" - he says yes - a lot of people. Most of them just think that if they have an HDTV, the discs would work - if these fucking retards can't understand this, how are they going to understand less discs could have the same content as more discs?
I was at dvdPlanet this morning buying the Bourne HD, and the sales person asked if I had an HD player - and I said "wait, you mean people have returned HD discs not knowing they need an HD player?" - he says yes - a lot of people. Most of them just think that if they have an HDTV, the discs would work - if these fucking retards can't understand this, how are they going to understand less discs could have the same content as more discs?
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Originally Posted by baracine
And how do I know they are the right colours? Because in 1982, no one had even heard of blue-green colourless films à la Van Helsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography#The_lab
The transfer authors are just following fashion trends and trying to make a 1982 film look like one of today's lifeless colourless CGI atrocities.
In this shot from the HD transfer ( http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...D_Blu-ray.htm), the shirt shouldn't be white to begin with since it is directly lit by a spectacular yellow-orange sunset (now a spectacular blue-green sunset, thanks to modern technology) and it should be textured not flat:
Disclaimer: I am not disputing that the new transfers are higher-resolution, higher-bitrate, less blotchy, less contrasty and have less edge enhancement. I'm talking about colour values.
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
The shot from the HD transfer was obviously taken with a digital camera off a TV. It's not OAR, and the light levels aren't correct. It's also a shrunken image, not at the same resolution as HD. Viewed in person, there likely is texture and less white to the image.
As a matter of fact, it says, in giant letters:
Screen Captures FINAL CUT in high-definition
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Originally Posted by baracine
Obviously? There is absolutely nothing on this site to indicate that these are anything but genuine screen captures: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...HD_Blu-ray.htm
As a matter of fact, it says, in giant letters:
Screen Captures FINAL CUT in high-definition
As a matter of fact, it says, in giant letters:
Screen Captures FINAL CUT in high-definition
In fact, if you click "Save Picture As..." on the DVD Beaver screenshot of Blade Runner above, and check the file properties summary, you'll see it's been taken with a Canon Powershot A620 and tagged as such.
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Originally Posted by crs
All of DVD Beaver's HD-review "screen captures" are taken with a digital camera off a screen, just as Jay G. describes.
In fact, if you click "Save Picture As..." on the DVD Beaver screenshot of Blade Runner above, and check the file properties summary, you'll see it's been taken with a Canon Powershot A620 and tagged as such.
In fact, if you click "Save Picture As..." on the DVD Beaver screenshot of Blade Runner above, and check the file properties summary, you'll see it's been taken with a Canon Powershot A620 and tagged as such.
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Originally Posted by baracine
I stand corrected. But why would that particular shot be the only unreliable one in terms of colour, brightness, texture, aspect ratio, etc. in the whole series?
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Originally Posted by crs
Are you talking about the other screenshots above from the same scene? They are captures directly from the DVD, exact digital replicas.
Anyway, as I said before, I don't care if Ridley Scott comes up with a CR-DIOTE (cosmic-ray direct imprint on the eyeballs) ultra-definition outside-the-colour-spectrum Post-apocapytic Cut where Rachael really is Tyrell's niece and stands to inherit after all, I'm keeping my 1997 (copyrighted 1999 in Canada) DVD transfer. Which doesn't mean I might not double-dip for the extras...
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Originally Posted by baracine
Any idea why dvdneaver would mix camera shots and computer screenshots in the same presentation?