Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 06/10/06 05:27

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:07:08 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:

>On 7 Jun 2006 14:51:25 -0700, AVRev Reviews wrote:
>> Full Metal Jacket (HD DVD)
>>
>> '"Full Metal Jacket" is a welcome but odd choice for Warner's
>> first wave of HD DVD releases. It's a lightly grainy film and was
>> originally released in Kubrick's preferred mono soundtrack. The disc
>> is a visually perfect rendition of the film and the HD encoding
>> captured the soft grain of the photography and its various scenes of
>> low light and smoke without digital artifacts or macro-blocking.'
>>
>> Read full review:
>> http://www.avrev.com/hddvd/revs/0606/full_metal_jacket.shtml
>
>Wait, this release is in WS? Whatever happened to "Kubrick wants all the
>home video releases of his films in 4:3"?
>
>-Jay

I had forgotten all about that after watching the HD DVD of it UNTIL
I placed the old DVD version in the player to compare the two.

Problem is that they only found a fairly grainy print to digitize
(or they used the old master), so the upconverted DVD looks just as
good, except that it is in the KubTard's demanded AR. I'll have to
put it in my old player to compare raw visuals. Sound is a bit more
dynamic and "bright".

Contrasting that is the BEAUTIFUL Blazing Saddles release, which
looks like film grain quality! Very much different than the DVD
release.

I was disappointed with the FMJ, except that I finally got it in the
CORRECT AR! Very grainy looking.

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