For me, it's hard to choose between the original transfer and the new one.
Yes, in the scenes where there is obvious macroblocking, the new encode suffers. But how many seconds does that add up to, in a 108-minute film? And for the rest of that runtime, the new transfer looks superior to me. So while the original transfer doesn't have any glaring issues, for the most part (those few instances of macroblocking on the new transfer notwithstanding), the grain also doesn't appear as fine for the bulk of the original transfer. Split decision, really...and a tough one to call.
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