I was at a used record store looking through their DVD section and saw Medicine Man. First time I bought a DVD in a while. It's one of those movies I remembered liking as a teenager and I have the VHS I inherited from my parents. Didn't even think to look and see if it was widescreen. One of the shortcomings of buying blu-rays for so long now is that you forget DVD came in separate widescreen or full screen discs. I was happy to read it was widescreen on the back of the case but quickly discovered it's not anamorphic widescreen. Yikes!
Completely agree the image quality is bad, even for a DVD. As my girlfriend put it "It's like a copy of a copy." Part of that I'm sure is that we're zoomed in so the widescreen fills the HD TV. Even still, the transfer looks bad.
I'm really surprised this still isn't out on Blu-ray. It's not like some weird little indie film from the 1970s, it's a John McTiernan film with Sean Connery in it from 1992. Predator (another McTiernan film) just got a 4K rerelease, but Medicine Man still hasn't even seen a blu-ray release.
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