Watched Rambo 2 and had an odd experience with it. It played great on my Sony X800, looked pretty darn good! Halfway through it crapped out into a mess of digital noise, as quite a few discs do on my X800, which is why I have a backup player, the LG 875. I put it in that to finish the movie and wow... drained of color, no contrast, horrible looking. Put it back in the Sony, looked great.
Some will say "lol cheap backup player is cheap," but I did extensive testing on these suckers and the image quality before has always been identical, or at least damn near identical. Not sure if I bumped a setting or the LG booted up weird or something, but just something to keep in mind for LG or cheaper player users... if Rambo's skin look drained and grey like a vampire, it might be a player issue.
Anyway, as to the real disc experience on the X800...
Good stuff! Really nice detail, subtle use of HDR (which is what I generally prefer), really nice color. There are some dreamy Superman-type scenes here and there, but they look solid too. I did notice two issues though: 1) There's an early scene where a guard is lighting a cigarette before Rambo kills him and I noticed a weird moment there where artifacts appeared around the guard, like a compression issue, and 2) Blacks can be really weak on this disc, much lighter than the widescreen bars above and below. Black levels are not one of my personal pet peeves, so it didn't really bother me, but I could see others complaining about these.
Altogether though it's a lovely remaster and in motion I didn't see any color tint issues really. The boat fight looked a bit sepia tone and the whole movie is a bit "cooler" than a lot of other jungle movies might be, but I seem to remember it always being a bit cool? In any case it looks really good except for blacks and that one compression issue.
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