Saboteur (1942) 4K UHD

[Akijama]

Saboteur 4K Blu-ray

Coming in May

https://www.hdmoviesource.com/Sabote...HD-p/14123.htm

[Akijama]

[evilive]

That cover is terrible.

Glad to see it's coming to 4K though.

[Ishai]

Originally Posted by evilive

That cover is terrible.

Glad to see it's coming to 4K though.

One of five Hitchcock 4Ks releasing on 5/10, all of their covers look about the same.
Wish they just used some of the original artwork for the covers.

[The Sovereign]

Ugh, what a dreadful cover. How do people who do work like that - or approve work like that - get jobs?

[Mister_Kidd]

Originally Posted by The Sovereign

Ugh, what a dreadful cover. How do people who do work like that - or approve work like that - get jobs?

Graphic designer here. The bolder part above is 100% the point. I NEVER get final approval on a project and most of the time the original concept belongs to someone else. Most projects are like 50% trying to conceptualize what some non creative person is seeing in their head and 50% outright copying something they saw someone else do. It’s a cruel reality of my profession that the people who make the final call rarely have any taste or an artistic eye.

So anyway, I wouldn’t blame the designer. I’m sure they were doing their best with what they were told they had to make. And their first 5 (most likely superior) drafts were rejected.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by Mister_Kidd

Graphic designer here. The bolder part above is 100% the point. I NEVER get final approval on a project and most of the time the original concept belongs to someone else. Most projects are like 50% trying to conceptualize what some non creative person is seeing in their head and 50% outright copying something they saw someone else do. It’s a cruel reality of my profession that the people who make the final call rarely have any taste or an artistic eye.

So anyway, I wouldn’t blame the designer. I’m sure they were doing their best with what they were told they had to make. And their first 5 (most likely superior) drafts were rejected.

Thanks - I respect your take on it. And yeah, no way for me to know if this was the designer’s best work, or if this was a directive from some hack who thought this is how the cover should look. But regardless, the person who ultimately approved it, owns it. And this one’s crap.

[Mister_Kidd]

Originally Posted by The Sovereign

Thanks - I respect your take on it. And yeah, no way for me to know if this was the designer’s best work, or if this was a directive from some hack who thought this is how the cover should look. But regardless, the person who ultimately approved it, owns it. And this one’s crap.

Lol, yeah 100% agree with you there. Terrible cover.

[BobSimms]

Mister_Kidd, a bit off topic here, but do you have any insight into the iridescent/rainbow-fade phenomenon that’s ubiquitous on poster/cover art these days? (Thankfully the Hitchcocks have been spared.) How did it start? Why does it persist? Will it ever end?

[Pieter V]

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[RICKBONDOO7]

Where are the 4K Reviews already ???? May 10th is just days away.

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by RICKBONDOO7

Where are the 4K Reviews already ???? May 10th is just days away.

Yeah, I'm really anxious to see some myself.

[sjy1969]

Originally Posted by Hammerlover

Yeah, I'm really anxious to see some myself.

Have watched this and it is a superb presentation. Lovely grain and grey scale and excellent use of HDR in the highlights.. Checkout how Mrs Sutton's jewelry sparkles!

[All Darc]

4k screengrabs:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-...eur_4K_UHD.htm

[Kyle15]

DVDbeaver, time to take them with a finer grain of salt than Caps-a-holic lol

[All Darc]

Wondering how the Statue of Liberty matte painting scenes would have looked in color:

Originally Posted by Kyle15

DVDbeaver, time to take them with a finer grain of salt than Caps-a-holic lol

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by All Darc

Wondering how the Statue of Liberty matte painting scenes would have looked in color:

With all due respect...

What

[bradnoyes]

Watched this last night and I thought it looked outstanding. You never know what you'll get with Universal these days but for this release they seemed to show restraint when turning the dials on their "tasteful DNR" applicator. That's good!

As for the movie itself, while the performances certainly show their age I was amazed at how fresh it felt considering it is damn well near 100 years old. The way it is shot and the subject matter felt more contemporary than a lot of new films. Made me wonder what kind of films Hitchcock would make today as the fifth column is now essentially in the mainstream. It was funny and alarming to think that the villains in this film could run for office today and very well likely win!

[All Darc]

I refer to the beautiful matte painting work they did for the movie:

http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/fou...itchcock-1942/

I was wondering how nice it would look in technicolor. So I posted an image of the mattepainting from the movie Mame (1974) which shows a matte painting in similar angle.

Originally Posted by Kyle15

With all due respect...

What

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by All Darc

I refer to the beautiful matte painting work they did for the movie:

http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/fou...itchcock-1942/

I was wondering how nice it would look in technicolor. So I posted an image of the mattepainting from the movie Mame (1974) which shows a matte painting in similar anlel

I know what you posted, it just doesn't have anything to do with DVDbeaver's questionable screencaps. lol