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Originally Posted by bladexdsl
This release is an absolute joke. It's just a quick cash grab nowhere near being worthy of true 4K!
The grain throughout all three films kills the PQ my BRD versions upscaled look A LOT better than these! Also the first movie freezes whenever it feels like it the only real good thing about these releases is the atmos and that's about it! If i knew they were going to look THIS bad I would have saved all the money it cost me to import the steelbook here and kept the BRD box set. Definitely NOT A MUST OWN!!
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I have
to commend you for going against
the grain (literally and figuratively) on here, but they like gang up on anyone that disagrees with their "astute" findings.
The Atmos track alone was a massive disappointment here compared
to a really good Atmos retrofit track like
the one for
the original Jumanji. Here, many of
the sound effects are repeated into
the front, side and rear channels (e.g.
the clock chimes near
the beginning) and so where you sit in
the room matters a great deal as
to where those chimes are located. In
the front row here, they were only at
the front wide speakers, but in
the back row, they were 2/3 into
the back of
the room and in
the middle row they were halfway
back. That's a very different experience for each row of seats and something one would expect from a mono-surround title, not a Dolby Atmos one. SOME things were better (e.g.
the lightning bolt at
the clock tower was locked
to the front heights whereas
the old 5.1 soundtrack had it floating along with arrayed sound too).
Overheads were mostly limited
to the thunder storms and soundtrack bits in
the first movie.
The 2nd movie had
the flying car effects so there was a bit more going on, but overall,
the Atmos soundtracks here were a mild improvement over
the 5.1 soundtrack at best, IMO.
It's almost like they didn't take
the time
to isolate all
the surround effects into discrete tracks. People sitting midway
back in
the room with a single row of seats (most home theaters) probably wouldn't even NOTICE
the arrayed sound effects at all. But that's part of
the problem. If you don't have a setup that can even pick up
the issues, how would you notice them? Yet even mentioning them probably warrants anger as people take any criticism of their favorite movie releases personally, even though it has NOTHING
to do with
the movie/plot/acting itself. I simply hoped for a bit more from
the Atmos remix. Jumanji, by comparison had a better Atmos soundtrack than
the sequels, IMO (far more going on in all channels, especially
the overhead ones with
the mosquitoes, etc.)
Given my 2K projector, I don't have any comments on
the video changes, other than
the colors seemed less oversaturated in some scenes (they probably cranked it up a bit on
the BD set).
I was looking more forward
to increased immersion in
the soundtrack. Even Groundhog Day, despite little overhead, ramped up
the ear-level speaker channel immersion (you really felt like you were there on
the street where
the original soundtrack had very little surround going on in most scenes at all).
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