Halloween 4K UHD (1978)

[moviebuff75]

And Dances With Wolves.

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by moviebuff75

And Dances With Wolves.

Dean Semler

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by moviebuff75

And Dances With Wolves.

Different Dean. That's Dean Semler.

[moviebuff75]

ACH! I knew that! Thanks! One of my favorite films. I feel dumb.

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by moviebuff75

ACH! I knew that! Thanks! One of my favorite films. I feel dumb.

Hahaha don't be so hard on yourself. I get the Dariuses confused all the time, lol. Wolski and Khondji.

[aloop]

Originally Posted by moviebuff75

I would say, get it. You will be kicking yourself down the line when prices go up, and it isn't available.

I have to agree, I haven't watched the full disc yet, but the new color grade and original mono (whatever, I know it's not as good as the LD, still better than what we had on the 2018 UHD) were enough reason to pick it up for me!

I posted the screenshots to show that Shout could do better in that one aspect, but I don't want people to abandon the release just because of it. There's almost always at least one thing that can be improved on a release.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

Gonna be real I have no idea why Dean Cundey came up again so I'm just as confused. lmao

Colour timing has been changed again

[cminer72]

Comparing the Lionsgate to the Shout, I noticed there is audio sync issues throughout the whole movie with either audio track. Shout has no sync issues. Anyone else notice this with the lionsgate disc?

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by phobicsquirrel

He is old AF

I wonder if people will say the same thing about you when you're 75 (if you're still alive, that is)...

[Telemachus]

bruh why dis always happen

[dylrichard02]

Originally Posted by steel_breeze

Hey man, respect. Dude just shot two episodes of the upcoming Boba Fett show. Perfect career: Carpenter (THE classics), Zemeckis, Spielberg, Howard... and now friggin' Star Wars.

I have no disrespect for the guy as a cinematographer, he shoots stuff very well. But he seems to like to alter the way stuff looks now, sometimes for the worse (EE, DNR, color alterations). That being said, from the looks of it, I personally prefer the color timing of the new transfer a lot more than I do the 2013 transfer (present on the 2018 4K).

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by JackForrester

Laurie, the Criterion audio is outside

You want a Criterion audio?
Yeah.
Is that all you can say?
Yeah.
Go get me a Criterion audio.
I thought you were gonna get me one.
Yeah?!

[geomon]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

bruh why dis always happen

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by aloop

As others have said, the compression is pretty bad compared to the 2018 Lionsgate disc.

I'm linking some examples below. Note that these are PNGs, so they are 5-6MB each!

lionsgate-1.png
screamfactory-1.png
lionsgate-2.png
screamfactory-2.png
lionsgate-3.png
screamfactory-3.png

Edit: Forgot to mention 2 things: I haven't actually watched the disc on my TV yet, so these issues might not be as noticeable in motion (to most people), and don't take the color as very accurate, I only used madVR's default HDR-to-SDR settings. Not that an HDR-to-SDR conversion is ever accurate.

Because that's how I watch Halloween - frame by frame, studying the compression.

ffs

[Nori]

Originally Posted by aloop

As others have said, the compression is pretty bad compared to the 2018 Lionsgate disc.

I'm linking some examples below. Note that these are PNGs, so they are 5-6MB each!

lionsgate-1.png
screamfactory-1.png
lionsgate-2.png
screamfactory-2.png
lionsgate-3.png
screamfactory-3.png

Edit: Forgot to mention 2 things: I haven't actually watched the disc on my TV yet, so these issues might not be as noticeable in motion (to most people), and don't take the color as very accurate, I only used madVR's default HDR-to-SDR settings. Not that an HDR-to-SDR conversion is ever accurate.

So they Scream did mess up the aspect ratio after all (squished, making everything look fatter). On top of the bad compression and stretched picture, I'm not totally sure the colors look uniformly better. Looks like a hit or miss case scenario. If this is what the disc looks like I'll happily stick to the 2018 release.

[phobicsquirrel]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

I wonder if people will say the same thing about you when you're 75 (if you're still alive, that is)...

Considering I'm not going to alter my films every release probably not... Don't get so triggered

[aloop]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

Because that's how I watch Halloween - frame by frame, studying the compression.

ffs

I mean, I didn't go frame by frame looking for bad examples, I just clicked 3 different spots on the timeline and took screenshots (and then found the matching frame in the other release).

Originally Posted by Nori

So they Scream did mess up the aspect ratio after all (squished, making everything look fatter). On top of the bad compression and stretched picture, I'm not totally sure the colors look uniformly better. Looks like a hit or miss case scenario. If this is what the disc looks like I'll happily stick to the 2018 release.

As I noted, please don't judge the color based on HDR-to-SDR conversions

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by aloop

I mean, I didn't go frame by frame looking for bad examples, I just clicked 3 different spots on the timeline and took screenshots (and then found the matching frame in the other release).

Things aren't perfect. At a certain point, you just have to kick back and watch the facking movie.

[aloop]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

Things aren't perfect. At a certain point, you just have to kick back and watch the facking movie.

I mean, I basically already said that a few posts ago:

Originally Posted by aloop

I have to agree, I haven't watched the full disc yet, but the new color grade and original mono (whatever, I know it's not as good as the LD, still better than what we had on the 2018 UHD) were enough reason to pick it up for me!

I posted the screenshots to show that Shout could do better in that one aspect, but I don't want people to abandon the release just because of it. There's almost always at least one thing that can be improved on a release.

[bobbyh64]

You’ve gotta believe me officer, the mono is filtered.
Because I know it. I’m its doctor.