Warner's 40th Anniversary edition of Deliverance

[Le Grande Blu]

According to this:

http://dutchburt.wordpress.com/2012/...f-deliverance/

I heard the existing Blu isn't the best PQ, so hopefully this'll be a new transfer.

[rezpekt]

I think there are two possibilities:
a. It's a beatiful new transfer
b. It's exactly the same disc as the first release, but in a new packaging (most likely a digibook)

I'm hoping for the first, but I'm afraid it will be the latter.

[Bruce Morrison]

The current BD doesn't even have lossless audio, but that was also true of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Warner's glitzy reissue package didn't conceal the fact that the audio remained lossy. I fear the same will be true of this "new" Deliverance edition. It's probably just going to be a digibook package with maybe one or two added extras.

[Akijama]

Hey,Warner,how about 50th anniversary release of great classic "Splendor in the Grass"?

[DetroitSportsFan]

I predict the same disc content in a "prettier" package.

[knifethrower]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

I predict the same disc content in a "prettier" package.

So just like Goodfellas and Unforgiven?

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by knifethrower

So just like Goodfellas and Unforgiven?

Indeed.

[lolwut]

I really hope it's a better transfer. I've been holding off for one.

[Snowmaker]

I'm so excited I could squeal!

[Corey31]

I don't see them re-mastering Deliverance (unfortunately), so I see this going one of two ways.

1. UCE - After The Town got one, I see no point why Deliverance doesn't deserve one.
2. Digibook

[Crimson King]

Come on Warner make the packaging like one of the those musical greeting cards and have it play Dueling Banjos when you open it up, that would be cool!

[Guydowood]

The Squeal like a pig edition!

[Roy Batty]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

I predict the same disc content in a "prettier" package.

Or... they can go the CAMELOT way and give us the ugliest digibook possible.

Originally Posted by Corey31

I don't see them re-mastering Deliverance

Sadly, I have to agree here. I can't see WB spending any money on a new transfer.

Most likely, just a digibook with, maybe, a soundtrack CD?

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by rezpekt

I think there are two possibilities:
a. It's a beatiful new transfer
b. It's exactly the same disc as the first release, but in a new packaging (most likely a digibook)

I'm hoping for the first, but I'm afraid it will be the latter.

I cant see Deliverance looking any better than it does now,it was shot on a meager budget in harsh conditions, the current blu however, blows the old 1999 dvd release out of the water.

[42041]

I think a new transfer was done for the original blu-ray. And I didn't see anything particularly wrong with it (though my experience with the film has only been on home video so I don't know how the 35mm prints looked), aside from the usual mushy compression and lossy audio issues with the early WB discs. I remember reading that the DP intentionally shot the film to have a somewhat muted color palette, and the anamorphic lenses of the time were soft. If it's a healthier AVC encode and lossless audio, I'm in.

[tama]

Originally Posted by 42041

I think a new transfer was done for the original blu-ray. And I didn't see anything particularly wrong with it (though my experience with the film has only been on home video so I don't know how the 35mm prints looked), aside from the usual mushy compression and lossy audio issues with the early WB discs. I remember reading that the DP intentionally shot the film to have a somewhat muted color palette, and the anamorphic lenses of the time were soft. If it's a healthier AVC encode and lossless audio, I'm in.

This is my understanding as well.

[The Duke]

Originally Posted by Guydowood

The Squeal like a pig edition!

Funny story, and I'm giving away my age but I was a newlywed when this came out and my (now ex-) wife & I went to the multiplex and as it was Christmastime and with the name "Deliverance" she thought it was a religious film and dragged me into see it. I found it alot more entertaining than a religious film, but it wasn't quite either of us was expecting.

The first BD release is crap, but I'd bet my banjo Warner isn't going to do anymore than fluff the packaging.

[PowellPressburger]

I will hold onto my current blu pending reviews of a new edition. My luck WB's will destroy the built in logo of the film and replace it with their current one.

[Brad1963]

It would be nice if they would stop repackaging titles and start digging into the classics more. I'd love the James Dean films on Blu ray.

[Geoff D]

Deliverance will never, ever look pretty (in the conventional sense) thanks to Vilmos Zsigmond's preference for 'flashing' his film, giving it that diffuse look and muted colour palette. The current BD is fine, compression niggles aside.