Psycho (1960) (60th Anniversary Edition) (Uncut)

[Latheofheaven]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Yep, same thing happened with the early James Bond movies when they were redone. These remixes they do today often sound NOTHING like the originals. They try to make them "sexy" and "hip" for young audiences, and add effects that were never there and worst of all they often bury the music, because the modern taste is for score to be almost unnoticeable.

I always make a point of listening to original mixes.

There was a funny moment with the restored Roman Holiday that comes out today. The announcement video has the Paramount lady saying sadly that they couldn't find the original separate audio elements, so they couldn't remix it. I was practically jumping out of my chair cheering when I heard her say that, knowing that they would be unable to ruin the original mix.

Wow, I can really see now how that can screw things up horribly!

Certainly with audio and vinyl, in our discussions we also really try to keep whatever the original intentions were and generally REALLY ridicule revisions in the mixes and such. So, that would be the same principle here.

I guess what I was kind of thinking about before MOST here were very helpful in explaining it. Was sort of like in 'PHANTASM' where they removed the 'yellow pail' and everyone was screaming because that was not 'Original'... But in this case here with an entire soundtrack, that totally makes sense and I agree.