From the Earth to the Moon

[McCrutchy]

Wow, it looks like HBO really shit the bed with this remaster, but that's sadly to be expected given their ridiculous distaste for the OAR of their 4:3 content.

I have to wonder how bad it really would look if they had stuck with the OAR from the first DVD, and just upscaled the shots that used SD video VFX. My guess is that doing so would ameliorate at least a few of the issues present in the current HD master, namely the new crap VFX models and the (let's be generous) ultra-tight 1.78:1 framing in several shots.

The irony is that I can't see how doing an OAR/upscale remaster would not have been cheaper, perhaps significantly so, with more money saved for other remastering projects, to boot.

I've never seen this before, but now I'm sorely tempted to seek out an original DVD and live with the lower-resolution presentation, rather than buy this Blu-ray.