Zulu: Paramount Centenary Edition/Play.com Exclusive Steelbook - October 1, 2012

[blu_sharpy]

Originally Posted by ImportFanatic

I've always read many bad things about the original Blu-ray transfer. I'm hoping this is more in line with what a natural looking transfer should be.

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It aint gonna be a new transfer.

[Arkadin]

does anyone honestly think this will be a different transfer??
99% it will be exactly the same imo.

[singhcr]

Originally Posted by Douglas R

ZULU looks terrific but some people erroneously think that every film should display loads of grain.

70mm prints won't have a lot of grain, but there is no fine detail in the Zulu BD transfer such as skin pores, hair, etc. This movie doesn't need any DNR (not that any of them do, but 70mm is very fine-grained so you would hardly see it anyway) but whoever did this transfer doesn't understand or care what film is supposed to look like.

[singhcr]

Originally Posted by BigNickUK

and so it begins....

I hope you are joking. Do you really think the first pic looks natural at all?

[retablo]

I bought it after reading all the erroneous accolades, and it is indeed DNR'd way too much. It's not a disaster like Patton, but it needs to be redone properly.

[BigNickUK]

Originally Posted by singhcr

I hope you are joking. Do you really think the first pic looks natural at all?

I think you have missed my sentiment...the comment was about grain haters vs grain lovers. It refers to the ongoing arguments about transfers a la Predator and Total Recall

[singhcr]

Originally Posted by BigNickUK

I think you have missed my sentiment...the comment was about grain haters vs grain lovers. It refers to the ongoing arguments about transfers a la Predator and Total Recall

Gotcha. Sorry if my previous post came off as harsh.

[mr young]

Also apart from some DNR the squeeze does not seem right everbody seems
to thin. This film was shot in Technirama, 35mm sideways with a 1.5 squeeze.
It was only screened in 70mm in London in 1972 at the Casino Cinerama

Check the Blu of King of Kings to see how this should look ,shot in the same
format.

[Monroville]

Can anyone confirm the region coding (I'm assuming this is the same disc as the previous release - which was region free - but better safe than sorry)?

[DarknessBDJM]

While I abhor dnr and think it's especially unnecessary in higher resolution film format films like Patton, and Zulu (also The Longest Day, anamorphic is a higher resolution format, though the negative frame isn't larger in and of itself), the fact that the grain is so fine in the first place, less effort is needed to scrub it away and/or dull it, so Zulu and Patton didn't come out looking nearly as bad as most dnr'd films. I can still see some grain in some scenes in Zulu, is essentially goes from nonexistent to barely there to normal looking (the latter being less common).

[DJJez]

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