'Tears of the Sun' homework...if you're interested of course.

[Grisle]

I recently watched my copy of 'Tears of the Sun' and noticed a lot of white specks throughout the whole film. I thought it was my disc so I rented one from Blockbuster online and it had the same specks. So is this just a huge coincidence or is it the transfer? So here comes the homework...I just skimmed through a few minutes and came out with a lot of specks. This film has a lot of things in it the reflect...like water on the faces and light coming through foliage, but these are specks that I think are from the disc. Here goes:

0:36 - Under the N
8:46 - Left shoulder
9:05 - Streak on the bandage
9:15 - Above left shoulder
9:40 - Above left shoulder
9:52 - Twice within the second
10:01 - Right side above middle
15:35 - Willis' nose - left side
18:12 - The grass flickers through the scene
18:14 - Above the mountain
18:42 - 1 foot from Willis' face
21:00 - In the trees
21:02 - Bottom in the plants
21:05 - Right side of chest
30:15 - 2 above the big shack

I only spent about 8 minutes going through so these are by no means all of them...I noticed a whole lot more when I watched the film in it's entirety.

Now I don't see how there would be anyway that all these would be missed by everyone including the reviewers so I figure it's either the 2 discs that I've seen (which seems unlikely) are bad or I'm interpreting these specks and artifacts incorrectly. If someone could check their copy out for me and let me know if they see any of these...I don't expect anyone to go through them all, but I wanted to give a lot of examples just in case.