536 The Thin Red Line

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Napier · #151 Post by **Napier** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:56 pm

Looks splendid! I can't wait. I'll be playing it loud too. Shouldn't be a problem with the housemates, I play quite a bit of Call of Duty, so their already used to the war zone.

#152 Post by **mfunk9786** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:16 pm

I was going to wait until the November sale to order this but I'm not so sure that's an option anymore.

Alphonse Doinel · #153 Post by **Alphonse Doinel** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:37 pm

Cleaning up the drool off my keyboard.

Release of the year for lovers of great cinematography and cleft chins.

knives · #154 Post by **knives** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:21 pm

Anyone notice that the subtitle sample for the crit doesn't have subtitles.

ccfixx · #155 Post by **ccfixx** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:25 pm

Gary at DVD Beaver wrote:My software couldn't obtain a subtitle capture but I can assure you that the Criterion, predictably, contains optional English subtitles...

Costa · #156 Post by **Costa** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:32 am

How does anyone feel about the shadows that have lightened a lot in the new transfer? it shows more in the first pair of screenshots here.

Doesn't this change the "feel" of the movie?

#157 Post by **Matt** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:28 am

This transfer is approved by the director and cinematographer. It's very unlikely that the first DVD was. That's all the information I need.

tavernier · #158 Post by **tavernier** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:05 pm

Matt wrote:This transfer is approved by the director and cinematographer. It's very unlikely that the first DVD was. That's all the information I need.

Yeah, but....

knives · #159 Post by **knives** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:30 pm

...The French Connection

#160 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:40 pm

Owen Roizman hated what Friedkin did to his cinematography on the French Connection Blu, tho'.

knives · #161 Post by **knives** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:43 pm

Should I have said Apocalypse Now than? Honestly though Malick's too much of a stickler for me to think this is anything but perfect PQ-wise.

mnmlist · #162 Post by **mnmlist** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:07 pm

A dream came true today, kind of. We have a nice new pristine version of TTRL available in stores (Blu-Ray and Standard). My only complaint (it's not truly even a complaint) is that there are only 14 minutes of outtakes. I would love to have had 30 minutes worth of full deleted scenes. But then I would have wanted 45 minutes...and so on.

Just getting a glimpse of what I had always read about all those years ago is enough for me I think.

If left to his own devices, Malick would have tinkered with TTRL indefinitely. The film that premiered nationwide in early 1999 is indeed the vision he settled on after combing through everything he and John Toll filmed and now we can see it in the best possible quality.

Thanks Criterion!

willoneill · #163 Post by **willoneill** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:40 pm

Watched the special features of this tonight ... most interesting thing I learned: 2 of the 4 Rusty Griswold's* auditioned for the film.

*of the National Lampoon's Vacation series

MyNameCriterionForum · #164 Post by **MyNameCriterionForum** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:23 pm

Now comes the endless wait for Netflix to replace the old disc with the new set.

bdsweeney · #165 Post by **bdsweeney** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:19 am

Popmatters has an article on the production of the film. Some of it stuff already known, but much of it new to me.

Biggest surprise ... Malick is a Green Day fan.

(Maybe his only flaw ...)

Markson · #166 Post by **Markson** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:50 pm

bdsweeney wrote:Malick is a Green Day fan.

What's next? The reveal that Thomas Pynchon clears his Mondays to watch Two and a Half Men?

#167 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:47 am

Reminds me of this.

#168 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:51 am

Blu-ray

#169 Post by **Finch** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:21 pm

Excellent review at Slant though their 4 stars for image and audio makes you wonder just how good the A/V has to be to warrant all five stars, given that everybody else has given the Blu perfect marks.

#170 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:48 pm

Their review is for the DVD, not the Blu-ray. The DVD has visible compression artifacts and I suspect that's where they're docking marks. Still, the compression in Criterion's DVD is nowhere near as bad as what's in the Fox DVD.

oldsheperd · #171 Post by **oldsheperd** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:15 pm

bdsweeney wrote:Popmatters has an article on the production of the film. Some of it stuff already known, but much of it new to me.

Biggest surprise ... Malick is a Green Day fan. (Maybe his only flaw ...)

Their first album has a bit of merit. I hear Martin Scorsese loves Blink 182

ShellOilJunior · #172 Post by **ShellOilJunior** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:40 am

Excellent review, Chris.

Can't wait to watch this one tonight!

#173 Post by **cdnchris** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:47 pm

Thanks! And, as I'm sure you've figured based on the comments from others, you're in for treat. It's a gorgeous looking film and this Blu-ray presents it perfectly. On a technical level it's one of my favourite discs in my whole collection.

#174 Post by **Finch** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:22 pm

The full marks for this Blu are fully deserved: I've seen the film multiple times (including the theatrical screening) and it looks just stunning in 1080p. The only serious rivals to this are French Cancan and the Crit Red Shoes (as far as colour films go anyhow).

#175 Post by **mfunk9786** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:45 pm

My heart still weeps that the one Malick that doesn't have a gorgeous Blu is also my favorite, poor lil Badlands.

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