Not exact matches
It's undoubtedly a handsome -
looking picture, slow of pace, with beautifully, even stunningly composed
widescreen images from cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi and a sinuous score from Max Richter.
The 1.78:1
widescreen picture is clearly the product of digital video on a budget, but it
looks sufficiently polished and cinematic for a basic cable TV movie.
More importantly, the Blu - ray
looks to satisfy everyone, by including both the movie's original theatrical audio and the sanitized track that bafflingly accompanied the 25th Anniversary DVD's cleaned - up
widescreen picture.
The 1.78:1
widescreen picture is sharp, vibrant, and untroubled, giving us clear
looks from various angles of Cosby in his salmon dress shirt and freshly - pressed khakis and the blue curtains on the stage behind him.
Presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen (pan-and-scan version sold separately), the
picture looks nice here, sometimes so clear as to overemphasize the CG elements.
Changing Lanes evokes the monumentalism that should inhabit every metaphor of social caste systems in the placement and blocking of characters in Michell's
widescreen tableaux; the
picture is a triumph in
look and feel and an actors» workshop.
Digital artifacts mar the
picture with some regularity and shadow detail is soft, but the
picture, for the most part, is passable -
looking small - screen fare matted to 1.85:1
widescreen.
The
picture remains clean on the 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer, but very soft and with an out - of - focus
look to which you must adjust.
THE DVDs Red Dawn drops onto DVD in a two - disc «Collector's Edition» sporting a nifty 1.87:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer that frees the
picture of the excess grain found in previous home video incarnations but doesn't do much to animate what is frankly a flat -
looking film.
The
picture looks spectacular in its 1080p high definition
widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio).
Due to the stylized post-processing, the 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen presentation delivered
picture that was painful to
look at.
Don't get me wrong: I'm happy as a clam that the films (remastered in effervescent 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfers — pan-and-scan sold separately — supervised by co-creator Bob Gale with Dolby Digital 5.1 remixes that beef up the re-entry effects especially)
look and sound as good as they do and that, for the first time in home video's history, each
picture is now being seen as it appeared in theatres (more on that below).
EXTRAS The only extra, outside of the Recommendations gallery, is a theatrical trailer, framed at about 1.4:1
widescreen, which illustrates not only how the film was marketed, but how poorly it
looks when you trim off around 40 % of the
picture.
Picture quality on the 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen transfer
looks fine for standard definition, with no noticeable flaws arising.
I think if you're going to use images, they should take up the entire screen or be in a «
widescreen» size, rather than a vertical
picture that
looks cropped and centered in a square black screen.