I quite liked it, although I didn't like the narration and I would have preferred they shot it as a continuing story rather than with the narration, and I would have liked it if they gave some more attention to the other wire walks he did. The film kind of paints Philippe Petit as an amateur - which he certainly was not. I would have liked to have seen more of his daily practising. For example one thing we didn't see in "The Walk" is Philippe doing backwards-rolls on the wire which you can see him do in Man on Wire at 56 minutes in (it's on dailymotion if you want to google-search it, I won't directly link it for copyright reasons).

The sequences on top of the twin towers were done really well though. But the film's ending was all wrong - there was no mention for example of the harsher legal consequences that were handed to his accomplices.

It was good, but Man on Wire is the better film in my view. But it's worth seeing for the twin-tower rooftop sequences.

Well, 21st october 2015 is "that" date... will you watch the whole trilogy?

I'll do it, with my family!

Any chance someone has the LD and can capture the Movie Audio and the Isolated Score? The Blu-ray only contains a newly created 5.1 mix and the original mono mix would be nice to have. The Isolated Score would be considered as a Bonus, if the track is available on the LD the capture-person has.

Thanks in advance

It seems I had an unplanned Jessica Chastain double feature by seeing The Martian and Crimson Peak.

As for The Martian I loved it. There were a few things going against it for me. I'm not the biggest fan of Matt Damon. I love Ridley Scott but he only makes a good movie maybe 1 out of every 5 times and I read the book and loved it so there was a lot to live up to. Luckily for me everyone hit it out of the park and I loved the film. In fact of the 3 "space" films over the last few years, Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, I enjoyed this the best.

Anyone see this yet?

Hello,

Do you have any tips for aligning two different sources? I have DVD and HDTV, I would want to color correct DVD source to HDTV and delogo it using that.

Upscaled DVD: http://i.imgur.com/6jEQTB1.jpg
HDTV: http://i.imgur.com/24ZquVi.jpg

I was given these today......they anything special or could anyone use them?

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When comparing stills from a widescreen and a fullscreen shot from Hardcore, I found that it was shot as an open-matte movie, with the top and bottom chopped from the DVD widescreen release. I made a quick comparison based on the limited sources I have.
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I'm told that the whole picture was restored for the videos and cable un-matted showings. Is there a possibility of a fan-res being assembled from these?

Hello everyone!

My name is David, I love movies. It's amazing the work they do restoring films.

I hope to share good moments with you.

A greeting

Ok, so I started working on this back in early August and thought it would take me two-three weeks to complete, LOL
As usual, the process dragged itself out and I'm just now finishing assembling the video for this, but the actual BD release is still a little bit away, as I need to finish the other parts of the disc first since this will be my first entry in the "Shadoe Presents: The Vintage Disney Channel Throwback Collection."

I can hear some of you asking, "Why is this project needed?" and the answer is simple: the old itunes transfer is nice but is of low bitrate, grainless, has some macro-blocking and is a little soft (due to compression) and the 1080i HDTV transfer, although much better quality and some grain retention, has a logo  

What most people don't know though, is that there are actually TWO different 1080i captures, each with the logo in a different part on-screen. Let me demonstrate with some quick screenshot I just took (apparently one frame off, LOL):

The "common" 1080i HDTV transfer (easily found on Russian trackers)

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The "rare" 1080i HDTV transfer (which I was only able to find a 720p rip of on a Vietnamese forum)

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As you can see, the logo is in a much different spot, but (as you can see in this quick 50/50 overlay) there is still a very small area of overlap:

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I realized that trying to run any delogo script on this once I have only that small area of overlap will be much easier and produce better results than if I was trying to run any delogo script on just the "common" 1080i transfer. So, I upscaled the 720p rip back to 1080p using SuperResolution, regrained it slightly (to match the level of grain in the 1080i), de-interlaced the 1080i transfer and slowed it back down from 25fps to 23.976fps and "went to work" on it in Sony Vegas. Once I had most of the logo gone, except for that small area where the overlap is, I rendered it to a 1080p lags file that I loaded into avisynth, where I ran it through a few different delogo plugins (at different settings) until I found a "happy medium." The result was decent, but I noticed (as to be expected) that there were still some artifacts here and there. Was NOT happy with the results, even though most people wouldn't notice it, it's one of those things that once seen can never be unseen.

So, I kinda had to go "back to the drawing board." I decided to take the itunes transfer, regrained it to match the level of grain present in the 1080i source and then I overlayed the source on top of my "delogoed" footage. Upon doing this, I realized that there is a little bit of extra picture on the sides of the HDTV caps (both are identical in terms of framing) BUT there is a little bit of extra picture on the top and bottom of the itunes capture. I wanted to include all of this "extra" picture in the final render, so I aligned everything (the itunes cap is slightly squeezed horizontally compared to the HDTV) tried to do an accurate color-match of the itunes to the HDTV, (they are really, really close, but not the same and had to be adjusted [mainly for brightness/contrast] on a scene by scene basis) applied a "slight touch extra" grain on top of the entire thing and then rendered out the entire project. The result is beautiful but the "extra" image (especially on bottom) doesn't always match as, at times, is slightly darker than the rest of screen. I ran this through multiple tests (where I "wasted" nearly two weeks) and this is the best I can do. When viewed on my 1080p 52" HDTV, this render looks amazing and I am happy with it. BUT, there may be those of you that will dislike the mis-match and might suggest that I just crop off that part, which I "technically" could do and then we would have the best copy available of this film. This I will leave up to you fine people but for now, here's a sample containing three minutes of footage with a downmixed to stereo audio track (from ~ 5th minute to ~ 8th minute) (it's 537MB because this is demuxed from my "final for BD" encode to show the full video quality)

Quote:https://mega.nz/#!MIgmwRTb!M-2cI02UMX6gp...jGVs0IkDuM

link will expire 30 days AFTER release of project

The new 4K Mastered BD is out and it looks awesome. But Universal couldn't leave the audio alone
and added a 7.1 mix to it. So I suggest that we add the audio from the Criterion LD and also include
the audio commentary from it.

Anyone may have said LaserDisc and can capture the audio tracks?

If we have no luck getting the audio from the CC-LD, I can provide the audio from the CC-DVD.