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It's probably more accurate to describe the LD mix for Se7en as a near-field mix, where the spread and dynamic range have been adjusted but the overall channel content remains untouched, however I do not know the film well enough to know if this is the case here.
Whereas the 6.1EX/ES mixes for the Platinum DVD are a new mix with changes to effects placement and (I think) new/different sound effects in certain places. Both home mixes (Criterion/New Line Platnum) were supervised by Ren Klyce
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It wasn't even the grain question...the color timing and contrast just don't feel right. The Criterion LD is my gold standard and given the nature of its production, it feels a lot closer to what the show prints may have looked like. This feels like it's building on the old BD. The old BD was fine but definitely re-imagined from a visual perspective.
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2024-11-22, 04:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-11-22, 04:10 PM by Plissken1138.)
“We’re going back and doing it in 4K from the original negative, and we overscan it, oversample it, doing all of the due diligence, and there’s a lot of shit that needs to be fixed […] Because there’s a lot of stuff that we now can add because of high dynamic range. You know, streaming media is a very different thing than 35mm motion picture negative in terms of what it can actually retain. So there are, you know, a lot of blown-out windows that we have to kind of go back and ghost in a little bit of cityscape out there.”
I get that he's a perfectionist but... I'm wondering when things like this go from unintrusive to revisionist.
