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How exactly did Friedkin prevent the original work from being seen? Did he pull all dvds and vhs tapes and film prints? Just because the "original" version wasn't included on the same blu-ray does not prevent it from being seen. And to compare a moderately different look to the film to a...

Not really. It's pretty much b&w on the blu-ray. I don't find the difference that great. A slightly cooler feel to the colors. More detail, except in the blacks, which are now richer and darker. I think the skin tones are far more realistic and natural on the blu-ray. My only quibble is...

You even have to ask why he has so much control over his films? :confused: Again, I don't think I've ever heard that asked of any other director. Personally, there are things I hate in the Exorcist Redux. While I love the additional doctor scenes and the alternate ending, the spiderwalk and...

Yeah, I actually thought I had a defective disc for a minute because the load time was so long. I'd seen some slow blu-rays but nothing like this. Also, I just remembered that Fincher completely re-timed his film Se7en digitally for home theater release on the New Line Platinum Series dvd to...

Having just watched it through for the second time this week, I find the new blu-ray version to be quite beautiful and on the whole much better than the previous dvd version. It feels much more film-like. The fleshtones are 100% spot on, which they never were before, suffering under the...

Aside from agreeing that the original could have been provided, there is no consesus that the new transfer is bad. It is simply a matter of opinion. There are reviewers out there who actually like the new transfer. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...php?p=15919391 The French...

Well it's not to imply that a director does it all himself, but that it is his intent and vision for the film. Otherwise you can have everyone doing their own thing: a writer who wrote a scathing social indictment, actors playing it like a satirical comedy, a PD who sees it as German...

Very true. But Criterion also has a series of "Director Approved" releases as well. And I'm not trying to marginalize or minimize the DP's contribution to a film, but most DP's these day's freely admit they are there to realize the director's vision and intent, not necessarily their own. Even on...

But he didn't say "weakened." He said "emasculated." Sigh. Very typical. Clearly you did not read my post. It wasn't about Roizman being critical of the transfer, but the overly emotional, hyperbolic way in which he expressed it that makes me take him less seriously. A film is not "human"...

Agreed, but it would actually mean something if it made sense. How can a film transfer be "emasculated" ?

I'm sorry, but the cinematographer, however talented (or in some cases, even a genius), is but an additional tool for the director to realize his film intent. Similar to the art director and actors. They are all there to serve the director and his vision. It's a collaborative art, but they are...

To me the difference in the looks of each SB and TFC are no more "radical" than the other.

Not NEW versions necessarily. Artists' preferred versions. Sometimes they're even the original versions, before changes were forced on them. As I said before, more than once, it would be great if they included both. But why should it be a deal breaker if they don't only for this film? Neither...

But TFC is. Just not on this same blu-ray. I guess what I find strange is the resistence to this release when people have not even seen it yet. And it's not like the "original" is no longer available.

I disagree with this point. It assumes that the way a film is upon intial release is an artistic or aesthetic choice. Frequently, nothing could be farther from the truth. The way a film is upon release is often the result of (relatively) arbitrary things such as post-production budget and time...

I have to say that I don't get the resistance to this blu-ray just because the color mastering is somewhat different. It's not a different film per se. Paramount just put out Friday the 13th on BR and it's a different cut of the film. No one is balking at buying it if they don't put out the...

Mr. Friedkin uses this same system on the recent DVD of The Boys in the Band which looks terrific. I wouldn't begrudge an original version being included in TFC, but it certainly isn't a deal breaker for me. I'll be picking this up as I never got around to picking up the dvd. The one...