EnricoE
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I’ve bought the Godafather Trilogy on Blu-ray when it came out and I haven’t watched it until this weekend. Unfortunately the European Edition omits the original mono mix – thanks Paramount– But the the 5.1 mix wasn’t bad at all. Kudos to the mixing team. The picture quality was pretty damn nice. Details I haven’t seen before and an interesting color floor. So overall a good presentation of the movies. Yes? NO! The blacks are terrible. I don’t know what went wrong, but many scenes have really murky and redish blacks. This is even more showing on the featurette “Emulsional Rescue: Revealing The Godfather” on the 4th disc. The blacks of the restored scene shown there looked great. So why did they change it for the movie discs? I don’t know.
But with UHD and HDR this movie can be saved and shown how it should truly have been. HDR can produce some impressive blacks while retaining mid and high...
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