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How come the film looks so bad?

posted 14 years ago by Ite
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Pictire quality I mean, would be cool to see a Blu Ray restoration.

[–] Fail-Safe 14 years ago

"Shock Waves was filmed using Super 16mm and then
transfered to 35mm, while looking superior to other
earlier DVD releases of the film, this version still
displays speckling & excessive grain.
With that said, this version of Shock Waves will
never look better than what is displayed.
The film stock used, was taken from the Director's
private vault collection."

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6264179/Shock_Waves_1977_DivX-NvadR

[–] Ite 14 years ago

Is the DVD version alot better than the Netflix version?

[–] 14 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Still looks pretty bad.

It's seemingly just gonna be one of those films that'll never get a good proper scrub up from the original camera negative. A shame.

[–] PaladinNJ (21782) 3 years ago

It’s great the way it is. Not everything has to be scrubbed for tech.

[–] SteveG (1370) 2 years ago

I was just watching this and I thought it Woulda been nice to see Brooke Adams in higher quality though. 😁. IDKY but I was thinking She would have made a much better Lois Lane in Superman than Margot Kidder.