Just watched it on Blu-ray...
It's laughable. Very.
shareyeah. It's very dated, and poorly done by today's standards.
how was the quality? Any better than a standard DVD?
I want to get this, but not if the BLU is not any improvement.
I don't have the Blu-ray/dvd eagle eye BUT when I watched it, I thought I was watching the standard definition.
Rent it or borrow it at your local library, that's what I did.
On its Wikipedia page, the Fox executives were betting on two sci-fi movies for its 1977 summer, DA and Star Wars. It said they didn't have much faith in Lucas' film... (SMH violently).
To Stazza, I'm pretty familiar with this film, and it's a huge improvement over the old SD "pan and scan" version. It was transferred in true HD for the Bluray - that part is very clear - but the print of film they used wasn't the greatest, and has flaws in a lot of areas.
"It's people..."
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Shame the Blu Ray is locked to US so had to download a 1080P the version but its so much better than the VHS copy before.
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I thought BR was pretty decent considering age of source material. It made the cheesy effects look even cheesier! Yeah I didn't really like it much, it was okay. It's no Road Warrior, it's not even an Omega Man but for fans of post apocalyptic Science fiction you could do worse I guess.
shareHuh?
“Considering the age of source material”?
I don’t think you have a clue about cinema technology. 35mm film negatives have the equivalent of 8K quality. This disk was not transferred from the negative and was poorly done. That has nothing to do with the “age of the source material.”
I suggest DVD-Fab to get around this type of problem. I've bought several out of region DVDs and Blurays and simply copied to a writable disc. DVD-Fab will remove the region encoding from both DVDs and Blurays.
shareIt’s not dated really at all.
What you probably don’t realize is that those not-so-special effects looked terrible even in 1977.
“There’s good, and there’s not good.
This is not good.”