Any other Kurosawa/quality fans want to dig in and see how the R2J's rate? I went for Sanjuro and if it's decent I'll get Yojimbo. Sorely tempted by The Hidden Fortress and Red Beard too so I'll have to stay sober in case I spend my monies.
bradavon wrote:Aren't most of them bettered by Criterion?
You mean the Criterions that are contrast-boosted and cropped to hell like Sanjuro and Yojimbo? Perhaps Ran which has a over-manipulated warm colour scheme? Or even the ones with inferior new sub translations like the Seven Samurai 3-discer?
EvaUnit02 wrote:You mean the Criterions that are contrast-boosted and cropped to hell like Sanjuro and Yojimbo? Perhaps Ran which has a over-manipulated warm colour scheme? Or even the ones with inferior new sub translations like the Seven Samurai 3-discer?
Do you mean the Japanese DVDs with no English subs or extras? I know you won't be getting the Japanese DVDs for the first reason alone.
It all depends what you classify as "better". Yep I'd say the Criterion's IMO (and most peoples) are the way to go. I agree about Ran though. I own that but should've picked up the much cheaper UK SE. I don't know why I went for the CC. It's still a perfectly fine DVD though, not enough reason to get the UK SE (maybe).
I didn't know about Sanjuro, Yojimbo or Seven Samurai, not that it matters to me. The competition is worse making it a null point.
Do you have the old CC to compare? I presume the subs are still fine even though they maybe inferior. Even then if the package is otherwise much better then I don't give a shit.
Sadly no English subtitles on pretty much all these releases. Something tells me there's probably little more than 2 people who read these boards who are prepared to fork out 3800yen on these titles.
Personally I can't be arsed to buy DVDs without English subs, if needed. All I want to do is watch the movie not source English subs off the web and create my own DVD. Even though that is in fact relatively simple.
