Marky_198 wrote:MattDean wrote:
It really is a terrible job. It's no longer a Disney classic - it is a Lowry (?) remake!
Matt.
I agree, it is horrific. But honestly, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and BATB are just as bad. This are not Disney Classics anymore.
In all honesty, Lowry's restoration are still in high-quality, despite the changes compared to its earlier film presentations. Yes they look more like digital-to-digital restorations rather than film-to-digital, but the amount of detail is unbelievably high, and at times, a better substitute than VHS (can't say much about Laserdiscs since I never grew up with these). In the case of Cinderella, colors might have washed out the detail, but it still blew my mind when remembering the VHS days. Sleeping Beauty: ... wasn't the first 2003 DVD also from Lowry earlier? In all regards, the latter is still better. Beauty and the Beast: okay, that was mainly a digital project to begin with, so despite the changes... should it matter this much if these don't affect the story itself? I couldn't care less if Cinderella's colors override the detail, I just want to enjoy the film, not so much nitpick needlessly... unless the terrible picture ruins the movie experience, but here, to me, it actually doesn't! ... but what can you do? We now have kids getting used to pure digital animation, so Disney had to remove the grain AND the amount of dirt that is inside the animation.
Let's look at it this way: these restorations do look better than the 2006 restoration of The Little Mermaid. Yeah, you can bullsh*t all you want on Lowry, but this restoration was NOT done by Lowry, and unfortunately, the different company overdid this. Thankfully, this won't affect the 2013 HD restoration. Yet again, the 2006 restoration wasn't truly meant for Blu-ray at the time since its main version was the DVD.
Now, it's 2013. Sword and the Stone should NOT be of lower quality than the earlier Lowry Restorations! And charging a premium price on top of it! Purely inexcusable! Inconceivable, mind you!
If you like it or not, there is a difference between the look of this classics that made the world love them so much, and the look of direct to dvd sequels. Have you ever noticed that difference, or does it all just look the same to you?
... Even with the debatable Lowry restorations, I'd still say that there's a big difference when it comes to comparing the two. Let's see: high budget high quality animation made for theaters vs. low budget low quality animation made for VHS/DVD/Blu-ray (whichever) ... Rarely do I not notice a difference nor do I notice the DTV sequel being better looking than the original film.
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Entirely different story.
