- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:51 pm
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inksb wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:09 pmFirst time watch, holy hell. To be in your shoes, my friend. My friends and I would watch this film repeatedly on VHS.Bezulsqy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:06 pm I like this one. Not because of it being scary but I thought it was original and well made.Can't wait to check this one out. Hopefully this week or weekend.
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The Abyss by Jimmy "I fucking hate grain as much as I want to fuck a blue alien" Cameron
First time watch for me and The Abyss fucking rocks. I missed this initially in the 90's then I decided to wait for a HD transfer before I watched it, I made this decision when bluray first became a thing and it took this fucking long. Add to that this film has been completely scrubbed of film grain and sharpened it's kind of a shame I denied myself the awesomeness of this film for the end result. Honestly the transfer seems to be the best of the 3 recent 4K transfers from Jimmy's catalog, it looks pretty good most of the time, there's some glaringly bad smooth shots here and there but others look really clean too. Some of the composite shots still have grain and I assume that's bc it would have completely fucked the shot up if they removed it entirely. Worth checking out the new transfer just to see what they did. I hope one of these days some on scans a 35 mm print, I'd love to see what that looks like.