Kriptin ...

[Shane R. Monroe]

So, I'm on a Superman spree today while I telework. I love the original Superman films and have to do a movie fest on them a couple times a year ...

I love that they paid Brando like $1M for 15 minutes of film and the dude is the ONLY one that cannot pronounce KRYPTON properly. Donner really gave the dude carte blanche since they all felt that his name alone would carry the movie. But still, man ... 'CRYPT-ON' not 'criptin'.

Just had to bitch publically.

Something else I noticed since DVD got big ... ever notice how even fully digitally remastered old movies have the DIRTIEST picture during optical effect shots? Not just blue screen stuff, but the whole picture looks like someone scratched it with a brillo pad while the effect is present? The movie looks like totally quality digital .. then they do some effect and the whole damn scene turns gravel, then the effect is done, poof - insta clean.

Even Superman - with its GORGEOUS transfer and obvious care suffers horribly from this optical grain.

I'm no expert, but I'd assume this is due to the 'handling' of the film while the effect shot is applied. Any experts out there know this for sure?

[Demolition Man]

I'd imagine that its harder to properly remove some levels of grain out of the film without screwing something up along the way. Just a guess tho.

As far as the Superman films... I only got the first one so far as I suspect that we'll see Special Editions for 2-4 down the road. Hell, I just read somewhere not that long ago that they are working on a new extended cut for part 2... tho that could be rumor mill type stuff. Oh well.