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Originally Posted by piratehunter
Why raise or lower the rating based on the Superbit? Sony has never been very good at mastering their films. And as Dugpa and myself noted above, the theatrical prints were not inherently dirty, so the film should look MUCH better than it does. If the Superbit and BD were minted from the same source, they both should get a poor score.
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Yes, but the difference is in the presentation. It's hard for me to remember way back to when the movie was released in theaters. If all of you are able to say with absolute certainty that FE was pristine when shown, well, then you have impressive memories. Currently, all we have to go on is what has been released since that theatrical presentation. The original, superbit, and bd releases. I've seen the original, which was nice, but I haven't seen the superbit version.
If the superbit version doesn't have spots on it, then I know that Sony was incredibly lazy with this bd release and will maybe lower the rating. If the superbit print does have spots, first I will question why everyone clamored to say it was a reference disc, and secondly, I might raise the score if the improvement in detail, color, etc. is noticeable from the superbit to the bd version. If the source is so shoddy that spots were inevitable, then it's not the format itself or the transfer that is the problem. It will depend on what the superbit transfer looks like.