Crazy Little Thing Called Love Budapest '86 - Cinema Version

[QUOTE] [b]AdamMethos wrote:[/b]
Weird. In some of the shots, Freddie's white outfit is tinted yellow in the new version and remains white in the old one. And in others, it's white in the new one and tinted yellow in the old.
Overall, I like the new one better. The colors are more vibrant and strange color tints seem to be there to give it more filmic look instead of the washed-out video-ish look of the old version. Although the new one is cropped, I don't see (in the clips posted anyway) any vital things being cropped out -- nothing like, e.g. bad pan-and-scan movie where in a scene with two people, the second person is cropped out of the picture.[/QUOTE]
Interesting, i am quite surprised that somebody LIKES the colours. I have a feeling that this release will look as bad as QRM. At least my eyes are pretty sensitive to colour anomalies. Anyway, we can be glad that they release it in a modern video format, a few people have VCR's these days

Thanks for the Mediafire link, eYe! You're awesome

Dont you think Freddie and everyone looked squashed and smaller than they should have done, as though they are shrunken people of small stature?
I hope Sacha will get on with that medical leg adjustment that Roger was on about last autumn, and quickly.
Time is ticking by and it will take months for him to recover, to even be able walk properly , never mind learn Freddie's stage moves.

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]
Interesting, i am quite surprised that somebody LIKES the colours. I have a feeling that this release will look as bad as QRM. At least my eyes are pretty sensitive to colour anomalies. Anyway, we can be glad that they release it in a modern video format, a few people have VCR's these days
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I guess I'm just looking at it from a "cinematic" point of view. In films, the objective isn't necessarily to reproduce colors as accurately as possible but to use cinematography to convey mood, a style, and so on.

So adding a yellow-ish tint that makes white look like off-white isn't inherently wrong to me. Maybe they just want to add warmth to the scene for whatever reason. To use a simplistic example, Somebody To Love might benefit from a warm treatment whereas Stone Cold Crazy would benefit from a cold treatment.

Interesting what Carlos Rivera says and shows with his pictures.
The sad true is that Queen Productions (Brian involved of course) has learned very good the bad arts from Saul Swimmer. Saul filmed Montreal 81 in 1:85:1 film format, and the first 3 editions of We will rock you video (Montreal 81) were in 4:3 format but not from the 1:85:1, but from a little part from it and with a crap of picture quality. Later was released in widescreen format (the last swimmer release) with nice picture quality but cropping part of the bottom and top from the 4:3 edition and adding a little part on the sides.
Finally when Saul died, Brian bought the masters films, and released a more complete (but even cutted) 16:9 edition from the 1:85:1 film. And with a terrible digital cleaned image and with a very ugly colors (I never got notice till Rock Montreal that Roger Brian John and Freddie skins were yellow )
They were from China?, or maybe that day the 4 member got hepatitis?
maybe next release will be 1:85:1 with properly color but ever with something missing for a next re re re re re re re re release.
Now, is the same story with Budapest video. Maybe in 4 following release we can get a real 16:9 version from the 1:85:1 film and with yellow skins, but not for now.
For now we will get a widescreen edition from the 4:3 version, cropping the bottom and top and adding a little pieces on the sides. And the Queens with RED skins colors. what a crap!
Finally I think I'll never will sell my Budapest 86 Laserdisc.

Not 4:3 but 3:2 I guess...

comparing to other speed corrected versions One thing I don't like is they killed the snappy snare drum sound from the original and dropped the levels and added some pro tools magic on it. I have listened to a few audience recordings made in '86 and live magic they had a snappy snare sound. This sounds very similar with wembley friday show mix (made in 2011). Same techniques?

[QUOTE] [b]Carlos Rivera wrote:[/b]
What do you think, more graphic!
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looks like YOU need to adjust YOUR equipment

[QUOTE] [b]qz08927 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Carlos Rivera wrote:[/b]
What do you think, more graphic!
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looks like YOU need to adjust YOUR equipment
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looks like YOU need to adjust YOUR equipment ! :-)

I too will be hanging on to my laserdisc rip, but think a blu-ray release of this new transfer will blow it away.

On that basis I will certainly buy it if and when it's released.

hasn't anyone read what i wrote?

Do i have to repeat myself? Hundreds of (mostly old) movies are shot on 4:3 (or other square) format but when it's time to edit the movie to it's theatrical/home release the director makes it 16:9 or whatever format he wants. I gave Back To TheFuture as an example, but there are hundreds more.

This WAS shot in 4:3, but with 16:9 format in mind! If you look to the 16 cam bootleg version you'll see that it's in 16:9 format

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXX3LBXO_M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXX3LBXO_M[/url] although there's some bad framing here, 16:9 it's the way it's meant to bee seen.

Don't forget that when the VHS was released, there was NO widescreen tv's. But now with widescreen tv's all over the place, it's time to release it as the way it should be seen, in 16:9.

This was NOT filmed in widescreen, cropped to 4:3 and them cropped to widesreen again.

A very small correction - it was not shot in 4:3. It was shot with the 1.85 aspect ration in mind which is wider than standard 16:9.

So basically they cropped the sides for the VHS/LD release, and now they went back to the negatives and cropped a little bit from the top and bottom

And I'm not quite sure that there were NO widescreen TVs in the late 80's. They were not available in shops but I remember visiting with my class a local factory in the late 80's and I could swear they had widescreen TVs/monitors ... But it was almost 3 decades ago so I can't bet on it, maybe just my memory is playing tricks with me...

Is here somebody with better memory ?

The original film was filmed by open matte (also known soft matte) technique.
See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte.
Full 4:3 frame is on the filmnegative in the Hungarian Filmarchive...There was no cropped the sides for the vhs release.

[QUOTE] [b]Istvan wrote:[/b]
The original film was filmed by open matte (also known soft matte) technique.
See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte.
Full 4:3 frame is on the filmnegative in the Hungarian Filmarchive...There was no cropped the sides for the vhs release.[/QUOTE]
Do you KNOW this or do you THINK it ? Or in other words do you work for the archive ? :-)

If you KNOW it was shot like this thanks for the info

I know it...but I don't work for the archive.