Last night (revisited) ::
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Howard Robard Hughes was a very strange 'animal' indeed!
Martin Scorsese directed that flick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the overall Picture color is much oversaturated (Scorsese's very strange choice of a blue palette).
The Sound, unfortunately, is a poorly designed and inferior compressed DD+ (only 640 Kbps).
Marty is a funny guy because he pretends to be a Cinema aficionado and Film archives protector, and also a cineaste of importance for picture & sound quality!
But his main true interest is MONEY! In my book he is NOT an artist, an innovator, but more like an impostor, to me.
Of course he directed some great flicks over his career, but not in the best artistic quality fashion.
His affiliation with Warner Brothers studios is not a valuable one IMO. It is lacking big time in picture and sound quality wise (in general). He also worked for Columbia studios and also Miramax and Universal studios.
And there are several of his movies which are simply inferior of what they could have been. He just didn't take the time to polish them in their best presentation.
I can give you several examples of his 'abandon' like from the beginning with non-anamorphic DVD transfers on some of his films, and up to today with very bad Blu-ray transfers ('The Color of Money' as one example). And to have compressed Audio today is simply unconscientious.
He can pick any favorite albums of his, like 'The Rolling Stones', but he doesn't present them in their very best light.
I read so much about Martin Scorsese, and I saw all his flicks, and I can tell you that what he said, what he does, and what positions he occupy in life are not related at all!
For me, he is a type of incomplete artist with a false aspiration.
I appreciate as much his films' content as I despise his lack of polishing in the true Art sense.
I can easily write a book about Marty Scorsese, but I won't.
And that is my own
P.S. You can click on the picture cover from above if you feel like it.
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Howard Robard Hughes was a very strange 'animal' indeed!
Martin Scorsese directed that flick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the overall Picture color is much oversaturated (Scorsese's very strange choice of a blue palette).
The Sound, unfortunately, is a poorly designed and inferior compressed DD+ (only 640 Kbps).
Marty is a funny guy because he pretends to be a Cinema aficionado and Film archives protector, and also a cineaste of importance for picture & sound quality!
But his main true interest is MONEY! In my book he is NOT an artist, an innovator, but more like an impostor, to me.
Of course he directed some great flicks over his career, but not in the best artistic quality fashion.
His affiliation with Warner Brothers studios is not a valuable one IMO. It is lacking big time in picture and sound quality wise (in general). He also worked for Columbia studios and also Miramax and Universal studios.
And there are several of his movies which are simply inferior of what they could have been. He just didn't take the time to polish them in their best presentation.
I can give you several examples of his 'abandon' like from the beginning with non-anamorphic DVD transfers on some of his films, and up to today with very bad Blu-ray transfers ('The Color of Money' as one example). And to have compressed Audio today is simply unconscientious.
He can pick any favorite albums of his, like 'The Rolling Stones', but he doesn't present them in their very best light.
I read so much about Martin Scorsese, and I saw all his flicks, and I can tell you that what he said, what he does, and what positions he occupy in life are not related at all!
For me, he is a type of incomplete artist with a false aspiration.
I appreciate as much his films' content as I despise his lack of polishing in the true Art sense.
I can easily write a book about Marty Scorsese, but I won't.
And that is my own
P.S. You can click on the picture cover from above if you feel like it.
