I don’t think he’s that much overcompensating since he’s still often oblivious to their bad encoding, low-pas filtering issues and audio filtering problems. This is a tendency of many reviewers though, unfortunately. I bought lots of discs in good faith only to perceive them more or less significantly different. On BR.com, I think that Martin Liebman sometimes gets too easily swept away by films which then affects his video score. Randy Miller has rated the video Criterion’s very good The Power of the Dog UHD way too low because he didn’t like how it was shot. Some of the other reviewers there are baffling in their own respective way. I still like to give the reviews there a quick look before I buy something I’m not familiar with.M Sanderson wrote:thanks for the alternative take on Thelma & Louise, which Svet over at BR dot com had suggested was incorrectly colour graded.Finch wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:41 amexcellent work, AxeYou
Thelma and Louise (Criterion) Chris's review
does anyone think he is overcompensating in current reviews, for perhaps failing to acknowledge previous controversial grading jobs, for some of the earlier Criterion releases?
any other reviews for Thelma & Louise, on the calibre of the encoding?
Back to Svet, I believe that he upgraded his system during the 4K era in order to have the ability to cover 4K discs and maybe he notices the issues more than before due to HDR, screen size and how different modern (digital) films are graded. I think he doesn’t like that the restorations he critiques as “too yellow” try to bring back the feeling of watching said film on 35mm in the past, which I understand when it’s too much á la Leone Ritrovata but he doesn’t comprehend that some restorations which on first glance look “yellow” but are actually very faithfully graded akin to reference material restore original looks which differ from older masters. The biggest example in my opinion is the Three Colors trilogy which I think is unwatchable in its older Telecine iteration but ravishingly beautiful in the newly graded 4K version which actually looks like film.
I think he isn’t drawn to solely criticizing Criterion but a generally “revisionist” philosophy occurring here and there. He just takes that approach too far by too quickly dismissing faithful new grades if they deviate from what he remembers or has seen on previous masters.
Regarding Thelma & Louise. I haven’t seen anything regarding the encoding but guess it should be solid as usual, yet nothing spectacular. I ordered the 4K to create a remux for family members. Will let you know once I get it.