Will Back To The Future Trilogy Ever Come On BluRay

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Does anyone know if BTTF Trilogy will ever be released on Bluray, many people are wanting and waiting for this to finally happen, last news i heard they was doing it but that was a few years ago.

I have see HD screen shots of the film when it was aired on US tv on one of there HD Channels that looked amazing.
 
I sure hope so! my fave movie trilogy apart from LOTR and would LOVE to see a good hd transfer of the movies, especially the colourful second!
 
Seen more than the screen shots....ahem. But yeah would love to buy this as even though what I saw was 720p and looked great the source needed to be cleaned up/restored a bit.
Though if they mark it up like the Lord of the Rings release I wont bother...
 
There are loaRAB of old films I'd like too see on blu-ray. They've only done one John Hughes film so far (Ferris Bueller) and my DVD of Breakfast Club is a particularly bad transfer and neeRAB replacing. It seems to be mostly science fiction films that are getting the blu-ray treatment at the moment, although I'm not complaining - I love my Dark City blu-ray :)
 
Blu-Ray is a perfect way to watch older films again. Watched Leon the other day and couldn't believe how sharp it was, looked brand new, not 15 years old.
 
I agree, Basic Instinct looks very good for its age, and I love the fine grain on Total Recall - its like being at the cinema :D
 
What is it that people fail to understand about film?

Leon and Basic Instinct "looking good for their age":rolleyes:

These are very recent films and practically everything made on 35mm can look as good today as it always had.

35mm has been in use for almost a century .

If Leon looks good what will you make of the recent Blurays of It's A Wonderful Life (1946) ,Wizard of Oz (1939) , or all the other films they have released from the 50's to the 80's like Hitchcocks North by Northwest ?
 
There was a spate of films with low production values in the 80s, the blu-ray transfer of the original Terminator film is atrocious and not likely to be improved upon much due to the films low budget, and parts near the end of Terminator 2 aren't brilliant either despite the high budget apparently due to James Cameron's choice of film stock. Its nice to see a film from this era that you wouldn't particularly think of as having high production values but turns out to be really nice looking. DVD largely covers up the differences between good and bad, so it can be a real revelation to see these films on blu-ray. And yes, I think we all know that plenty of earlier films look a lot better, especially when they've been restored and cleaned up a bit like The Italian Job or The Godfather which required a lot of work to get it looking as good as it does.
 
Wait till you see Aliens in HD, it will look shocking, there's so much grain on that film that even the DVD edition look very grainy.

James Cameron even comments himself that while looking back to it, that it was due to the film stock used.
 
While low production values on effects heavy films like Terminator will affect whether the film itself will look well made that won't make any difference to the quality of the actual image.

Many films of all eras are made with the intention of not looking glossy and expensive while actually having big budgets and the quality of the picture will depend on a list of things from film stock through simple choices made by director and cinematographer but the age of a film is largely irrelevant as seen by the films mentioned earlier .

As long as films have been looked after over the years they can be spruced up and get all the dirt and dust removed to look as good any modern movie.

Obviously neglected films won't look as good.
 
Oh yeah, it will still be worth buying, as it will still be HD, but it will be very grainy.

Im not sure about such things but i was under the impression that Grainy movies are a nightmare to transfer to HD, as the encoder neeRAB to encode every grain every frame, as well as the actual image, so reduces the quality slightly.
Perhaps im wrong, im sure someone will tell me its utter tosh.:D
 
It's fast becoming a problem for film companies who are getting agitated by uninformed punters whinging about grain on Bluray and dvd.

Grain is part of the film and while some companies are running scared and artificially reducing grain to shut people up they are also taking away the cinematic look of films on Bluray.

Unless you view your Blurays too close you should not really notice the grain at regular viewing distance although it will be very much in evidence upon closeup viewing.

Just got the US Criterion disc of The Third Man and that is very grainy but presumably intended in line with the feel of the movie.

Warner delayed releasing the fantasy classic Clash of the Titans with effects by Ray Harryhausen because the Columbia Harryhausen titles attracted complaints about the grain which is quite noticeable because of the huge amount of old fashioned stop motion effects shots.

So when Warner release COTT early in 2010 don't moan about the grain - it's part of the film - although Warner may have spent time during the delay removing it
 
No, its true, grain adRAB to the entropy (the amount of information contained in the picture) and a higher bitrate is needed to accurately represent it. Blu-ray has no shortage of space though, its more of a problem for HDTV. They either need to filter the grain out in pre-processing or allow a higher bitrate to encode it, otherwise the picture will display artefacts such as macroblocking (the particular artefacts manifest will depend on the encoder and its parameters).



You're obviously correct that grain was there in the original and is supposed to be there, and its a travesty when studios process the grain out (especially as they aren't very good at it and tend to leave people looking distinctly plasticy), but I have to disagree that its not visible at normal viewing distances. The grain on the Terminator films is visible at any distance, even the DVRAB had to be heavily softened to remove it. Even with Total Recall, which has a fine grain that gives a very agreeable cinematic effect without being distracting, its still clearly visible at normal viewing distances.
 
The Harryhausen films are a good example of old style stop-motion effects that will never really look smooth and grain-free, even on the most technically superior format.

And it's not just the stop motion effects, but also a lot of films in the 70's and 80's that used process shots, matte paintings and blue/green screen effects.

With such movies, they often look fine during dialogue sequences with no effects, but when the shot cuts to a major effects sequence it can look jarringly different to the texture of the rest of the movie.

Indeed, trying to remaster such movies and make them look smoother or less grainy often has the effect of actually emphasising the falseness of the effects themselves, rather than them looking intergrated.
 
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