[General Kenobi]

 Audition is coming to bluray Oct 6!


I saw this for the first time just about a month ago... this is a must own!


I'm not sure about the cover art, I kinda like the original with her looking at the razorwire.

 

[NIN74]

I agree, a must have!

 

[Nosferax]

Oh yes. Kind of make you think twice about dating though.

 

[wegafan]

This movie more than anyone before it caused me to have covers around me so I could quickly pull them over my head as did my GF at the time. I have never squirmed and yelled out at a movie so much in my life...Agreed a must have title...AFRAID...yet strangely intrigued about the BR treatment

 

[Kentai]

Both of the US DVDs out now are a mess. The first from Chimera was non-anamorphic and from a less than perfect print (same as the original Japanese DVD), while the second transfer was a 16:9 telecine from a nice new print, but Lionsgate just transfered the PAL master Tartan and R.E.M. used to NTSC, so it's got all sorts of interlacing artifacts and the usual speedup/pitch issues. Blah!


I like Miike quite a bit, and this is probably his all around best film. October can't come fast enough.

 

[General Kenobi]

Audition ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly Top 20 horror films from past 20 years . The list is pretty bad... missing a lot of excellent flicks and several that should not be there but even if Audition does not deserve #1 it is certainly top 5 material.

 

[Mr Magic]



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Originally Posted by General Kenobi /forum/post/16950088


Audition ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly Top 20 horror films from past 20 years . The list is pretty bad... missing a lot of excellent flicks and several that should not be there but even if Audition does not deserve #1 it is certainly top 5 material.

Audition isn't even in the top five horror movies if you restrict it to Japanese movies. There is a far better and much more influential Japanese horror movie that easily occupies the top spot among Japanese horror movies.

 

[Kilgore]



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Originally Posted by Mr Magic /forum/post/16958569


Audition isn't even in the top five horror movies if you restrict it to Japanese movies. There is a far better and much more influential Japanese horror movie that easily occupies the top spot among Japanese horror movies.

I don't really think of it as a "horror" movie. I think of it a damn good movie that gets damn nasty in the last 20 minutes.

 

[Jimmy Nugent]



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There is a far better and much more influential Japanese horror movie that easily occupies the top spot among Japanese horror movies.

Are you referring to Ugetsu? Kwaidan? Jigoku?


Just curious...


Jimmy

 

[Andy_K]



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Originally Posted by Mr Magic /forum/post/16958569


Audition isn't even in the top five horror movies if you restrict it to Japanese movies. There is a far better and much more influential Japanese horror movie that easily occupies the top spot among Japanese horror movies.

Is there any point to being so coy other than to taunt the rest of us?


I adore Audition -- though I can't rewatch it that frequently -- and hope they do it right. I've seen twenty or so Miikes: this was my first and still my favorite.

 

[Paul Arnette]

So, the screenshots of this release have been up for some time at DVD Beaver:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare3/audition.htm


Any opinions on the quality?

 

[dysfunction26]



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Originally Posted by General Kenobi /forum/post/16950088


Audition ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly Top 20 horror films from past 20 years . The list is pretty bad... missing a lot of excellent flicks and several that should not be there but even if Audition does not deserve #1 it is certainly top 5 material.

That list is completely lame, a lot of those are Sci-fi, or comedy spoofs. EW needs to get a clue, The Descent is #16 (I think), come on...that was a lot better than most of the movies on there.

 

[General Kenobi]



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Originally Posted by Paul Arnette /forum/post/17281490


So, the screenshots of this release have been up for some time at DVD Beaver:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare3/audition.htm


Any opinions on the quality?

wtf? Why do the whites look purple? The Tartan release almost looks superior to my eyes. I have no idea what the intent was but the BD really seems to have some color timing issues.

 

[Blood Pie]



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Originally Posted by General Kenobi /forum/post/17281657


wtf? Why do the whites look purple? The Tartan release almost looks superior to my eyes. I have no idea what the intent was but the BD really seems to have some color timing issues.

As someone who has owned all of the previous DVD releases this title seems like it will never get a proper release.


That being said I think the BD looks fine considering the source and history of the film in the home media market. It was never much of a looker anyway in terms of being reference quality and SUPPOSEDLY this transfer was struck from the negative and not recycled so for all we know this is how its supposed to look.


Edit- inter-negative.


Either way Ill be the apologist for this BD and say it still will look and sound the best on BD irregardless and most likely will never see a top notch release.

 

[Kentai]

The sad part is that the color timing could have been fixed. Behold, 2 clicks in Photoshop:

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Now just imagine what a colorist spending a whole minute on this shot would be capable of...

 

[Filmmaker]

Mmm, yeah, but your Photoshopping also brightened the hell out of the scene, which may not have been the director's preference.

 

[omenII]



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Originally Posted by Kentai /forum/post/17294912


The sad part is that the color timing could have been fixed. Behold, 2 clicks in Photoshop.


Now just imagine what a colorist spending a whole minute on this shot would be capable of...

Kentai, can I ask how you 'corrected' that shot? Was it a simple hue shift? Reason I'm asking is because I have the blu-ray on its way and will be converting it for playing on my WDTV as with everything these days. I've seen Audition many times via. several sources and the BD's red bias looks completely off to me. I can adjust the hue during re-encoding if that's all it takes...

 

[chirpie]



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Originally Posted by omenII /forum/post/17295779


Kentai, can I ask how you 'corrected' that shot? Was it a simple hue shift? Reason I'm asking is because I have the blu-ray on its way and will be converting it for playing on my WDTV as with everything these days. I've seen Audition many times via. several sources and the BD's red bias looks completely off to me. I can adjust the hue during re-encoding if that's all it takes...

It looks like the auto color filter in photoshop. That filter looks for the brightest area in the image and pushes it to neutral. It behaves much like trying to bring the temperature of white to idea 6500k. The trick is, it usually only works when there's some dominate white in the photo for it to work off of. Otherwise, it isn't all that successful.

 

[omenII]



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Originally Posted by chirpie /forum/post/17295797


It looks like the auto color filter in photoshop. That filter looks for the brightest area in the image and pushes it to neutral. It behaves much like trying to bring the temperature of white to idea 6500k. The trick is, it usually only works when there's some dominate white in the photo for it to work off of. Otherwise, it isn't all that successful.

Thanks chirpie. Just done it in paint.net and also managed to replicate it using the hue, brightness and contrast settings. I'll give it a go during the re-encoding process when my blu-ray arrives.

 

[Kentai]

I doubt Takashi Miike's "preference" involved using an Internegative for the Blu-ray remaster.


Don't misunderstand, I wouldn't dream of claiming the above example is "right". The only point I'm trying to make is that far more neutral colors can easily be made from whatever digital master Shout! Factory has. A dedicated RGB adjustment would get similar results without blowing out the whites and gamma, as the auto-fix above has.


That's why I made a joke about "spending a whole minute". It's called 'reading between the lines'. Try it, it's fun.