Jurassic Park Blu Ray: Anyone seen it?

[newtontomato539]

I was wondering if anyone has seen the Jurassic Park Blu Ray yet.

My questions are:

1. Do they improve the resolution of the cgi puppets to the same resolution as the ending fight in the great hall? Or to the level of the T.Rex cgi puppet test shot that looks like it walked out of Walking with Dinosaurs?

Scenes I'm hoping they improved:

a. The kitchen stalking: the raptor go motion puppets used in the test shot for this scene looked better than the cgi puppets used this scene from the movie.

b. the Brach sneezing: I saw this in the theatre, looked fake.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Brikar99]

They didn't do any improvements to the effects.

 

[23skidoo]

They didn't do any improvements to the effects.

I believe Spielberg is on record as saying he wasn't a fan of doing such "special edition" revisions like Lucas did (IIRC his special edition of Close Encounters way back around 1980 was the only time he went that route). And you'll find that in general most studios won't go through the expense of redoing effects for Blu-ray for most films. We've become "spoiled" for lack of a better term by Paramount making revisions to Star Trek for Blu-ray, and Lucas making umpteen tweaks to his films, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Most studios will simply run the film through whatever computer software the use for remastering, clean-up the picture where feasible (and profitable - I've bought a number of Blu-rays which are simply upconverted from DVD; not every film warrants deep cleaning), and that's pretty much it. I haven't seen any of the Bond film Blu-rays but I'd imagine they didn't bother enhancing or modernizing the effects on Moonraker.

Alex

 

[Silent_Bob]

They didn't do any improvements to the effects.

I believe Spielberg is on record as saying he wasn't a fan of doing such "special edition" revisions like Lucas did (IIRC his special edition of Close Encounters way back around 1980 was the only time he went that route).

Alex

You forgot E.T. I would imagine the complaints surrounding his revisions to that particular movie put him off altering his other work. Which is for the best really, i have no desire to have a Jurassic Park where Alan Grant and Muldoon wield walkie talkies when faced with Raptors.