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Author Topic: Was U-571 "contrasty" to you? Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-19-2000 09:41 PM                        Okay, so I'm a little slow at seeing the new movies, but I finally saw U-571 and there were some "contrasty" scenes in there. It was odd. Of course, most of the movie takes place at night, underwater and/or inside dimly-lit submarines. Those scenes all looked fine to me. But any of the daylight scenes or brightly-lit interior scenes looked way too contrasty to me. Bright parts of the picture were washed out, dark spots of the same shot were too dark. Am I just imagining this? Did anyone else notice this? Is it possible that what I saw was printed badly while the majority of other prints were okay?  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-19-2000 10:17 PM                     Our print seems OK.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-20-2000 12:21 AM                     The print I screened looked fantastic. (But then again, I like harsh blacks and blinding whites too.)  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-20-2000 07:14 AM                        The prints that I've seen looked very good--razor sharp and surprisingly little grain. They were a bit more contrasty than a lot of newer films, but I'd assume that this was intentional, as a way to evoke the general look and feel of the IB Tech prints of WWII films from the 1950s and 1960s. I recently saw a British IB Tech print of "Guns of Navarrone" (great film, BTW) in 4-track mag, and the look was very similar.  |  IP: Logged

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