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Title: Really, really bad transfer
Review: No matter how bad it may be, any film transferred to DVD deserves the best audio and video quality possible. Unfortunately that's not the case with Leather Jacket Love Story.The transfer looks as though it came from a VHS original, compete with distorted vertical lines, lack of contrast, and extreme artificial edge sharpening. True, the 16mm of the original might not have been the most professional stock, but a decent transfer would have avoided the telltail righmost outlines of a cheap "sharpening" filter.Unless you really need to see poorly transferred pictures of a couple of naked actors, you can do much better than this film. "Hard" is another indie filmed about the same time as this movie. There's occasional nudity there, too. But what Hard has and Jacket doesn't is better transfer, acting, and story.
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