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Title: Great Movie, Poor Blu-ray transfer
Review: The 2-star review has nothing to do with the quality of the movie... I thoroughly enjoy "The Big Lebowski", and have seen it many, many times. The problem is the transfer: grainless, lifeless, and not at all film-like. It doesn't represent the character of film in any way, looking quite like an early, heavily scrubbed hi-def video transfer. It's at least better than the first-issue DVD I own, but anyone who has any of the DVD re-issues would be hard-pressed to find a great improvement in this version.I saw the film in 35mm last year at our local art-house cinema, and it looked MUCH better than this release. Yeah, it wasn't a particularly crisp film, and did show some age....but it did contain film grain, and it looked real. Of course, if Universal actually released a high-quality transfer of "Lebowski", they'd have no reason to re-release every few years (and lose a nice revenue stream.Very disappointing!
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