The 4K restoration does not live up to the rave reviews.
I was disappointed with the 4K 'Final Cut': I don't think it lives up to the rave reviews. The image quality is quite impressive in the daylight scenes, but looks soft and very grainy in a lot of the night shots. I project my films onto a ten-foot screen, so maybe I was expecting too much from this forty-year-old movie. And the sound is not as full-bodied, as I was led to believe from the review sites. But maybe its image imperfections result from the film's original capture using the inferior Techniscope wide screen system that splits the 35mm frame in half horizontally to achieve the letter-box aspect ratio, which is then squashed anamorphically for scope projection. 2001, for example, was shot on 65mm film and its recent 4K release puts Apocalypse Now to shame. Finally, I think that the new plantation segment adds very little to the narrative; maybe they should have stuck to the original 1979 theatrical release for its 4K debut. Sorry, but I was expecting so much.
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