yukichigai
Mar 2005
Video Tech Geek
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Are we sure this is a TS?
Just watched this. I'm a little confused as to what the original source actually is, (TC, TS, or otherwise) but the movie looks great so what does it really matter? :P
Video - 9.5: For a TS this is phenomenal, mostly because it is completely without motion blur. It's a little dark and shows a little noise and DCT blocks in the dark areas, but otherwise it is almost perfect. Dead-center, perfectly level, and with an incredibly minor bit of crop at the bottom. I was confused on the lack of motion blur until I pulled up the IMDB info and saw it originated in both Hong Kong and the USA. It looks like it's intended to be shown at 25fps, hence why the 25fps cam video is lacking motion blur. Great stuff. Whoever provided Pukka with this source needs to stay on their payroll.
Audio - 9: Stereo, (real stereo) direct, and without noise or glitches. It does go out of sync in a few places here and there, but it is for, at most, 10 seconds, usually during scenes where it's hard to tell who's saying what anyway. Most of the few out of sync places last for 3-5 seconds, tops, and you really have to look for it. The other 95% of the film is synced perfectly and sounds great.
Movie - 8: It was kind of odd for a Turtles plotline, and I'm not sure if I'm 100% in love with the Incredibles-style figures of the human characters, but all the Turtles look awesome. The plot, while sort of an odd duck, is easy to follow and contains just enough depth and subtle twists to keep it interesting and not immediately predictable. The only real gripe I have about the film is that Donatello and Michaelangelo were woefully underused; Donatello's role was mostly explaining why the entire city was in peril of destruction, while Michaelangelo occasionally showed up to provide 15-20 seconds of comic relief every 15 minutes so. (Yes, he's usually the comic relief, but he was remarkably absent compared to usual Turtles fare) Otherwise the two mostly stayed in the background. You could basically call this "The Leonardo and Raphael Show".
Bottom Line: Get the repack; it's awesome. I'm suspiscious that this is a Telecine rather than a Telesync, but it's irrelevant as the quality is excellent. (Besides, it's not like you'd ever see a group release nuked for passing off a Telecine as a Telesync) Unless someone works amazing wonderous magic to fix the few, incredibly minor sync issues in the repack then this is the release to get at the moment. There's no reason to wait if you want to see this movie; an R5 or DVDSCR isn't going to be a big enough jump in quality to justify the delay.
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03-25-2007 05:28 PM
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great job with the sync and the audio source pukka.
