Pour moi l'édition UK est à mettre à la poubelle.
Tout y est boosté (luminosité, contraste, couleurs, définition) pour nous faire croire à de la HD, mais le résultat est pitoyable.
Autre capture du même disque :
C'est affligeant.
C'est moche, plat, "numérique", sans réels détails. Y a un Edge Enhancement de malade qui pollue complètement l'image. Et au niveau du décolleté d'Adrienne, on a même un effet d'escalier typique d'une source d'une résolution inférieure.
L'édition US me semble par contre très bonne, dans le sens où le rendu des captures (Beaver ou Blu-ray.com) me paraît très fidèle au film.
Le film a toujours été très sombre. Et il a été tourné avec peu de moyens. Du coup la définition n'a jamais été bluffante.
Encore une fois, le piège de ce genre de comparatifs, c'est qu'en regardant vite, on croit voir que la définition de l'édition UK est meilleure, alors qu'elle est trafiquée, et du coup le Blu US semble très faiblard... alors qu'il me semble très fidèle à ce qu'est le film au départ.
D'ailleurs la
critique de Blu-ray.com me paraît très pertinente.
Many an anxious fan jumped the gun and imported Optimum's U.K. Blu-ray release of Escape From New York, only to find that it was a lousy standard definition upconvert, laden with heavy edge enhancement and compression artifacts. I'm pleased to report, then, that this U.S. MGM edition is an all-new high definition transfer, one that looks better in every regard and proves to be a significant upgrade from prior DVD iterations. That said, this might not be the miraculous transformation you were expecting. It's helpful to remember that Escape From New York was a fairly low-budgeted film—especially for its scale—and was shot almost entirely at night. The film has always been dark, murky, and somewhat soft, and that's certainly what it is here. The U.K. release tried to remedy this by boosting the contrast, filtering the grain, and digitally heightening the sharpness, but the end result was an artificial-looking image with little resemblance to the film's theatrical origins.
MGM goes the opposite route, with a picture that seems to have received only minimal tweaking and consequently looks much more natural. This 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer, framed closely to the film's original 2.39:1 aspect ratio and placed on a dual-layer 50 GB disc, is easily the best Escape From New York has ever looked on home video. Color is more keenly balanced, flesh tones are less ruddy, and contrast is kept in check. Grain looks healthier this time around, and though some scenes still look quite noisy, at least there's no evidence of digital smearing or edge enhancement. Still, I can see some being displeased with this release for two reasons: 1.) the picture is very dim, so much so that many of the outdoor, nighttime scenes seem cast in a wash of grayish-black, and 2.) overall clarity is generally soft. There are moments where fine detail is apparent in facial and clothing textures, but most of the time the image looks slightly unresolved. While I can imagine the film looking sharper and more defined than it does here, my gut tells me that given the nature of the film—it's budget and shooting conditions—this is probably the best version of the film we're ever going to see.
En tout cas, moi, c'est commandé.
Je reviendrai donc en reparler après visionnage.