I agree with you on Idaho Transfer (1973). I would love to hear how this one got made. As it is it seems like someone had a script they wrote late one night, some locations, a little bit of money, and a group of friends to be in it. Thinking on that scenario I would love to see a decent Blu-Ray release with special features that tell some of the stories on this one. Plus I would love to see a decently treated transfer. I've got a couple of different DVDs, both were extremely cheap and are very poor quality. Plus they are very matted - I hate it when things are matted, especially when it is done wrong. I think one of the DVDs I have is not only matted, they used the other DVD as a source so you can see both mattes.
Okay I could go on and on about that subject, the main point is that I would like someone who has The Idaho Transfer's original negative to do a decent Blu-Ray release with no mattes. Just give me the image that was filmed every time. (I don't buy the argument that tons of Directors shot movies thinking of mattes the whole time. I've seen too many movies on DVD that there is no way the Director intended the image presented be framed in that manner. Yes there are probably some who intended to use a matte. What I can't believe is all the times I've seen a movie on DVD where the framing doesn't look quite right and someone tells me the matte is there because the that is how the Director intended it to look. I don't believe it. And yes I said I could go on and on and now I've started to. Sorry.)
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