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Author Topic: Grease on Blu-Ray... John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-16-2010 02:53 PM                     quote: Mitchell Dvoskin I don't know if the sign is blurred out in the original release prints, but it was blurred out in the late 1990's SRD re-issue. I really don't think they were on the original release, but it didn't take long for them to get rid of the coke signs. I played a 16mm print from 1979 and they were blurred.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-16-2010 11:32 PM                     Maybe Paramount hit Coca-Cola up for another product placement fee. Perhaps Coca-Cola told Viacom to stick their fee in their bottom. So the Viacom folks digitally altered the movie.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-17-2010 05:33 AM                     The blurring always looked like a clumsy optical to me, especially when there is motion or someone walks in front of it. In the late 1970s, that's all they'd be able to do, short of refilming everything in that location. Today, that could be digitally replaced with an ad from the highest bidder.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-17-2010 01:24 PM                     I think the only thing digital there was probably the watch on the director's wrist...and maybe not even then. Definitely an optical effect...although why they haven't changed it since to a digital with something there (not necessarily an ad) is beyond me.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-22-2010 04:19 AM                        Probably because it has been there as that blur thru so many releases that the purists would squawk, although they didn't seem to worry about even more people who would be pissed at the stupid title manipulation. quote: None of the (800+) laserdiscs are for sale. I doubt I will ever watch it, I have never actually seen it. <> I am more of laserdisc hog than anything... You eat them?  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 02-21-2011 08:52 PM                     I kind of 'get' the having it just for the sake of owning it thing. I have the same thing with VHS. I have a few letterbox VHS titles that I've picked up over the years. The last gem I managed to find was the original Start Trek box set. All the Star Trek movies from The Motion Picture to Insurrection in Letterbox VHS. It cost me £3 (about $5). I'll probably never watch them, I just like having it, and I enjoyed the excitement of finding it tucked away on a bottom shelf in the store.  |  IP: Logged

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