"Waterloo HD" Topic

I have long wished for Sergei B's Waterloo in BluRay…..but indirectly got my wish this afternoon.

BBC2 played it in HD, but I did not expect much of the result, if via satellite………

Instead, totally gobsmacked by the quality of the images. I have two DVDs, released a few years apart, but this was far sharper. Let's face it, the limiting quality must be the original film quality…anything more is digital enhancement and rarely works. I am so glad I recorded it.

If it is shown again in HD, catch it……

Only change. Time of day….."Who's the man who kicks Boney's arse" is changed to "Boney's bum".

Suspect TMP will do the same overnight to this message….

Looks like Welsh Fusiliers are kicking French bum at the moment.

Saw the broadcast.

Turned on after it had been on for a while to a close up of Rod Steiger and spent a while puzzled by what was different before the penny dropped it was the image quality!

Really was that much of a surprise!

Every pore of his skin and every bead of perspiration……rather unpleasant actually. Image quality was simply incredible, compared with an aging pair of DVDs on same TV.

I've often wondered why this film isn't on blu-ray yet, very annoying.

Might be dangerous to have it on Blu-Ray all those who play the drinking game with the movie would get even more smashed if there's extra detail!

I'm intrigued – what are the rules of this drinking game?

It is like the rules of the knife fight in "The Magnificent Seven"

Like with James Coburn…….

There are no rules.

My 23 year old sons know the rules. Heck even the third Mrs F (after 25 years married to me!) sat through it yesterday. She knows the answers….forget the questions….

Four of us. Couple of jars.

Mention of some local lass, who is now generous with her favours just needs "You could drive a battery of….(long pause) …nine pounders through that" from Christopher Plummer . Dinner table collapses in laughter.

The XY chromosomes fall about. Mrs F pretends to be disgusted….

"This one" over breakfast with bulging eyes.

Surely the "Drinking Game" has nothing to do with historical inaccuracies……..

In the entire film my only problem was the Louis XVIII escort horse colours……..they (Ugo Pericoli) even got the trumpeter right, though, in all seriousness……..