6.9 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
In this comedy, New York City undergoes a dramatic change when a toucan carrying a virus is smuggled through customs. In those it infects, the virus causes an intense euphoria and a desire to do good. The Big Apple goes into an economic tailspin as its residents become deliriously happy.
Starring: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud (I), Susan Saint James, Dom DeLuiseComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
George Seaton's "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" (1968) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber. The supplemental features on the disc include remastered vintage trailers for the film and exclusive new audio commentary recorded by critics Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
It fits the description, doesn't it?
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, What's So Bad About Feeling Good? arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.
I was very impressed with the technical presentation of What's So Bad About Feeling Good?. The release is sourced from an exclusive new 2K master that not only has a very solid organic qualities, but the party that graded it did an outstanding job as well. This isn't an easy film to properly transfer in high-definition either. It was shot in Techniscope and as a result there are quite a few areas with unique density fluctuations and color nuances that produce 'difficult' visual contrasts. On a larger screen all of these fluctuations appear very natural and just look as you would expect them to look in the theater. As you could tell from the various screencaptures that are included with our review, there are wide ranges of beautiful and very healthy primaries and nuances as well, which are very nicely balanced. Image stability is excellent. I did spot a few white specks, but there any distracting age-related imperfections. Can this film look better? Well, an elaborate 4K restoration and presentation in native 4K will surely produce some minor improvements, with color saturation being one of the main areas where these improvements will become noticeable, but what this Blu-ray release offers is a top-quality presentation of the film that I guarantee will meet all of your expectations. My score is 4.75/5.00. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free Blu-ray player in order to access its content).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature. When turned on, they appear inside the image frame.
The lossless audio sounded excellent on my system. It is very clear and clean, plus its dynamic intensity was as good as I expected it to be. I am unsure if any particular work was done to optimize it, but I did not encounter any traces of troubling age-related imperfections to report in our review.
Just a few years ago What's So Bad About Feeling Good? would have been extremely easy to describe as a wild satire with some absolutely outrageous prophecies. Well, for obvious reasons such a description of the film is no longer possible. Needless to say, this is both sad and disturbing because even some of the truly ridiculous political speculations that are channeled through the film are now part of the daily news cycle. I did a double bill the other night that featured The Last Man on Earth as well, so it was pretty bizarre to see how these once easy to dismiss films have gotten so much right. Kino Lorber's Blu-ray release is sourced from an outstanding exclusive new 2K master. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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