Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl is one of my favourite films so when the new 4k Ultra HD came out and the image had been DNRed to remove the grain, making the overall image very waxy and artificial looking, I was very disappointed. The original blu-ray was clearly more appealing to watch with its natural film grain than the new 4k Ultra HD blu-ray was, at least to my eyes.
So I decided to have another look at all the sources available so see if any offered improvements on the original blu-ray release and I was pleasantly surprised when I came across another source with the image opened up so more image was showing on the top and bottom. I was also surprised to see that the colours were improved, with the blanket green tint of the original blu-ray release for the most part removed. I have left the video stream untouched for maximum image quality and included the excellent LPCM 5.1 from the original blu-ray as well as the new Atmos 7.1 audio track from the 4k Ultra HD blu-ray. Enjoy!
Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) blu-ray can be found in the torrent file listing.
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish subtitles are also included in this release as well as the Atmos track from the UHD blu-ray and chapter listings.
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