Botched / Definitive Editions - "Remastered" is doing a lot of heavy lifting

[F_Break]

One of the more infamous ones was the 2012 Twilight Time Blu-Ray version of the 1990 Night of the Living Dead remake. To set the stage, this was a pricey, limited edition that completely sold out during the pre orders so everybody was locked in with their purchase, sight unseen. The FOMO was so high that scalpers were listing their preordered copies on ebay for more than $100 dollars. Unfortunately for them, the genius that supervised the HD transfer decided to "improve" on the film by adding a dark blue day for night filter over the daytime opening scenes and compounding the smurf vision travesty by leaving it on for the rest of the film which made several of the night scenes so dark it was almost unwatchable. Twilight Time got so desperate they trotted out Tom Savini to lie and say it looked how he intended. If you want to overdose on schadenfreude I've linked the legendary Blu-ray forums thread a couple of pages before the shit hits the fan. It's the consoomer equivalent of reading an archived 9/11 forum thread.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Necro, with content.

This video talks about some AI upscaled 4k releases, complete with the usual AI problems like weird faces and minor details getting exaggerated to the point of ridiculous. Mostly James Cameron films.

And some stuff is just weird, like putting a teal filter over Terminator 2 for seemingly no reason.

One thing I don't get is they call 4k the last format, but I was under the impression that 8k was already on the way.

 

[tehpope]

This is a decade old, but it really shows how much Disney has fucked with their movies.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-Recommended-Editions-of-Disney-Animated-and-Partially-Animated-Features/id/15617

One thing I don't get is they call 4k the last format, but I was under the impression that 8k was already on the way.

There are 8k displays. But they're not mass produced. Still very expensive. As well, I don't think 99% of people will notice a difference between going from 4k to 8k. Its good for Theaters or people will large projector screens. But you really have to put your nose to the display to notice any difference.

Most people still use dvds. Bluray didn't have as good of uptake as DVD. And even less so for 4k blurays. So 8k blurays would be an even more niche product.

 

[FatMebius]

I'm curious, like what?

Paul "Otaking" Johnson made some troll subs for Turn A Gundam, but retards on a TVTropes page thought they were legit. Also a case on Super Robot Wars 30's page where they completely get a character's backstory wrong, in spite of him saying his backstory on the stage he joins.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Paul "Otaking" Johnson made some troll subs

WHO DARES JAMASURU MY TENKOSEI!
- edit, wait that's transfer student. I forget his troll subs for Transformers

 

[BrunoMattei]

Necro, with content.

This video talks about some AI upscaled 4k releases, complete with the usual AI problems like weird faces and minor details getting exaggerated to the point of ridiculous. Mostly James Cameron films.

And some stuff is just weird, like putting a teal filter over Terminator 2 for seemingly no reason.

One thing I don't get is they call 4k the last format, but I was under the impression that 8k was already on the way.

Cameron has this weird hate-boner for film grain.

 

[Judge Dredd]

This is a decade old, but it really shows how much Disney has fucked with their movies.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/I...ated-and-Partially-Animated-Features/id/15617

What's interesting in that list is that Hercules got off unscathed simply because Disney doesn't care enough to mess with it.

 

[74164978231]

Cameron has this weird hate-boner for film grain.

Yup.

The retarded thing is he ruined the 4k T2 version a few years ago yet here we are, Aliens and True Lies also both being ruined the same way.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Yup.

The retarded thing is he ruined the 4k T2 version a few years ago yet here we are, Aliens and True Lies also both being ruined the same way.

Yeah, that's why I grabbed 35MM scans of Aliens and Terminator 2 recently. The blown out colors are gnarly but it's fascinating to see what the movies looked like in those dark theaters all of those years ago. I can see why he hates grain so much because Aliens is a very grainy picture but Cameron seems to hate grain out of spite now.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Necro, with content.

This video talks about some AI upscaled 4k releases, complete with the usual AI problems like weird faces and minor details getting exaggerated to the point of ridiculous. Mostly James Cameron films.

And some stuff is just weird, like putting a teal filter over Terminator 2 for seemingly no reason.

One thing I don't get is they call 4k the last format, but I was under the impression that 8k was already on the way.

Great video. I don't even want anything to do with 4k after finding out seemingly every movie is riddled with stupid shit, especially filters and other crap to try and make them look modern. (Looking at you, Mann.) It's like the early 2000s again where every DVD was filled with Edge Enhancement.

 

[Judge Dredd]

There's another AI upscale botch that's gone viral. I Love Lucy.

Basically the AI adds really sharp faces to background extras that are out of focus, resulting in some nightmare fuel or comedy gold.

https://x.com/w0wmd/status/1861903569240121671

 

[BrunoMattei]

There's another AI upscale botch that's gone viral. I Love Lucy.

Basically the AI adds really sharp faces to background extras that are out of focus, resulting in some nightmare fuel or comedy gold.

https://x.com/w0wmd/status/1861903569240121671

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ai also likes to add this plastic-y sheen to foreheads and hair.

 

[LifeAlert]

There's another AI upscale botch that's gone viral. I Love Lucy.

No better example of how times have changed than the fact that Turner colorizing all those old movies in the 80s caused so much uproar, but what they're doing now is perfectly acceptable to the brainrotted masses

 

[BrunoMattei]

No better example of how times have changed than the fact that Turner colorizing all those old movies in the 80s caused so much uproar, but what they're doing now is perfectly acceptable to the brainrotted masses

Because the difference isn't as noticeable and faggots will defend this by saying "Oh well, it only affects a handful of shots. NBD." Missing the point that this ai-remastered print will be the standard going forward. Not unless there's a change in the policy for whoever is running the storing and remastering of movies per studio or, what has been happening for the last couple of years, is that an indie company licenses the movie or show and does a brand new print and new extras to entice consoomer types.

 

[LifeAlert]

what has been happening for the last couple of years, is that an indie company licenses the movie or show and does a brand new print and new extras to entice consoomer types.

If physical media is dying out anyways the studios should just allow the boutique labels like Criterion, Shout and Arrow to handle all future releases going forward while the studios can stick to their streaming slop. Universal already kind of does that with Shout since they own it and a lot of their transfers are far superior to Universal's. The discs should just be manufactured on demand like with Warner Archive so that eliminates the supply/demand problem as long as blank discs still get pressed

 

[Judge Dredd]

No better example of how times have changed than the fact that Turner colorizing all those old movies in the 80s caused so much uproar, but what they're doing now is perfectly acceptable to the brainrotted masses

I think it really depends who's watching it. There are people who care, and people who just want the film almost as background noise. They can't even notice the difference between DVD and BluRay unless they're played side by side.

 

[Product Placement]

Speaking of AI upscales, here are a few shots from the 4k of Jaws 3d.



a none zoomed in one

Also hear the new Terminator 4k is another AI shitshow job with fake HDR.

The good thing about the James Cameron movies, most of them have good fan 35mm scans out there now, if you are fine with the theatrical cuts of them.

On the topic of 4k, Paramount have been awful, not so much in the remasters themselves, but the disc encoding and putting everything on 66gb discs, even 3 hour movies like Once Upon a Time in The West. However, the companies putting them out in Italy, do a better job and don't cheap out on the discs.