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Wow, that tweet they link to with a super punched in shot looks really really bad! Hard to believe Cameron thought this looked better than just a normal 4k tran
by procflora 2y ago
Wow, that tweet they link to with a super punched in shot looks really really bad! Hard to believe Cameron thought this looked better than just a normal 4k transfer, yikes. Was really looking forward to a UHD release of The Abyss but now I'm not so sure...
https://twitter.com/RazorwireRyan/status/1735753526167347232 https://twitter.com/RazorwireRyan/status/1735753526167347232
- pimlottc 2y agoDirect image link: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBaikRhX0AEcjuy?format=jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBaikRhX0AEcjuy?format=jpg
- kombookcha 2y agoWild that somebody thought this was an improvement.
- ornel 2y agoThe "enhanced" image looks a lot like those retouched Russian photos from the Stalinist era
- ozymandias1337 2y agoExactly. It looks airbrushed as hell.
- pixelesque 2y agoIt's aggressively de-noised. Very much like modern phone cameras do these days: almost looks like a watercolour painting in some cases.
- pera 2y agoI really hate the result, they apply something like some gaussian filter followed by deconvolution which makes people's faces very uncanny: super soft skin with super sharp wrinkles
- SrslyJosh 2y agoWhat the actual FUCK is that???
- MrVandemar 2y agoI think they cheaped out and re-filmed a bunch of action figures. :-)
- xenospn 2y agoThis is very bad.
- Rinzler89 2y ago> Hard to believe Cameron thought this looked better I doubt he even looked, he's too busy with his blue monkeys these days. Most likely someone duped him on taking on the AI upscaling and he signed off on it without looking and the movie studio just shipped the output without QA to save time and money, because they're going to streaming not in cinemas.
- xenospn 2y agoHe’s insanely detail oriented. I’m almost certain he either approved everything, or, he no longer has right of refusal.
- MrVandemar 2y agoI also found the studio audio description track for Aliens very ordinary. It's a film that says "aliens" on the tin, but there are no verbal descriptions for them other than "giant", "towering" and "beast". Not really doing Giger, Winston or Cameron justice there. I'd be surprised if he heard it, or read the script prior to recording.
- Solvency 2y ago[flagged]
- lupusreal 2y agoSick Boy's philosophy of life applies here.
- Dwedit 2y agoThe one on the left looks normal. The one on the right looks like you ran an edge-directed upscaler on it. Those things have distinct artifacts, and sometimes it looks like all curves turn into snakes. Or it can make new diagonal curves out of random noise. Not knocking edge-directed upscalers though, they can work in real time and are very good for line-art graphics. You can even inject them into games that have never had that feature before.
- spacecadet 2y agoThe Abyss in only good on VHS, or laserdisc if you have the setup...
- CyberDildonics 2y agoReally? VHS with its grainy 240 x 320 resolution is better than a blu ray?
- acuozzo 2y ago352x480, not 240. The Abyss, being shot on film, is 24fps. A VHS of The Abyss would achieve 29.97fps by using 3:2 pulldown which is lossless since it duplicates fields to make up the difference.
- spacecadet 2y agoUp to you! I like to watch the content in its period accurate format.
- CyberDildonics 2y agoWouldn't that be the original film?
- spacecadet 2y agoSo pedantic. Can you access the original film? What is a VHS? Do you or kstrauser make films? Please enlightening me more on the nuances of personal preference?
- kstrauser 2y agoPersonal preference is fine! Describing VHS as “periodic accurate” as though that was these films’ original format is the silly bit.
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- Kranar 2y agoI don't see how these can be compared. They are totally different color schemes. It's possible that if you took the right image and displayed it using the same color scheme as the left image that it would look better than the left image.
- actionfromafar 2y agoBut Arnold looks like some smeared painting. Look at it in black and white, it still looks like shit.
- matteason 2y agoHere's a quick and dirty attempt to even up the colours: https://www.matteason.co.uk/share/true-lies-colours.png https://www.matteason.co.uk/share/true-lies-colours.png And the full-size original for comparison: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBaikRhX0AEcjuy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBaikRhX0AEcjuy?format=jpg&name=... (I just overlaid the original on the left over the upscaled version on the right and set the blending mode to Colour in Photoshop)
- bmacho 2y agoNice trick, I didn't know this
- globular-toast 2y agoCameron doesn't give a crap. He just needs his latest shot of money.
- jstummbillig 2y agoIt seems little wild to assume the maker of a movie would care less about the movie than a random mob on the internet (instead of maybe just having a different opinion) but the assumption does feel very internet.
- dontupvoteme 2y agoDepends on if he cares more about his current movie project(s) than his old ones. He still needs $$ I bet even Kubrick would have been tempted if the situation came about.
- jstummbillig 2y agoTo me, thinking of it as temptation is an issue. Society collectively deciding for creators what is supposedly the right thing to do with or the right way to think about their work is so strange.
- account42 2y agoWhat is strange is the notion that the original creator should retain full control of a creation once released.
- jstummbillig 2y agoThat would indeed be a very strange notion.
- bmacho 2y ago> Hard to believe Cameron thought this looked better than just a normal 4k transfer, yikes. Torrent people do this too, and movies is not their dayjob, but their hobby. I guess some people prefer the machine denoised look.
- echelon_musk 2y agoThe automated HD 'remaster' of Buffy is the prime example of how badly this can go wrong. A great breakdown of the problems is on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oZWNGq70Oyo https://youtube.com/watch?v=oZWNGq70Oyo
- J_Shelby_J 2y agoGreat video and a travesty. I’m not a huge fan, but I respect that people are. That they ruined the show and it’s hard to find in it’s not ruined form…