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Yeah They Shall Not Grow Old looked really cool at the time and the effects played well on the big screen. I wonder if I revisit it now if it just looks too unreal.
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Big Mac posted:I thought it was really interesting and kinda mind boggling to see They Shall Not Grow Old, but definitely I don't think he should've started applying that tech to things that weren't 100 year old newsreel footage
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Yeah, They Shall Not Grow Old is the only use case for that tech, in my opinion.
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ultraviolence123 posted:I first saw that in the 90s when I had my wisdom teeth pulled and my mom asked me if there was anything I wanted while I was recovering. I asked for a strawberry shake from Burger King and for her to rent me some movies, Meet the Feebles being one I knew was at the video store by my house. I was familiar with Peter Jackson, as I owned and loved Dead/Alive (Braindead) and had a copy of Bad Taste copied from a falling apart rental tape. Nothing really prepared me for Feebles though. Day One purchase but I really want Dead/Alive to get a quality 4k. I have the Blu, it's fine (apparently really rare too), but a packed special edition would make my day. For some reason I revisited the BK shake recently, but have not revisited Feebles. I did like it though! I gotta rewatch PJ's stuff.
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Meet the Feebles asks the question: Can a movie with puppets be gross? Yes, yes it can. I’ve never met anyone else in real life who’s seen it. My The Departed UHD shipped and should show up tomorrow. Amazon being whacky with their estimates. Street date was yesterday, I got an email pushing it to the beginning of May, and now it’s only going to be 2 days late. Jimbot posted:Yeah, They Shall Not Grow Old is the only use case for that tech, in my opinion.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:So what? That's what James Cameron wanted. Blame him. I doubt he's even seen them the whole way through. They did a poo poo job on these films, and a poo poo job on the Beatles doc. LOTR 4k aint "great" either.
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A friend bought me Meet the Feebles as a gift a few years back and I still haven’t had the motivation to watch it.
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Apr 24, 2024 20:21
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It's... a lot. I havent seen it since high school when I was an edgy teen, but even then it was still kinda off putting. I would rewatch it now as an adult though. I should track down a copy.
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Apr 24, 2024 20:37
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It's posted on YouTube.
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The_Rob posted:The lord of the rings 4k looks great though. If by great you mean worse than the blu-ray, sure.
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Apr 24, 2024 20:57
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I have those super fancy special edition Lord of the Ring DVD sets and I'll never part with them. Every time I see shots from the blu-ray versions of the film they look... not good.
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This song does pop in my head a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulb0pLBgRCw
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If the M60 massacre had had a mishap Jackson’s name would be in the same category as Landis’s today. The claim is they were having too much trouble sourcing 7.62 blanks. So they just bought live rounds.
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Apr 24, 2024 21:41
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Gnomeo and juliet release
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The Deer Hunter sequence in Meet the Feebles is wild stuff
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Gripweed posted:What’s the deal with the lawn gnome on the VS website? May 1 they announce the new lineup of preorders The known ones are China O'Brien 1 and 2, and Homegrown Horror vol 3 (Hauntedween, Revenge and Deadly Love) The gnome pic is teasing a preorder of a film from VSP, their production label (prior releases include Censor, New York Ninja, Scary of Sixty First, Sick of Myself and Divinity). Likely a new release, given all of those either immediately came off of festival circuits or straight up theatrical+VOD releases before the VS announcements; my assumption is it's Riddle of Fire, which is getting great reviews https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/riddle-of-fire-trailer-1234953151/ https://letterboxd.com/film/riddle-of-fire/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de9_MMc26Cg quote:Three mischievous children embark on an odyssey when their mother asks them to run an errand. On the hunt to obtain her favorite blueberry pie, the children are kidnapped by poachers, battle a witch, outwit a huntsman, befriend a fairy, and bond together to become best friends forever.
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yeah that's a 100% a movie that would end up on VS.
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June Warner Archive: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, Alfred Hitchcock) The Man I Love (1947, Raoul Walsh) Act of Violence (1948, Fred Zinneman) The Alaskans: The Complete Series (1959-60) The Flash: The Complete Series (1990-91) The three feature films include cartoons and trailers, plus radio shows. All are from new 4K scans, with the shows and The Man I Love being from the original camera negatives. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is now the final American Hitchcock film to make it to Blu-ray... though, the Blu-rays for Lifeboat, Spellbound, and The Paradine Case are currently out of print (thanks, Disney).
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Digital bits gave andor 4k a pretty good review and my excitement level is rising. https://thedigitalbits.com/item/andor-s1-disney-2024-uhd
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I’m honestly surprised it’s getting one, though in a good way
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dorium posted:It's... a lot. I havent seen it since high school when I was an edgy teen, but even then it was still kinda off putting. I would rewatch it now as an adult though. I should track down a copy. Teenage me thought it was juvenile. I can only imagine my adult take.
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drat Oppenheimer looks great in 4k. I haven’t cracked open it yet but yeah. It’s the dark knight of this format. (Tdk on Blu ray was special)
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Kingtheninja posted:Digital bits gave andor 4k a pretty good review and my excitement level is rising. Yeah someone on YouTube has comparison screenshots and it looks like a massive detail increase. It's an often dark show and Disney+ looks like mush.
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Meet the Feebles works for, like, 12 minutes tops but Jackson commits to the bit and I respect that.
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dorium posted:A reminder that it’s Peter Jackson’s company that did the AI assisted cleanup for the recent James Cameron discs. SilentChaz posted:Didn't his company also "clean up" footage of The Beatles for that new documentary that looked terrible? oh poo poo, i forgot about Jackson's penchant for lovely AI upscaling crap like that. now i'm worried that we just bought tickets to spend 12 hours over 3 days watching plasticized puppets when Fathom shows the LotR trilogy in June
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CelticPredator posted:It’s the dark knight of this format. (Tdk on Blu ray was special) Uhm, it was kinda famous for being bad. DNR, EE, over-contrasted as hell.
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Idk I don’t remember. It looked better than the dvd which looked like poo poo and one of the reasons why I finally made the switch to Blu ray
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Right, the DVD was scandalously bad, to the point that people were speculating whether it was deliberate to get people to buy the BD.
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Steen71 posted:If by great you mean worse than the blu-ray, sure. Yeah I love that piss yellow tint all over the blu ray
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There's really no reason to get all worked up over DVDs and Blu-rays, guys, when there's perfectly-smeary UHDs upon which to focus our collective ire
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Steen71 posted:Right, the DVD was scandalously bad, to the point that people were speculating whether it was deliberate to get people to buy the BD. I believe it honestly. It worked.
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The_Rob posted:Yeah I love that piss yellow tint all over the blu ray Green, not yellow. And it was only Fellowship. And at least you can dial that out by changing the colour temperature.
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I think the main issue with Lord of the Rings was just that it was some of the best blending of CG effects with practical stuff we'd seen since Jurassic Park. So inevitably the UHD was going to expose some of the CG in ways that can sometimes break your immersion where that was not happening in previous releases. Still think the UHDs were an upgrade but like a lot of early 2000s films it was always going to be a mixed bag of pros and cons.
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Basebf555 posted:I think the main issue with Lord of the Rings was just that it was some of the best blending of CG effects with practical stuff we'd seen since Jurassic Park. So inevitably the UHD was going to expose some of the CG in ways that can sometimes break your immersion where that was not happening in previous releases. I still thought it looked pretty good. But I go into that era expecting some of the cgi to look kind of spotty anyway so that never really bothers me.
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Is Peter Jackson known for going back and loving around with his own work or has it just been for those documentaries he did and other peoples stuff?
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The D in Detroit posted:Is Peter Jackson known for going back and loving around with his own work or has it just been for those documentaries he did and other peoples stuff? I don't remember a specific instance of him doing a George Lucas or like something along the lines of what Wong Kar-wai did for that Criterion set, no. He has released big extended editions for a lot of it though, mainly the six Tolkien films and King Kong. And one of the scenes he added to King Kong was egregiously bad(the dinosaur stampede scene).
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Basebf555 posted:I don't remember a specific instance of him doing a George Lucas or like something along the lines of what Wong Kar-wai did for that Criterion set, no. The dinosaur stampede is in the theatrical Kong, though I agree it's poo poo.
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