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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't even tell which side is before and which side is after

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In both pictures, the left is before and the right is after.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird how it desaturates in the first one but adds saturation in the second one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

i have a feeling one of the pictures has it reversed but we can't tell because we're looking at screenshots of screenshots

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I, too, am a philistine who finds these changes to be, if not imperceptible then inconsequential.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just thought the second one looked better on the right and the first one looked better on the left

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

FWIW I was being sincere, about myself anyway; I can’t speak for you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might be much more noticable as an actual video, or at the full 4K resolution, but posting these low-resolution still side-by-sides just makes the OP look like a snob.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but posting these low-resolution still side-by-sides just makes the OP look like a snob.

Wait, what? lol

I don’t think you know what the word ‘snob’ means.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Short answer brrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It's just a movie, not a full TV series or whatever. In absolutely certain the original reels or negatives exist to do a real upscale. For most things I'd rather just keep the original home release quality and leaven it as is, or at least DVD quality for most I should say. Horror movies should be vhs quality as well as certain comedies etc. But if you're gonna do it, don't half ass the process. A lot of people worked really fucking hard to make it look how it does and having an AI paint all over it and call it better is crap.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People act like True Lies is a good movie when it's insufferable. The Terminator is the only good film Cameron ever made. Maybe Aliens on a good day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

excuse me way of water exists

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh no the movie that literally inspired the "dirka dirka mohammed jihad" "gag" isn't preserved perfectly noooooooooooo retvrn pls

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m not really a huge fan of this movie, it’s just the two examples that have gotten the most discussion. Cameron has applied this to several of his other films that have been re-released in 4k and it serves as a bad precedent towards how much filmmakers choose to manipulate and change their past works like Lucas did.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, God. Cameron is going down the George Lucas route. Hearing Darth Vader scream, "Nooooo!" as he carried Palpatine and seeing people cry to that killed a part of me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

DO NOT WANT!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

which one's which?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

cant believe AI turned a swarthy Austrian like Arnold into a white man

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The AI one looks so desaturated it looks like a Bourne movie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

To be honest, the second picture dosen't look bad. It had a more modern photography that can hurt the sensibilities of people who remember it with a more hot color temperature, but it also dosen't looks like a TV movie now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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