AI Can Ruin Movies Now, Too - Aliens and True Lies on 4k

No, my voice-overs aren't AI. Bite me.

This channel is the perfect variety of calling people out, suggesting better solutions, and beating dead horses into a paste.

That True Lies "remaster" definitely looks like one of those cringey youtube videos of people "enhancing" footage by sharpening it to oblivion and interpolating to 60fps for God knows what reason.

Like you said: Get the negative, clean it, scan it, consult the original cinematographer about the color grading, grade it, done.

Have you also noticed how low effort 4k menus are? DVDs were always interactive and gimmicky packed with special features and love. 4ks usually have a still image menu, and no special features on the disc. As technology improves, quality degrades.

As someone that likes getting blurays, this is the worst scenerio possible. I hate streaming, worse though, bad remasters and this is a nightmare become real to me.

Aliens had such a unique look because of the weird film stock and Cameron has spent all this time trying to annihilate it.

I prefer the grainy original looks. It’s nostalgic and since that is what was available at the time, they made sure to shoot it and edit it in a way that used those aesthetics to fit the story.

I honestly thought that James Cameron was going to release “EPIC” 4K Ultra HD Blu-Rays of his former films by scanning @ 6K-8K and downscaling to 4K - with minor cleanup when needed and grain intact! This “OFFICIAL” release is HORRENDOUS and he owns people their money back for this revisionist nightmare.

"I don't have six weeks" bro you release a movie once a decade how do you not have 6 weeks?

I do not like film grain removal. Film grain in itself is detail. It should stay there whether it’s old cel animation or a live action film

In a way I think it's like when the music business started mastering tracks with only loudness and mp3 in mind.

That 4k Aliens restoration really succeeded in making Lance Henriksen look like a robot.

This is absolutely THE channel for when I'm bored on a Sunday and want to watch a Neil Breen movie review followed by gyro control setup followed by a review of a metroidvania I have never heard of

One testament that will always ring true to me will be the years upon years of work regarding Harmy's "Despecialized" Editions of the origial Star Wars trilogy and the 4K77/4K80/4K83 efforts. If fans with very limited money could make amazing high quality versions of the original theatrical releases without the use of AI, what excuse do official restoration projects done by multibillion corporations have?

As someone who just "lost" his job to the AI hype, I'm laughing deeply, thank you very much.

For a guy who develops cutting-edge new tech for his films, Jim Cameron seems to be perfectly fine with cutting corners and half-assing his movie re-releases...

Plenty of people in the comments saying "the technology will get better!" completely missing the real issue; the studio had the option to obtain REAL detail by simply re-scanning the original film rather than asking an AI to hallucinate detail for them. This is a premium format that we are paying a comparatively enormous amount of money for, so forgive us "picky" folk for complaining when the product delivered is not the product as advertised. Nothing an AI generates will ever faithfully capture what was actually shot in front of the lens, and when such material is available, it should be used. The end result with Cameron's discs is an image that's been photo-copied, dunked in vaseline, then "sharpened" back up by what an upscaling model (inherently limited by what details it could see). The technology will improve, yes, but no amount of algorithmic meddling will restore what simply isn't there.

1998: "We hate practical effects! Boring and overused! We demand CGI!" 2024: "We hate CGI! Boring and overused! We demand practical effects!"

man watching the true lies remaster on acid is probably horrific.