Filmmaking / Directing : James Cameron, 4K remasters, and the use of AI - Film Stories by Florin Şumălan

Aliens 4K Remastered UHD vs Blu-ray: https://youtu.be/nqMiw8k07sU

True Lies 4K vs Blu-ray Comparison: https://youtu.be/pzvLwPvGQfw

Titanic 4K vs Blu-ray comparison: https://youtu.be/mM02OWNlTQQ

Great share Florin. You could tell his work ethic “it takes about a week of me there all day, supervising the transfer, correcting every shot, every little bit of repositioning and working on every pixel of the image, and I don’t want to just phone that in and I don’t want to have somebody else do it for me.”

I admire too James Cameron, his movies, his dedication in making the movies, I admire him also for the scientific researches and his implication in ecology and environment...but in this case - remastering some of his movies, I don't like how it looks.

I like the film grain look, but also I think I wouldn't have a problem with a "clean" picture (without the grain), if it really looks better. In this case, I think the use of AI (Digital Noise Reduction) for "cleaning" the image did some bad things too for the picture. In some parts I can say that maybe the image looks better than the Blu-rays (colors, light), but don't like how the faces look. It seems like (especially actors faces) look unnatural; they look like plastic or wax. This bad effect I think, is seen more maybe in the remaster of "True Lies".

What do you think about the look of these remasters, Amanda Toney? Are you fine with that effect that the digital noise reduction did on the picture? Maybe some people don't have a problem with that, but for me those details are obvious and somehow they get me out of the movie and don't want to watch anymore.

Yeah, I'm with you Florin Şumălan . The remasters always look cheap and take away the nuanced texture of the original films. Not a huge fan of doing this to the classic films

Pat Alexander , I think there are many 4k movie remasters that look very good, better, compared to the DVD or Blu-ray versions (there is much improvement to the image in some of them) and I thought that these 4k remasters of "Aliens", "True Lies" ,"The Abyss" and the others from James Cameron would have an improved picture compared to the older releases.

I think the "Aliens" Blu-Ray version looks very good too, but I hoped the 4k version would have something more (dynamic range, colors, resolution, more detail...)

I don't like what the Digital Noise Reduction and maybe other tools like this did to the image of these remasters.

If you wish, you can find on this website many screenshots from 4k/Blu-Ray screenshots of movies:

https://highdefdiscnews.com/4K-screenshots/

Some of the 4K are put side by side with the Blu-ray screenshots and you can see the difference.

I don't think the remasters look cheap and I hope that more classic movies get remastered, but with an improved picture.