In the overall scheme of things, I'm also worried about such a Pandora (no pun intended) box possibly being opened and other movies being treated this way. There have been debates going on about having a certain "laissez-faire" or even a blissfully unaware behavior towards these remasters, but to be fair, like I was after Picnic at Hanging Rock, I'm weary about what would happen if more projects were to adopt such a way of working.therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:35 amYes, it's becoming increasingly frustrating to feel like you're gambling when spending so much money to upgrade a disc, especially when you unconditionally support the company, or movie being released with preorders.
It's likely, however, that the more you spend on a format, and the more advanced the format is, the more you're likely to be stuck between a rock and a hard place, stuff that is not so bad but whose flaws are made more obvious by the advances of technology. But it only works if this view is shared by the majority, but it's not. Most people are likely to be very pleased by all these remasters (yes, even True Lies), enough anyway to vote with their wallets and buy them without waiting too much. It'll send the message : it's fine to do this. And it'll send the message : people saying otherwise are just party-poopers.
And I'm saying this because that's the discussion that happened even on HTF, or on the French equivalent HC-FR (and on Twitter and on Facebook).
So again, Titanic (and Abyss) isn't that bad, it's disappointing because it's an inferior version of a previous work, but ok fine why not, it's no True Lies, but it's a far cry from what it could have and should have been, and there's 0 reason for it for to look better except for the person(s ?) who made it so.
And when you can achieve this by working on a 14 years old 2k resto from a 2K scan, it says a lot about the level of quality achieved.
