Dan Best, general manager of Park Road Post, acknowledged that there are discussions about remastering the film. “The fact of the matter is that technology is changing,” he added. “People are watching things at much higher resolutions now, so a lot of modern movies have been enhanced for these new viewing platforms.” That means traditional home video releases are no longer available on tube TVs. and 1080p video. But in the age of OLED screens and 4K smart TVs, restorations take a little more effort to meet increasingly high standards.
Burdick, who has been dealing with this kind of criticism since the days of “Titanic,” seemed resigned to the fact that “at the end of the day, you can’t please everyone,” but these Ultra HD I accepted the response to Blu–Rays was particularly enthusiastic. Opponents, he argued, are mainly just disappointed that “Alien,” “True Lies,” and “The Abyss” no longer look like they did in the VHS and DVD days.
“People love these movies, and I think that’s great,” he said. “And they take that love to heart. I mean, all of a sudden a movie doesn’t look like you remember that movie looking, or it doesn’t look like you thought you remembered that movie looking.” , it simply doesn’t seem that way. think As it should be, they get upset. What can I do? ”
It can’t be helped that there is a bias towards this technology. Opponents are not only outraged by the way the restorations look, they are also unhappy that AI is being used to make them look that way.
But Burdick said some of the disapproval is based on misconceptions: “People hear, ‘Oh, they’re using AI,’ and they think about pirate ships and cups of coffee.” This is a reference to a recent viral video. The pictures of the miniature ships sailing inside the mug are all AI-generated. “And they’re like, ‘What are you doing?’ But nobody’s doing anything like that with these movies,” he explained. “Conceptually, it’s not the same AI. Rather, it’s like, this negative looks dirty, so we can use software to carefully improve it.”