The James Cameron 4K Saga Part I: He Has Absolutely Lost His F*cking Mind
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2024
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The James Cameron 4K Saga Part I: He Has Absolutely Lost His Fucking Mind
April 2024
A new sub-series evolves as we embark upon the James Cameron 4K Saga. Part I sees Luke discuss the general history of the 4K UHD home video releases of James Cameron's films from late 2023 and early 2024.
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I think it's very simple: James Cameron is not a film aficionado, he is a technology aficionado.
There are a lot of people out there who are pretty Cameron-brained, I saw a comment on Reddit complaining about the stream of Shogun on Hulu and he said the “the stream is so noisy, just reminds me of how much I HATE film grain.” I felt like becoming the Joker after reading that
Your take on this topic is entirely fair and the truth, unfortunately. The crime is not that Cameron and others like to tinker with their films. It’s that they don’t recognize the archival value of them. In effect, they are destroying a historical piece of collaborative art. If they would at least offer two versions, a true archival and a “modernized director’s cut”, all would be forgiven. I haven’t purchased any of these and won’t do so. By the way, do you believe the LOTR Blu-rays are worth having? It appears they are the best we have at this point. Great job on this video!
I went through Stage 1 and Stage 2, which then required my Stage 3 to be: (3a) sigh a little; (3b) don't waste money on releases that would only have me fuming, and then (3c) move on with my life.
I still only have the DVD of the first Terminator. I have no plans to upgrade it, as I feel that the standard definition suits the gritty vibe of the thing, and goes along with the low-budget sensibility of that movie.
It seems like anyone who questions or remotely points out the literal "elephant in the room" is rejected and ignored. It's like trying to tell all 2,229 passengers on the Titanic that there's an iceberg right ahead, but no one gives a flying Molly Brown. The Titanic sunk, but Molly survived. Now replace the iceberg with an A.I. berg and Molly feels like the only one who's taken note of the problem, whilst everybody else just accepts their fate at the hands of A.I. berg. Hollywood wants it, and James Cameron promotes A.I. with his usual outstanding performance. Film be damned. Send out an S.O.S right now....This...is....the...beginning...of...the...end...for..film...preservation. We are sinking in a technological A.I. Abyss....
Strange that these releases were approved by the director! John Cameron is a perfectionist and has shown throughout the ages to set demands that have at times been extreme in his productions. He has also been at the forefront of the use of new and revolutionary technology.
The Twin Flicks video on American Graffiti was a disgrace
IMO you are absolutely right as is the DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader. 👍BTW: Oliver Harper has just published his review of the Aliens 4K and he is, in this case, more or less on our side - the side of film preservation NOT revisionism. His conclusion: The Abyss is worth a buy; Aliens and True lies are not. My conclusion: I’m through with movies by director James Cameron, I definitely won’t hold my breath for the new 4K iterations of Terminator or T2. Keep the good work up!
I bought the True Lies 4k/BR simply for the new documentary which was pretty decent .
THANK YOU for doing this. After doing my own discussion video and then seeing the fallout of people saying that these releases were fine I thought I was going nuts.
Aliens in theatres originally had a purple colour to the image in a lot of scenes which has not been seen on blu ray or even DVD and now it's a blue teal and smooth af
Most sensible and down to earth take on the subject matter that I've seen. Looking forward to the rest!
The first thought I had when watching that Hobbit scene was "this looks like it was shot on a go pro" - before today I didn't know it was actually shot on a go pro.
Love the dramatic intro to this I could listen to you all day
This video transports me back to a dark night many years ago, when I watched an aged Jimmy Stewart on the Tonight Show rail against the coloration of black and white movies to Johnny and the American People. His argument was that it was a corruption of the medium that the artists used to create their masterpieces, which I totally agreed with. That is the same problem with what is happening in this case.
Great video on this!
Well said👍❤
Good discussion. I bought them all but I admit I haven't gotten around to watching them yet. But the thing that made me buy them was the audio upgrades. Generally that's the thing that makes me decide when to upgrade a film I already own.
You'll find a lot of these older filmmakers don't like grain because they have no reverence for it, since when they came up making films before digital, grain was always a flaw that they were trying to clean up. The best film stocks were the ones that resolved grain really well. That's understandable. However, I do struggle to see how they see the end result of removing this grain digitally and think it looks right. Sometimes, it does work. I'm not an absolutist with this stuff. I understand that depending on the film, when they blow it up to 4K, the grain may simply be too much depending on the film stock it was shot on, but with Cameron, I don't know if that's an issue with some of the films. Aliens for example, I don't think was ever heavily grainy. If that's the case, just leave it. I don't see how it's worth making the shots look digitally smoothed over. From what I hear, the Titanic 4K is really well done. What happened there?