My reaction to James Cameron’s comment about his 4K “restorations”

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This is an unscripted video reaction to the recent comment by James Cameron in a Hollywood reporter interview about the 4K Masters of his catalog titles. As the first official statement about the negative response to the extreme case of revisionism to his back catalog…Cameron chose to just insult and dismiss everyone who rightfully pointed out that it was an act of film desecration.
Moreover, his actions have inspired others to follow his lead as we’ve seen with the recent Universal 4K master of Jaws 3 employing similar AI tools to hideous results. Also, the new 4K “restoration” of The Terminator is about to be released. It was supervised by Cameron himself and will unfortunately be more of the same as it was worked on by the dreaded Park Road Post and features a brand new Dolby Atmos remix.
Ultimately, the reason why film transfers get analyzed is entirely due to the actions of people like Cameron. I suggest that all of the various film guilds and societies take a look into these matters and instigate new rulings to prevent their members work being altered or eradicated without their consent.
As a contrast, I quote a letter Cameron wrote, which was included in the 1991 deluxe Terminator 2 CAV Laserdisc boxset. In it he talks about the importance for films to have proper transfers so that hundreds of years later, they can be seen in the best possible quality. A quality that is fully reflective of the time in which they were made. So I’m throwing his own words right back at him.