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 are being 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 he added that to these Ultra HD Blu The reaction of -Rays was particularly hot. 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, suddenly a movie doesn't look like you remember that movie looking, or it doesn't look exactly 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 upset about the appearance of the restorations, but also 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.”