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I'm guessing that the filmmaker in this case either didn't notice or didn't care. Maybe he didn't give this one the same undivided attention that he did to the others. Minor quibbles aside, I thought that True Lies looked fine in this new reimagination, even if it's not what I would have...

At least this time he identifies some of his sources, instead of just quoting from them verbatim without attribution. The A.I. voice is still terrible, however, and really distracting when watching it. Although the pronunciation of the word "nugget" at the beginning is unintentionally hilarious...

I'm monitoring one of our social media posts about the fact that the UHD for Dune Part 2 won't feature the IMAX aspect ratio, and amid the endless breast-beating over that fact, there are many other people saying things like "no 3D, no sale" -- when there wasn't even a 3D version of the film to...

The worst part is that I'm actually understating the issue. It isn't just that the studios don't care about physical media; they don't even care about their own catalogues at all. Leadership doesn't have a clue what titles that they already own. And since they've been actively pushing out the...

The only thing that's alarming is the fact that some people are unwilling to accept the fact that other people may have a different opinion than they do. And this kind of statement is coming from one "side" of the issue only. The irony with that more than one person who's unhappy with these...

The underwater scenes were shot with 2-perf cameras that were custom-built for the dives by Panavision. Techniscope wasn't really a thing by that point, although the basic concept has been periodically revived by others like Panavision.

And that's fair enough. I would still say that reproducing the texture of grain on 35mm release prints isn't necessarily easy without manipulating the way that the grain looks on the scans from the negative, but that's honestly where a little bit of grain reduction is fair when it comes to 4K...

Using words like "logical" is what you and others in this debate are doing to try to give yourselves an air of superiority to others. You all keep trying to state opinion as fact. There isn't any one rule for scores that every reviewer follows, there never has been one, and there never will be...

There's another nuance to "back in the day." In this case, the quote actually proves more than the poster wanted it to. It's further concrete evidence that Cameron has been on the warpath against grain for decades now, ever since Aliens was first released. Back in the day, he was happy with the...

The grain is softened on release prints, not accentuated. The look of the grain on a negative scan isn't accurate to what was seen on release prints. If your yardstick is release prints, then negative scans are inaccurate to that look. If your standard is what's on the negative, then you're...

If you really think that fourth-generation prints don't lose detail that was on the original negative, I've got some swampland in Tennessee to sell you. Cheap, too.

So I take it that you're opposed to 4K releases in general? Because a 4K (or higher) scan of the camera negative isn't faithful to the original release. It's too sharp, too detailed, and has grain that's much clearer. If your yardstick is the original release, then you're asking for something to...

This. We're all Arthur Dent lying in front of the bulldozer: "Mr. Dent. Do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I were to let it roll straight over you?" "No, how much?" "None at all."

Ratings scales are always subjective and always will be, but to be as consistent as possible, you need to rate things in absolute terms rather than relative ones. If these new 4K transfers look fantastic but are significant alterations from the original look, then it's perfectly appropriate to...

Sidebar, but as delivered by Eastwood, that's one of the greatest double-edged sword insults of all time. He's being self-deprecating, but using that deprecation as a way to take a snide shot at her. He just nailed his delivery on that one. Back to your regular scheduled Jim Cameron review...