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But then again, as for other assumptions/hypothesis, one needs to pick a side as they can't all be right simultaneously. In the present case, either True Lies served as a prototype for Park Road to gain experience and fine-tune their process, and that's why Aliens has less issues and that's why...

Let's go for the longer version then (won't be a very original post though, as it's nothing specific or new, just R&D project management 101). When developping something in order to deliver a final product destined to be commercialised, a project can serve as a first step in order to build...

And again, no problem with that, but it's not medical procedures that I meant to include but manufacturing processes in general (and it just so happens that currently, it's in the medical industry that I'm navigating in those). :)

I'm not talking about the "necessary quality control processes". I used to work in detergency before : that already was a far cry aside from this, but we still had structurally the same manufacturing processes overall. Because whether it's medical, detergents, or a video release, the issue isn't...

I see Robert Crawford's lovely reaction to my post. Maybe it's because my concerns were phrased in a way losing things in translation, so I'll try to make it clearer : I am not sure what's good it does for good pre-heavy-artificial-processing work to be shelved away from the public, only for...

I don't know : we the public can't see the OCN, can't see what's be done upstream and that might have been perfectly fine. All we have access to is what Park Road has output, of which the result is so good that the hypothesis it was a prototype used for gaining experience feels plausible. So...

That's indeed the story that made the runs at some point : True Lies was the first of the 4 movies to be remastered by Park Road, and basically served as a guinea pig. Which... is a bit of a preservation nightmarish idea, IMO because, did nobody thought once the fourth one was done "hey...

That's my main point : an obvious explanation about True Lies' remaster looking like it looks might simply be that the Park Road process is has been turned up to 11 on this one, while it hasn't been so on Abyss and Aliens, for no other reason than a purely digital remastering decision. And maybe...

All of this is, still and however, what some are suggesting to try and explain the results. That's what I'm trying to convey here : it can't all be right at the same time. It cannot both be exactly like what Cameron wanted AND being something he barely looked at (if at all), for instance. Same...

What I'm surprised by, especially with True Lies, is that these remasters supposedly took that long to be released because Cameron couldn't find the time to oversee them, or at least ot have a proper look and green light them, and how he's supposedly such a perfectionist. And yet, we're now...

And The Abyss won Best visual effects and was nominated for Best Cinematography... but which cinematography exactly ?

Well, of course there are worst things in the world nowaways and possibly in one's life, but again, should it prevent debatable presentations to be debated ? Not every discussion, even if long and passionate, means people are "angry" about it. I have 17 releases to review at the moment, they...

I'm still as bothered as every time before you resorted to such a defeatist approach. So what, every problematic release should be approached positively anyway because pointing out its issues isn't going to change anything anyway ? What good does it do to point out the latest To Catch A Thief's...

It might be an English conjugation lost on me, but as I read it, it doesn't fit a mission statement saying "the way the original creator(s) of that particular film intended". It'd fit if it was saying "the way the original creator(s) of that particular film intend(s) at any given moment.", thus...

Scores, which are routinely used (including here) as summaries for the overall impression left by the picture and the sound, are indeed a blend of how it rates for the reviewer, and how it rates within the given format, and how it rates for the related movie compared to how it "should" look...

I think that's where we disagree, ultimately. To me, there's the matter of how one wants it to look and how, objectively, from a "remastered in 4k from the OCN", it looks. If one filmmaker wants the movie to be looking what would get a negative consensus, it's his choice, but it still means it...

There's no passive agressive comment, only my surprise as a long time reader of someone very knowledgeable, who worked on some of the most acclaimed restorations, and read him give a pass at such a result in a way inconsistant with pretty much everything I read from him before. There are way...

The issue even with this is that it can make people wonder how this "perfect score" of a disc can look so plasticky and obviously filtered. As best, it makes the reviewer looking inconstant (giving an obviously manipulated master a bad score but giving an other obviously manipulated master a...