I get what you're saying, and if I cared more about Panic Room in general, I'd still buy the 4K (just as I did True Lies, despite my dislike of the changes James Cameron made to it). However, while I enjoyed the movie well enough when I saw it in the theater back in the day, it isn't something I...
The things Fincher is changing aren't even mistakes. They're just details that, 23 years later, Fincher feels like changing purely for the sake of changing something.
Ultimately, the point is that this is a substantively different movie than was originally released. These content changes are much more extensive than just a new color grade or a little bit of DNR.
It can be done without A.I., that's true. But we know Fincher used A.I. in the Se7en remaster (he said as much), and I think there's a strong likelihood he did the same all through this one. For the sheer volume of changes being made here, A.I. would reduce the work cost. If Fincher wants to add...
This is a very weird post to attack me with. You accuse me of gaslighting others while you have (charitably) greatly misunderstood what David Fincher has done to these movies. He in fact has re-edited scenes, as we see in Se7en because he didn't like Brad Pitt's head placement, so he replaced...
I mean, look at what he's done here. When he's digitally painting a screw in the wood or an extra crack in the plaster for no discernible reason at all, what could possibly be driving him to do this? It looks like he's done that to almost every shot in the entire movie.
He's erasing the...
What this suggests to me is that the changes are probably way more extensive than anyone yet realizes, and that pretty much any random scene you might stop to screencap for a DVD-to-4K picture quality comparison will wind up revealing a host of bizarre anomalies.
You can scoff, but at this...
What purpose could making changes like this possibly serve, even in David Fincher's mind? This is beyond OCD and is straight into mental illness.
https://www.joblo.com/david-fincher-goes-full-fincher-on-panic-room-4k-check-out-his-odd-fixes/
Obsessing over questions like "How did the egg get on board the Sulaco?" misses the point of Alien 3. The film is a waking nightmare for Ripley. Nightmares don't bother to explain the details of their plot-points. Just because we don't see it happen doesn't mean there weren't countless ways for...
Okay, fair enough. Still, there's no reason directors like Fincher can't make both versions of their movies available - the original theatrical release and the new radically revised version. As it is, he (and his cohorts like Michael Mann, James Cameron, etc.) try to slip the changes under the...
The changes haven't been catalogued yet, but that doesn't mean they won't be. Due to its long unavailability on Blu-ray, most fans aren't as intimately familiar with Panic Room as they are with Se7en.
The extent of the ridiculous alterations he made to Se7en demonstrate that Fincher has a...
Oh good, more opportunity for Fincher to completely trash all the original color grading, delete footage, and use A.I. to "fix" things that in no way ever needed fixing. :huh: