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That's the story Digital Bits was told, I believe. I also expect that The Abyss got the most human oversight and scrutiny during the process because it was planned for a theatrical re-release. And True Lies got the least scrutiny because Cameron doesn't especially like that movie very much anymore.

I think the issue for Cameron is as much about control as it is about him being a perfectionist. Cameron insists on having oversight of home video masters for his movies because he doesn't trust anyone else to do it. Yet at the same time, in recent years he's lost interest in revisiting his...

The Flash may not have been successful in its day, but it has a significant cult fandom, especially since that version of the character was made canon with numerous appearances in the CW network's very popular Flash reboot series and other Arrowverse crossovers. Superhero content in general...

I believe there are three possibilities here: 1) It's an upscale from the 2K DI. 2) It's a new 4K scan of the film-out from the original 2K DI. 3) The studio went back to the negative and built a new 4K DI. If I'm not mistaken, #3 often requires rebuilding the entire feature. Because the movie...

Personally, it's not a deal-breaker for me. The only significant change in the unrated cut is the extra-graphic sex scene with puppets peeing and pooping on each other, which I feel goes too far over the line and isn't funny at all. It's just gross and off-putting. I prefer the theatrical cut...

Because that filmmaker is Jim Cameron, and retroactively changing something he did in the past is his M.O.

They were pretty obvious even in DVD.

I only have the older Paramount Blu-ray, which suffered from DNR issues. Did the Shout! Factory Blu-ray improve upon that? Even if it did, I'm a little wary about the 4K release reverting back to Paramount, which has an uneven track record (to put it lightly).

For me, $50 would have to get me a limited edition in some sort of special packaging that's highly likely to sell out without a price drop. Even then, it will have to be a title I care about enough to want to pay extra for that special box set or SteelBook rather than wait for a less-expensive...

“It is what it is, warts and all,” Fincher said. “And some of it is spectacular and some of it is stuff that I would change or fix today, but I didn’t want to mess with that." [Article proceeds to describe a million changes and fixes Fincher has imposed on the film because he absolutely...

Why Target? Do you get a particularly good discount from their rewards program or something? Target has never been all that great for selection or prices. I don't like what this bodes for the market in general, and I agree with others that reduced competition means that Amazon will have less...

Wasn't this a 2K DI movie? Did Warner redo the DI, or is this just a rescan of the film-out? I recall giving the Blu-ray and HD DVD high marks at the time they came out, but thinking back I also remember them having visible edge ringing and other digital artifacts, and I suspect they probably...

I just popped my copy of the Criterion Blu-ray into my OPPO 203 and it loaded right away. I jumped around to a few chapters without issue. FWIW.

Aliens is absolutely the same master from the 2010 Blu-ray, run through A.I. processing. Even the studio has confirmed that according to Digital Bits. There's no question of it when watching the two side-by-side. Lightstorm supposedly claims that True Lies and The Abyss are new scans, but I...

Yeah, but those complaints were mostly brushed off at the time and the movie was a huge box office hit. The more recent revival of them would have everyone believe the movie is the most horrifically racist and misogynistic piece of hate speech ever made - which, I'm sorry, is an outsized...

Even with this issue, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that The Abyss is the best seller of this Cameron wave. 1) It benefits from the publicity and hype of the recent theatrical re-release. 2) Aliens already had pretty good Blu-ray editions available for the past 14 years, so demand for an...

Jayembee already mentioned Barnes & Noble. I'll also toss in a mention for Newbury Comics, though selection is typically limited and prices high.

There have been a number of supply chain and distribution issues with all three of these Cameron titles. Many of us who preordered the Abyss ahead of release still haven't received it. My copies of True Lies and Aliens were a couple weeks late. Amazon gave me a vague date of sometime before May...

Regardless, even if you want to call Greystoke the first Super 35 feature, that was five years before The Abyss, and other major productions had used the format in the meantime, including Top Gun and Silverado. So, I don't really think it's quite accurate to say that The Abyss was an early Super...

Hey, wait a minute, I know him. Like, we were quite friendly back in the day when he was just a kid trawling USENET with a voracious appetite for classic movies. Now he's a hotshot historian getting books published and doing audio commentaries. God, what have I done with my life? :laugh:

For the Ultimate Edition DVDs and Blu-ray releases, Lowry Digital scanned all of the Connery films, plus On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, and Moonraker. All of these were scanned in 4K, per the credit inserted at the end of each movie. Lowry did not scan any of the other Bond...

Bill Hunt says that Warner Bros. has confirmed that Dune Part Two will be 2.39:1 only, no IMAX ratio. This suggest that I was right about Villeneuve only intending that version for IMAX theaters and not on home video.

I'm not an addict. I can stop any time. I swear it. I swear it. And listen, I'm telling you, this stuff is actually good for me. No, listen, hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. It makes my brain, it makes my brain think way faster and clearer. It's true it's true it's true it's true. You...

There are treatment clinics you can go to for that addiction. The withdrawal symptoms may cause you some suffering in the short term, but the long term benefits to your health will be innumerable. :biggrin:

If an Apple computer product no longer meets your needs, you can buy a comparable product from a competitor that does. That analogy doesn't hold up to this situation. There is (and cannot be due to copyright) any competing 4K edition of Star Wars or True Lies to purchase an an alternative to...

I haven't seen the 4K version on iTunes. What I do know is that Lowry Digital did scan GoldenEye in 4K for the Ultimate Edition DVD in 2006. However, their scan was zoomed-in a little and missing picture on all four sides of the frame. Fans complained about this so much that MGM decided not to...

"All is well"? What is that even supposed to mean? In what regard is anything well? With respect, this doesn't address the discussion being had at all. I beg the moderators a little leniency in allowing a small digression into Star Wars for a moment, as I promise I'll bring this back around to...

Some of them are. A lot of them are not. Only a handful of the Bond titles actually got new film scans for the Blu-ray releases. The rest were recycled from older DVD-era masters with some additional tweaking to try and polish them up, in some cases (cough: GoldenEye) resulting in abject failure.

I trust that you'd be in a better position to know something like that than I would. But what I've heard is that, for any other faults he may have, George Lucas was a hoarder who insisted on saving any scrap of film he felt might ever be useful to him again in the future. It's largely because he...

Yes, we do. Lucasfilm representatives have confirmed it at various times.