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Your input is appreciated Colin and in any case we have now seen everything that had to be said - and a lot more - in this thread. I am bowing out too, at least until I get a chance to check out True Lies when it gets released over here.

Very true! I have no interest in telling other people or myself which movie deserves to be treated with respect for their original look and which ones can be treated as a digital playground because they are either not worthy or because their director happens to have other ideas how they should...

He was indeed pretty vocal about not liking big black bars on regular TVs but even back in the laserdisc days he was not opposed to scope versions of his movies for laserdisc collectors.

Pretty sure that if Cameron had wanted to use 70mm he would have made it possible, but he just did not see it as a desirable option. And by the time Titanic was made 70mm cameras already had come down in size a lot, those were not the same cameras that were used for Ben-Hur or Lawrence of Arabia.

Understood, these are remixes. No problem with that as I can just get the original Blu-ray or UHD mixes of True Lies and The Abyss - oh wait...

Some good reading about True Lies, it's cinematography and what James Cameron thought about the film prints at the time. Looked like he was quite happy with it back then: https://theasc.com/articles/true-lies-tests-cinemas-limits Here is the sequence about the prints: Both Cameron and...

Hard to have a good debate with people from both sides putting words in other people's mouth and/or telling them what they really want / mean. While this can happen in a debate the extent to which we see it here is excessive and I would suggest for certain members to step back, calm down a bit...

I am not a big fan of Titanic but I would love to rewatch True Lies on film and of course preferably the 70mm Blow-Up.

In succession he made three of the most expensive movies of all time with T2, True Lies and Titanic and by the time he was planning Titanic going 65mm certainly would not have been a budget issue, it is not that expensive. The three previous 65mm productions showed that 65mm could be used on...

Yep, not that much to be gained for Titanic when it had that early 2K CGI. It was quite visible already in the 70mm Blow-Up I saw.

Pretty sure there was an interview with him in Widescreen review where he said that 70mm would have made his special effect look bad so Super 35 was the better choice. I remember that he was quite enthusiastic about opening up Super 35 for 4:3 TVs and that on such a TV black bars could be reduced.

You are making a number of assumptions here that do not help. Cameron wanting to alter these movies does not equal people here fawning over them. I have yet to see a post of any member saying that they were glad that Cameron did what he did., no applause here. It is just a fact that Cameron...

As I have expressed earlier it is hard to fit these Cameron movies in a traditional rating system so I would prefer these releases to be rated as if the director did not have a say in how they should look and then it could be added that in these specific cases the director wanted the look of...

Yes you have but the casual reader afflicted with a short attention span may invariably skip to the ratings. Maybe you could think of some clever moniker where you give a rating that indicates how much a release succeeds in looking like film or something similar. So as an example: True Lies...

How can this approach to releasing True Lies result in a simple 10 out of 10? Sorry but that just doesn't look right to me - without some qualifier next to that image score it looks just like an excellent regular release when in fact it is a complete departure from what it meant to even try and...