OMG HE LEFT HIS NAME ON THE TRUCK 🤣🤣🤣 I wasn't sure where this video was going when I clicked on it, but man you already won me over!

Most of the examples of film grain preserved footage you show clearly look worse than the film grain removed footage. Also vinyl noise is not good.

1:00:43 Totally normal. I do that once a week. Including the accident

People of Any decade at the Very least beginning from the 70 want to Go back but i dont think its wrong because there were Surely things that were better

In a world where people are creating film critic and reviewer businesses based off of bashing films, it is always nice to hear people talk about how the feel about films without any agendas or forced negativity.

I had the whole film spoiled for me in film school. Out of the blue, the lecturer just went through it and offered up the dream interpretation. Didn’t see it then until 20 years later and while I couldn’t shake off that take, I enjoyed it very much. I love Lynch’s insistence on not giving solid answers to his work. It’s what you bring to it yourself that matters. And I really related to Naomi Watts characters heartbreak a lot. I think the story is about heartbreak and disappointment. In love, ambition and the self loathing it leads to. That’s what I took from it.

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One of my least favorite transfers is for Scary Movie (2000) from the 2007 blu-ray. The DNR makes the film look really weird. There's a more recent transfer used for streaming services, with much less DNR and more film grain in tact, and the addition of it being an open matte version (2: 35:1 expanded to 16:9) it's a shame that this version hasn't made it to a new blu-ray release. I can't say the same for the second film, Lionsgate did a great job on that transfer. It's for sure the definitive version of that film

The movie kinda feels like the merchandise and not the show it's based on.

As a guy that can not feal nostalgia. I can not relate.

1:21 What movie is that?

please get a worse camera

Great video! Makes me want to do a similar deep dive into games. Textures and assets aside, it's flabbergasting how many games change their color palettes for remasters, and I have started becoming very averse to it. At best, the original vibe is preserved. At worst, formerly dark creepy areas are rendered bright as day and everything is oversaturated.

Thanks a lot man, this was packed full of information I had always made assumptions about but honestly didn't know enough about the formats and processes to truly grasp. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into the research for this. How on earth did they miss the car hardtop in American Graffiti? That thing makes a sore thumb look positively stealthy.

Not holding my breath for a T2 4k that doesn't look like it was processed through the A.I. slaughterhouse. I doubt Cameron will be accepting of film grain ever again. I have no hope for Terminator 1 either. Seeing what he did to Aliens, The Abyss & True Lies crushed any expectations.

Seeing Jurassic Park on release day in theaters was a formative experience for sure. I was 12 & had been fed a heavy diet of marketing for the film all spring & early summer (trailers, the book, Starlog magazines, McDonald's cups and packaging tie-ins, etc.) & was made dino-obsessed. It was the most incredible thing I'd seen since probably Batman in '89 or TMNT in '90. Has to be my most re-watched Spielberg movie, & overall under the Star Wars OT. Been chasing that theatrical experience dragon ever since.

Funny that you mention Criterion Collection (which I love) when even they have had their controversies over the past few years (the Wong Kar-Wai restorations and the pink sky in Tarkovsky's Mirror). Controversial restoration choices are inescapable lol.

I'm glad ypu mentioned The Matrix here. I never saw it at the cinema but watched the DVD I had of it religiously, and in the DVD the scenes set in the Matrix were barely green at all, they had a more brown tint to them than anything. For _years_ I assumed that must've been how it really was, and that any changes to that were made retroactively... but it turns out the green had been colour corrected out of it all along and I only found that out like 20 years later...

I'd like to offer a counterpoint, that sometimes *some* amount of grain removal is absolutely necessary. Warner Bros. released several (otherwise very nice) Blu-Rays of Looney Tunes. This is 50-100 year old film. A little over *90 year old* film stock at the oldest end...and a lot of it was poorly preserved. They applied no grain reduction whatsoever, and slapped it all onto Blu-Ray at ~15 Mbps. The end result is a mess where the extremely high level of grain actually gives way to macroblocking and color smearing. A light amount of DNR would've done miles for those discs. It's a bit of a moot point since they completely stopped the physical releases when they realized they could lock the continued releases of those older shorts behind MAX and Boomerang... And I say this as someone who hates the Madame Tussauds look of the newer T2 master, owns both "Level" Blu-Ray discs of Dragon Ball Z (and "obtained" the streaming versions of the two unreleased Level discs), and has also gone as far as hunting down 35mm film scans of movies.

I was not a fan of The Terminator on Blu-ray the scene that killed it for me is when the T-800 was in the police station and the power is out and you only see the shadow of Kyle not knowing if it was T-800 or Kyle the light is way to bright seeing him right away... which I'm sorry if I'm passionate about this but that was the point of the movie not knowing if its The Terminator or Kyle

Watched this on a double feature with Blue Velvet in 86, at a local Richmond, VA theater. What a memorable long afternoon at the theater that one was.

Give me a wide screen CRT and a VHS and I'm happy.

Nothing Beats Original 35mm Film Look in case of most movies.

Dumb liberals always think MAGA is about "rolling the clocks back to a simpler time." No, idiot, it's about American politicians actually putting America and its citizens first on the world stage. We have the leverage and the resources, and we should use that to better our lot, just like every other country does for themselves

Even if ppl had photographic memories of movies they watched in theatres in their childhoods, why would you want to replicate the duped release prints that you inevitably saw back then. Very few ppl saw original neg or show prints. I can attest to the fact that, having worked as a projectionist on the UK premiere of Eyes Wide Shut, and handled/rehearsed the various 35mm prints, the orig neg was night and day different to the release prints. The orig neg showed all the original intent with the grain while the release prints were muddy, hazy facsimiles by comparison.

17:34 _"By shifting the look of a movie with little regard for the context behind it, you're basically communicating to me that you look at a film as being less a piece of work with a thesis and deliberate choices put into it and more as content."_ Précisement! Don't expect us to treat you seriously if you can't treat yourself seriously.

The end of sleep away camp.

aww this is such a sweet deconstruction, just watched Before Sunrise for the first time

My thought process is artistic intent vs limitation of the time. Eyes Wide Shut was intentionally made to look grainy. T2 wasn't intended to look grainy but was grainy because of the limitations. So cleaning up grain in T2 is less annoying than cleaning up Eyes Wide Shut. So whoever is working on the cleanup process should be knowledgeable of the original artistic intent. Is it meant to look green like The Matrix? Is it just a fun action movie like True Lies? Also with old film in theaters was the grain you saw from the master or was it grain from that theater's actual copy? I'm perfectly fine with cleaning up old films to make them clearer as long as it's done with care and passion for the original intent. This thought process also applies sound mixing. So many theater mixes being downmixed to stereo with algorithms instead of care annoys me more than the way it looks.

Honestly the worry a lot of cinephiles have these days is that 4K blu ray feels like the "ultimate" format, with it being unlikely there's ever a successor in the physical space to UHD and streaming services having no real incentive to offer better. With these awful AI algorithms popping up now, it feels like the releases we've been getting may be the last chance to get a good version of these movies for posterity before it all becomes automated slop.

Bless Criterion

Came here to learn something, got tired of listening to this guy talk about his opinion. Couldn't finish this video.

In 2007, I ended up running a website with pirated movies converted into a format to play on the Nintendo DS. I'm pretty sure I ended up removing any film grain. Lol.

I blame rampant drug use in Hollywood. Can't even keep their edit bays sound levelled and color calibrated.

It's got a great premise, and I do love that it takes it out of the ring. Not a movie without merit at all but I wish it dwelt on its themes a little more than it does, and get them back onto the streets without such contrivances. Mind you, who can hate this film now? It laid groundwork for Rocky Balboa and the Creed films. I love it when a mythos does that instead of course correct. They did the same for Karate Kid 3 and Cobra Kai, and it was great! Rocky 4 is my favourite though. Original version. The gall of Stallone to think that Rocky could punch the Cold War out, amazing. And it gave us gems like this; kzbin.info?search_query=rocky+4+training+montage+parody+

In the director's cut it shows Rocky aiding Tommy after he loses the fight!🥊🤼‍♂🔔🎥

liked that you touched on the recent Rocky IV director's cut in this one in comparison! also, I stumbled across your channel recently and have been enjoying all of your analysis content. keep up the great work!

F1RST! Great video!🥊🔔🤼‍♂🎥

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Technology not only helps film but also hurts it. Truth is that even when presented in theaters at the time they weren’t EXACTLY seen how the director envisioned. Lens issues, build variation, projection screen age all manipulated the look, and that’s completely ignoring sound. Today we have 75” televisions on our walls and you can go to websites to get EXTREMELY specific settings to give you the “best image possible’. If you are an Apple fan, the shows and movies they make for Apple TV are created in such a way that if you use your phones camera it can make adjustments to give you more accurately what was intended by the creator. The thing is that there are people who think the best way to listen to music is via album/record which is objectionally wrong, but it MIGHT be the way THEY like it most. For all we know Sydney Pollack might have HATED grain but his only experience in filmmaking is that you always have it. They are mutually exclusive. The key to film is if YOU enjoy it. Yes, to preserve these movies for eternity as they were would be the goal, but what it all comes down to is if it still stirs the soul of the viewer. Inspire a tear, cause you to drift to anger, or leap to forgiveness. They made these stories to make you feel something and that will always be the most important aspect of film.

oh boy another boring video essay with drawn out script and stock footage. Will youtube never stop recommending this crap to me

oh yes, i've also noticed this when first watched Risky Business a month ago

Is one of the categories 'When George Lucas goes back and breaks the iconic movies he made correctly the first time'?

Digital is inferior to film and thats what David Lynch is ultimately upset at. Its not a true capture.

In fairness to Lynch his films are much more about immersion than visual fidelity; a VHS on a 13" TV/VCR combo 30 years ago with no interruptions is gonna be much better than a similarly sized OLED tablet/laptop with notifications from other things interrupting it

Another example of color changes and quality loss is Super Sentai (the Japanese source footage for Power Rangers). Home video releases of the late 90s-early 2000s Sentai shows had their colors washed out due to the fact that Toei used old analog tape masters on the DVDs instead of the original 16mm film masters.

I was not expecting a cameo appearance by Rich Evans on the big screen. 🤩