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Old Movies Are Being Enhanced With AI Tools and Not Everyone is Happy (petapixel.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The 1994 James Cameron film True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently re-released in Ultra HD 4K disc format giving viewers the opportunity to watch these classic films in unprecedented detail.

Not only True Lies but Cameron’s The Abyss and sci-fi classic Aliens were also released on Ultra HD Blu-ray with Geoff Burdick, senior vice president of Lightstorm Entertainment, who tells The New York Times that he thinks they “look the best they’ve ever looked.”

But not everyone agrees.

“It just looks weird, in ways that I have difficulty describing,” the journalist Chris Person tells The Times. “It’s plasticine, smooth, embossed at the edges. Skin texture doesn’t look correct. It all looks a little unreal.”

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Personally I think the example shot in the thumbnail looks worse after being "enhanced." Arnold's hair was a dead giveaway, shit just looks weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The fabric on their suits also looks weird!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Came here to say exactly that. Tom Arnold also just looks plastic in the "enhanced" one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s a freeze-frame of a high-speed action sequence with motion blur. You almost certainly wouldn’t notice in that second shot. Maybe in the first, which was a slower tracking shot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's true.

I think my biggest gripe with it is that it looks like when I abruptly change my smart bulbs from warm white to cold white. lol. It's jarring and unpleasant at first and definitely takes a minute or five to adjust to it.