James Cameron talks about the importance of physical media.
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That's hilarious given the treatment of several of his movies on home media, notably The Abyss and True Lies.
At least they touch upon it in the interviews.
Fans have been hounding the film's writer-director to release a 4K UHD version of the movie for years. Will he miss the well-meaning badgering now that they have what they want?
"Yeah, right," Cameron laughed. "It's certainly going to collapse my social media to a fraction of what it's been."
"Looking back and seeing we hadn't done 4K transfers of all these and, of course, the fans have been banging on about this for ages. it was like, 'When are we going to get around to this?'" Cameron recalled. "I think what people don't appreciate is that it is basically a week of my time to do a proper transfer, updating it every day as they go off and do color and power windows and all that sort of thing."share
I don't understand what took so long. His movies are all critically acclaimed box office hits, and they deserved to have a great remaster. For a while True Lies was only available on DVD and nothing for BluRay or 4K.
shareSounds like big Jim demands approval of it and likes to be involved in the process and couldn't be bothered dedicating his time to doing it until now.
He could have just let the studios handle it like most other directors do if he was so busy over the past bleeding decade or two.
Sometimes they mess it up if the director isn't involved. He's been too busy with Avatar 3-17 to have any time.
shareThere's a real chance that Cameron himself has messed it somehow. And in any case, I would have taken a "messed up" release rather than no release at all.
shareI hear the remaster for Titanic is amazing that he had 100% of say in.
sharePeople at blu-ray.com forum seem to complain that Cameron removes/filters too much of film grain from his releases. I have not seen them, so can't comment. I myself am more sensitive in pacing changes caused by re-editing of a movie and less in color timing or DNR.
shareThat sucks. I hope it looks like actual film instead of digital film.
shareSometimes the directors themselves mess it up.
I know many people who hate William Friedkins treatment of The Exorcist. The new 4K for it has a severely cold deep blue/purple push on the exorcism sequence along with some weird hazy out of focus look to it as well. I believe he had a similar debacle with The French Connection too a few years back where the color timing was completely changed.
I'm not entirely sure we can trust big Jim here but we'll have to wait and see how Aliens, The Abyss and co turn out. Hopefully he hasn't tinkered with them too much and just delivers a pristine authentic presentation of the movies without trying to 'improve' or 'update' them.
At least James Cameron is a technology guy so I can at least trust him to know a thing or two.
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