4k UHD Blu-ray recommendations

I'm not disagreeing or defending it.

I know. I'm agreeing with you.

I saw some people say the changes were to do with the colour changes in tv technology over time but don't know how accurate that is.

Colour changes with each new release because the colour timing will be carried out by different people during mastering. The same for how dark or bright an image will look. There seems to be a modern trend whereby new blu ray releases (not 4k) are practically shrouded in darkness because they're over contrasted. See the screenshots from 'Cannibal Holocaust' below.

The amount of detail lost in the second image due to black crush is insane.

But even when you have directors or DP's involved in the remastering results can vary dramatically. I believe that Dean Cundy was involved in releases of 'The Thing' from both Arrow and Shout and they have very different timings.

Cameron's use of AI is questionable for sure, it's put me off some of the 4k's of his films. Even before that he's redone some effects for Titanic and Terminator 2 as well. Spielberg added some effects to Close Encounters as well, although the ET walkie-talkies are far more infamous. Which he'd regret afterwards.

He did, and I have no idea what was going through Spielberg's head when he made that particular change. In saying that, not all of the changes from the 2002 release of 'E.T.' were objectionable. Some of the CGI additions looked pretty great. There were rumours going around that he was going to tinker with 'Jaws', but after the walkie-talkie backlash that appears to have been dropped thankfully. Although there is part of me would like to see Bruce cleaned up a little bit here and there. He is a bit too mechanical is certain scenes.

Cameron's messing around is a little less in your face, but it still produces oddities. The remaster of 'The Terminator' looks remarkably different to the previous releases. Some of it looks bizarrely fake. It's too…colourful. I've been watching 'The Terminator' since 1984 and it was never a bright and poppy movie.

Cameron already mentioned converting Aliens to 3D this week and it won't be shocking that if he does convert it that more changes are made to the film.

The 3D malarkey is something I just don't understand. But if he is going to do that, it'll mean another DNR scrubbed mess because film grain and 3D aren't great bedfellows. I have zero interest in seeing 'Aliens' in anything other than 2D.

Some directors for whatever reason can only see non-existant flaws in their films when they look back at them.

It's hard to walk away from something you've drawn, or painted, or built, or filmed and as the creator of something you'll always see the faults so I understand that particular itch. But it's always a shame when a film maker goes back and ruins something because they just couldn't walk away. Francis Ford Coppola has spent a decade farting around with 'Apocalypse Now' producing sub-par versions that weren't any improvement over the perfection of the 1979 cut. But at least he had the sense to leave fans with that cut.

It's been over 10 years since Disney paid billions to acquire Star Wars and I'm still waiting for them to release an unmolested version of the original trilogy.

I got my one a few weeks ago and it's glorious.

Did anyone buy the Imprint UHDs of Kill Bill 1 and 2 that came out late last year?
https://viavision.com.au/products/kill-bill-volume-1-2-4k?_pos=2&_psq=KILL+BILL&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Thanks for the answer.

Yeah I've noticed how inconsistent it is as well. Only ordered from America once and got stung which put me off a bit.

Finally got it after they sent me the standard Blu Ray edition and not the limited 4k version I originally ordered. It came sealed from Arrow but with a HMV price sticker on it so I assume given it’s sold out on the arrow online store they either got a return or called one back from HMV or just went out and bought one (lol).

Anyway, watched it last night. It looks incredible. It sounds great too however the dubbing is off at times and very distractingly so. I’ve looked online and it’s a known issue. Arrow seem to be washing their hands of it and saying it’s true to the original release. I’ve seen this movie a few times on multiple formats and I’ve never encountered this before. I’m not old enough to have seen it in the cinema so can’t comment on that but I can’t imagine it went out like this originally. It also begs the question why go to all the trouble of restoring this and leave the audio like this?

It’s more than a little disappointing tbh for a €50+ release.

Yes some of the “accents” are a bit bizarre and begorrah-ish but it’s a dubbing issue I’m referring to in particular here with the voice and lip movements very out of sync in places.

I could change the settings on my Blu Ray player but it’s not even consistent throughout the film so I’d be constantly pausing and resetting and rewinding each time a new issue appeared. Very frustrating for a release like this.

I get you on Terry, not so much Williamson though - at least in this release.

On Williamson, his performance was the standout for me when I first saw this film as a teenager, and remains so.

It looks incredible however. Hard to believe this was released in 1981.