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Originally Posted by PonyoBellanote
I really can't help but to admire how a lot of people in this forum seem to know better as to how movies should look on home video, even more than directors, even more than people who know film..
Moreover, I think we, as mostly spectators, have been spoiled by amazing 4K restorations/remasters of very old, analogue filmic remasters, that we're expecting that a 26 year old movie from 1997, with lots of digital work on it, should look exactly as analogue as a 40 year old film.
There's no denying here that Cameron did touch up the movie and filter a bit, probably used AI a little, but the work here, is not as AWFUL as T2, no denying there's issues if you stop and pixel peep, but the final result is pretty decent and watchable if you just, you know, sit down and watch the movie instead of trying to nit pick every single frame..
Me? I also love the look of grain, analogue film remasters, but I'm not out here trying to scholar people on how all films should look based on my fetish for it nor expect movies from this era to look like movies from 50 years ago.
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See my above reply. If you like it then you like it, but as with matey above there's no need to play the old "so you know betterer than the filmmakers do you?" card to try and assuage your own conscience by bringing down other people. Besides which, the only person who keeps mentioning this and T2 in the same breath is YOU, I think I already put it to you that you're trying much too hard here and you just need to dial down the outrage a tad. It's okay for people to discuss these things and aside from Riddhi and starmike getting banned for having a quarrel about tangential bullshit I'd say this thread's been remarkably civil considering, say, how poisonous the LOTR thread got.
It's really quite simple: this is in no way a photochemically faithful representation of Titanic. In several respects it could never be anyway, even with the best of intentions, but what it does represent is Cameron's final say on the movie using all the modern technology available to him. Whether we like it or not doesn't even matter, his artistic ideals have been attained and so it is 100% faithful to what the filmmaker wants.