What's the best restoration of an older film you seen last year on Ultra4K?

[DenOfEarth]

For me
2001.
The Dark Crystal.
First Blood.
Rambo First Blood II.
The Lion King.

[jerclay]

2001 - hands down

[Tristold]

Evil Dead II, The Deer Hunter, Saving Private Ryan, 2001: A Space Odyssey, all Carpenter UHDs: They Live, Halloween, The Fog, Prince of Darkness, Christine, and Escape From New York. Studio Canal is on a roll, I can’t wait to see what they’ll do to Don’t Look Now. I wish they’d release the films separately without spending $40-50 on each film (optional, without the extra stuff, I can only budget around $20-30 per film. I want Blue Underground’s new 4K transfer for Zombi 2 but that’s too expensive. I don’t have a CD player to play soundtracks on, just a vinyl player.
American Psycho also was a massive upgrade. There’s a few films I saw in ultra AVX (premium theatre here with Atmos, and everything else) that I have seen recent releases on, even though I own the UHDs I can’t comment on them. Schindler’s List seems to be a really nice upgrade, just not to the extent of American Psycho, and Evil Dead II though.
I hated the last Blu of Halloween, and I thought the added HDR greatly improved it.
Lion King wasn’t a big upgrade, just a minor one, with great Atmos.
The Avengers (Assemble) is. It’s not as old of a film as this thread was likely made for, but it’s definitly worth mentioning. It’s easily Disney’s best UHD to date.

[StingingVelvet]

Either 2001 ASO or Avengers, if Avengers counts as "old."

Escape From New York is probably the one that made me most happy though, because I love that film the most.

[DanTheMan]

The Matrix and Braveheart, although I still need to pop in the discs for 2001: ASO, Saving Private Ryan, Philadelphia and Christine.

[DR Herbert West]

Predator 1&2
2001
The Big Lebowski

[OutOfBoose]

Many great remasters. Unfortunately very few weren't ****ed by some kind of inexplicable filtering.

[brainofj72]

The Patriot

[HDMan72]

2001: A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

[PissedOffPeoN]

Starship Troopers .

[johnnyringo7]

Great:
First Blood
Die Hard
Cliffhanger
Groundhog Day
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan

Very Good:
Rambo: First Blood part II
Predator
Air Force One

[trekky76]

From last year:
Matrix
Predator 2
The Lost World

I prefer not to count the newer ones but of these Knowing and Avengers were my faves.

[ROSS.T.G.]

I wouldn’t say most of these are old. Or maybe that’s something an old guy would say...

Titles I think are old:
Bridge on the River Kwai
Close Encounters
First Blood
The Deer Hunter
Blade runner
The John Carpenters

[Mcfly88]

2001 looks amazing... but that didn't surprise me much. What did, was Evil Dead! I'm still shocked how great it looks on 4K, I was not expecting that at all.

[andyman1970]

I don't have many 4k UHD's but of the ones I have I would say Halloween (1978) and Evil Dead. I still need to pick up 2001 ASO, but the boutique labels have taken control of my wallet with all the great cult horror titles they are releasing on BD, many of which come from 4k scans of the film negatives.

[brainofj72]

Originally Posted by ROSS.T.G.

I wouldn’t say most of these are old. Or maybe that’s something an old guy would say...

Titles I think are old:
Bridge on the River Kwai
Close Encounters
First Blood
The Deer Hunter
Blade runner
The John Carpenters

Well, the thread title said “oldER,” not “old.” I basically just took that to mean “catalog.” Generally speaking, “old” to me connotes pre-‘70s.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by brainofj72

Well, the thread title said “oldER,” not “old.” I basically just took that to mean “catalog.” Generally speaking, “old” to me connotes pre-‘70s.

Yeah I see that now, so many junk threads to keep track of. I just saw people posting about “old” movies lol.

[CarlosMeat]

Ultra 4K can be Kaleidescape so Lawrence of Arabia wins hands down for me it's almost unbelievable how great it looks.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by CarlosMeat

Ultra 4K can be Kaleidescape so Lawrence of Arabia wins hands down for me it's almost unbelievable how great it looks.

65mm cinematography ... [mic drop / leaves room]

[CarlosMeat]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

65mm cinematography ... [mic drop / leaves room]

So was 2001 but doesn't look nearly as good ,into mic you just dropped ,applause are resounding and standing ovation.