The 4K UHD Wishlist Thread

[Mobe1969]

I've been monitoring the 4k reviews and I have to say I have been to date utterly underwhelmed. In fact I believe the best 4k release (picture improvement wise) to date has been Pineapple Express. I actually adore that film. But if 4k has taught me anything it is than any blockbuster or 3D release, or absolutely EVERYTHING with any CG has been mastered in 2k so the improvement for a xxxxing 4k upscale is marginal.

So, I started thinking, what great film shot movies with no CG would I want a 4k upgrade of? Either that you think their cinematographic excellence demands it, or it got a totally rubbish blu-ray release and the source is well above 2k? I'd love to say "Oh gee I'd like [insert comic book movie title here]" but given a) they were rendered the cg and probably mastered at 2k or less, and b) there is no 4k 3d, what is the point.

For starters, I'd say
- The Deer Hunter
- First Blood
- The Thing
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Alien

[Opips3]

Hello, Mobe

I've wish, I want to movie called "GoldenEye 007" 4K UltraHD.

More
-Casablanca
-Cleopatra (1963)
-Gone Girl
-Scarface Al Pacino

See you another Mobe.

[Doctorossi]

My personal top 20 movies all predate both digital cinematography and CG visual effects, so bring 'em all on, I say. Topping my list would be those favorites shot on large-format film:

Blade Runner (fx plates shot on 65mm)
Lawrence of Arabia
Rear Window
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo

And there are some others on my list with beautiful 35mm cinematography that would look wonderful in 4K:

Citizen Kane
La Grand Illusion
Raging Bull
Walkabout

[in2video2]

My shortlist of 65mm/70mm large format films for 4K UHD consideration would include the following:

South Pacific (1958) – Todd-AO
Ben-Hur (1959) – MGM Camera 65
West Side Story (1961) – Panavision 70
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – Super Panavision 70
Cleopatra (1963) – Todd-AO
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) – Ultra Panavision 70
My Fair Lady (1964) – Super Panavision 70
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) – Super Panavision 70
The Sound of Music (1965) – Todd-AO
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) – Todd-AO
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) – Todd-AO
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Super Panavision 70
Hello, Dolly! (1969) – Todd-AO
Airport (1970) – Todd-AO
Patton (1970) – Dimension 150
Baraka (1992) – Todd-AO
Samsara (2011) – Panavision System 65
The Hateful Eight (2015) - Ultra Panavision 70

Is this too much to ask??

[cole2kb]

Originally Posted by in2video2

Baraka (1992) – Todd-AO
Samsara (2011) – Panavision System 65

These two are already on their way!

[in2video2]

Originally Posted by cole2kb

These two are already on their way!

Great news!!

[JoeDeM]

I'd take anything that was shot in Technicolor

[applemac]

Originally Posted by JoeDeM

I'd take anything that was shot in Technicolor

Red Shoes, Robin Hood, Gone With the Wind, etc

Any 70MM or IMAX film;

But I think the top of the list for me is 2001.

[John Tester]

I get the impression that the decision makers in the film industry (incl those who decide what goes 4K) are of a younger generation that have very little appreciation for some of the great classic movies of the past. I don't mean B&W just pre 2000 would do. If it's about money? It's the retired generation sitting at home still with blue-ray players waiting to buys such improved classics.

[KRW1]

2001 and Apocalypse Now are top of my list. Just those two, and I'll consider jumping in.

[Bishop_99]

Terminator 2
Training Day

The first two movies that come to mind that I own on Blu-ray that I desperately want a 4K version of. That way I can own the 2160p version and hopefully the 1080p version will be down converted from the 4K master.

I'm sure there are plenty of other movies i currently own that need that kind of remaster if I look through my lis. But I would really like these two first. A true T2 presentation.

Also movies that never made it to Blu-ray, like True Lies and stuff. But I'll keep my exceptions in check.

[tyrok]

Originally Posted by Bishop_99

Terminator 2
Training Day

The first two movies that come to mind that I own on Blu-ray that I desperately want a 4K version of. That way I can own the 2160p version and hopefully the 1080p version will be down converted from the 4K master.

I'm sure there are plenty of other movies i currently own that need that kind of remaster if I look through my lis. But I would really like these two first. A true T2 presentation.

Also movies that never made it to Blu-ray, like True Lies and stuff. But I'll keep my exceptions in check.

Anything from Cameron would be great but he is too busy with Avatar 2-4 to even approve 1080p versions of The Abyss and True Lies.

[Deciazulado]

2001 the uncut version I saw in 1968
Brainstorm
Oklahoma! Todd-AO 70 30fps
Around the World in 80 Days Todd-AO 70 30fps
The Bible D-150
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Fall of the Roman Empire
Napoleon
STAR WARS
CE3K
and many more

[GC Riot]

The Abyss and True Lies?

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

2001 the uncut version I saw in 1968

I hope you're not holding your breath for that one.

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Brainstorm

Ooh! From the Showscan negative- good thinking!

[RealorFake4K]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Brainstorm

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Ooh! From the Showscan negative- good thinking!

I totally read that as 'Brainscan' the Eddie Furlong cyber-slasher movie featuring T Ryder Smith.


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Give me Terminator(1+2), Predator, One Flew Over the Cooks Nest, True Romance, Alien(s), Se7en, BttF, Beetlejuice, and like 5 different edits of Blade Runner and I'll be happy for a while.

[Canada]

I know these aren't cinematic master pieces, but I would love to see Sony (Columbia Pictures) make good on



It is a bloody shame that this was such a mess on Blu-ray, with the right transfer this could have been such eye candy.

[vincentric]

See a lot in my wishlist already mentioned, a few more not yet mentioned off the top of my head -

Kagemusha
Ride with the Devil
Days of Heaven
Spartacus (1960)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Videodrome
Heat
Niagara
Charade
Black Narcissus
Volver

[Brightstar]

Anything from 1982 onwards right up till the latest blockbuster

[ncraft]

Vertigo
Rear Window
The Godfather/Godfather Part 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Kill Bill (The Whole Bloody Affair) on one disc.