Not surprising as Tarantino did not rescan the original negatives by reediting the entire movie; Lionsgate reused the 2K DI (back then, computers are not powerful enoguh to render the film at 4K DI until Spider-Man 2 in 2004) like Universal for Inglorious Basterds. The true 4K from Tarantino are the first three and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (with the dreaded 7.1 remix on the UHD; neither does the near-fielded 5.1 mix). The first two should sync with the LaserDisc PCM Stereo, while Jackie Brown can sync with DTS LD audio as the proper 5.1 mix. Reservoir Dogs: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1461.html and Pulp Fiction: https://fanrestore.com/thread-5695.html But no Jackie Brown for now which does have fantastic transfer to watch

Anyone watched Kill Bill 4k yet? Faces when in motion seemed off to me.

Yeah, I don't get these people with their digital brain now: why would you smooth that piece of wood? It looked much more real and authentic with the lines on it.

Fincher's revisionist once again like Se7en does. Waited for the Blu-ray and 4K releases debut, just like that!?

this one does not look good https://slow.pics/c/4hiIA2qp?canvas-mode...it=contain

PANIC ROOM 4k is out on streaming; Dolby Vision/HDR10, DD+

I knew nothing about the weather reports Hahahahahaha. RIP Sir

Beside his movies it was fun watching his weather reports everyday

RIP David Lynch.

That's sad to hear

One of the true greats. RIP

such a sadness...

Damn. Maybe this will motivate me to finally watch Twin Peaks

RIP David Lynch

I'm sure I read somewhere that the bigger problem with the Woo films is access to elements as the owners did not take care of them at all. I'm not 100% but I think it was talking about Bullet in the Head being completely gone. Anyway fingers crossed they find something workable.

Since Hong Kong Rescue is gone to shame, looks like it finally go for the proper restoration of these movies at long last

Wow, its finally happening... https://variety.com/2025/film/asia/john-...236272850/

hello happy new year

Train wreck of a movie anyway, just like Twisters. There's no fixing at this point. Just erase those from history.

Fix this! Fix that! How do you 'fix' something for which there is no complete or correct version? It's just an improvement until next time someone wants to fiddle with it...

The puppet was fine imo.

I'd say the problem wasn't so much lousy CGI Holm, but using Holm at all

Alien Romulus home release has fixed Rook - https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news...e-release/

I'll take it over low quality scans with questionable grading, or an LD era release

yeah, he did some revisionist changes. I wish he didn't, but it's honestly not that big of a deal

so, he DID use A.I., but not in how you think. I approve this usage https://ew.com/david-fincher-discusses-u...ox-8763180

Would love to at least compare it

Don't have that, sadly

Then stick with the DTS Cinema CD-ROM track instead? Even the DTS LD releases has fatal flaws that the true theatrical experience is the DTS Cinema audio track. What a waste, but a least tried for emunateD (the same with Pulp Fiction)

The New Line LD is messed up, the back right channel is only low frequencies

Is the DTS LD the same as Criterion but encoded as DTS?

Looks like emunateD is ready to sync the UHD release for what velocity saying: https://fanrestore.com/thread-5616.html

Also the 7.1 had some annoying changes

I wouldn't trust any reviewers on audio

sounds like we'll have to mux the 7.1 onto this https://www.hometheaterforum.com/seven-a...hd-review/

Yes probably right issues, so they removed the music. That makes for an interesting alternative soundtrack version!

Happy New Year once again!

Rights issue?

Warner just put Barry Lyndon on YT with many music cues missing in scenes that now only have the dialogue and effects track on them.

Happy new year folks!

"Merry New Year!"

Happy New Year :-)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all you good people of fanrestore

just watched PTA's 1st movie HARD EIGHT (aka SYDNEY) in the new 4k master on The Movie Channel, Looks great. Colorful, better color separation, new looking, you can see every single pore in John C. Reilly's face now, lol

I'm a day late but Merry Christmas anyways!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Be excellent to each other!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas guys

For Amadeus Theatrical, looks like the JP LD audio can finally sync once the 4K is out: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Amadeu...803/page/1

@Hitcher sk13movie.com

About fucking time!

Amadeus coming to 4K with the theatrical cut https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=35684

Corporations just want to make money. If upscaling a 1080p master with AI cost 5 000 $ vers investing 15 000 $ to scan in 4K + 10 000 $ to redo the color timing, they won't hesitate.

@Bilbofett where can we watch it?

Just finished SK13, the doc on Kubrick/Eyes Wide Shut, HIGHLY recommended. Fascinating. Not sure I agree w/ his final take, but what a hell of a ride

Would have been mondo excellent if both cuts of Thief made it to 4K officially.. Maybe Arrow Video.

And yet corporations never learn NOT to AI upscale the masters. Viewers rather have untouched 2K DI masters placed into the 4K disc (with less compression issues; worked with The Shallows (2016) & Drive (2011) Second Sight releases) despite limited by the source masters

Even Interstella 5555 has been ruined by AI: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaftPunk/commen.../#lightbox

More AI BS!

Welll, since they did release a blu-ray with both cuts, maybe they have the rights for a UHD release too. We'll see.

Or, for short, what Titanic just said. Is Arrow supposed to make their own edition or is it just wishful thinking?

@velocity It is an issue when the theatrical cut isn't available in the same latest format. Anyway, I hope Arrow will fix that.

Oh, yes, it IS a replacement. No original untouched theatrical cut included just like the 2014 Criterion Blu-ray. We're deprived from the original historical film. Nobody cares about HIS vision HE wants to enforce. A film is a group effort and part of (pop) culture history. It morally and ethically belongs to us. Nobody has mandate to go back in time and change the past. Mann is amongst the worst revisionists anyway among Lucas, Cameron, Scott, Spielberg, Cundey, Fujimoto, Storaro... Those guys owe us their careers and fortunes, and they take a number two on all of us. There never was a proper "Heat" home video release (terrible non-colors), there's now 3 cuts for "The Last of the Mohicans" and only 2 on Blu-ray with the latest ruined colorwise. There's now 3 cuts for "Ali", and only 2 on Blu-ray in different regions. There's at least 3 cuts for "Manhunter" and only one looks decent, at least it's the theatrical one. "The Insider" was ruined colorwise on Blu-ray while the DVD and old TV broadcastings had the proper colors... Theatrical cuts, looks and mixes are the real deal. Anything else should only be considered as a bonus. The sad part is the industry wants almost universally to impose the new version. You can't even buy "Blade Runner" on its own nowadays. The standalone edition is The Final Cut. It's also the one shown on streaming and TV now, falsely labelled as being a 1982 film... with Atmos and CGI implemented!

It's still the director's vision, even if it's the vision he had decades later. More than you can say about any open matte

Nothing wrong with that. It's a new director's cut, no one's saying it's a replacement for the theatrical. I don't see why someone would take an issue with that, it's honest and not pretending to be anything else

It's strange to read in a fan restoration forum, the news of the tealed-to-death director's cut of THIEF released, considered awesome!

Awesome news for both Panic Room and Thief.

THIEF UHD on the way

The Social Network is also on its way in a standalone release, out of the Columbia boxset.

That finally took under 19 years to get on Blu (and UHD at the same time) for the first time ever. Blu is referring to the debut since 2006. But being a Fincher film, who knows if this is worth the wait despite being a Sony film (Fincher is not involved in The Social Network 4K)

Sweet

Panic Room UHD on its way: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=35649

Apparently The Brutalist is shot in Vistavision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdRXPAHIEW4. Very cool to see this format getting a modern revival

guess what https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...s/the-keep

the corporate will sell you dreck and won't even blink https://twitter.com/rarefilmm/status/186...0413061487

The master made for the Criterion LD of Se7en is probably the closest home release to the original theatrical release prints, although Fincher tweaked it even then. Every subsequent release has been revised further

Looks like the new se7en colour grade is closer to the original LD which is a nice change of pace, some reframing and regrading but this films never had any colour changes that were too radical. Interested in seeing what they've digitally tampered with for this one, some people are throwing AIccusatations

You can see grain on Pitt's hand here (from the trailer, zoom in) https://i.imgur.com/EIVUKzr.png

As long it not AI upscale nor DNR mess like the Cameron 4K "restorations", this can be regradable. But who knows by the actual release day

I feel like the Se7en UHD will be a double whammy for many people after the Cameron UHDs. They may never recover

That trailer of "Seven" looks about the same colorwise as the widely released Blu-ray. I wonder if it was edited using it or if the new master will look about the same...

And said trailer for Seven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PxDJyUMv_4

meanwhile, Fincher continues to "tweak" Se7en... https://www.fangoria.com/david-finchers-se7en-4k/

These deserved to be rescanned without Cameron, Lowry nor Park Road Post involvements. Especially with the latter destroyed Jackson's Middle-earth saga with DNR usage (both Theatrical and Extended Cuts)

And of course, the revisionist (like T2 and Titanic (1997) digitally altered CGIs): https://fanrestore.com/thread-4865-post-...l#pid91964

Yeah it's completely AI nuked. Someone posted pix on social media, where the posters in the store at the beginning, ads for brands, are redrawn and now the brand names are mispelled.

seems as if schnittberichte.com (english movie-censorship.com) had to fill in with some more comparison shots, just to make the censored frames not feeling so lonely in Showdown in Little Tokyo https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=581572

https://slow.pics/c/nnu4ifNU some more wonder A.I.

Anyone seen The Terminator 4K Blu-ray yet? If yes, any thoughts on the quality?

Thansk for the heads up, Bilbofett. Roger flew under the radar for so many years. He used to be easily accessible online from the late 90s to the late 00s or thereabouts. Loved to chat with fans on his own forum.