(2024-12-12, 09:50 AM)dvdmike Wrote: New restoration from the man that also loves Park Circus.......

Park Circus, the distributor? Or did you mean Park Road like the Canadian ex-filmmaker who's gone senile?

(2024-12-12, 10:26 AM)Beber Wrote:

(2024-12-12, 09:50 AM)dvdmike Wrote: New restoration from the man that also loves Park Circus.......

Park Circus, the distributor? Or did you mean Park Road like the Canadian ex-filmmaker who's gone senile?

Road, my bad

@alleycat, is it still available? 'Cause, you know, Fincher is now digitally impaired, so your work is probably the better alternative to the now official product we had hoped to get for so long.

Now the new master is out has anything changed?

@dvdmike, we'd save some time pointing at what's left intact, 'cause everything looks "True Lies"-fake, oversharpened at best, digitally tweaked all over the place: every curtain has been changed and straightened, every glass window and window frame as well, every light reflection on the ceiling erased and yet lensflares have been added when a lightbulb is in the frame. He erased light reflections on glasses and bottles. He changed set elements. It doesn't even feel like a real home anymore, it's a digital set. He even changed the Coca-Cola can so you can now read the brand instead of the back label where the ingredients are written. I guess we know who financed this nonsense, then. The guy is completely out of his mind. He was my favorite back in the day, and now I hate him. The only silver lining would be colors and contrast, I guess.

https://slow.pics/c/kIkrIJam
https://slow.pics/c/lVjaWGem
https://slow.pics/c/QlmV5zLe

What an absolute mess

Yet another film lost to digital muckery. This has got to stop already.

@ ActWatchBD posted this interview in the shoutbox: https://collider.com/fight-club-4k-relea...cher-cost/

The director explains that when bringing a film up to 4K, the restoration may expose flaws in visual effects, "I didn't want to go in and remake the visual effects because I think that's a cheat. You don't get to redo it. You have to just kind of make the best of what you have." Fincher and his team strove to find a common ground between making everything look as good as possible while preserving his original vision. That's what happened with Se7en and Panic Room, and now with his next restoration.

Pure bullshit. The guy lies through his teeth: he did redo the visuals. It is a cheat. He did redo it. He did not make the best of what he had. He didn't preserve the original vision. And no, he did not do what he claims with Seven and Panic Room. Both films no longer exist and Fight Club is next.

I just added the latest batch of screen comparisons of Fincher's insanity in a post above. They're from a guy at Blu-ray.com, and he plans to do a 4th batch in coming days.
I guess Fincher's dream was to work in construction. Plastering was supposed to be his specialty apparently. And the height of a stair banister is also a very important thing to reevaluate. The guy is nuts.

Another movie we need a print of