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In response to
"Vudu End-Of-Year Sale going on. 6-Film 4K(UHD) Hobbit&LOTR Extended Collection for $50 -- (edited)"
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budice
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I was watching videos this morning about the 4K conversion.
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
Dec 15 '20, 09:41
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There's considerable critique of the LOTR 4K conversion. Firstly, it's not a direct 35mm transfer (what, Jackson, you were too good to spring for the 60mm IMAX cameras?) nor could it be since all the effects were digital and thus added to the film afterwards. If they did a direct 35mm transfer, they'd have to have re-done all the SFX. So instead they went to the digital masters and Jackson couldn't help but tinker with some of it. He's apparently expressly said that he wanted to bring LOTR "closer" to the Hobbit trilogy which in his mind means that he's going to "modernize" it but in our minds means something else entirely different and much more ominous. Also, you can see in a number of scenes where the movies were clearly digitally or "machine" processed where no one was actually doing the work, they just fed it into the wood chipper and this is what came out the other side. This means that a number of scenes look artificially "touched up" (like when you use Google Photos to automatically touch up a picture instead of going through it in Photoshop yourself). But then there are scenes where you clearly see the director's hand (Jackson intentionally re-colored a number of scenes - although if you were to ask Zach Snyder, he'd say that's perfectly normal).
But then you see a number of those "before and after" shots of 1080p vs. 4K and can't help but marvel at how *even more* gorgeous it looks now.
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