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The "enhanced" image looks a lot like those retouched Russian photos from the Stalinist era
Maybe I'm old, but do we really watch the movies because they are sharper, have vivid colors, etc or because of the story ? On the other hand, I would probably pay for an AI that will 'undark' that new super artistic movies, because some of them, have worse lighting than the Blair With Project...
We'll see so much of this in the next few years, optimizing everything to the point of boring. Perfect pop songs, perfect movies, perfect novels and on it goes.
Wow, that tweet they link to with a super punched in shot looks really really bad! Hard to believe Cameron thought this looked better than just a normal 4k transfer, yikes. Was really looking forward to a UHD release of The Abyss but now I'm not so sure... https://twitter.com/RazorwireRyan/status/1735753526167347232
I think this kind of AI "enhancement" is where CGI was in the 90s. It might be state of the art tech, but it's still very unrefined, and in ten or twenty years these remasters will look painfully dated and bad.
I dunno – I look at the original Jurassic Park and it still looks pretty amazing to me. Same with Terminator II. In many ways I feel like as directors got more and more capabilities with the tools they became comically overused. I don't think it's the sophistication of the tools, but the way that they're wielded that will make them look dated, or timeless.
Then I watch Star Wars and I just cannot believe they did this back in the day.
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If there is a movie which is only shot in 1080p and I have a 4k TV, it seems like there’s three options. One, watch it in the original 1080p with 3/4 of the screen as black border. Two, stretch the image, making it blurry. Three, upscale the image. If you give me the choice, I’m choosing 3 every time. Sorry if it sounds crass, but I feel the process of shooting the movie is less important than the story it is trying…
Upscaling exactly 2x is also an option.
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It seems little wild to assume the maker of a movie would care less about the movie than a random mob on the internet (instead of maybe just having a different opinion) but the assumption does feel very internet.
Depends on if he cares more about his current movie project(s) than his old ones. He still needs $$ I bet even Kubrick would have been tempted if the situation came about.
Society collectively deciding for creators what is supposedly the right thing to do with or the right way to think about their work is so strange.
AI does not change this.. It adds stuff that's not there, sure, it adds stuff that might be there, or could have been there, but it literally cannot know, so it just paints in plausibility.. Which is horrible and gross already in principle.
I imagine we're not far from the first conviction based on AI enhanced images.. give the model a blurry CCTV frame and a list of suspects and it will enhance the image until it looks like one of them, and since people are apparently this stupid, someone is going to be locked up for something they didn't do.
Back to movies, just, fuck no! There's no enhancements to make, the movie is _DONE_, it looks like it does, leave it.
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The upscaled versions also screwed up the camera focus blur by artificially removing it, and unnecessarily took out the film grain. Even leaving the grain and blur aside, the texture of the objects depicted is also getting seriously screwed up, with unrealistic looking smoothing and weird places of heightened contrast unrelated to the original scene. More generally, automatically second guessing the artistic choices…
Right. That director almost certainly chose that particular film because that particular grain lent the film the vibe they were looking for. Directors always look for ways to implement their artistic vision within the bounds of the medium, but the end results is almost certainly their artistic vision. A lot of that missing information is missing for a reason. Surely someone could use AI to invent things that go in al…
I will submit that directors are not generally the right people to call the shots here. A director can never watch his own movie the way the audience does. They always see an unfulfilled vision, a compromise being made here and there because of technology being limited, and some like Cameron or Lucas will make misguided attempts to modernize to make up for it.
This disregards that Aliens will always be a goofy 80s movie and not a movie from them 2020s. Its look should be preserved, be that the film grain, or its color grade. At least, the few people who still buy optical media should be given the choice, as they are the most likely to care.