One of my favorite hacker movies! Saw it in at the cinema and numerous times on dvd. Will definetely get this.
The comment about the shoes, stick with you ;)
Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
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Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
#122Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
The X-Files went the opposite way: The streaming release was remastered from higher quality originals that had been prepared ahead of time for the eventual arrival of higher resolution TV. I’m not surprised that some shows were never archived at higher quality, though. The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry. Many classic series were…
> The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry.
I think another reason, in addition to yours, is that the entertainment industry sees their products are disposable, or want them to be disposable. This way they can pull the drain plug from the pool, so they can pump in new content into it. Otherwise, listening same good old songs will inevitably eat into profitability of the new releases, because you can watch/listen for so long in a given time.
BTW, I don't share the same views with "the entertainment industry". You can't get the good old albums from my cold, dead hands.
Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
#123Featured here often.- ... particularly sadly, at Earl Jones' passing.- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493927 Greatest movie :) PS. The quote on "goowill not being something the government does" reads so poignant now ...
Part of my headcanon for Sneakers is that Agent Abbot (Jones) is actually Admiral Greer (Jones' character from The Hunt for Red October / Patriot Games / Clear and Present Danger ), set a bit earlier in his career, and going under a codename while working CyberOps for NSA ;-)
That is just so spot on :)
(There's a whole James Earl Jones "pluriverse" out there, ain't it? ...)
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always liked how they framed the gun being jammed into Gregor's back at the opera, the entire scene carries a certain tension that modern films often fail to sustain or rely on things like explosions or handcannons rather than a .38 and a well acted angry whisper that you will be quietly exiting this theater or your brains will be exiting your fucking skull that is a much more accurate depiction of what it's like t…
> Sadly, the movie really shows it's age when the "cultural attaché" starts lecturing Robert Redford's character that "our countries are friends now". It's hard to suspend disbelief watching it nowadays But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?
>But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?
Were they?
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#125This came out when I was in high school and it's been one of my favorite movies ever since. I still watch it from time to time.
Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
#126Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
Sometimes it happens by accident. See the 2008 Universal Studios fire, which destroyed music and film masters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire
...and is covered up for years.
Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
#127Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
> I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to video tape.
Happens more than you'd think (in the past, at least - it's obviously much easier now with digital storage.) Couple of examples I remember off the top of my head:
re: Adrian Maben making a Director's Cut DVD of "Live In Pompeii"[0]
"While searching in the French and English film laboratories for the unused negative we learnt of a disaster. On the initiative of the French Production Company, MHF Productions, the 548 cans of 35mm negative and prints of the rushes had been stored at the Archives du Film du Bois d’Arcy outside Paris. One of the employees, a certain Monsieur Schmidt, "le Conservateur," unfortunately decided that he wanted to make extra storage space on his shelves for more recent films and that the Floyd footage was without interest or value. The 548 cans of negative and the prints of the Pink Floyd unused rushes and outtakes were incinerated."
re: Dr Who missing episodes[1]
"Further erasing of Doctor Who master videotapes by the Engineering Department continued into the 1970s. Eventually, every master videotape of the programme's first 253 episodes (1963–69) was destroyed or wiped. The final 1960s master tapes to be erased were those for the 1968 serial Fury from the Deep, in August 1974."
[0] https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/adri...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
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#128I work at a company whose legal name is Monterey's Coast, Inc.
Here I was thinking I was clever also naming one of my companies an anagram of that phrase.
1. relevant username ... since 2010. you found your thread for sure
2. hey man you can still be clever, you just... also have birds-of-your-feather out there. :D
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#129Definitely in my top 5, if not first. Feels right seeing so much appreciation for it here—very fitting for HN.
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#130Plenty of good Sneakers comments, but I was also excited to learn from this article that Uncle Buck has also recently gotten the same treatment! https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Uncle-Buck-4K-Blu-ray/342214/...
Also "Live At Pompeii"[0] (although to my disappointment, it's the cinema version with the DSOTM studio clips - my original experience was the Laserdisc and VHS versions which omitted those because IMO they're not interesting and just get in the way. I'd probably watch "Pink Floyd: DSOTM: BTS" as a standalone thing but it has no place, for me, in "Live At Pompeii".)
[0] https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/pink-floyd-at-pompeii-mc...