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Cameron used Super 35 so that he can have some flexibility to reframe his shots in post and for the pan & scan version for VHS and broadcast that he took an active interest in. The 2-perf Techniscope shots of the wreck, underwater where the only scenes that were shot in a scope format. This is...

The negative hasn't been neglected and neither it has degraded. It's a box office hit James Cameron film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1994, produced by a studio as big as 20th century Fox. Hollywood doesn't work like that. And even then, shrunk negatives can be repaired digitally as can...

And now Youtube reviewers are straight up passing misinformation to convince people to buy these discs. Just listen to the unverifiable and bogus claims made by this Youtuber called Twin Flicks. He claims a producer told him that Zeii Super Speeds create ugly negatives and that lens is bad. I...

Obviously Ripley was in Aliens. I think you very well understood that I was talking of True Lies AND the general state of Cameron's remasters. You just wanted to mock me for more "likes." You succeeded. Congratulations (claps).

Image manipulation is not the issue. I have no problem with remasters that soften the grain to get closer to the look of the projected prints. I also have no problem with OCN scans since that's at least the native photographed material and not some AI creation. The detail on the prints are...

Right. If Cameron called these remasters "Revised Edition" and also made available the original releases (without any changes or that AI sauce), then there would be no scope for complaints.

I know it's impossible to do a 100% faithful recreation of he cinema release prints. Even the fan scans of 35mm prints are not a 100% accurate. I did not use the term "yardstick" in absolute terms, but as the chief reference point. I know celluloid projection and a digital video can never be the...

Cameron, I think, was always more into experimenting with new tech than the number of K's in resolution. He shot Avatar in 1080p (albeit in 3D) and blew it up to IMAX 70mm. 3D IMAX 70mm cameras where available and Cameron would have gotten the budget if he wanted. The only difference is Avatar...

I'd love to see Titanic on film once again, preferably the original 70mm release or the IMAX 70mm version. The 70mm 5-perf print had more vertical image printed on it than the 35mm and were not cropped horizontally. The underwater Techniscope shots may be an exception, since that's 2.33:1. But...

RAH's 10/10 score was my main point. How can something that no longer looks like film (whether contact print or release print) receive a perfect score? It looking nothing like film should logically lead to a lower score, not full marks. I wasn't just speaking specifically about members here...

Fourth generation prints do lose sharpness and detail yes, but they gain more film grains. From what I recall, photochemically timed release prints have accentuated grain. They do not look like the waxy, ultra smooth, ultra clean image that is presented on the True Lies UHD. TL on disc/streaming...

1. You are basically excusing Cameron for altering the very nature of how film looks, just because he can. He can deliberately destroy his original negatives in a fire if wants to, I guess. That doesn't mean we should applaud him. Tomorrow he can say want to replace the original actor with a new...

No. I'm perfectly fine with a film looking like a release print. But a scan of the negative does not remove detail that was native to that film stock. The process that Cameron followed, did just that, which is why so many shots have faces that appear unnaturally smooth or artificially sharpened...

Why should Cameron's film's be judged by a different standards? Irrespective of his idiosyncrasies, he's a filmmaker among many. There should not be separate standards to judge the works of different filmmakers within a single medium. All films, regardless of whichever formats they appear in...

What I gather from the comments of RAH and R Crawford is that a presentation deserves high marks if it's faithful to what the director wanted at any given point in time, and the original release doesn't matter or shouldn't be considered as the principal yardstick to judge it's representations on...