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Peter Jackson Details the 4K Remastering of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
Actually a bit disappointed that they didn't redo any of the CG, a lot of that stuff REALLY doesn't hold up anymore. But maybe the retouching will be good enough.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
Christ. Peej looks ancient
Punished Miku
Banned
Kind of glad I skipped these on blu-ray. I may pick up the LOTR someday. I certainly don't need The Hobbit in 4k, especially if they still don't have a high frame rate version.
Grinchy
Banned
He's looking like Bilbo after giving the ring away.
Classicrockfan
Banned
I have both the hobbit and lord of the rings On 4k the hobbit trilogy has 1 disk for each cut,and lord of the rings has 3,2 for the extended cuts They have no extras at all.
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Punished Miku
Banned
There's no behind the scenes discs at all now? Seriously?
Classicrockfan
Banned
No there’s plans to release another bigger set next yr with more extras .
BigBooper
Member
Of course they'd do that. You can only milk nerds so much!
ManaByte
Gold Member
Apparently it's one extra. It's just these two sets in one box with an additional special feature.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
Yawn. Wake me up when it has all the DVD content from the Extended Editions DVD. Those were god tier. I learned so much about film making from those. You could teach a film unit with them.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Those were included with the Blu-Rays.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Those are coming. They're doing a boxed set of them in 4K. It's Braindead, Bad Taste, and Meet the Feebles.
CyRuZ
Banned
Hearing this since probably 10-15 years. I won't get my hopes up we'll see it for another 10 years.
Classicrockfan
Banned
Meet the feebles is so weird saw it on tubi awhile back.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Peter Jackson Returns to His “Naughty Years” With Restoration of Gory Early Films
Peter Jackson is planning a re-release of his early films such as 'Bad Taste' to 'Braindead', intending on using his Weta Digital wizardry to restore his no-budget, blood-soaked early work.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
CyRuZ
Banned
I'm just hope he is still in the mood. Don't know what his future projects are and what WB has planned for him. But maybe the lockdowns and such comes to fruition for once.Peter Jackson Returns to His “Naughty Years” With Restoration of Gory Early Films
Peter Jackson is planning a re-release of his early films such as 'Bad Taste' to 'Braindead', intending on using his Weta Digital wizardry to restore his no-budget, blood-soaked early work.
ManaByte
Gold Member
After the WWI doc he made a Beatles doc for Disney that got delayed from this past September to 2021. But at the same time they did the LOTR and naughty restorations.
theclaw135
Banned
They won't even stream it, will they? The high frame rate version in 4K on my internet connection would be the equivalent of climbing Mount Doom.
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EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Saw Hobbit movies lord of the ring movies on release I’m sure remakes blue ray 4K versions will give them edge but what about 10 years from today? Ok are we gonna opt to release new versions again? Yes. It’s such a great franchise and remakes seems easy to them.
ThatStupidLion
Member
This so much - even when i first saw return of the king some of the vfx shots were brutal! They look like total ass now. Its a shame because theyre some really nice vfx so its odd that just a couple got the shit end of the stick.
Come On Tars
Member
Fellowship is an all time movie for me. Top 5 I'd say. They rest are good but nothing touches FOTR. I'll take any excuse to rewatch
ManaByte
Gold Member
That's due to the modern color grading tech.
Ah, ok. Looks really good, that's for sure.
TonyK
Member
Has anybody here seen the movies in 4k? What's your honest opinion about the image quality? Because judging by trailers and static screencaps they look very 1k to me : /
I need to say I have the bluray edition of the trilogy, and except Fellowship of the Ring, that I believe it was remastered at the time for the bluray edition, the other two look like a upscale DVD. Same as the Alien Quadrilogy, where the best looking one is the first movie because it was remastered.
So, even I love the films, today I watched these trailers and they looked (for me) more or less as a normal bluray. Better than the original bluray edition but not as real 4k.
YouTube is fooling me or what we can see in the trailers is the real image quality? I saw the trailers in a LG CX, by the way.
I need to say I have the bluray edition of the trilogy, and except Fellowship of the Ring, that I believe it was remastered at the time for the bluray edition, the other two look like a upscale DVD. Same as the Alien Quadrilogy, where the best looking one is the first movie because it was remastered.
So, even I love the films, today I watched these trailers and they looked (for me) more or less as a normal bluray. Better than the original bluray edition but not as real 4k.
YouTube is fooling me or what we can see in the trailers is the real image quality? I saw the trailers in a LG CX, by the way.
Manstructiclops
Banned
ROTK was the film where Jackson started to go full retard with overdoing effects.
Fellowship has timeless visuals. ( I literally just watched it)
RoadHazard
Gold Member
They could have rerendered it with more modern lighting, better materials and shaders, etc, to make it look more natural, without fully redoing it.
Lucas didn't redo CG, he added it where it wasn't needed.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
Is it the extended versions?
It's both.
Ixion
Member
Yeah, Fellowship is one of the most perfect movies ever made, if not the most perfect (referring to the theatrical version). The Two Towers gets kind of slow in the middle, and Return of the King has a few silly parts, but those are still two fantastic movies.
Someone already told me they're getting me the LOTR set for Christmas. Can't wait to watch it on my PS5...
ManaByte
Gold Member
WETA rescanned the entire negative in 4K. They also rescanned all of the VFX shots in 4K and upscaled the ones that were in 2K. From there they created a new 4K Digital Intermediate.
I don't know what you want them to do other than travel back in time and re-film the movies with modern 6K cameras or something. Hell back then they wanted to do it all in 4K but it would cost too much and at the time it wasn't possible to do in New Zealand.
JellyDonut
Neo Member
This is the release that has motivated me to invest in a 4K projector. Looking at the BenQ HT3550. Will be a glorious day once I have my new room set up and the boxed set in my hands.
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
Got my set tonight. Watched first hour of Fellowship (extended).
So far so good. Shire scenes look amazing. Some close ups make it look like there is a bit of detail lost with DNR but not to the extent it's so obvious and gross like many others. Will watch the rest throughout the week and weekend.
So far so good. Shire scenes look amazing. Some close ups make it look like there is a bit of detail lost with DNR but not to the extent it's so obvious and gross like many others. Will watch the rest throughout the week and weekend.
LDS
Banned
Redoing the CGI is a never ending rabbithole, see Lucas' attempts at redoing the OT for example.
TonyK
Member
I know they did that, but my question is how it looks when you see the result. Because trailers doesn't look like as, for example, Alien 1 or Psychosis remastered, where you can see easily the improve.
Have you seen the 4k blurays? What's your opinion?
I insist because, at least here, the price of the 4k pack is 140€! And it's too much money to buy for third time if the improve is not enough.
JimmyRustler
Member
Yes? The CGI from LoTR is low rez. Have you ever seen Jurassic Park in 4k? It looks super weird when the CGI creatures obviously have lower resolution that the rest of the picture.
No ones asks from them to pull a Lucas and make it worse but to adapt the CGI to the current possibilities. See it like this... What Lucas did was a Remake, what we want for these converts is a remaster.
FunkMiller
Banned
The Lord Of The Rings looks incredible on my Ps5 and LG CX.
Can’t comment on The Hobbit as I didn’t buy them because I don’t hate myself.
Can’t comment on The Hobbit as I didn’t buy them because I don’t hate myself.
