Forum - View topicREVIEW: Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem 4K "Remaster" Review
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Amuro1X
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What a travesty. Criminal even. AI is the worst thing to happen to art.
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anime_layer
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I dug out the page from the Cannes' Directors' Fortnight from 2003, where Interstella 5555 had its premiere at a special screening:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030626001037/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/fr/archives/fichefilm.asp?filmID=13923&todo=resume It shows the film being shown from a 35mm print, which I had assumed would be the case. Hard to imagine it being produced in SD only and shown like that at Cannes or later in the cinema. So, I guess it's true that they lost some master but I would also assume some film prints still exists. Maybe they opted for a cheaper upscale of a digital SD master they had at hand instead of doing a more expensive scan and restoration of a print? |
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KabaKabaFruit
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Realistically speaking, only tech purists are going to give a rat's behind over the state of the presentation. The casual fans would look at the release as something else to add to their library. I speak as someone who has been royally screwed on multiple occasions by such cheap upscaling gimmicks in order for the company to maximize as much sales revenue as possible at the expense of real restoration that requires painstaking effort.
I hate to say this, but unless the disdain about cheap upscaling methods carry over to the casual fanbase to the point where they will refuse purchase, these practices (including AI upscaling) will only continue. |
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Zendervai
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There’s a good chance that even if a proper master existed back then, it’s long gone now. Toei has historically had some issues taking care of their master copies (note the frequent colour correction issues in their older shows) and this is a movie where there’s a rights split involved that means Toei might not have been particularly careful about the original master copy. And the record label (EMI?) might not have bothered asking for a proper master of it on their end because they assumed Toei would handle it like Hollywood and not misplace it somewhere.
I will say, in terms of this release…I don’t know if it’ll do well in the big picture. The social media buzz around the theatrical release was a lot of “this looks really weird and I don’t know why”. A crappy upscale is one thing, but this release looks incompetent on a scale that’s really hard to miss, not just inconsistent. |
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