Re:AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
by Almondsetat on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:58AM
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Most movies ever made were not meant to be watched on home TVs. Playing it on your crappy 50" Samsung with a soundbar is as much of a sacrilege as running it through an AI. I guess you have never done that, right?
Re:AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
by dkjaudyeqooe on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:12AM
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So if I have vision issues, I'm also the problem, right?
The first time I saw Blade Runner was on a CRT TV from VHS tape and it was still faithful to the original, which I've seen on the big screen and various digital formats too. Poor reproduction doesn't add something that isn't there in the original, it just degrades the image. That generally can't be controlled and is a lot different to intentionally changing the image.
Re:AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
by Almondsetat on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:36AM
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>Poor reproduction doesn't add something that isn't there in the original
It quite literally does
>That generally can't be controlled
Yes it can, just don't make any VHS versions
Re:AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
by licebmi__at__ on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:11AM
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Yes, that’s exactly right, and that’s why people still go to the movies when almost everyone has a screen they could watch movies if they so desired.
Despite the hyperbole of “original sin” or “crime against humanity”, what people are saying is that AI filtered movies are crappy just like watching a good movie in a shitty screen; but I would argue that our social outlook is worse because nobody would say that they’re improving movies by using a shitty screen and shitty audio system, yet we do see that with all the AI hype.
Re:AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
by fsloth on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:39AM
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”Some might say this is being pedantic, but the quality of the image has a huge impact on the feel of a movie.”
Hardly pedantic, the quality of the image is one of the key variables in cinema.
This is the original sin of this process. They are tampering with the artistic object, it's no longer what the artists intended.
Some might say this is being pedantic, but the quality of the image has a huge impact on the feel of a movie. For some films, such as Blade Runner, the mood and feel created by the (dark, obscured) look of the film is easily half of the impact. Changing that film would be a crime against humanity, yet I imagine it's only a matter of time before it gets regraded so people can see the film "properly".