Lord of the Rings in 4K

Axe_meister

Finally going to Happen

.https://www.filmstories.co.uk/news/lord-of-the-rings-and-the-hobbit-set-for-4k-release-in-december/
Ok that will be the third time I buy it.

fretmeister

With luck they’ll edit out all the pointless walking and tell the story in 90 minutes.

TeleMaster

PO TAY TOES...

Axe_meister

A few minor CGI bits to fix (Hobbits in front of crowd in Return on the King)

Sassafras

Oh God, that means hi-definition boredom.

earwighoney

fretmeister said:

With luck they’ll edit out all the pointless walking and tell the story in 90 minutes.

There will be probably be a Peter Jackson's Directors Cut where the Hobbit will be even longer with even less emphasis on narrative and walking around where nothing happens.

boogieman

earwighoney said:

fretmeister said:

With luck they’ll edit out all the pointless walking and tell the story in 90 minutes.

There will be probably be a Peter Jackson's Directors Cut where the Hobbit will be even longer with even less emphasis on narrative and walking around where nothing happens.

It’d be even better if they did a version of the Hobbit without the eating and drinking scenes too. That’d be down to about an hour then. 

merlin

They'll probably put Tom Bombadil back in and lengthen the piece of dross by another hour. 

RaymondLin

I skipped the regular bluray version completely as i have it twice on DVD! I don't know whether to wait for the 8k or 64k release 

axisus

I'm afraid that your thread seems to have been infected with grumpy old men syndrome.

stickyfiddle

Couldn't give a crap about the Hobbit but the LOTR movies are great and still stand up. I have the extended blur ays which is plenty for me. I rarely have time to actually sit and watch them anyway

UnclePsychosis

axisus said:

I'm afraid that your thread seems to have been infected with grumpy old men syndrome.

Wis'd.

I'm sure there will be soon be another digitally re-mastered re-released re-mixed Pink Floyd wankathon for them to all get excited over instead. Poor souls. 

Stratavarious

I just like seeing the zits and poor makeup or photoshop on actor’s faces.. guaranteed to drop me right out of the story..  4K make B&W look like high art.

spark240

For some reason I have no interest at all in high quality TV....

darthed1981

UnclePsychosis said:

axisus said:

I'm afraid that your thread seems to have been infected with grumpy old men syndrome.

Wis'd.

I'm sure there will be soon be another digitally re-mastered re-released re-mixed Pink Floyd wankathon for them to all get excited over instead. Poor souls. 

Savage, but fair

darthed1981

...actual on topic post.

The interesting thing will be what they can do for a 4k release of a film that has effects rendered at 1080p or more likely in some cases even lower than this.

Obviously what they will add is HDR, which will have a bigger effect, and 4k Blu uses better encoding so it always looks a BIT better.

The "early digital" era will be an interesting anomaly going forwards, as the complete versions of films like "The Avengers" or any major blockbuster of the last fifteen odd years only exist as digital files, mostly at 2k resolution (not much higher than 1080p) so will never be any better than that, albeit 1080p still looks good on a cinema screen (when they show old films at your local cinema?  Quite often a Bluray...) so how much anyone apart from people who sell tellies need 4k is up for debate.

Genuinely older films ("Jaws" for example) were shot entirely on 35mm film, so going back and re-scanning those films produces a genuine 4k picture and so ironically a 40 year old film can look better in 4k than a 10yr old one!

Newer films shot on IMAX or 65mm film (like Chris Nolan's efforts) look just stunning in 4k, Dunkirk is like looking out the window and seeing a Spitfire I imagine "Tenet" will look stunning as well, so YMMV.

I've got the Blu Ray box set of LOTR, I was intensely disappointed by the Hobbit movies, and 4k streaming is getting better everyday, and more common (you can currently watch the Hunger Games films in 4K on Amazon Prime for example) so may be a "never" purchase for me.

Winny_Pooh

No for me, the CGI was not that great at the time anyway, probably looks terrible on a modern OLED.

soma1975

darthed1981 said:

...actual on topic post.

The interesting thing will be what they can do for a 4k release of a film that has effects rendered at 1080p or more likely in some cases even lower than this.

Obviously what they will add is HDR, which will have a bigger effect, and 4k Blu uses better encoding so it always looks a BIT better.

The "early digital" era will be an interesting anomaly going forwards, as the complete versions of films like "The Avengers" or any major blockbuster of the last fifteen odd years only exist as digital files, mostly at 2k resolution (not much higher than 1080p) so will never be any better than that, albeit 1080p still looks good on a cinema screen (when they show old films at your local cinema?  Quite often a Bluray...) so how much anyone apart from people who sell tellies need 4k is up for debate.

Genuinely older films ("Jaws" for example) were shot entirely on 35mm film, so going back and re-scanning those films produces a genuine 4k picture and so ironically a 40 year old film can look better in 4k than a 10yr old one!

Newer films shot on IMAX or 65mm film (like Chris Nolan's efforts) look just stunning in 4k, Dunkirk is like looking out the window and seeing a Spitfire I imagine "Tenet" will look stunning as well, so YMMV.

I've got the Blu Ray box set of LOTR, I was intensely disappointed by the Hobbit movies, and 4k streaming is getting better everyday, and more common (you can currently watch the Hunger Games films in 4K on Amazon Prime for example) so may be a "never" purchase for me.

Came in to say this. SO MANY big blockbuster films made in the last couple of decades had a 2k post and vfx pipeline that this is going to be an issue unless something was being comprehensively re-rendered at a cost of 10s of millions. 

joneve

stickyfiddle said:

Couldn't give a crap about the Hobbit but the LOTR movies are great and still stand up. I have the extended blur ays which is plenty for me. I rarely have time to actually sit and watch them anyway

This. All of this. 

guitartango

@darthed1981 if you are streaming from Amazon do you get the HD Dts Sound ? If not then I still prefer a 4k Blueray or rip.

Fuengi

Wow. From the look of this thread they would have been far more popular had they condensed the three books into one film of two hours.

I'm sure that would have gone down well all round  .