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Disney has remastered one of the greatest action movies of all time in full 4K: Con Air!

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ManaByte

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Davesky said:
90s action movies can really look great on big screen TVs. Recently watched The Rock for the first time since a kid and the car chase scene blew me away all over again.
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The Rock needs the 4K restoration next. And a digital release that includes all of the Criterion extras (the original BluRay included them in really badly compressed SD video).

We also need a 4K restoration of Armageddon with the extended cut from the Criterion, which has never been released in non-letterboxed widescreen.
 
ManaByte

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YCoCg said:
Is it a proper rescan or a 2K upscale, or worse an AI upscale?
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The non-Fox Disney restorations have been all re-scans. They've been working since around 2018 to restore ALL of the movies in their catalog to 4K for archival storage purposes.

The first things they did was all of the animated shorts and Silly Symphonies and Song of the South. Song of the South will NEVER be publicly released, but the Disney archive now has a fully restored pristine 4K version that even fixed the camera judder from the original negatives.
 
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ManaByte said:
The non-Fox Disney restorations have been all re-scans. They've been working since around 2018 to restore ALL of the movies in their catalog to 4K for archival storage purposes.

The first things they did was all of the animated shorts and Silly Symphonies and Song of the South. Song of the South will NEVER be publicly released, but the Disney archive now has a fully restored pristine 4K version that even fixed the camera judder from the original negatives.
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Oh thank fuck for that, I'm looking at you Cameron!
 
ManaByte

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YCoCg said:
Oh thank fuck for that, I'm looking at you Cameron!
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Cameron is Cameron and has say on his movies. Disney is doing the Fox movies they can.

Home Alone has been 4K for a while but they just did Home Alone 2 in 4K and updated it on Disney+ last year. Other streaming versions of it are still HD.

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Nonehxc

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ManaByte said:
The Rock needs the 4K restoration next. And a digital release that includes all of the Criterion extras (the original BluRay included them in really badly compressed SD video).

We also need a 4K restoration of Armageddon with the extended cut from the Criterion, which has never been released in non-letterboxed widescreen.
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Give this man a beer and the High Ground. 😎

Lately there have been some superb 4K restos. The last I've seen have been Once Upon a Time in the West( the Sergio Leone one), which was all kinds of amazing, but the one that made my ass drop to the floor was The Searchers, which in Spain got a very poetic and awesome title, Centauros del Desierto ( Centaurs of the Desert ). Seeing John Ford magnum opus like that...I mean, everything is colored properly, the HDR is fuckin' perfect nuts between lights and shadows, sooo much celluloid film detail and crispness, the fuckin' original blue of the sky... it's GLORIOUS. 🙌🏻😭😭😭❤️❤️
 
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Davesky said:
90s action movies can really look great on big screen TVs. Recently watched The Rock for the first time since a kid and the car chase scene blew me away all over again.
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Yes, these films had incredibly talented crews working on it. Even your run of the mill movie was well made.

This is something that we've really lost as time went by, we've dispersed talent over the (too many) films produced.
 
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ManaByte said:
The Rock needs the 4K restoration next. And a digital release that includes all of the Criterion extras (the original BluRay included them in really badly compressed SD video).

We also need a 4K restoration of Armageddon with the extended cut from the Criterion, which has never been released in non-letterboxed widescreen.
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I was gonna throw you a like and then I saw the Armageddon statement. The Rock is great, fully behind that sentiment.

Armageddon? Absolute trash.
 
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On a side note, the podcast How Did This Get Made covered ConAir and it's hilarious. A great supplement to the film.
 
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This was done by Kaleidescape and was released weeks ago, Disney just added it to Disney Plus
UHD Blu-ray is coming too and Armageddon is also soon
Although that doesn't mean they be based on the same scan.
 
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Davesky said:
90s action movies can really look great on big screen TVs. Recently watched The Rock for the first time since a kid and the car chase scene blew me away all over again.
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action hollywood films went down hill post the matrix tbh, theres maybe a few that are decent (john wick 1-2), dredd 3d, the bourne films (1-3), but the majority are utter trash, i look to foriegn cinema mostly for decent action, the raid 1-2 being utter top tier
 
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