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About the Film- When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, a US search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Soviet vessels to recover the boat. Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected.
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If you just want an enjoyable movie and you couldn't care less about film grain or any of that jazz, you can do a lot worse for $5.00. I love this movie as it played in a regular rotation on HBO when I was a kid, so I'm sure that skews my perception a little bit, but I think it's a fun watch and like I said, I personally like the treatment done on this version.
Edit: I went ahead and purchased it. The movie's special edition shows up under iTunes Extras on the movie page through my Library.
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Edit: I went ahead and purchased it. The movie's special edition shows up under iTunes Extras on the movie page through my Library.
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If you just want an enjoyable movie and you couldn't care less about film grain or any of that jazz, you can do a lot worse for $5.00. I love this movie as it played in a regular rotation on HBO when I was a kid, so I'm sure that skews my perception a little bit, but I think it's a fun watch and like I said, I personally like the treatment done on this version.
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Got it, thanks!
If you just want an enjoyable movie and you couldn't care less about film grain or any of that jazz, you can do a lot worse for $5.00. I love this movie as it played in a regular rotation on HBO when I was a kid, so I'm sure that skews my perception a little bit, but I think it's a fun watch and like I said, I personally like the treatment done on this version.
The irony is you wouldn't really get the benefit with this even if it did.
You need the disc version for it to actually matter.
This is a topic example on how the transfer determines the quality and not the resolution a movie was shot in.
Big difference between this and Titanic in transfers, with the same "native/real 4k" resolution.
Titanic is one of the few movies that received a reference transfer in both PQ & AQ!
That's saying a lot since the BR version was also.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Th...ay/191855/
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ti...ay/346844/
Yep! That's the whole reason I even brought it up. I admit that seeing the movie without film grain is a tiny bit jarring at first, but I acclimated pretty quickly and found it enjoyable overall. Some people really don't care for it, though, and it hampers their experience. It does suck that it feels off for you, though. I've seen a number of opinions that it makes the movie feel like it was remastered with AI, which I can kind of understand that sentiment. It's also probably true to a degree, but I'd have to go research how Cameron did the transfer. It's probably likely that there was some level of AI involvement.
You need the disc version for it to actually matter.
This is a topic example on how the transfer determines the quality and not the resolution a movie was shot in.
Big difference between this and Titanic in transfers, with the same "native/real 4k" resolution.
Titanic is one of the few movies that received a reference transfer in both PQ & AQ!
That's saying a lot since the BR version was also.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Th...ay/191855/
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ti...ay/346844/
with its added compression, seems to exacerbate the negative effect of the artificially enhanced images, worse than upscaling 1080p with grain. It's not quite "uncanny valley" but it's certainly unpleasant to watch.
I say all this, and bought it anyway.
You need the disc version for it to actually matter.
This is a topic example on how the transfer determines the quality and not the resolution a movie was shot in.
Big difference between this and Titanic in transfers, with the same "native/real 4k" resolution.
Titanic is one of the few movies that received a reference transfer in both PQ & AQ!
That's saying a lot since the BR version was also.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Th...ay/191855/
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ti...ay/346844/
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