At least for Casablanca, they resisted the temptation to tinker with the content of the film. Let's make it widescreen! Let's edit out all the cigarettes everyone is smoking! Let's make the roulette wheel honest! Let's have Victor die heroically so that Rick and Ilsa can get married getting the happy ending!
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I honestly think the chances now diminish day by day. Physical sales are declining so it takes the economics out of it even more.
The only way I can see it happening is if another company wants to do it and de-risk it for Paramount.
Is it? I was under the impression that it "did not make what they were hoping for" which isn't necessarily the same thing as losing money.
If I've missed confirmation to the contrary I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
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Yeah. While I'm for upscaling, meaning I'm for improving the clarity of what's already there and making it look the best it can... I'm against changing what's already there. Unless it's correcting some glaring production error. Or correcting something that was done against the director's will. Like removing those stupid narrations that were in the 1982 theatrical version of Blade Runner.
Things like getting rid of the cigarettes? No. Smoking was huge, it's the way it was. I'm a non-smoker, but this fact doesn't offend my sensibilities. Nor should it offend anyone else's who has common sense. Hell, my favorite show of all-time is Mad Men. The level of smoking there was ridiculous, but it's still my favorite show.
From what I understand, they've made all kinds of stupid changes to E.T. I'm not a fan of that. Rocky vs. Drago is kind of gray area. It's the director himself who made the changes, and the original Rocky IV is still available.
Cropping an image to widescreen? I'm against a blind-cropping where someone decides to idiotically chop off the top and bottom without a thought about how it if it would chop off people's heads or get rid of important information. I've heard about how horrible the cropping of Gone With the Wind was, when it was re-released to theaters in the '70s. Not something I'd want to see. OTOH, if someone did a tilt-and-scan, and knew how to make sure all the important visual information was kept in each and every shot, that I could support if they were very careful with it.
At the end of the day, I don't have a "one size fits all" mentality. Some changes are for the better, some are for the worse. It depends. If something looks or feels wrong to me, to be brutally honest, it's really a case of "I know it when I see it."
On the Star Trek end, I think TNG is how you do a re-mastering and TOS is how you don't do a re-mastering.
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Is it? I was under the impression that it "did not make what they were hoping for" which isn't necessarily the same thing as losing money.
If I've missed confirmation to the contrary I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
I don't have chapter and verse, but they spent a lot more money on restoring TNG (and would have to for DS9 and VOY as well) than most video projects. And this was just as physical media was taking a downturn.
How much of a shortfall it was, I don't know. But if TNG had been a success then a DS9 would have been an obvious next step and they have never taken it.
Yes, I understand that. But there is a difference between losing money and not making the amount of profit that warranted moving forward. That's the only distinction I seek.
Exactly. If you can't make as much on your investment as you would sticking it in an index fund, why bother?
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