Painting out these movie mistakes as part of a restoration is wrong. What’s in the movie is in the movie, and altering the movie to this extent is a form of revisionist history.
No, screw you.
I hate this piece with a passion. The cataloguing of “revealing mistakes” effectively ruins that scene forever for everybody. That’s way more annoying than cleaning up an obvious mistake in a subsequent revision. I hate movie nerd trivia for this reason.
It’s not just dumb staging goofs, either. Who can watch the “kicking the helmet” scene in Two Towers or the hand cut in Django without being immediately skyrocketed out of the movie and into movie trivia land? That, if nothing else, is why I don’t like leaving real world injuries in movies. No matter how well the actor rolls with it some nerd with a passion for DVD extras or IMDB triva pages is going to make a listicle for other nerds to quote at each other and ruin the scene for all eternity.
So hey, if the goof is the kind you can clean up with a computer to shut the dorks up forever, by all means, erase that crap away. Hell, even ones where there isn’t technically a mistake are a bummer. I know exactly where Robert Downey Jr.'s fake torso starts in that cute flirting scene where he gets his battery pack changed by Gwineth Paltrow and I really hope they end up giving him a CG body in a remaster some day because I don’t want to be staring at the uncanny valley forever when I get to that part.
Ironically, those unscripted moments are what make a movie more realistic and immersive. The issue is the cataloging of that information like you said.
Not gonna lie? I agree with this. For me, the movie is supposed to portray or give an illusion of something, and these mistakes ruin the illusion once discovered. Fully agree.
Of course, it’s curious trivia that these mistakes were released as final cuts, but we can remember them as extras on the BluRay or something. Cleaning up these scenes is fine IMO.
The bottom line is that we put human hands on every single one of the thousands of shots that you see in Star Wars.
Nice little bit of psyops, there. “These are not the AI you’re looking for.”
this was a fantastic read, have been meaning to rewatch RotS and am going to try and freeze frame on this guy’s face
