@Elric

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@nosejabs just realized this existed, released last december

Lmaooooo

:datass:

been had that on blu and proclaiming it an opulent opus for years

You aint got the newly restored footage tho that makes it as close to the original version as possible

Tim Dillon rocks

They have so many good bits tho

When he transitions to Bank Sinatra I cried laughing at the coupon bit.

cumtown 3000

On a related note: I've recently added "sex scenes never serve the plot so they have no reason to exist" to my list of cRiTiCisMs that are utter nonsense

its already long as f*** but

have you guys seen those restoration videos of old footage from the 1800/1900s? it's pretty awesome

Yeah a couple of these blew my mind

Oh just based off that "Woke Italian Mobsters" bit, im sure their whole show is hilarious. Unfortunately still cant get into podcasts at all though :/

But i did follow Adam and Nick on Twitter a while back solely because of that classic exchange between Adam and Chelsea Clinton

Iconic moment

weird how every single person used to have a hat back in the day

you might like this film

yeah, was a status symbol. if you didn't wear a hat you were basically seen as an a****** and ungentlemanly

i wouldnt have worn one

looks good

Me neither

Yeah but i really don't know how i feel about it tbh

Like on one hand, it's a cool little experiment to look at say "it's neat that they can do this"

On the other hand, I don't see any reason for something like "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" — shot with the Lumiere's invention that was specifically designed to be 16fps — to be "enchanced" to goddamn 60fps lol. (Much less adding "natural sounds" in order to make it as realistic as possible.) Im perfectly fine with upscaling image quality for the most part tho.

Ever since that ultra-modernized Lumiere short went viral, it's become a new trend to do the same with other really early films. And i cant help but be pessimistic by worry that people watching them in comparison to the original will result in the "enhanced" versions being thought of as better or "the best way" to watch them — rather than just another interpretation of them.

Worst case scenario is people start favoring the new "good graphics = good game" versions, and the originals' historic value becomes overlooked cause we're gaming with Nvidia Black Sabre Deathvenom X15000 cards in current year. I don't think for a second that this will actually happen...but we do have scenarios like the s*** that happened with Warhol's Empire film

Or the guy that went on a massiv Reddit and Twitter campaign a while back promoting his "labor of love": a fully colorized, and dubbed (no intertitles) fan-edit of Metropolis Completely erasing the original film's significant role in German Expressionism

Which of course, spawned copycats:

Hats, veils, and gloves used to be the f***ing wave i swear

@rise_zero But also, you should check out the show "America in Color" (i think its on the Smithsonian tv channel?). It's pretty dope

i think it's cool tech and a way to get a feel for the past, but i agree i wouldn't really dig it for films. it's like when you watch remastered star wars or something and a f***ing 3D monster pops up surrounded by a bunch of puppets. just leave art as it is.

also f*** that edit of metropolis