What cinema could have been if it weren't cgi fubar.
In this case, unavailable, which isn't what you meant. Probably.
My good friend Jim gave me a copy and I'm just running it through Topaz to see if it can be polished a bit.
I'll be curious to hear your take. What struck me was its convoluted plot and laconic pacing.
25 hours of processing left, which past experience suggests is an underestimate. Looks interesting from the trailer.
Egad. Converting and/or downsampling?
It applies what is misleadingly termed artificial intelligence* to each frame to improve sharpness, detail, noise and several other areas. With my medium speed rig it takes over half a second per frame.
*I question the term artificial intelligence because it seems to me that the process is actually reliant on perfectly normal intelligence. The intelligence of the programmers who wrote the programs.
OK, my take.
Any nitpicking aside, I really, really enjoyed it. It isn't often I watch a film that I'm fairly certain I'll want to watch again, but this is one.
Yeah, I get what you mean about the convoluted plot. I think some of that's down to the style and the way that loads of times the conversation and things that happen don't drive any central theme forwards. They're kind of important in their own right. That said, the story is convoluted. Laconic pacing? Yep - same comment. Also, it doesn't begin, proceed or end (especially end) in the way C21st movie viewer expects a film to end.
By the way, I now have a decent 1080P copy. Topaz can go straight to mp4 or produce a sequence of image files to run through your video software of choice to make a video file. I went down the image file route, which has some advantages, and almost blew my drive with just under a terabyte of images.