James M. WoodwardFinally watching through #TheAbyss's Bluray release ('special edition', not ttheatrical) and it is SUCH a good movie.
It's not like I haven't seen it before; You just forget all the details. It's an amazing environment and I'd love to get my hands on a copy of "Under Pressure: Making 'the Abyss'" I've heard amazing things about it as a docu.
Troldann Arothin@jmw you haven’t seen it? Astonishingly good. I am pretty sure I can rip it from my DVD if you’d like.
@troldann I have not seen the docu, lots of folks talk about it as one of the best made. But I was under the impression it was relatively hard to find.
Now you're going to make me get out of my chair to go check.
@jmw I know it was on the laser discs, that’s how I saw it (we’d rent a player and some movies every few months when I was a kid). I think it’s on my DVD edition that I’ve got, but I won’t be able to check until I get home from work.
@jmw I have this edition and according to this site it includes Under Pressure.
The Abyss: Special Edition
The Abyss is a Special Edition contains both the theatrical (145 minutes) and Special Edition (171 minutes) versions of the film, with the two-discs released on DVD in November 7, 2000. "Heart stopping...while knuckle...deep sea thrills."-David Ansen, Newsweek In this thrilling, underwater action adventure from writer-director James Cameron (Titanic; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Aliens), a civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine...
@troldann yeah I wasn't sure if under pressure had been upscaled for the new 4K release, the remastering. But I know that Cameron had delayed for so long on releasing the remastered edition, that it only came out like a year or two ago.
I still have a pretty extensive physical media library, I might even have a DVD copy of Abyss as well.
@jmw aaaaah, that stupid horrible release of such a great film. For a “good” time, count how many lines of actual picture are encoded in those 480 lines of DVD resolution.
But now you know you can watch the documentary any time you want!
@troldann well that's cool. I hadn't checked my DVD discs. Now I can rip that to MKV. Good timing too I was just running out of projects to keep me busy.
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I haven't done anything with it; But I let my computer run through a de-interlace pass, then an AI upscaling pass;
It's not perfect, but it isn't bad either. You want?
@jmw Sure, I'm not usually one for AI upscaling, but I love a clean deinterlace that I don't need to do myself.
@jmw I feel like there’s no way I’d have missed the announcement if it had. That documentary lives in a special place in my heart second only to the LotR extended edition documentaries. I’m pretty sure it’s all just shot with 480i video cameras, though.
But if I’m wrong and I’ve just had this remastered version of Under Pressure sitting around in my house unwatched since the 4K BR release, well, then I know what I’m doing tonight. <grin>
@troldann no rush, I have all those spring yard start-up chores to take care of today.
I found an Amazon listing that was only for the disc three of the Blu-ray which had the special features, thought about snagging that.