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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
I was lucky enough to get my hands on the new 4K release of The Abyss and watched it for the first time. Amazing movie, I was expecting more horror type film, I wasn't expecting it to be like Contact. Ed Harris gives the performance of a lifetime, he is so so good in it. The ending is great, and ends on an uplifting note, if you haven't seen it before give it a watch. Oh and the 4K disk looks stunning, it's a demo worthy disk. James Cameron never misses.
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I'm surprised you're so positive about the 4K release, apparently all 3 of the Cameron remasters (Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies) have been botched with bad AI denoising to the point of waxy visuals throughout.
Maybe The Abyss is the best looking of the 3, because these look like they're from a videogame:
Edit: Yeah, looking deeper it sounds like there's evidence that The Abyss had a new 4K scan at least, and as a result had better AI results. Whereas Aliens and True Lies were just upscales from their previous 2K scans, so the DNR applied causes much waxier results.