Thread 212178178

why does it mog everything that came after it?

fyi, don't watch any version other than the 2010 US blu ray. the other transfers completely destroy the color grading

>>212178178 (OP)
It's one of the best movies ever made.
I'm serious.

>>212178281
fact. and I wasnt kidding. avoid the latest 4k release. pic rel

>>212178504
they also used DNR to wipe all the grain from the film, and even with HDR it looks like washed out dog shit.

>>212178504
What's your argument between the two? 4K release looks crisp and clean. But the original is classic and has soul.

I can see it from both sides. What say you?

>>212178584
they used AI tools and DNR to wipe the grain which led to loss of detail. You can clearly see the matte bleeding into the film and it looks terrible (the matte monsters on the left) which are blended in the original grading
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>>212178627
good example of the loss of details. in the latest releases you can barely see the text bleeding through the pages

>>212178665
more complete loss of color

>>212178504
AND if you wanna know which one is screen accurate. I have the 35mm reel too, which is obviously washed out, but still favors a warm color.

>>212178787
here's a link to the 70mm blow up reel too, showing how it's supposed to look

https://mega.nz/file/l0UjkQbS#1fvbW6DhcMyK8dOUZ9wyGn5wvSEOOXuZsn37a8zhooo

>>212178178 (OP)
1 and two are good the third one is ass but it does have a teenage jack black

I never knew it was that beautiful

>>212178178 (OP)
Never once as an adult have I said to myself "wow time to fire up the neverending story!" This movie has zero rewatch value when you are no longer a child

>>212179198
>it does have a teenage jack black
That's not a selling point

>>212179281
This is cope.

>>212179281
It's a wonderful movie I'd like to show my neices but they're scared of everything.

>>212179377
The Neverending Story is Legend if it didn’t have terrible off beat comedy and an annoying main cast. It’s superior. Legend is great too tho. Neverending Story is more mature in all aspects. It’s dark fantasy.

>>212179421
I never cared for legend for some reason. I did like the dark crystal though.

>>212179479
Dark Crystal is indeed kino.

This is my favorite movie, whenever I post about it in this board I get shit on, what is this thread?
I rewatched it recently and it has aged perfectly, still love it as much as I did as a kid

>>212179281

You are exactly how the nothing came to be.

>>212179611
It’s free on jewtube rn

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NhMSGYHoeOU&pp=ygURbmV2ZXJlbmRpbmcgc3Rvcnk%3D

>>212178504
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>>212178787
Best definition of soul vs soulless. How can anyone look at this and say the new one is better?

>>212179873
Which version.

>>212180316
US version 2010 blu ray

>>212180418
Nice

>>212178504
Thanks anon, saved me from wasting my money. Sticking with the blu ray

>>212178504
>>212178178 (OP)
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>>212178627
oh my GOD I fucking hate muh audio muh color muh remasters Blu-ray forum reddit FAGGOTS. the dweebery is unprecedented in its fucking gayness who the FUCK cares go watch it on VHS and kill yourself geek

>>212178555
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>>212178627
Contrast on the new transfer is way too low and washed out

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>>212178665
dude you didn't properly enable HDR
Maybe the remaster is dogshit I dunno, but there's no way it looks like that with HDR on
That's the typical look of unproperly recorded HDR footage

>>212178178 (OP)
>why does it mog everything that came after it?
It doesn't. It's shit. Sorry.

Get mogged.

>>212178178 (OP)

Moonchild is a good name and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.

>>212178178 (OP)
The first movie gets about 40% thought the book, to the point where Atreyu is sidelined so that Sebastian can become the main protag. I can kinda appreciate why they stopped there.

>>212185957

To be fair, the second half of the book is messed up. They have Bastion make a bunch of wishes and lose his memory. And the child like empress is entirely aware this will happen but totally indifferent about it. In the books she is presented as being totally alien and doesn't have the same values and morality as a normal person would. Hell she even gets Bastion trapped in a time loop where he is forced to read the book over and over again until he gives her a name and at one point in the book you are introduced to an entire village full of lobotomized kids who were all put in the same situation as Bastian until they wished away all of their memories.

The book is kind of fucked up.

>>212179281
Are you gay?

>>212178281
>>212178504
the book is better

>>212178555
Now I can zoom in and pretend I’m making out with her, fuck the grain

>>212178178 (OP)
>yo little donnie dum dum

>>212183199
Bullshit. HDR was enabled. You can see this in any comparison.

https://youtu.be/BUKXLx55PTM

>>212178627
That's horrendous. Causes me to ponder; they want to lead ppl, ignorant normies, to believe these old cherished movies had cheap, terrible visual effects. For this is one front of their overall scam; their lie to society that "the past sucked, nothin was better in the past, it couldn't have been!" Truly, one of aids-communism's most insidious narratives, which still beleaguers so many and is analogous to parasites of the mind and spirit. These are parasitic thought-forms, made real. They want to feed The Nothing, no joke. There are no coincidences. They hate the story and the meaning, even the white children at the center of the story, so they find ways to more sneakily disfigure it.

>>212189225
The truth is about modern filmmaking is that the people who had the skills the make films like this using glass mattes and optical effects are dead and nobody can do it now.

>>212179281
>Never once as an adult have I said to myself "wow time to fire up the neverending story!" This movie has zero rewatch value when you are no longer a child

Okay zoomer.

>>212182771
>why do people care about the way movies look on the movie discussion board?? >:(
>arrrrrggh I'm so le ANNOYED and better than you for not caring about studios treating classic movies like shit!!!

>>212187493
Anon she’s 1,000,000,000,000,000 years old.

>>212189415
>We can't do it now
Well there's always someone who could do it, classic ways rejuvenated, but it's become law to these studios that the old tried n true ways and traditions, or traditions of morality even, must be discarded and left in the past for all time.... despite the fact their new methods are worse, in effect. It's more gaslighting. Ppl are gaslit about everything.

>>212190334
Not to mention Hollywood outsources all their CGI to India now

I just woke up. Glad to see the thread still up and /tv/ appreciates this kino.

For the guy claiming that I didn't have HDR turned on, I have since included the 'HDR OFF' version of the 4k 2021 remaster on the bottom.

>>212179377
>It's a wonderful movie I'd like to show my neices but they're scared of everything.

Watching this as a child, the killing of Gmork the wolf, and the incident of the Nameless Knight at the Sphinx Gate, stuck with me as a troubling memories throughout my life.
But oddly, the death of Artax is something I didn't even remember happening until I saw it again. I would have thought little me would be in tears over that. Maybe the violence of one versus the relative "subtlety" of the other mattered.

(I also did not notice the sphinx boobies.)

>>212179281
I grew up in the 90s and this movie was household staple along with labyrinth and princess bride

posting some more caps. god this movie so kino lol

>>212178504
Based. Fuck anyone who supports these AI 4k releases. This is why I have 35mm scans of T1/T2. I know the scans are not accurate either, but the difference is night and day next to 4k slop.

>>212179198
As a kid I really liked the third movie, probably because I had a crush on the protagonist's step-sister. I literally don't remember anything else about it.

>>212188472
>Wow, huge difference between 2010 and 2011. I immediately looked at my blu ray... it's 2014, which version is that?! xD I'm surprised to see so many comments saying 2010 was the best. There is so much less detailing and the colors are completely wrong (I mean the "ivory" tower is orange. Come on).

>>212182771
>who cares about how a movie looks?
Damn, you're stupid.

>>212191410
lmao. im so glad archival is good so we have actual examples of what it looked like in the 1980s theatrical release. fuck these retards

>>212191522
how did they fuck it up this badly kek

>>212191564
you can see the 2010 blu ray is almost literally perfect, a seamless representation of what people saw in theaters in 1984. this is a classic case of people who had no involvement in the film saying 'I can do better' by using digital tools to fuck with the film 40 years later and ruining it.

>>212185957
>>212186094
Is his mom's name Moonchild in the book too?

Roger Ebert's review of this is a very good short read. It's good to know the movie's dark presentation set him up for a run of the mill fantasy, but he walks away positive, as you should, about the role of the observer of a story and how they help shape it and keep it alive.

>>212191670

It's never explicitly stated that it is. He names the child like empress moonchild but there isn't any reference to this being his mums real name.

>>212191743
kingdom hearts copied this movie? lol. japniggers cant do anything right.

>>212191796
not the only thing that copied it. Final Fantasy copied it for its main theme

https://youtu.be/yQMZlED12ks?si=vJY6JWjrWDloQvX0&t=96

The childlike empress was made for 7 year old me.

Okay so is this ACTUALLY good or is it just a pedobait movie?

>>212193544
>Okay so is this ACTUALLY good or is it just a pedobait movie?
top 3 fantasy film ever made.
what is pedobait about it?

release the 80s empress cut

https://youtu.be/W4DP2rDAoRA?si=Kpf2k5_r-4-QvhrT&t=365

>TUUUUURN AROUND
>AND LOOK AT WHAT YOU SEEEEEE HEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>Stronach, who spent her early years in Iran, beat out Poltergeist actress Heather O'Rourke of the Childlike Empress, monarch of the fictional world of Fantasia (or Fantastica in the book), in the movie. Though she appeared on-screen for just minutes in the role, with her character described as "an indescribably beautiful young girl," adult men tracked down her address (in pre-internet times) and camped outside her family’s Northern California home hoping to get a glimpse of her after the film came out.
>Then came the marriage proposals, including one from a German man who mailed her an expensive engagement ring, and the inappropriate offers from producers, some who would show up at her door.

very based

>>212179377
I thought about showing my daughter but Harry potter 3 terrified her

has anyone actually watched this? it has jack black

>>212194570
see
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>>212194241

Shame they fucked up her design in the film.
In the books she's described as having incredibly pale skin, bright gold eyes, insanely long silver hair and she wears a flowing silk gown. In the film they made her look like a little boy who has dark eyebags from not getting enough sleep.

>>212194844
it coulda been way worse. she could have been an ugly nigger like zandaya

>>212185957
>>212186094
Atreyu is the hero in the second half as well, saving Fantasia from Bastian and then Bastian himself even though he was a massive dick by the end

the child acting is very good in this movie

>>212179281
nice bait anon, got a lot of (you)s contrarian retard

>>212194570
Jack Black is a reason NOT to watch the movie.

>>212191108
>Sphinx Gate
That thing lives rent free in my head as the kids say.

Why didn't Tammy Strongarch star in anything else?

>>212193544
I wish you and everyone like you were dead

>>212196493
see
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>>212194570
Why'd they make the kid look like a girl?

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>>212191512
go back to Blu-ray forum where you can jerk off about making your own "remasters" where you move the slider to slightly less orange or teal or whatever you fucking geek

>>212196300
>he doesn't want to watch the infamous Falkor jockey scene
ngmi.

>>212179507
Shame about the revival show flopping it was great

>>212197433
It was faggot shit for trannies. Just leave things alone.

>>212178178 (OP)
In camera FX hold up extremely well.

>>212178555
>>212178627
I’m a HUGE fan of film grain. It adds so much interest and movement. They’ve fucked up a bunch of Spaghetti Westerns that way too by trying to “fix” the colors and scrubbing the grain out.

>>212179281
Watch the film with the understanding that it’s an allegory for Bastien learning to cope with the death of his mother. All the characters that Atreyu meets represent different aspects of dealing with that trauma. The film hits different knowing that.

>>212190409
Whoever told you that is fucking with you.

>>212191444
I’ll admit, I jerked it to those Sphinx titties when I was younger.

>>212196493
She was a prima Donna ballerina for awhile and now has her own dance company. Acting wasn’t her first passion.

>>212198550
Well that's nice.

>>212198550
unfortunately she fell for the braces meme, which made her jaw get bigger. BUT, the silver lining is that she was once very cute. now she's just a MILF

>>212188444
The part where he starts talking about his hands always gets me.

despite being released only 2 years after the dark crystal i really didn't care for it