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The Trailer Thread - Room with a Preview

lincolnic said:
Now I'm really curious about what happened, because the trailer doesn't say anything about AI (and neither does the website). Did they really just do some kind of shitty upscaling and call it a day?
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This Reddit thread and this article from Australia have been a really good source of info. No one knows a lot of detail, but basically the original files were already pretty poor quality and lost, so this screening used a crappy file then put AI on top of it:

I5555 was actually done digitally, during a period of growing pains when Toei was moving from traditional to digital. This film was also edited in two different countries: France and Japan. Different parts of the world use different video formatting standards; Japan uses NTSC, which is a 720x480 resolution at 29.97 FPS, but France uses PAL, which is 786x576 and 25 FPS. To edit the Japanese film in France, they transferred the file from NTSC format to PAL format; imagine exporting a .psd as a .jpg, basically. This PAL version of the movie is the “master” they worked off of. Cédric addressed this entire point during one of the screening Q&As and it’s always been heavily assumed Toei mismanaged the NTSC master since, unfortunately, they were known for mismanaging source materials back in the day.
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Anyway, here's an example. For the first few shots I was wondering if maybe the original just had blurry art or a lack of detail because they didn't think anyone would notice and this was just making that obvious. But then I saw their eyes.

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Oh ew, ick. Yuck. (thanks for the extra info, though!)

It kinda feels like nobody involved with this project put in any modicum of effort. It just didn't have to be this way! Incredibly disappointing from two extremely notably detail-oriented artists.
 
On the one hand, the plot premise laid out there is impressively dumb. On other hand, I swear every line of dialog in that trailer had me going "you wanna maybe give that another take?"
 
Man, even in a trailer for such a terrible piece of shit, when Keith David talks I fucking shup up and listen.
 
I mean, that trailer had two main gags. The last one hits, while the first one misses bad and feels like typical Seth MacFarlane excess. However, honestly, as much as I love them, the original movies also had a lot of bad jokes that missed too, so maybe this is fine?
 
JBear said:
I mean, that trailer had two main gags. The last one hits, while the first one misses bad and feels like typical Seth MacFarlane excess. However, honestly, as much as I love them, the original movies also had a lot of bad jokes that missed too, so maybe this is fine?
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They were very much a grapeshot cannon approach in the original films and show.
 
I've mentioned this film before, but I'm really excited about the American release of the Swedish film "UFO Sweden", retitled "Watch The Skies". The big thing that the filmmakers are talking about is the fact that the film has not only been dubbed into English (with all the original actors!), but they've also used some kind of AI technology to animate the lip movements so that they'll synch up with the dubbed lines. For what it's worth, the filmmakers claim that they're using "ethical AI", in the sense that it isn't stealing from any other sources. I must admit that it's kind of fascinating to watch.

 
Felicia said:
For what it's worth, the filmmakers claim that they're using "ethical AI", in the sense that it isn't stealing from any other sources. I must admit that it's kind of fascinating to watch.
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This seems like a perfectly fine use. Reshooting everything would be insane, this way the actors still get paid which is the important part.

I'm personally fine with subtitles, but if this lets them get more business that's fine.
 
Sounds like they even got Rick Moranis to come back. I don't care if it's bad, I am in for Spaceballs 2.
 
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