AI Opens Up a New Way to Restore Classic Movies. Should We Take It?

The only people I would trust to use it are the people that are already painstakingly and forensically restoring movies who would use it as a last resort to patch up otherwise impossible to patch up elements. I know it’d be widely adopted and abused by lazy people though.

No. Let me go further than my original blunt answer: I hope the man doing this knows that Orson Welles would detest him. What he's doing is exactly the same as what was done to *Ambersons* in the first place - an artless and talentless hack presuming to impose his own vision over the work of hundreds of other artists who are now not present to argue against it. His "actors" are not the original actors, his shots are not the original shots, his decisions are not the original decisions. His film is as much the original as Van Sant's *Psycho* is Hitchcock's. This is valueless and repugnant, and a real artist would be too ashamed of himself to ever even consider presenting this as restoration.

Its a tool, not a magic wand. The goal should be removing damage, not changing the original artists intent. Upscaling grain is cool, erasing it completely is a crime.

Well, we've seen how well it can work out when used cleverly. Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old was incredible. The Beatles' Now and Then was incredible.

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The headline is excruciatingly disingenuous haha. This isn't restoration. This is recreation.

Is it restoring it or is it creating something new based on classic movies?

Remember when they added cgi to Star Wars and everyone hated it? Yeah, leave our movies alone. This is not worth burning 1000 trees. Cure cancer or something.

If it’s used for restoration and not ‘remastering into something new,’ I’m all for it.

No.. but this one is hard for me TBH

No. EOT.

No.