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I recently saw a post about a 35mm open Matte Theatrical cut of Lotr in HDR.

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Anyone see this? How is the quality? I was going to add filmgrain painstackingly to the 4k DNR mess but fake filmgrain is always far less nice than true awesome filmgrain!
It's a whopping 230 GB for all 3 films but still!
 
The Scribbling Man said:
Try it and see.
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Yeah I am going to. Im just curious considering its 230 GB lol and I've got no idea how the framing is for these films in a differen AR. Some movies are pretty amazing in open matte, whereas other just look amateuristic like spiderman with the boom constantly visible lol.
 
That's the collective size of all three films. You don't have to get them all at the same time.

Are you sure it's open matte? It doesn't say so on the post.
 
The Scribbling Man said:
That's the collective size of all three films. You don't have to get them all at the same time.

Are you sure it's open matte? It doesn't say so on the post.
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I might have misread! I will have to download them all because these things tend to get taken down quickly.
 
I'm not so sure a 35mm open matte print would be available for movies like LOTR. All three films were shot in the Super 35 format, then anamorphically stretched for the theatrical release. Since most prints are designed for a theatrical run, an open matte print would be an extremely rare find. That's something I'd imagine being in a giant Hollywood vault, rather than on eBay.

Then again, I'm not an expert on these things. But it sounds unlikely.
 
Eyepainter said:
I'm not so sure a 35mm open matte print would be available for movies like LOTR. All three films were shot in the Super 35 format, then anamorphically stretched for the theatrical release. Since most prints are designed for a theatrical run, an open matte print would be an extremely rare find. That's something I'd imagine being in a giant Hollywood vault, rather than on eBay.

Then again, I'm not an expert on these things. But it sounds unlikely.
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Yeah I just checked and it's a 'normal' scan. However it has great grain and HDR colors. So it's a great find nonetheless especially considering the botched official 4k release.
 
Ok so the grain is very pretty. It has some scratches which are a bit much on fotr, but RotK is near perfect to me.

The colors are better than either bluray or 4k release. this will probably be my go to version. It's not the extended, but having a film that looks more like I remember it in the cinema is worth more to me than some extra scenes tbh.

Its kot an open matte as predicted, which is a perk tbh. Saves me the cropping.
 
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