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[–] [S] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Maybe that's it. I only watched it on DVD back in the day. It was grainy and everyone's faces looked plastic and uncanny. You couldn't see facial textures or wrinkles.

    EDIT: Nah, the hair in the meme is feathered. Everyone's hair in the film was solid and plastic-looking. You can see in your example images that Skull's hair is one solid piece. I still think someone at least touched up the meme a bit.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Unfortunately, I do agree with you. I think the screenshot used in the meme had gone through some sort of AI upscaling. I found a Blu-ray rip of this film and skipped around to what seems to be that exact frame.

    • As you mentioned, the hair is more feathered and less solid
    • The skin is more textured/wrinkly
    • Even the background is changed. The cat decal has more imperfections, the menu on the wall became just a dirty cupboard or something, and there is inexplicably a TV with a stack of video games added out of nowhere.


    It is possible that I am just taking this still from a file that is an old rip of the film, and that these changes that we see in the meme were part of a manual remastering effort for an official tenth anniversary rerelease of the film or something. But I think your assumption of this being an AI upscaling for the sake of the meme is more likely.

    EDIT: I see that there is a stereoscopic 3D version of the film available. Again, it is possible that the differences we see here are from the 3D version, but I doubt the differences between these two versions were that drastic.

    EDIT: Nope, the 3D version looks just like the 2D version.

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