I don’t have any hardware that supports 4k so I’ll expect to be be happy with my BRs for the foreseeable future, but I recently happened to see a trailer for one the 4k versions and it looked like somebody had installed ReShade on top of Middle Earth.

Then I saw this video with Peter Jackson explaining how he felt that the LOTR trilogy felt visually inconsistent with the Hobbit movies due to differences in filmmaking technology which gave me immense George Lucas vibes.

I’d always thought the somewhat desaturated look gave the LOTR movies a somber and stark quality that fit the tone, but I guess that was a flaw that needed to be fixed. Now LOTR looks as weirdly overly saturated as the Hobbit trilogy, yay! Okay, it doesn’t look quite as bad, but I expect this is primarily how these movies will be seen in the future.