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The Mechanic (1972)
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File ...........: .mkv
Source .........: 1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.FLAC.1.0-ATELiER
Video ..........: AVC | 1280x692 1269 Kbps
Audio ..........: 2CH AAC English
Runtime ........: 1h 39mn
Subtitles ......: English & Indonesian Softcoded
Chapter ........: Yes
Subsource Link .: Indonesian, English
Screenshot .....: View
Trailer ........: Watch
Last Updated on February 24, 2026
Will give it a watch…
Thank you for “720p x265-10bit” encode 🙂
Cheers Pahe!
why is this FLAC Audio ? what of 5.1 channel or 2 Channel ? can someone fix this please.
what’s the problem?
@BHB
I guess OP thinks if FLAC1.0 means single channel? (I reckon it’s 1.0 2001 std, no?)
I don’t have equipment to reproduce high quality sounds or ears to grasp, so no awareness of these standards.
This does not look like the ‘REMASTERED’ version, its very grainy, lots of noise in the background. Mods, is this the Remastered edition ? if not, please encode that one..thanks
what did you expect from a ‘remaster’
clean look, 90fps video, oversaturated color?
“Remastered” means the original movie elements (picture and/or sound) have been revisited and technically improved to produce a cleaner, more consistent, and often higher-resolution version than earlier releases. Remastering does not change the creative content (editing, performances, story) in principle; it improves the fidelity, corrects defects, and prepares the film for modern distribution formats (Blu-ray, 4K, streaming).
What is typically done in a remaster (picture and audio)?
Picture
Source retrieval: locate the best original elements — ideally the original camera negatives (35mm, 65/70mm), interpositives/internegatives, or the best surviving master prints. If originals are missing, high-quality prints or earlier digital masters are used.
Inspection and cleaning: physical elements are inspected; film may be physically cleaned, repaired, and stabilized. Scans often include wet-gate or physical cleaning to reduce scratches.
High-resolution scanning (telecine/film scanner): film is scanned at a target resolution (2K, 4K or higher). Resolution choice depends on the negative and distribution goals.
Image stabilization and frame-repair: correct gate jitter, flicker, and warping from film shrinkage; repair torn or missing frames.
Dirt, dust and scratch removal: automated and manual digital tools remove dust, dirt, scratches and splice marks. Care is taken not to erase fine grain or original detail.
Grain management and noise reduction: selective noise/grain reduction reduces film grain or scanner noise while preserving texture. Overuse can produce plasticized faces; good remasters balance grain preservation with clarity.
Color grading (timing) and color correction: restore intended color balance and contrast, correct faded dyes, match differing source elements, and apply a final grade consistent with the director’s or archival reference when available.
Aspect ratio and image framing: ensure correct aspect ratio and reframing decisions (open-matte vs. center-cut) follow original theatrical framing or documented intent.
Visual effects restoration: composite or clean up optical effects, mattes, and titles if needed; sometimes recreate missing opticals to match the original look.
Deliverables and encoding: produce mastered mezzanine files and encode for distribution formats (HDR/SDR variants, different codecs).
Audio
Locate original mixes: original magnetic tracks, optical tracks, safety copies, or stems (dialogue, music, effects).
Digitization at high resolution: transfer analog audio to high-sample-rate, high-bit-depth digital files.
Noise reduction and restoration: remove hum, clicks, pops, tape hiss, sync issues and distortions while preserving tonal character.
Remixing and remastering: depending on available stems, engineers may remaster the original mix (clean and equalize) or create new stereo or surround mixes (5.1, Dolby Atmos) from multitrack stems. New mixes can improve clarity and spatial placement while attempting to respect the film’s original sound design.
Loudness and format preparation: conform to modern loudness standards and create deliverables for streaming, broadcast, and physical media.
Creative vs. technical decisions
Archival intent: some remasters aim to reproduce the original theatrical look and sound exactly (film preservation ethos); others aim for a “modernized” presentation (brighter contrast, HDR, immersive audio). Good releases document what was changed.
Supervision: best practice involves consultation with the director, cinematographer, original color timer, composer, or studio archives. When creators are unavailable, archivists use reference prints, publicity materials, and lab notes.
Common misconceptions
Remastering is not the same as a remake (new production) or a restoration that reconstructs missing footage. Remastering focuses on improving existing elements technically.
“4K remaster” only improves resolution if the source (film negative) contains that detail; upscaling lower-quality masters cannot genuinely recover lost filmic detail.
Over-aggressive processing can harm the filmic look (loss of grain, pumping from noise reduction, altered color timing).
When to expect remaster labels
Phrases like “digitally remastered,” “4K remastered,” or “new 4K restoration” indicate both the resolution and whether a full restoration was undertaken. Check release notes for whether color grading or director supervision occurred.
Practical takeaways
Remastered = improved technical quality of picture and/or sound from original elements.
Quality depends on source materials, skill of restoration team, and whether the project prioritized archival fidelity or modern enhancement.
For the highest fidelity, look for restorations from original negatives, supervised by creators or reputable archives, and documented restoration notes.
REMASTER Means better encode than the one you used, get the remastered version.
Mods – if you specifally encode the best version currently out, ie the Remastered, then people wouldnt keep asking for ‘other ‘ versions. Encode the very best version first time out, problem solved with no request being made for other versions of the same film, saving you alot of time and less comments.
this is the best version. The problem is they do not understand the basic meaning of film restoration, hence the complains.
Mods, Did you sourced this version for the encode ? (see link)
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37449
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Mechanic-4K-Blu-ray/388933/#Screenshots
It doesnt look like that to me, the screenshots on the website above are far superior than the ones on the encode you used. The 4k UHD is the best version currently available. According to your info stats above, you used a 1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.FLAC.1.0-ATELiER . Hope you can fix this and get the 4k UHD version it is far superior to the Blu ray one.
Nothing wrong with the encode, it was taken from that particular source
“superior” have you actually compared, side by side?
See this comparison, that screenshot vs my encode
https://slow.pics/c/jqCYvRin?image-fit=contain
I have an old encode of this film and compared it to the one you have. My old encode shows no grain or noise in the bckground, like your encode does. I dont know why this is, but my old encode is cleaner and sharper. Its a shame, as this is a great film, pity your encode is grainy. I did compare the two and my old one is way better.
the original film has excessive amount of grain on it. In this release, they have successfully ‘restored’ that element (the grain and all).
Your old copy missing it and that’s why it was inferior.
Ask chatgpt or gemini about this, and you will understand.
Having grain in a film is nothing to boast about, it makes the film worse, not better. You can visibly see the grain in your encode in almost all shots, but in my old encode, there is none, which is better viewing experience. I dont believe or accept the stupid idea that Grain in films makes it more realistic. Do you walk around and see Grain in real life ? it would ruin your experience if you did. I prefer sharp, clear and grain free encodes as it doesnt detract from viewing it. Your encode (whilst not your fault for the restoration, that is the fault of the film makers for adding it back in) is not a pleasant viewing experience. I dont blame you, it is a poor restoration for adding excessive grain back into the film , im my humble opinion.
Comparing a film to ‘real life’ is a fundamental misunderstanding of what cinema is. A movie is a piece of art, not a security camera recording.
If your only metric for quality is ‘realism,’ then consider this: Why do people still paint portraits when we have high-resolution digital cameras? By your logic, a painting is ‘inferior’ because you can see the texture of the canvas and the brushstrokes. But if you were to sand down a Van Gogh painting to make it perfectly smooth and ‘clean,’ you wouldn’t be ‘fixing’ it—you would be destroying it. The texture is the art.
In cinema, Film Grain is that texture. It’s the physical soul of the medium. When you strip away grain (using heavy DNR), you also strip away fine details like skin pores, hair, and fabric textures, leaving the actors looking like ‘waxy’ plastic dolls.
Furthermore, if movies were supposed to look exactly like ‘real life’:
-Color Grading: We’d stop using it. Why is the scene blue or orange? You don’t see those tints in real life.
-Frame Rate: We’d use 60fps or higher. But we stay at 24fps because it provides a ‘dream-like’ cinematic quality. Moving to ‘realistic’ frame rates results in the ‘Soap Opera Effect,’ which makes even a $200 million blockbuster look like a cheap home video.
-Depth of Field: Your eyes don’t naturally blur the background into a ‘bokeh’ effect as lenses do.
The goal of a Remaster is to preserve the director’s original vision and the chemistry of the film stock used. If the original film had grain, a good encode should show that grain. Your ‘clean’ version isn’t better; it’s just a distorted, smoothed-out version that has lost its cinematic DNA.
When the grain is added to the film, its distracting and pointless to the artistic value of the film. Im pretty sure no director likes or wants grain in thier film, as its noticeble and distracts from the film experience, which is all about ‘ suspension of disbelife’ you forget you are watching a film, think its real for the time you are viewing it. Now, when you see horrible grain and noise, it snaps you out of the ‘suspension of disbelief’ and you realise you are watching a film, which is not what directors want, they want you immersed and bad artifects, ruin that. I have listened to many commentaries and nearly all directors that see grain on thier film due to the limitation of film, wish they were not present, hence they too like the lack of grain and clean image, which is closer to real life. Yes, its film but the who point is art imitates life and life imitates art, so getting close to real is great for them, just thier vision is what they dont want to compromise, noise/grain etc is never what they talk about when making a film, never heard of any director that openly wants a grainy, noisey , full of artifacts in their film. Im pretty sure, most film fans want a clean smooth look that is noise and grain free too. Its personal choice in the end, but for me, its sloppy and lazy when noise and bad artifects are not cleaned up in a remaster, defeats the whole object of ‘Remaster’ if you dont clean it up.
You claim no director wants grain, but that is factually incorrect. Many of the greatest directors in history treat grain as a vital artistic tool, not a ‘limitation.’
Steven Spielberg famously said that film grain makes even a still object ‘alive’ because the grain is always ‘swimming.’ To him, it adds a heartbeat to the frame.
Christopher Nolan shoots on film specifically because its texture mimics the human eye’s perception better than the clinical, sterile look of digital sensors.
Denis Villeneuve and Greig Fraser (Dune) shot their movie on digital, then deliberately transferred it to 35mm film and scanned it back just to add grain. They felt the ‘clean’ digital image lacked character and emotional weight.
As for ‘Suspension of Disbelief,’ you have it backwards. When you scrub grain away (using DNR), you get the ‘Waxy Look’ (like James Cameron’s controversial remasters). Humans in those ‘clean’ versions look like plastic dolls or wax figures. That ‘uncanny valley’ look snaps people out of the experience much faster than organic film grain ever could.
A Remaster isn’t supposed to ‘fix’ the film to look like a modern iPhone video; it’s supposed to preserve the original cinematic DNA. Removing grain from a film shot on celluloid is like sanding down a Van Gogh painting because you think the brushstrokes look ‘messy.’ You aren’t cleaning it; you’re destroying the art.
“I have listened to many commentaries and nearly all directors that see grain on thier film due to the limitation of film, wish they were not present, hence they too like the lack of grain and clean image, which is closer to real life.”
Who said that? Commentaries in which movie? I want to listen to it.
Noland shoots on IMAX, it elements the limts of film, the grain almost is gone. The limitation of film is grain, noise. Some directors might like grain or just accept it, as its part of the film look but overall its distracting and ruin the film if its noticeable. If the grain is discreet and you dont notice it when watching the film, its ok but if you can visibly see it in almost every scene, you no longer focused on the film but the errors, which ruins the viewing experience.
Just watch and listen to commentaries done by Cinematophers and lighting people, mostly they talk about grain and directors, just start listening to them and you will hear most dont like imperfections. Spielberg et al, his peers all made films using film, so they had no choice but to ccept the failures of film, exposure,lighting at that time, they grew up with it. Now, there is no need for the artifacts, so its elimanated or lessened so it does not detract from the viewing experience. Transferring from digital to film is not to add back grain, but to just give it a ‘film’ look, some grain is probably added but so little its not noticeable.I don’t see a film for grain structure to get in the way. I see a film to be engaged in an idea, a style, and a character and a story, for me, less grain and noise makes a better experience. As for your comparisons with paintings, its stupid as paintings are not film and everyone knows brushes etc is used and will leave marks that distinguish its painting, its called ‘ painting’ not filming, so its a silly comparison. Ultimatelt the goal is not to remove the grain altogether but to make it that it does not detract or ruin the film integrity, the story, art and style, its to be dicreet and in the background, barely noticeable when watching the film.
I forgot to say, Im not against grain in film, its always there. Im OK with film grain as long as its not too noiceable and distracting from the film experience. I dont like waxy look of actors etc, just like a clean image that is not heavily grained. I dont want the actors faces, clothes etc cleaned up, just s long as they look ‘normal’ its good enough. The grain I disagree with is the noise in background that is highly visible nd distracting, this is not needed. All shots, if out of focus by directors vision sshould remain this way, its about the film grain artificats that become too obtrusive and noticeable, this should be lessened, not removed but lessened to a point, it wont ruin the film experience.
It’s director’s intention after all. We don’t want to mess up with that.
And you still can have your old copy.
A directors job is to film, tell a story via shots etc, not to imput grain on purpose, that is sort of weird for me to understand, a director diluting the shot by adding grain. I understand Grain happens on all film, only digital can remove it but when all grain is removed it looks too clean, like you said fake looking. I was speaking of bacground grain, the walls, the floor, in clothing etc, when you can see tonnes of grain it ruins things for me. I prefer its just minimised so its barely noticeable, not eleminated completely.
they usually supervising the restoration and approved it so it’s not like they werent’ involved