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Maybe I’m blind, but what have you actually done to the films? As far as I can tell, you’ve done some kind of upscale, and then added a fake grain layer, with some new colour correction. If anything, the image looks less detailed and softer now.
Dazman has a good point in his post, comparing that the HDTV image has more fine detail in the image. Everyone looks smooth, soft, like James Camereon’s recent remaster of True Lies.
I’m not sure what the goal of the project is. Calling it Filmized implies it’s trying to look like a 35mm film print, but it’s far too soft with a lot of the finer detail being lost, with the shadows eating up a lot of the frame too, crunching the blacks, and with the colours looking nothing like film. There’s scans for TPM and ROTS that could prove useful if you wanted to try and emulate the look of those using, what I assume are the Blu-Rays you are using. Ep2 and 3 definitely have a lot of sensor noise from the early digital cameras that could be cleaned up, but I feel what you have done is a step too far in making everything waxy.
