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Originally Posted by Poya
Uh, Cameron's work has always been teal. You can't judge your Aliens DVD on how it should look.
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lol, there's a whole lot of instances of extra added teal tints that were not part of the original theatrical color grades. Terminator 1 remastered was a bad offender, as was Aliens on Blu-ray. T2's 4K remaster has continued this trend, and it's a glaring issue in some scenes. The preview for the new T2 remaster shows a bit of the future war against the machines, the Resistance vs Skynet (Opening Battle of Movie). Used to be, on older bluray/dvd/vhs/laser disc releases, and theatrically, you could clearly make out the color of the skulls on the ground, including the one that gets crunched. They were bone/ivory colored, now on the trailer for the 4K remaster, that scene is a awash in a sea of teal tint, the skulls all look blueberry now. I compared it to the current Blu-ray copy of T2, and the color tint isn't there on that same scene in the old version, at least not to such a striking degree. Only the new color grading of the 4K remaster has that intense tint there, but whatever. I was only 8, but I saw T2 in the theater twice. Because I loved it so much after the first time I had to see it again. It was a big deal back then, it still is.
Back in the days of T2's initial release, the colors we saw depended on how they shot and then developed the film, if you wanted to add a teal tint it was an ordeal. They weren't in fashion at the time, and the tinting absolutely wasn't there at the time, check original theatrical trailers, no tints. Now that they naturally scan and manipulate old 35mm digitally, they can do whatever kind of revisionist tinting they want. Blue tint has been a big fad now for the last 15 or 20 years, and for some strange reason, James Cameron really likes it. He wasn't a big factor on the T2 remaster honestly. They did it, he looked at it at briefly, and gave his blessings. Technically, it was whoever did the color grading for this new scan, who decided when and where to add tints, and how intense. It's like colorizing a black&white film.