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Originally Posted by MifuneFan
I'm just making the point that I'd take Pro-B's words over some self-labeled Film Expert any day of the week. I trust Cronenberg as a filmmaker, but we all know there are times when that expertise doesn't translate perfectly when supervising a new transfer. Many directors like to tinker, or do some sort of revisionism to fit with how they want the movie to look now. I'm not saying Cronenberg is definitely guilty of that, but in a general sense, the terms "Director Approved" doesn't instill absolute confidence in me anymore.
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I'm not proclaiming to be an actual film expert. That was just what my friends lightheartedly referred to me as back in the day because they considered me quite knowledgeable when it came to the subject. Do not try and use my username as an attempt to personally attack me.
You can trust that reviewer over me and that's fine, but this new edition clearly shows that the colors were all wrong in the Second Sight release which wasn't supervised by Mr Cronenberg.
I don't need reviewers to tell me what to think of anything, I consider myself a freethinker and believe I am capable of making my own opinions.
This Criterion Collection release has been supervised by the director, so I have to assume this is what he wants and I'm sure that original prints were involved during the color grading stage that show the correct colors, so this has got to be more accurate than any other release.
You haven't even seen the film, but yet you come on here and pretend to know how it should look, and it seems that you actually think the opinions of a reviewer have more validity than the person who made the actual film. That is quite simply irrational.
-The Film Expert