Blu Rays with Questionable Color Timing

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

You're not seriously suggesting that the green Matrix colour timing is how it looked in '99?

No, I was asking if the green Matrix color timing is how it looked in '99.

[Geoff D]

Okay. The answer's still no.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

I'd rather say the highly oversaturated look of previous editions.

The grass in the day time scenes certainly wasn't grey when I first saw the film in 1978.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

The grass in the day time scenes certainly wasn't grey when I first saw the film in 1978.

It's not grey now either.

[djchaseb]

Sorry if I missed it but has anyone mentioned Raiders Of The Lost Ark yet?

Strong yellow shift from previous versions we've had on home video. And of course I know home video isn't a good representation of what a film looked like theatrically.

I have no issues with the coloring of the Blu Ray however

[The Mad Kiwi]

The color timing on James and the Giant Peach is a strange one that doesn't get talked about too often. There's a dark blue tint over the whole image that I don't think Henry Sellick ever approved.

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Oddly, shots in the film that are meant to be dark and in shadow got brightened up. Doing so spoiled the big reveal of the insects and also killed a gag in which the whole gang has fallen on top of each other (though I don't have comparison pics for those).

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by The Mad Kiwi

The color timing on James and the Giant Peach is a strange one that doesn't get talked about too often. There's a dark blue tint over the whole image that I don't think Henry Sellick ever approved.

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DVD


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Promo Still


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Oddly, shots in the film that are meant to be dark and in shadow got brightened up. Doing so spoiled the big reveal of the insects and also killed a gag in which the whole gang has fallen on top of each other (though I don't have comparison pics for those).

Looks to me like boosted contrast in the non-BD shots.

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Looks to me like boosted contrast in the non-BD shots.

The change of the sky from a more baby blue to that all-too-familiar teal is suspect, though.

[AmandaBanana]

You Only Live Twice seems to have a pinkish tone.

[Blu-21]

The orignal colour timing of The Matrix is also available on Laserdisc.

Anyway I'm surprised no one has mentioned Star Wars yet, although I guess the questionable colour timing of that goes back to the DVD releases, because the VHS tapes and Laserdiscs of both the unaltered editions and even the 1997 special editions didn't look like what we have now on DVD/Blu-Ray.

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Heh. Friedkin mistook the little note about firmware upgrades for some sort of admission from Fox that the old Blu-ray was ****ed. Not only that, he's absolved himself of all blame by saying that all he did was convert the film to video and didn't "make any massive changes", even though there's a featurette that shows him ruining the colour in front of our eyes using that weird method of defocussing the colour layer. Not just desaturating, but actually defocussing it.

What a world-class kook he is.

I'm still desprete to watch that featurette of Friedkin doing the direct comparsen. Is it available anywhere without me having to buy the 2009 Blu-Ray itself?

[Canada]

Would the 3D version of Top Gun count the transfer is all yellow and looks nothing like the Top Gun I know

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by Canada

Would the 3D version of Top Gun count the transfer is all yellow and looks nothing like the Top Gun I know

That's another one where the revisions are director-approved, the 3D version was supervised by Scott before his death. Also, the old transfer is plagued with DNR, while the new one is nice and grainy.

[blurayfriend]

Daredevil Director's Cut. The deleted footage is not color timed to the theatrical release footage and the whole thing is just thrown together without any editing precision or re-filtering. You can actually tell where the color changes in the middle of certain scenes of the movie indicating where the new footage comes in. Looks just horrible, although I love the movie, and wish they had just released the theatrical cut as an option on the blu-ray.

[Doombear]

Total Recall (Mind Bending Edition) - jeepers the inconsistent colors and weak black levels look like crap, even though the image is much sharper. I'm really disapppointed in how this was messed up and am waiting for a better edition already.

[reason108]

Enter The Dragon - 40th Anniversary Edition blu ray.

Warner was even nice enough to crop the image for us too.

[Lantz]

Originally Posted by doombear

total recall (mind bending edition) - jeepers the inconsistent colors and weak black levels look like crap, even though the image is much sharper. I'm really disapppointed in how this was messed up and am waiting for a better edition already.

+1

[Lantz]

Originally Posted by reason108

Enter The Dragon - 40th Anniversary Edition blu ray.



Warner was even nice enough to crop the image for us too.

Jaggies and all, I am still sticking to the 2007 blu because of that.

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by Doombear

Total Recall (Mind Bending Edition) - jeepers the inconsistent colors and weak black levels look like crap, even though the image is much sharper. I'm really disapppointed in how this was messed up and am waiting for a better edition already.

Total Recall on Blu=Ray was questionable before the Mind Bending Edition/Ultimate Rekall Edition . Many of the previous BD transfers tinkered with the saturation and brightness to make it look more colorful and modern. The Paul Verhoeven supervised Mind Bending Edition/Ultimate Rekall Edition goes back, or at least closer, to correcting the look of the film.

[DarknessBDJM]

The first U.S. Halloween release, too much red, too much warm color saturation in daytime scenes, desaturated blues.
Halloween 4, too red, far too dark, and some blatant timing changes.
Escape from New York has gamma issues where the level isn't high enough (looks fine after I up the gamma level in Catalyst).
Friday the 13th VI has desaturated blues and a green push.
The Ring has a green push and some desaturated blues.
First Ghostbusters release is contrast boosted.
The Neverending Story is weird all over, a bit too yellow/orange/red and has too high of a contrast push.

There are plenty more, but it'd take me looking through my collection to note them. It's usually the case where the film's tones are too warm, and the skin colors begin to look orangey-red.

The first Master of the Universe comparison looks better for the blu-ray version, it looks much more natural and accurate, but I don't remember the green glow on Skeletor in the lava pit.