Still not convinced

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by bruceames.

I want what's more accurate to the source and more of it too. Don't want to be limited to what was shown in the theater because of its own color/contrast limitations.

The theatrical grade is the filmmakers' target and the only frame of reference we have. There may be information on the negative that falls outside of that spectrum, but we have no way of knowing whether or not the filmmakers want that information to be seen.

Originally Posted by bruceames.

But IMO if the filmmakers are OK with the regrade than so am I.

I am, too, but that brings us to our other problem... how do we know? Unless the filmmakers explicitly tell us, we usually don't. The other major exception is a movie like Lawrence of Arabia, in which we know the filmmakers did not approve the HDR grade because they were not alive to do so.