Different Black Levels?

[WickyWoo]

But the actual black bars on the picture are also much brighter. I've noticed each movie seems to be different. Like Disturbia, the picture loses detail in the dark scenes and stuff seems to be more of an off gray than black, but you don't see anything in the picture. Then there's Silent Hill, yeah the black bars are actually dark black, but the picture itself is bright enough to see what's going on. This seems like a rant now, but has anyone else experienced this?

Sounds like whoever did the telecine set it for NTSC rather than the HD color scale