Patton is Phenomenal!!!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Actually I'm very sure. There's too little grain in general in it, it's not natural especially given how del Toro's movies typically look theatrically. I've seen them all since Mimic. The Hellboy 2 trailer I saw last night with Hulk, was certainly cleaner than I would expect, however it also had a very different lighting profile than most of the footage in Hellboy 1, so I don't see it as a fair comparison.

So in conclusion whether the noise reduction was done to the DI by del Toro or to the Blu, I'm confident it was done. If I had to wager I'd say it was done on the DI given the look and feel of the Hellboy 2 trailer

Wicky,
I’ll withhold anymore comments on Hellboy until 'aramis' has a chance to view the Blu-ray because he was the original guy that mentioned he is both a fan of this title and actually saw the theatrical presentation. I think that would be the fairest thing for me to do.

I will say though, that I am familiar with the DI which was done at EFILM (Deluxe) as well as the Blu-ray encoding/authoring done inhouse at the studio of record.