Just look at how they gang up on someone who points out that the exorcism scenes have been digitally altered in color: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=211595&page=103
these people are insane, and unfortunately destroying the classics.
There is a minority of tech savvy, yet film informed posters on that forum that will usually warn potential buyers of the various miscolourations in these re-releases... I have a lot of gratitude to these committed film enthusiasts that help counteract the cheerleading of digital fetishists...
I think as more people become aware of this issue, we can at least avoid the bad transfers, although I'm not sure we'll ever be able to reverse the trend fully...
It's happening even with more recent movies... I know on other forums people were discussing the 4K release of The Matrix and how the colour has been altered, reducing the excessive tints of the previous versions (the standard bluray was the worst, apparently)... However, the latest version is still not a copy of the theatrical colour timing. This is unfortunate and something that a few posters have pointed out. So at least with that film, while they have moved in the right direction, they didn't go all the way.
I wonder if the jump to 4K will allow for better versions of the badly coloured transfers of older movies. I think it will vary on a case by case basis... It's good that people are still vocal about perserving the original vision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6le-ginceM
shareThanks, that's interesting...
It seems even some directors are revisionist... There is a new Ultra HD version of Terminator 2 where James Cameron has removed all of the grain and has sharpened the image... It looks like it was shot with a digital camera and not at all like the original... Maybe it was done in relation to the 3D theatrical release and they just used that as a base for the disc...
What i don't understand is this. Why not have two versions in these cases where the director wants to play around with their movie? One version that is faithful to the original theatrical presentation of the movie and another (director's master) where the director does his thing if he feels so strongly about it...
That way at least film history is preserved
it's awful, I would hate to think that the directors I love did what they did because of their limitations and that if they were around today they would stoop to this level of literally discovering water is wet and being completely ignorant, which is what digital has brought about. Then again, Friedkin and Cameron are 70's directors, which to me ruined cinema and are more hardware fanboys than real artists.
shareLuckily, I think it's only a handful of directors who want to change things materially...
Cameron has always been a gadget guy... And from Avatar onwards is 100% committed to taking technology to the extreme, regardless of aesthetics... We have been spared the worst as he has been tied up woth the Avatar sequels/series...
The biggest threat now is with the studios that might look for new gimmicks to sell their back catelogue... HDR and such as the older movies are released on UHD disc, but it seems most of this has been averted so far because cinema purists have been vocal about any deviations from the original. Some people with new and expensive OLED TVs have complained about grain and such (black spots in highlights), but it's because their TVs are not set up properly. They don't seem to have had an impact.
People are more vigilant now about this stuff and there is a resistence to tech fanboys after all the denoising and excessive sharpening and cooling of the early bluray days...
So far I've avoided discs that get it wrong (for the most part) and will only rent those movies on itunes if I need to watch them. Discs that get it right are valued.
it's really awful but they truly feel they are doing great work. I also see that Terminator 2 has been tealed and oranged.
shareI got this movie on VHS. The original theatrical version and not the stupid "version you've never seen" It would have been fine if they didn't add in all those digital effects.
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