Comment by sersi
3 months ago
And as someone who is part of those conservation communities that scan 35mm with donations to keep the existing look, a lot of the people doing those projects are aware of this. They do some color adjustment to compensate for print fading, for the type of bulb that were used in movie theatres back then (using a LUT), etc...
I do find that often enough commercial releases like Aladdin or other movies like Terminator 2 are done lazily and have completely different colors than what was historically shown. I think part of this is the fact that studios don't necessarily recognise the importance of that legacy and don't want to spend money on it.
Whats wrong with terminator 2?
Are there like multiple digital releases, one with better colour than the other?
There's a 4K version out that does interesting things with colour grading, here's a post I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/Terminator/comments/d65pbi/terminat.... The one on the left is the remaster.
There was similar outrage (if that's the right word) about a Matrix remaster that either added or removed a green color filter, and there's several other examples where they did a Thing with colour grading / filtering in a remaster.
There's multiple versions of the Matrix on the trackers and the internet that I know of. The official release all look kinda different to each other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mhZ-13HqLQ
There's a 35mm scan floating around from a faded copy with really weird colors sometimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow1KDYc9XsE
And there's an Open Matte Version, which I don't know the Origin of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2eCmhBgsyI
For me, it's the Open Matte that I consider the ultimate best version.
To me, that just looks like what happens when I try to play HDR content on a system that doesn't know about HDR. (It looks like you're watching it through sunglasses.)
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