Chewtobacca said:

As to Blade Runner, mysycamore, are you comparing the archival versions to the 1997 DVD? On reflection, I can see that their colors are different from that release, so I suppose I was wrong about them having the original color timings, but I cannot see where they are worse than the Final Cut. The 2006 DVD release colors look different from the original release too.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews24/bladerunner.htm

I like the look of the 2006 DVD actually.

Here's what Charles de Lauzirika said, (one of the producers of the set)

"As for the color differences, it all really boils down to the fact that Ridley Scott personally supervised and approved the color timing in the Final Cut to his liking -- something he was never able to properly do in the past -- while the other cuts are presented as close to their previously-established look as possible. Ridley worked directly with colorists Jill Bogdanowicz and Stephen Nakamura at Technicolor for the Final Cut, while Skip Kimball (a vet of many Ridley Scott transfers) handled the archival versions at Modern VideoFilm. The Workprint was in such bad shape that it went through two passes, first at FotoKem and then again with Skip at Modern."

It's a fantastic set but it's sad they didn't get the archival versions exactly right in how they're supposed to look, here is some of the worst examples.

'97 transfer

'06 transfer

'97 transfer

'06 transfer

I don't say that the shitty '97 transfer is correct either, it isn't (too red for example) but these caps show clearly that something isn't right. I don't have any examples to demonstrate the final cut unfortunately, but in some scenes it's closer to the original photography than the '06/archival versions imo.