Someone needs to tell him to do The Matrix. If he could regrade that from the blu-ray, it would look amazing.

Good to see someone is correcting 'botched' releases. He doesn't state what he's using to judge the correct colours though. Is there anything to suggest that the regraded Alien and YOLT are closer to the theatrical colours than the bluray or are they just timed to match older home video releases?

Glad to hear he's doing Aliens (I hope he also does the theatrical cut). I'd also love to see the 2D Jurassic Park bluray given the colour timing of the new 3D bluray.

rockin said:

Someone needs to tell him to do The Matrix. If he could regrade that from the blu-ray, it would look amazing.

I already asked him if he could and he said he's just to busy with other projects but that he will definitely check it out.

Turisu said:

Is there anything to suggest that the regraded Alien and YOLT are closer to the theatrical colours than the bluray or are they just timed to match older home video releases?

I believe Alien and YOLT are corrected for a natural-looking palette more than anything. kk650 makes the off-white whites white again. Thus, they are technically correct and not tinted.

YOLT unfortunately doesn't have its technicolor back yet but at least its better than both the DVD and BD. There's no pink tint, which makes flesh tones and whites weird.

Is the Aliens version regraded released yet?

DoomBot said:

rockin said:

Someone needs to tell him to do The Matrix. If he could regrade that from the blu-ray, it would look amazing.

I already asked him if he could and he said he's just to busy with other projects but that he will definitely check it out.

Awesome!

A quote from kk650   "I love the first Matrix film so its very much on my to do list"

Talking about regrading the color of the movie.

I've just noticed that he has now regraded The Matrix!

Yes I'm going to get the Matrix one. I didn't like the Aliens one thought, it makes the movie looks like some badly lit TV movie. 

The thing is kk650 freely admits that these regraded release aren't restoring the original theatrical color timing. They've just basically been white-balanced but in the case of BR releases that have a blanket tint added throughout the movie this may be preferable for some.

I have to say his HDTV-based release of AOTC does look so much better than the Blu.

What's AOTC?

Turisu said:

The thing is kk650 freely admits that these regraded release aren't restoring the original theatrical color timing. They've just basically been white-balanced but in the case of BR releases that have a blanket tint added throughout the movie this may be preferable for some.

I have to say his HDTV-based release of AOTC does look so much better than the Blu.

Yeah, I noticed, which means the Matrix still won't look anywhere near theatrical. A neutrally color-timed Matrix will likely look really boring (the original version also had heavy tints, they were just different colors).

DoomBot said:

What's AOTC?

Attack of the Clones.

Oh yeah  Attack of the Clones daa  lol

Anythings better then the green  through out the Matrix, at least something close to theatrical i suppose?

thanks

The Matrix bluray doesn't have a blanket green tint across the whole movie; in fact the 'real world' scenes have pretty much the same color timing as previous releases. Scenes set in the matrix itself always had a slight green tint, but the bluray ramps this up to 11 and makes some other questionable color changes to these scenes.

Here are some good examples of what I'm talking about: (EDIT: It should be noted that although the screens on this page all from DVD releases, the most recent DVD has the same color timing as the bluray)

http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/the-matrix-visual-comparison.html

Turisu said:

The Matrix bluray doesn't have a blanket green tint across the whole movie; in fact the 'real world' scenes have pretty much the same color timing as previous releases. Scenes set in the matrix itself always had a slight green tint, but the bluray ramps this up to 11 and makes some other questionable color changes to these scenes.

Here are some good examples of what I'm talking about: (EDIT: It should be noted that although the screens on this page all from DVD releases, the most recent DVD has the same color timing as the bluray)

http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/the-matrix-visual-comparison.html

I looked at samples of his his regraded version; it basically makes the colors very neutral and un-Matrix like. I actually sort of liked the "up to eleven' bluray of the Matrix, it looks very bold. I just wished it hadn't replaced the theatrical version.

His You Only Live Twice color fix is great thought. The Blu-ray sucks.

Jetrell Fo said:

This means that he was upfront about what was done.  That is good.  This way people can make their own choice on whether they want to check it out or not.  That's good for everyone.

:)

Absolutely. It would be great if he had the time to do a scene-by-scene regrading to the original timing but I understand that would be an enormous undertaking and certainly not something I could even begin to attempt. It's great that kk650 is giving us these alternatives. The more choice, the better I say. :)

Great releases coming out recently. Just got back from vacation so haven't had the chance to check them out yet. Will update/expand the original posts when I get the chance.