One thing you’ll notice when you get the bluray is that the theatrical cut’s colour timing is completely different to the DVD master and also looks nothing like the Donner Cut. The colours on the blurays are all over the place. Superman the movie extended version and TRDC being the least affected. The theatrical cut of 1 and 2, and movies 3 and 4 look drastically different to how they looked before, with skin toines and Superman’s suit looking very off.
I’m not sure - sometimes the RIC looks more like the theatrical BD, sometimes more like the RDC BD. For the prison laundry sequence and the Houston sequence, it’s definitely closer to the theatrical but for the Daily Planet invasion later in the film, it’s much closer to Donner.
I’ve completely recoloured 3 and 4 already, and have some work done on the Lester version. I don’t just want to match it to the Donner version though, as that looks a bit off. Colours are too saturated, the fortress looks blue, etc. I want to tweak the Donner Cut and try to get as close to that with the lester version.
Sounds reasonable.
Regarding the Superman 3 RIC, a lot of the deleted scenes are on the bluray, but not all. They are 4:3 SD, but from a good master. They could be used to fill in a lot of gaps. The main component missing to do a great quality composite is the beginning space credits and the opening sequence without the regular credits overlayed.
Nice.
It’s a pity we don’t have better quality of everything, but it sounds like a RIC of Superman 3 would certainly look a lot better than the Superman 2 RIC.
Just an fyi, those are PAL sizes. The original NTSC would be preferable.
They’re actually in between NTSC and PAL. 😉 As well, scaling the BD to 1280x720 yields a cropped image of 1280x528 - so 704x528 is probably a good compromise resolution if compatibility with hardware players is not an object (for me, it isn’t, although I understand for most people here it is).