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Info: 'Goodfellas' - 4k remaster = huge colour changes!

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God knows what was origina!?

Restoration in order?

New top,

Old bottom.

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I'm pretty sure his suit was always blue, or blue-ish in color. I wonder how the rest of the movie will look....

“Lifes a song you don’t get to rehearse, and every single verse can make it that much worse”

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Right. Remastered edition review here: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/GoodFellas-Blu-ray/122386/#Review

I saw it a couple months ago in 35mm and just when I came back from the theater, I put my Blu on to compare and felt it was quite accurate, but I can't remember the jacket color. The 35mm copy I saw even had the same infamous vertical scratch in the middle of the frame, right on De Niro's face.

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Holy crap, I had no idea WB was doing 4K remasters.  I already have the old BD but I'll buy this in the hopes it will encourage them to do more 4K remasters.  I've bought Blade Runner twice on BD already but I'll gladly do the same for a 4K remaster (although I hope the revisionist color scheme on the Final Cut gets fixed... probably no chance but a man can dream).

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Hmm..I didn't realize the new 4K transfer was so different in color. My two cents: This film has long been stuck in an old video era master dating back to the LD. This is why even the BD had some video NSTC-era problems. WB kept polishing up an old circa 1991 era transfer which had been contrast boosted etc. to better match CRTs of the era (much like what they did on the Burton Batman films). Like those they did a new video job for the SE DVD but even that was essentially the same as the older one.

But I don't think a print would be that strikingly different. The contrast looks fixed but I think trying to get back to 1990 coloring workflows in the modern digital domain doesn't always quite sync up. Add in the fact that Marty is much older and has favored heightened color and contrasts in his films since, and I can kind of see why this happened. I think the positives far outweigh the negatives, and likely a print would fall somewhere between the two in color.

Just wish the new BD had the original mix in PCM 2.0 or 4.0. Now I have to still keep my LD. It far outdid all the DVD 5.1 remixes.

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Another Necrobump.

Held onto the original BD25 Blu-ray disc for a long while. Even owned the HD DVD and Two-Disc Special Edition back in the day. Glad I own the UHD which looks amazing with film grain intact as it should, being that it’s on a BD100 along with Native 4K, and even has the BD’s from the 25th Anniversary remaster.
Does the 25th Anniversary/UHD release need to be re-color timed to the original BD25 release? IMO, the BD25 release is from an outdated transfer and not entirely sure what master it was derived from yet I’m way more familiar with the colors from it.
All I need to do is just get the OST CD release. Is it certain the 5.1 mix featured on these releases I’m listing are the cinematic mix? One is obviously Lossy and thankfully the latter is Lossless. Would be nice to have an uncompressed PCM track if need be.

BD25 release (Fairly much the same as the HD DVD.)

Blu-ray ALL America - Warner Home Video
Commentaries:
Audio Commentary with director Martin Scorsese, actors Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, and Frank Vincent, co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, producers Irwin Winkler and Barbara De Fina, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, and editor Thelma Schoomaker
Audio Commentary with former mobster Henry Hill and former FBI agent Edward McDonald
Extras:
“Getting Made” featurette (29:34)
“The Workaday Gangster” featurette (7:57)
“The GoodFellas Legacy” featurette (13:32)
“Paper Is Cheaper Than Film” featurette (4:27)
Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:
English, English HoH, French, and Spanish
Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1
Picture Format:
1080p 24fps VC-1
Soundtrack(s):
English Dolby Digital 5.1
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Case type:
Keep Case
Notes:
Confirmed to be “Region All”.
All extras are in SD.

UHD 4K release.

Blu-ray ALL America - Warner Home Video
Extras:
DISC ONE (Blu-ray 4K)

  • The Film (4K)
    Audio Commentary with director Martin Scorsese, actors Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, and Frank Vincent, co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, producers Irwin Winkler and Barbara De Fina, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, and editor Thelma Schoomaker
    Audio Commentary with former mobster Henry Hill and former FBI agent Edward McDonald

DISC TWO (Blu-ray)

  • The Film (1080p)
    Audio Commentary with director Martin Scorsese, actors Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, and Frank Vincent, co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, producers Irwin Winkler and Barbara De Fina, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, and editor Thelma Schoomaker
    Audio Commentary with former mobster Henry Hill and former FBI agent Edward McDonald

DISC THREE (Blu-ray)
“Scorsese’s Goodfellas” documentary (29:54) (1080p)
“Getting Made” featurette (29:34)
“Made Me: The GoodFellas Legacy” featurette (13:35)
“The Workaday Gangster” featurette (8:00)
“Paper Is Cheaper Than Film” featurette (4:30)
“Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film” (105:13)
Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts

  • “I Like Mountain Music” (7:02)
  • “She Was an Acrobat’s Daughter” (8:39)
  • “Racketeer Rabbit” (7:55)
  • “Bugs and Thugs” (7:14)
    Theatrical Trailer (1:30)
    Subtitles:
    4K: Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English HoH, Greek, Finnish, French, German HoH, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian HoH, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin), Swedish, Thai, Turkish
    Blu-ray: Cantonese, Czech, Dutch, English HoH, Greek, French, German HoH, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian HoH, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin), Thai, Turkish
    Aspect Ratio:
    1.78:1
    Picture Format:
    2160p 24fps HEVC
    Soundtrack(s):
    4K:
    English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
    Russian Dolby Digital 5.1
    Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    French Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    German Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Polish Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Spanish (Castilian) Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Spanish (Latin) Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Thai Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
    Portuguese (Brazilian) Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
    Turkish Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
    Blu-ray:
    English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
    Russian Dolby Digital 5.1
    Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    German Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Polish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Thai Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
    Portuguese Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
    Turkish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
    Case type:
    Keep Case
    Notes:
    DISC THREE includes optional Czech, Dutch, English HoH, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin), Thai subtitles

Caps-a-Holic.com is certain to have proper screen comparisons. Just wish the 25th Anniversary film disc took up the entirety of the BD50 it’s on. Clocks in around 36GB~34GB in size when it ought to be around 44GB.