JayArgonaut said:
Very well but I’m sticking with the earlier versions of all three films. For me, the comparison below sums up why the director does not always know best. 😃
It’s very obvious that the image on the left is much more filmic and robust. There is proper highlights, shadows and contrast even if you discount the colour.
The image on the right looks made for TV, not cinema. A Very flat image.
It is true that the image on the left has superior contrast, but the actual colors are not at all good, as was JayArgonaut’s point I think. The left image has a monotone green color that I seriously doubt had much to do with the original timing, and the highlights look somewhat green shifted. The right image may have incorrect contrast and color, but the color is much more appealing to the eye, despite the contrast looking very much like television.
It also seems that various projects here are continuing to show that the original timing on these films was not as blatently green as the BD releases are showing. The info I got on a 35mm screening of Terminator shows me that, though not perfect, my correction was much closer to the original timing than the BD. The creators of these releases have no excuse for the awful color timing choices that have been presented, because it defenitely isn’t a constraint of digital color space.
EDIT: To stay on topic, I will say that I’m not a fan of Titanic, but I feel inclined to give it another watch for the filmic experoence now. 😃