ImperialFighter said:
zombie84 said:
The colour timing on the DC is pretty much the same as on the theatrical edition, Imperial Fighter. Its only the Brett scene that was significantly altered. Which is why they ought to have branched it.
Not sure if there's a misunderstanding here, but I'll try again - the 'Theatrical' cut of ALIEN on the 'Quadrilogy' dvd set is identically colour-timed throughout to match the 'darkened'/'stylized' look of the newly colour-timed 'Director's Cut'...compared to the 'Theatrical' cut of ALIEN in it's previous releases.
Whether due to 'branching' or being deliberately done to match the new look of the 'Director's Cut or not, I don't know, but either way, this new colourization is very different to how the 'Theatrical' cut always used to look.
I understood what you are saying. But you are mistaken.
What I am saying is that the way the DC is timed is actually accurate to the original cinematography. Except the Brett scene, and that's it as far as I know. I don't recall any other intentional/radical re-colouring. So the theatrical cut ought to be using the DC footage and not the previous transfers because the way the film should look is basically the way the DC looks, not necessarily the way it looked on TV and in video from the 1980s and 1990s.
Again, one shouldn't judge based off the previous releases, which were derived from Laserdisc. That's been the entire problem here. The DC timing may not be 100% perfect, because no transfer ever can be for an older film simply because the colours will no longer exist in any reliable way, and perhaps the DC is a bit punchier than it should be, but its closer to watching something from the original negative than any previous version of the film, including original prints. Previous home video versions were washed out, red shifted, and had artificial midrange saturation in accordance with home video telecine trends before the 2000s.
Its kind of how everyone was complaining that the Death Star interiors were blue in the 2004 DVD release. "It should be grey like the previous versions!" But the previous versions were actually wrong. You can see this in the new Apocalypse Now BD that comes out, which is coloured more accurately to the original release but looks quite a bit different from previous versions (which were also supposedly supervised with the DP).