I know, I was just bringing up that particular change as a good example of a "blink and you'll miss it" change in the prequels.
It should be possible to re-create the theatrical cut in HD. The blu-ray would be the best starting point because there's no cropping, but then you've got stuff like the different neimoidian viewscreen, digital yoda, etc, for which you'd need to go back to the cropped hd broadcast.
Really makes me wish someone could just get their hands on a '99 release print.
Alexrd said:
Fang Zei said:
From the blu-ray screenshots I've seen, it strikes me as odd that TPM and ROTS look pretty much exactly as they should, but AOTC now looks different. I wonder why they made the decision to shift the color. Did they not have a 23.976p hdtv master from 2002 lying around?? Maybe they had to make a fresh telecine from the digital files for the blu-ray and the colorist - for whatever reason - added the teal. Ugh, it just doesn't look good.
TPM does look as it should (colour-wise), for the most part. AotC teal shift was a very last minute change (like the humdinger glitch) since according to people who were at the Comic Con presentation and the press junket, AotC didn't have that teal tint at the time. Even the small clips of the movie shown in the extras look fine.
The animated menu's on the AOTC blu-ray have the teal tint, just like the transfer itself.
It's truly baffling that they made that change. Looking at the screenshot comparisons, it's like you're watching the movie through sunglasses. It just looks objectively bad and I can't think of a subjective reason for them doing this.