Anr MM2 is another example: who can be sure that the BD has not the right colors that the director has always intended? To me, clearly the BD has wong colors (as "The Thing", "The Matrix" and many others) - this is SO obvious... even with no official reference, or, at the contrary, the studios and/or directors keep telling us that these BD has "the right color grading that the movie should have in the theaters but never had on video because old technology didn't allow that before" (Lucas docet) - when we (educated videophiles) all know that is a big fat lie... OK, I should start a separate thread for this, don't you think?
Well, baci to MM2: I have the LD but not the BD; if someone would kindly agree to send me the 1:1 rip, I'll be more than happy to spoRvify it! But take into account I'm involved in many projects right now, and don't know when I'll start the MM2 one.
Last thing: what about the other Mad Max movies' color grading?
I quote captainsolo from the Mad Max 2 thread:
"The best evidence was provided by the original cinematographer on the commentary track IIRC. He talked of having to go to the film lab multiple times to push the colors to get that more saturated look of the desert. That is the intended look reflected on the 35mm theatrical prints, the VHS, LD and DVD issue from a print sourced master. That used a US print under the RW title and slightly edited. The BD uses what is presumably a fresh HD scan of the Australian master, hence the uncut film and MM2 title card. It also is the master so it lacks the intended color timing, making it yet another film misrepresented in HD due to using camera negatives and not replicating theatrical color timing."
I agree with his assessment, it sounds like they didn't color time the HD negative scan. The 35mm print I saw recently was of 80's vintage and was the same color timing as the laserdisc and the old DVD, so clearly the Blu-ray is wrong. The funny thing is that Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome always had the same "yellow" color timing as Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior, which makes sense being a sequel. For the new Blu-ray the color timing is the correct "yellow" same as the DVD and old Laserdisc. So they got that right, probably because they didn't go back to the untimed negative. So it makes MM2/RW stand out all the more since Thunderdome is the right color, same as its always been. Mad Max (the 1st movie) has always had a natural color look befitting it 70s naturalistic filming and seems right also.
Sorry if I derailed this thread, Andrea. I saw the work you did on The Thing (one of my favorite movies) got excited and thought your process would be perfect to fix MM2/RW (another of my favs). If you do want to go forward I have the latest Blu-ray (AVC, not the old VC-1), the old DVD and Jonno's Dolby Stereo Surround soundtrack (which must of been very hard to sync to the Blu-ray since it is a different cut)
Back to your regularly scheduled thread.