This whole thing reminds me of Aliens. While the new Blu-ray does indeed look fantastic overall (proper credit to the team who worked on it for this), having superb levels of detail and being clear and sharp, and not messed up with DNR, I noticed a problem. Where is the blue at night and in dark areas? In at least some scenes, if not the whole movie, the quite noticeable blue that's always there at night is gone or at least greatly reduced.
It was quite shocking when I realized it, the blue was suddenly just missing. I'm not talking teal, but the normal real blue color timing that Cameron is known for in night scenes. I'm a fan of this blue-grey night time look that he uses, plus it's part of the atmosphere and feel of the movie, and it's the original timing, so it should be left that way. Without it, the movie loses something, it's too...neat, clean, the night has less depth and texture to it, and that loss definitely affects the feel of the movie.
It's ironic that all these various movies are being messed up with this bizarre inexplicable teal/cyan obsession some directors are showing lately, and in this movie he takes *away* the natural original blue that's supposed to be there. Arggh... just leave it alone! Or release two versions, same quality, but one timed correctly and one experimental color timing, or whatever. It's a shame, too, because the movie looks so great on the new Blu-ray set. The blue color timing just needs to be restored to the appropriate scenes and it would be about perfect in terms of picture quality. Until they do a full-scale restoration, based on new 6k scans of the negative or something like that, I don't think we'll get a better looking one any time soon. But hopefully at least a correctly color timed one at some point.
Post #681830
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- Dunedain
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- Info: General Terminator 1 & 2 Discussions.
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- Date created
- 5-Jan-2014, 11:22 PM