Lil Brutto said:
kk650 said:
The less colourful version with the grotto scene is now up on tehparadox.
Great job with the updated mono track btw!
kk650,
Given that your regrade is the best available release of the 4K transfer and we won't be seeing a new release from the Italians for quite some time, would you be willing to regrade this latest version of yours (i.e without the grotto scene) to the Mondo colors?
Recreating the mondo would require a shot by shot regrade that I personally don't have the free time to do. Even if I did though, I do not believe that it is possible.
Certain scenes like during the battle of the bridge, it has been regraded on the 4k remaster so strongly with one tint that I don't believe its possible to get back to the more natural looking colours of the mondo release in that scene or indeed in many other scenes with strong tints throuout the film, like the final duel.
I'm hoping that Andrea can prove me wrong though and with that colourmatch program of his draw those colours that seem to be lost out of the 4k remaster, allowing him to recreate the mondo colour palette with the detail and grain of the 4k remaster.
That said, I like how this 4k remaster looks now that its had the blanket yellow tint removed, colourwise its not better or worse than the mondo release IMHO, just different, in a good way. Both colour palettes have their strengths and weaknesses.
I'd recommend that people check out the less colourful regraded release themselves and make up their own minds about whether the italian mondo release is so much better than the 4k remaster after having the blanket yellow tint removed.