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Few minutes after I read this thread, I noted that the movie was programmed for this evening; watching the trailer, it seemed colors were more "alive" than the comparison video, so I decided to record it.

Apart the fact that, thanks also to following posts, I discovered the youtube video was modified, I wanted to see with my own eyes...

So, the movie, watched on an old CRT SD TV set had good, vivid colors in almost all the shots, and the few which were dull had their reasons; I compared the HDTV with the BD 2D, and they are almost the same - the small differences are probably due to TV recompression problems...

At the end, there is no reason (IMHO) to make a project, even if I must admit I was tempted just the minute I watched that youtube video; reality is the color grading is much better than many other recent movies!

So, as the old Mulder was used to say, TRUST NO 1! I add: make your homework, try to find as much proofs as you can, and then, eventually, *think* to make a project! (^^,)

If someone needs the comparison shots, I'll be happy to post them, but not now, it's too late...

Yeah I do agree that there is very much a clear purpose to the stylised colour grading here on Man of Steel, just like there was with 300, a film that I loved and wouldn't dream of regrading. If it was just me I wouldn't bother regrading it either, I didn't really like the film all that much.

In all honesty i'm only doing it because i've received a crazy amount of requests from Superman fans that remember the brighter/happier colours of earlier Superman films and have seen that youtube video. I just hope they don't expect me to work miracles, most of the natural colours are completely gone from the very aggressive digital grading, theres only so much that can be done without the original footage to work from. There is a strong blanket yellow tint throughout though so that does give the regrade more legitimacy in my mind.