Jaxer said:
You can no longer see the matte-boxes (which is kind of disappointing) and space is all nice and black, where before it had that “contrast is high” haze to it.

This doesn’t mean it’s incorrect. Watching the film in a good theater with a projectionist who knew what he was doing, you wouldn’t have seen the matte boxes. They only put garbage mattes like that on shots where they knew the contrast would be such that you wouldn’t see them in the theater. That hazy space you’re talking about is not correct at all and the GOUT is about as far from proper contrast as you can get.