- Time
- (Edited)
- Post link
It's a matter of evidence. As you said, no one can know 100%--not even George Lucas and the DPs of the films. So you have to go external.
There is ample evidence to indicate the bolder colour choices are what the film looked like.
What is there backing up the muted colour? The GOUT? What else? We know the GOUT is desaturated, so that rules that out. In the end, we have a couple of odd 1980s home video releases that have a slew or problems, like being bright, soft, colour-shifted, etc., because they are 1980s analog home video sources. So if you want to go with this colour scheme--what is your reasoning?
It seems more and more like it's purely personal preference. Which is fine.
I have said it before: my favourite transfer of the GOUT is the 2010 Editdroid, which is the most muted and therefore least accurate transfer to date. But it looks the most pleasing, in part because the GOUT has a lot of colour popping problems. Just like the 2004 SE. But I realise its not what the film should look like.