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I wonder for those whose televisions allow for very fine adjustment of color and white balance (like the LG C2 OLED, which allow for individual RGB adjustment by points) if there's a way in the settings of our TVs where we can counteract that studio rep's decision...

Caveat: this is just a quick search through Amazon, which as you know can have misleading product pages. If you want the BD of the 2008 restoration (true to Mr. Willis's photography) here are two options (price listed is what it is at the moment of this post, and may be different in the...

1) I envy you, for when you finally do watch it, you'll have that "first time" experience many of us had years ago, and it will be something to behold. 2) If you can find the Blu-ray 200x release (can't remember the exact year off the top of my head) just get that, hopefully on the cheap. 3)...

Check out the two videos on my post back on page 41. Especially the second one (I'm quoting my original post below which also involved a little bit of detective work). Here is the second video, which is included in the Extras disc on the 2022 release: It's only 15 minutes but it explains the...

That was my interpretation as well. And let's remember AZ needs to maintain a good working relationship with Paramount (and vice versa). No one is going to throw anyone else under the bus, at least publicly. To me the way they spoke at great length about the other steps, and basically breezed by...

27m 20s mark is where they acknowledge it is different. It's actually a bit telling how they just gloss over it quickly compared to how much time they spend talking about all the other parts of the restoration. The whole thing is worth listening to. They talk about grain management which is also...

I have to admit judging by Robert’s response I was tempted to peek and see the comment…but then I’d just be inspired to further action, and it’s best just to let that lie…:laugh:

I think a healthy discussion that doesn't devolve into name-calling, straw man argumentation, or personal insults is not only warranted, but actually the core mission of forums like HTF. As much as I grew frustrated of certain arguments which I felt were missing the point, I find it even more...

And to bolster the point that the end result may not have been what the intent was at the beginning, here are screencaps with subtitles literally taken from the extras disc on the 50th Anniversary 4K set. Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words... That last quote. Yikes.

I'm going to re-watch the extras tonight. Because here's something that I think is getting lost. Have we ever heard/read FFC, speaking of the final product, say "this is exactly what I wanted" (or words to that effect, applied to the finished product)? The few times I've seen/read his comments...

Holy crap that last volley made me engage that function. Suddenly this thread got a lot more sane. :lol:

@mdhaus, I'll offer this piece of advice for you to take or ignore. You have more than adequately stated your point. Members here have adequately stated their disagreement (in some cases very strongly) with your opinion. At this point it may be best to remember the First Law of Holes...

Or...he's the colorist! :lol:

I'll say you've put a ton of words and meaning in Coppola's mouth, mdhaus. I've only only seen scant footage of him talking in generalities about the project, and none of those are timestamped to show they were made after the final product was released, so he may have even been talking about...

I am only asking this because you are new to HTF, and thus I don't know if you're aware who Robert A. Harris is, and of his work as one of the (if not the) pre-eminent film restorers of our time. RAH is the primary responsible party for the 2007 restoration in which he worked closely with both...

This so touches a nerve for me. In my head I have a few "fantasy changes" that would have made the Trilogy nearly perfect. Sacrilege as it sounds, one of those changes would be to the Godfather Part II, which I view as a near perfect film. My one change? Well the popular rumor/story is that...

As can often happen with these long threads, things can become convoluted. I do not know, nor am I arguing, if a colorist went rogue, if the team at Paramount or Zoetrope broke with FFC's wishes, or any other iteration of how what was released came to be. Whoever was at fault, it did happen...

See...I just don't know about that. Everything we've found that they did (color change, grain management) we've found out after the fact. They didn't advertise it as "The Godfather As You've Never Seen It, with new Modern Color and Super Smoothed Picture." It was simply marketed as "Remastered...

I'd go perhaps even a step further and say not only are they not representative, but are actually different from the intended look of at least the DP, and likely FFC himself as they both signed off on the 2007 efforts and apparently the note from FFC to the '22 crew with regards to the first two...

I was a little surprised how forthright the two in that video were. Talking about how one of them viewed their job as, and I'm paraphrasing here, not making the film look like an old film to a new audience. And also how it was FFC's right to change and update a story and how his movies are not...

Well I'm apparently going to be one of the "unicorns". I was initially very happy with the 22 version, and have now been to the RAH school of how the new version diverges from the original, approved by both Coppola and Willis, transfer. I don't view this anywhere near the transgression of...