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Another user on Bluraydotcom just posted this image of the same scene...
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My thoughts exactly.Originally Posted by eric scott richard
I think I'll wait for a boxed set with both versions and maybe the Hobbit. I know, it will probably be a few years but I have the blus of the TE and the dvds of the EE to tide me over. Spectacular movies that I am proud to have seen during their original runs. Sure to become film classics.
Originally Posted by Mark Booth
Here's something that will play with your mind....
Click the following link to watch the short youtube video. This video is a segment taken directly from the extended edition Blu-ray discs. Watch carefully to see if you feel the image is too cyan or too green. Pay particular attention during the closeup of Gandalf when he says "And what about very old friends". Is the sky behind Gandalf an appropriate shade of Blue?
When I watched that video (by itself), although it looks too dark, I felt the color appeared to be just fine. Maybe just a tiny little bit on the teal side, but not as bad as the screen caps made it out.
THEN I went back to the earlier split-screen video of the same scene (the one with the EE Blu-ray on the left and the TE Blu-ray on the right):
Guess what?.... The first video, which moments before looked pretty much fine to my eye, suddenly seemed way too teal!!
Seriously, compare the two. Pause the videos in the same spots (particularly that scene with the sky behind Gandalf) and compare. The one taken from the actual discs looks pretty much the same as the left side of the split-screen video. Too teal!
Bottom line, I couldn't trust what my eyes were telling me when I watched the first video by itself. I thought it looked fine. Now I think it looks too teal.
I beginning to think I'll just save the money and stick with the theatrical edition Blu-rays. I'm sorry, but this new color timing just seems wrong.
Mark
While I'm inclined to agree with those who say that something funny is going on with the color on the new Extended Edition Blu-ray, I have to agree with Robert on this point. The theatrical Blu-rays had plenty of picture quality issues, too--edge enhancement, DNR, and the like. What's special about the coloring problem? Why is it so egregious that it's worth passing on a product you'd otherwise enjoy, when you ostensibly have plenty of other Blu-rays in your collection that are imperfect in some way?Originally Posted by Mark Booth
I beginning to think I'll just save the money and stick with the theatrical edition Blu-rays. I'm sorry, but this new color timing just seems wrong.
Originally Posted by cafink
While I'm inclined to agree with those who say that something funny is going on with the color on the new Extended Edition Blu-ray, I have to agree with Robert on this point. The theatrical Blu-rays had plenty of picture quality issues, too--edge enhancement, DNR, and the like. What's special about the coloring problem? Why is it so egregious that it's worth passing on a product you'd otherwise enjoy, when you ostensibly have plenty of other Blu-rays in your collection that are imperfect in some way?
Because they are great movies, modern classics that won 17 academy awards between them and garnered almost universal critical acclaim?Originally Posted by Luisito34
Now I've got an expensive collection of theatrical version Blu-rays from last year that I have no idea what to do with. Does anyone have a strong, convincing reason I should keep these versions?
No, no, I mean do I need BOTH the theatrical AND Extended versions? I'm trying to decide what to do with the Theatrical versions - I don't envision needing them since I prefer the long versions. Is there anything in the Theatrical versions that isn't ported over?Originally Posted by cafink
Because they are great movies, modern classics that won 17 academy awards between them and garnered almost universal critical acclaim?
Funny, I'm kind of the opposite. I really missed the entirety of "The Gifts of Galadriel" in the theatrical versions and felt that it could not be cut. The only EE I HAVE to have is FOTR. But once I get the EE set I'm sure that's all I'll watch. They actually all have better pacing in the theatrical versions, IMO; but there is too much cool stuff in the EEs.TheBat said:while I prefer the ee on two towers and return of the king. I feel that the theatre version of fellowship of the ring is a much better version. I agree with others that the theatre version (fotr) had better pacing.
One guess is that Jackson is retrospectively getting the films to match the look of the forthcoming Hobbit films. If so, I find that just too Lucas for words.I keep scratching my head asking why Peter Jackson would take a scene that has had (basically) white snow for 10 years, and then suddenly shift it toward teal (blue/green/cyan/whatever).
Mark