Has AvPR improved wih age?

[HuDaFuK]

Oh, color grading. Wait can't they fix that?

Because it would require money and I honestly doubt many people even care.

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I spoke to Colin Strause about this last year and he claims Fox refused to let them touch the DVD/Blu-Ray at all. They said the west coast prints were fine but the east coast prints were dark. So they wanted to make the movie brighter but found out after they got the Blu-Ray from Fox, that the studio had made the movie a lot darker. They never had any say about it.

Bit of a surprise cos I always thought the darkness was their choice. It's easy to blame the Strauses but they just never stood a chance with this movie.

[426Buddy]

Well when I watched it in theaters it was still too dark to see anything, so the problem existed before the dvd/bluray release. Still blame falls to them unless the Strause bros were not involved with lighting during production and post production.

[Corporal Hicks]

Where are you based 420? East or west coast of the States?

[426Buddy]

I'm in Michigan, east I guess. 

I must have read the quote wrong, I thought they were saying the problem was with the bluray/dvd version and not the the theatrical release.

[whiterabbit]

Yea I was under the presumption that it was done at the camera level at that they couldn't fix it. It was dark as shit in the theater as well.

[Corporal Hicks]

Yea I was under the presumption that it was done at the camera level at that they couldn't fix it. It was dark as shit in the theater as well.

Are you also eastern?

From what I remember the Bro's saying the badly coloured/graded print was the one that got sent to DVD.

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Rabbit would be far west. Unless he's so far west that he's actually east.

[SiL]

It's not even color grading, it's post production contrast/brightness f**kery.

That's, uh, part of colour grading.

The first trailers were fine, but then they fired and replaced their colourist.

[whiterabbit]

No, I'm as far west as one can get from the rest of the world.

But yea... actually went on Christmas day to watch it and it was dark but I don't remember it being as bad as the dvd. However it is was no where as good as the trailers were. I chalked it up the theater just being old.

However I do remember deciding to put it on when some annoying family members came by. My mother asked why I picked it because you couldn't see anything and I said that was the idea. So in at least one way AVPr has served me well.

It's not even color grading, it's post production contrast/brightness f**kery.

That's, uh, part of colour grading.

The first trailers were fine, but then they fired and replaced their colourist.

Stupid question time. Why did they do that? Next immoral question. So does this mean that the movie could be fixed for a bluray edition?

[SiL]

Films are often re-graded for home release (or at least tweaked) as there are different considerations for making the film look right in cinema to at home, but it looks like it wasn't the case here.

[OpenMaw]

That's, uh, part of colour grading.

Really, because I've never f*cked my own work that hardcore in the color grading process.

[SiL]

Cool. You still adjust those things in your colour correction/grading step, though, so even if it was "f**kery", that's where it happened.

[echobbase79]

Yes, it actually has gotten better with age.

[Randomizer]

Care to elaborate?