This whole thing just doesn't sit right with me, and it's difficult to just simply accept it and move on.
I have been wanting this on Blu Ray for a long time, and was excited that it was finally being released. I read some of the reactions on here about the "blue tint" and "darkening", so I expected the absolute worst. When I popped it in, and it started up, I couldn't understand what all of the fuss was about, it looked incredible. (The cemetery scene). But then, when Barbara approaches the farm, things changed, and my reaction was "Oh...." in a shocked and appalled manner.
It doesn't look as bad as people are making it out to seem, but I just can't accept it for the reasons that I have previously stated (distinct shadows despite it being "dusk", sunlight shining through the kitchen window and beaming off of Ben, birds chirping loudly, Ben pulling up to the house in the truck with no lights on even though it is now "dusk", and the montage of the dissolve into night after those outdoor scenes that were darkened). Why mess with it in the first place? The whole point of Blu Ray is to enjoy all of the extra details, but it's hard to do that when they have been darkened and obscured.
What gets me more than anything is the way that people are defending this. Some say that the transition into night suits the movie (again, there is a montage of the sun going down and the moon rising after the manual darkening of the scenes). Even more baffling are those saying that nobody's memory of the theatrical version is accurate after all of these years, and that VHS and DVD aren't valid formats to gauge and were probably wrong to begin with, almost implying that maybe it looked this way in the theater, even though it has openly been stated that the film was altered. All it takes is common sense to realize this, with the way that the image gradually becomes darker.
But then again, I'm glad that they appreciate the movie being altered, and I hope for their sake that when Twilight Time releases Christine, that the Plymouth Fury is now Purple rather than Red, and I'm sure they will eat it up and defend it.
I know they are offering a full refund, but that is not the point. I want this thing restored to the way that it is supposed to look so that I can enjoy it, but that isn't happening apparently.
It is amusing to me that when people are complimenting Twilight Time for the transfer, the response is "Thank You.....", but when people criticize it, it's "Well, Sony did the transfer..."
Edit: By simply turning Theater Mode On, I have removed the blue tint and it is at least watchable. The movie is still too dark, and the colors are muted which is a shame.
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