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[PDB]

Another project I was thinking about was a "35mm-ized" version of Collateral.

A while back, I was comparing the DVD/BD transfer of the Collateral to the UHD transfer. The DVD/BD transfer is slightly more colorful even when you account for the HDR of the UHD. Not enough for a project but still interesting. Later, I saw the trailer scan 35mm Movie Trailers Scans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1101sbStg

and fell in love with the more saturated blues and reds.

UHD/35mm Trailer


Obviously, the trailer scan could have the incorrect colors or the trailer was given a special color grade that didn't end up on the DCP/DVD/etc but I kind of want to regrade and grain-ize the UHD to match the same colors of that trailer scan. Even if inaccurate I think it would look cool.

What do people think?

[Beber]

Making it look like a film can only make it a better watch, although the ending will still be bad.

[Virtualcrane]

Another project I was thinking about was a "35mm-ized" version of Collateral.

A while back, I was comparing the DVD/BD transfer of the Collateral to the UHD transfer. The DVD/BD transfer is slightly more colorful even when you account for the HDR of the UHD. Not enough for a project but still interesting. Later, I saw the trailer scan 35mm Movie Trailers Scans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1101sbStg and fell in love with the more saturated blues and reds.

Obviously, the trailer scan could have the incorrect colors or the trailer was given a special color grade that didn't end up on the DCP/DVD/etc but I kind of want to regrade and grain-ize the UHD to match the same colors of that trailer scan. Even if inaccurate I think it would look cool.

What do people think?

I love this idea. Even this one comparison shows how great this would be. A little interesting side note but apparently there was some controversy over the film prints for Collateral as Mann was not happy by the way they looked (whether they actually looked bad or it was just Mann trying to further his pro-digital crusade I’m not sure although considering how nice the trailer looks I’m leaning toward the latter)

[Virtualcrane]

Making it look like a film can only make it a better watch, although the ending will still be bad.

An interesting take. I'm curious what you didn't like about the ending. I found it satisfying enough.

[Beber]

Well, the fact that Jada just happens to be the last on the kill list is an afternoon TV movie shtick, so poor writing, and it doesn’t help that the random taxi driver, who probably never held a gun in his entire life, manages to kill the professional hitman in the dark. And having Cruise dying indifferently in the subway the same way he described it earlier, like a poetic bookend, is not enough to counterbalance the poor writing in the 3rd act.