ALIENS - PREGRADE

[Beber]

I can't say it doesn't look nice that way. I'm not sure a pregrade would look like that in the lab, though. All previous transfers and the 35mm scan floating around show a lab bathed in a rather pinkish light. My guess is it was a choice during filming to give the lab its own visual identity as we will go back to it, so that the audience instantly knows where we are in this otherwise very similar looking maze from room to room. See how it makes things pop with this contrast of having two rooms with different lighting, one in the foreground, one in the background. With the Blu-ray, Cameron neutered that contrast, giving it a duller and flatter look in every room:

[I don't know]

I can't say it doesn't look nice that way. I'm not sure a pregrade would look like that in the lab, though. All previous transfers and the 35mm scan floating around show a lab bathed in a rather pinkish light. My guess is it was a choice during filming to give the lab its own visual identity as we will go back to it, so that the audience instantly knows where we are in this otherwise very similar looking maze from room to room. See how it makes things pop with this contrast of having two rooms with different lighting, one in the foreground, one in the background. With the Blu-ray, Cameron neutered that contrast, giving it a duller and flatter look in every room:

Yeah I'm really noticing that as I go through it all. It's a really colourful movie!

[I don't know]

OK I had a go at getting this sequence to match the pics I found on the web.

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Here's my version. Needs tweaking but I think it's making progress:



It looks waaaaaay over saturated here. YT!