All screen captures used here are from caps-a-holic.com/. List of featured discs: 2002 Medusa Italian DVD 2010 Warner Bros. US Blu-ray 2011 Entertainment in Video UK Blu-ray 2020 Warner Bros. UK 4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray
They shifted all of the blues and flesh tones to greens and yellows. It's...not good. Yes, it's way more clear. Undoubtedly. But I'm gonna be manually adjusting the color whenever I get it.
Yes, but it's one of those times that this filter makes you feel that you watch something cinematic unline the 2020 version which uses nice and true colours.
The 2011 "Matrix" green wash looks like it was intended to fix the Rivendell scenes, and only the Rivendell scenes...but then the guy's finger slipped and he accidentally applied the green tint to the entire film.
For me this is THE shot where the ring is fucking gorgeous like never before ^^ i often happen to stop the movie a few seconds when this scene arrives xD
Actually liked the 2002 DVD the most. The colours were gorgeous, yet unfortunately these have been lost in the later releases, traded for the infamous 'grittiness' of realism.
@gab hug they probably used the original negative, which was not the final graded film print. There's a feature called "digital grading" on fellowship extended disc 4. Personally I always hated the weird color tinting on the dvds and have always wanted to see it with normal colors.
I really dig the orange hue of the council of Elrond-scene on the DVD. It gave such a fantasy-layer over it, and reminded me of the yellow and orange colors of the scene when Frodo is on the brink of the death and sees the face of Elrond after Arwen tries to save him. I'm sad that every release post-DVD has removed the orange hue.
Just get some cheap glasses. Marker the outside orange... and bam! You have both hdr and an orange picture. Pretty easy fix. Probably $10 in total material cost.
They make the blue tint color grading to make the film have more cinematic feeling and makes it look great. I don’t see any problem with these blue tints
@@samotr7713 how does blue make an already cinematic movie look more cinematic? You clearly don't know film, bruv. If anything, making every damn frame blue when it shouldn't be is amateur, not cinematic
@@achilleuspetreas3828 because the blue tint makes the film look like a scifi 2007 movie, that’s what everyone uses in films nowadays. You can check out Blade Runner (1982). The movie was remastered with blue tint and it looks like a 2013 movie because of that
Yeah, although the color work looks phenomenal either way. Modern day movies look so bland, because they always use aces color encoding system, which is made to emulate film. Although nothing looks better than the real thing.
Hey instead of merry and pippin singing at the prancing pony, can we get a foul creature to sing an up tempo song with trumpets? Also maybe a disturbing rat creature to jump in for a gibberish solo
Seriously, why did they get rid of it? I now have officially decided I’m not buying that 4K set. My best friend has been talking about almost nothing else since he got it on how good it is, but I feel turned off after this comparison.
@@thomaspappalardo7589 the best option is definitely the original cut Blu Ray. Its basically the DVD version just sharper, with no colour changes or tints or anything like that
If it wasn't for the resolution the DVD looks the best. Has this warm colors and atmospheric look. It was my first DVD and it had cost something like 40 euro back in 2002. I remember thinking that looked so freaking sharp compared to VHS
I think i have pretty original times DVDs of the movies somewhere buried in the attic but like i feel like i'd ruin it for myself if i watched it on our massive telly in the livingroom so at max i'll enjoy it on my old chonky samsung screen in my room(it has basically nothing but a DvD player rigged up to it) bc on that you can see less of the resolution issues bc that thing ain't massive and built for high def stuff and can appreciate the colours but i do want that newest one that looks lovely compared to whatever happened in 2011
Trust me DVDs look much better on a CRT. Been watching Doctor Who recently and you can see the small details in people's skin, its genuinely great on that type of TV
The original still looks far better because of the much warmer colours which suit the feel and atmosphere of Middle Earth. God knows what the hell they were thinking draining all the colour away. Thankfully I've still got the originals.
Personally I prefer the warmth given in shots like the fields and Rivendel from the original. They've made them more neutral which kind of saps some of the magical quality of the world. But overall it's great so it's a compromise I'll live with
they really messed up the overall image by using DNR to remove grain, some scenes look like oil paintings or faces look like directly grabbed from Madame tussauds thats even worse than a barely noticeable green tint
The colour grading is so different on the Blu Ray Extended Editions. I'd never noticed before. 4k looks so clean, and the colour grading is the best of the bunch in my opinion
Yeah really I’ve been wanting to upgrade the Extended DVDs I have, but the fact Fellowship looks terrible made me hold back. Gonna hang onto the DVDs for awhile; maybe upgrade to 4K when I have the means to actually play them.
To the ppl complaining saying its not that much of an improvement... keep in mind that this is a very new 4K remaster. Do not expect to be blown away by this if you have a cheap TV or are still using a non HDR 4K tv from 5 years ago. Also, if you’re listening to it with the built in tv speakers you are missing out on half the remaster.
WOW. I never realized how god awful my extended blu rays looked until now. They just slapped a blue or green filter on everything. The theatrical Blu Ray release looked perfect. Why change the color?
Just watched the trilogy in 4K and it is ASTONISHING. The colors are way better than the previous Blu Rays despite many people hating on them in the comments. You will barely realize the DNR in most scenes until you start pixel peeping. The edge enhancements are sometimes too much in Return of the King but otherwise it’s a brand new experience. There’s no reason not to buy the 4K Blu Rays if you have the money.
I cant believe how much the messed up the 2011 version. Who on earth believed that amount of "blue" would improve the movie? The snow scenes are night and day between the 2011 and 2020 version.
It's like Photoshop for beginners: 2002: perfect shot (my up-do-date-4-Megapixels cam is amazing) 2010: wow, there's a sharpening tool, let's try it 2011: oh, look, I've found the tool for colour adjustments 2020: nah, let's undo all of it - OH NO - I've overwritten all the original files with the colour-adjusted one's 🤦
As someone who owns the extended Blu-rays, I can tell you that without any side by side comparisons, you will not think it looks that green. Your eyes will just love every frame.
I very, very strongly disagree. It was downright unwatchable for me right from the start. I had no prior knowledge about the different color grading, so no bias. Perhaps it is less pronounced on LCDs or neutral color temp settings? Tried this on an LC C8 OLED with ISF Expert (Dark Room) calibration + warm2 color temp.
I disagree I watched the extended blu rays at a friend's house looked awful even he agreed. I brought my three disc theatrical blu ray and the difference was unbelievable. Even he admitted he fucked up. Go DVD for the extended versions. Fuck the blu ray.
I appreciate the quality of the new version, but I wish they had kept some of the more creative color grading choices from earlier versions. Subconsciously, they’re part of the story too and made Middle Earth seem a lot more fantastical
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The 4k one seems to be going for a more realistic pallete, which could be bad for some and good for others. Depends entirely on the individual opinion. Also, the 2011 BluRay looks like it was meant for only the Rivendell scenes but they ended up applying it to the whole film, which was ruined by the greenish tint.
Just finished watching the 4K version and wasn’t sure on how I felt before hand with getting rid of some of the classic colouring but after seeing it on a proper 4K TV it is amazing, the styling is definitely realistic and the frame rate of it or whatever they did really makes you feel like you’re there. The golds and silver, whites and blacks and lighting are striking and gives a lot of depth to scenes where it’s been flat in the past. Some scenes I couldn’t believe it because it felt like I was there as the camera man that’s how good lighting and accurate colours were lol. Can’t recommend enough as long as u have a proper 4K TV handy, don’t know how it looks on the fake branded 4K TVs that are actually 2k.
CRTs and our eyes working magic, simple as that, noticing all the imperfections on a high resolution sample & hold LCDs is so much easier so it basically ends up looking worse than what we saw back then.
Didn’t realize how it was so overly color-graded on the extended Blu-ray until seeing the crisp, natural colors of the new 4K version! Can’t wait to own this!
I find it interesting that the 2011 version has such a noticeable turquoise tint to a lot of its scenes. The Lord of the Rings movies, specifically Fellowship, have a very soft and almost atmospheric color palette, so the tint contracts with a lot the scenes in a weird way, and makes everything seem very dark. I’m glad the 4K version removed most of the tint and made things lighter, however, in the process of making everything so sharp, the movies still lose that softness of the earlier editions. Overall, I’m still fine with the prior editions I have, though I understand why some people might like these new ones.
The theatrical blu ray was lightly tinted blue the extended edition was horribly tinted green the 4k looks like when it was shown in theaters but with more resolution. So i guess if you like things lightly tinted blue for no reason its a better grading. Also i should add that if you're basing it off of this video, don't because HDR on is how the 4k is meant to be viewed and this is not that.
I prefer to watch color restoration by 44rh1n. originaltrilogy.com/topic/44rh1ns-The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Extended-Edition-Color-Restoration/id/61952
In every example, the coloring from the 2002 DVD release is exactly how I think of these scenes. I don’t mind the new release, but I prefer the one I’ve watched dozens of times.
For the love of god, *leave the warm golds and vibrant colors alone.* This is an epic fantasy movie, NOT a documentary. That being said, 2010 blu-ray is the best.
The 4K is vibrant enough, lol. Just look at all the Rohan scenes in the Two Towers. It being fantasy movie doesn't mean that the weird tints present on the 1080p Blu-Rays are good
@@adriannn3720 "Good enough" shouldn't be adequete for LotR, because this is LotR we're talking about, A grade material and not just "passable." The older versions had more vibrancy and therefore should be the standard for re-releases. "Weird tints" applied to the 2011 extended blu ray, not the 2010 theatrical. That one did what it was supposed to: Update the film's picture quality while not messing with any green filters, de-saturating or over-saturating the colours, etc.
WOW can't believe how disgusting the extended bluray cut was, and its the version i 've been watching for the last 9 years....can't wait to watch the 4K version during the holidays, this will be a treat !
@@Nobddy me either, i had heard about it though, but seeing it in this comparison makes you realize how much studios sometimes have poor quality control over their own IP'S. Glad they fixed it in this release. Sad that we have to pay all over again to get a good quality transfer.
The 2020 version looks more natural but I have the DVD Version and I gotta say I really like the heavy colour correction, it gives everything an atmosphere that I really like.
IMPORTANT INFO: In this video the colours of the dvd and original blu ray will look better because they are colour graded for standard televisions. 4k is colour graded for HDR 4k tvs meaning the colour will look significantly better on a 4k tv. I hope that explains why the 4k version has washed out colours in this youtube video. Unfortunately i do not have an explanation for the 2011 blu ray version. They must have been working on uncalibrated monitors.
Many are really sad its gone too. I wonder if people realize they have color settings on their TV that they can use to turn everything green if they want.
In the Appendices of Fellowship of the Ring, PJ stated that they wanted for the films to have a warmer tone to them to seem storybooklike. As many have mentioned, I actually prefer the coloring from the originals and the 2010 Blue-Ray because of that warmer tone.
He was probably viewing it on an inaccurate computer monitor that had very low blue light and too much red light so he ended up over correcting for blue and green. If you change the settings on your screen right now you can make it look like the 2011 one is normal while the others have a disgusting red tint.
