LOTR - Green Cast Comparison (Extended Left vs Theatrical Right)

A small segment from the Lord Of The Rings (Fellowship Of The Ring) showing the green cast evident on the Extended versions of the Bluray.

The green cast was first noted by "kingkong650" at avsforums, where you can see plenty of comparison shots showing the difference http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1307189&page=25

Although in some screens it looks very bad, its not as noticeable as i thought it would be when viewing the movie normally.

The join in the middle is not 100% correct due to the framing differences between the 2 versions, this also does not represent the bluray in terms of clarity due to an encode for the split screen and a 2nd encode via youtube. Although the Extended's quality is superior to the theatrical.

Other movies that got the "Green/Aqua" treatment are shown here courtesy of eric.exe http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=20559826&postcount=999

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bluray
• Lord of the rings
• fellowship of the ring
• green
• greencast
• comparison

[AlecTheConfused]

is this the extended on the left and the theatrical blu ray on the right ? or is it the dvd version on the right ?

[toytown69]

@AlecTheConfused They are from the blurays, both sides

[Digbotron]

I forgot about Gandalf the Green

[pachinko1972]

Dam you George Lucas dam you....

[00daveyr]

I would have thought the extended edition would look better than the theatrical??

[Hessianoct]

Like is going to ruin the film or anything... stupid people.

[fuckingjudge]

1:03 KISS KISS KISS!

[5tateOfEmergency]

what the?... i dont have this problem, maybe my awesome tv and blu ray player helps i dont know. play with the settings, not just tv. blu ray players have their own settings as well

[Rajonty]

@synapticflow its for both versions of the blu-ray

[GregMonster17]

glad I saw this, guess I will wait for the extended extended release lol which is bound to happen after the release of the hobbit

[BoondMarh91]

@synapticflow what I did was buy the theatrical versions for less than $5 each this black friday. And I'll buy the extended editions later when Jackson fixes these types of errors and presses them on one disc and not two. If tons of directors and companies like Criterion and others can press 4 hours worth of film on one disc while maintaining quality, I don't see who LOTR can't be done. Warner Bros. and New Line just like to half-ass releases though.

[synapticflow]

I guess it's the theatrical Blu Ray for me and extended for the others.

[synapticflow]

Gosh. What the heck? Why can't people just stop screwing with finished movies and let us happily buy them they way we remember first seeing them. Has Peter Jackson been sucking George Lucas toes or something?

[BoondMarh91]

@ZidaneSteiner The right side is not magenta, it is accurate color grading and matches the natural look of the rest of the films, only the fellowship of the ring has this green grading applied to it, and I suspect it was to match the upcoming Hobbit film.

However, even the opening Title logo and credits are green as well. The fact that the snow during the scenes at Caradhras is now green and not white/blue is ridiculous. This resembles the green tint of the Matrix.