[Trixter]

> Painting out these movie mistakes as part of a restoration is wrong.

As part of a restoration, yes. As part of a remaster, no.

If the remaster is overseen by the primary creative (such as everything done to the Aliens UHD 4k release, which was overseen and approved by Cameron), then it's official -- and as an audience member, you have to examine how you feel about that. For example, some enthusiasts lament the removal of film grain in Aliens, but Cameron has said in interviews that he hated the grain in Aliens because he was forced to use a particular film stock and didn't like the result. So it was never the director's vision to have excessive grain in that movie, and the audience should accept the 4k UHD release as canonical and authorized.

These debates are colored (no pun intended) by nostalgia, much like the vinyl vs. digital debates.

[the_af]

Movies don't belong exclusively to their authors. They belong to audiences as well, if not more.

If I hate the color grading of a remaster, and this becomes the only version readily available, I don't care whether the original author oversaw the process -- it's a net negative.

And this garbage with color grading happens often :(