Hello? They're the filmmakers! It's their film, not yours. I don't think Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise need permission from you to edit their film.
Well, imagine if whatever art gallery that has the original Mona Lisa decided one day that there were some mistakes in it... so they decided to just make a few changes here and there.
Same concept here.
Of course it has mistakes, nothing's perfect! But what they're selling on DVD isn't even the original version of the film!
Pfft. No one in this thread has demonstrated a single shred of proof that the direct to digital CAPS files are not the intended look of the film by the people who made the movie. Until you do so, I suggest you table such presuppositions about my "vision".
They aren't the digital CAPS files. They mention the movie being "restored" more than once in the booklet that comes with it, so it's very obvious they took the original files and changed them.
Plus I seem to recall seeing some documentaries for the IMAX version where the filmmakers plainly stated that they've modified it "to look better in large format" or whatever... well whose TV is the size of an IMAX? It may have looked amazing and realistic on such a large screen but as others are stating, it looks 2D and lifeless on a normal sized TV.
Imagine Whitney Houston re-recording all her hits with her recent voice and all the original versions are banned from all the stores and will never be available anymore. She might like the new versions herself, and some people might like it too, but if they will be big hits is a totally different thing.
There are artists who have done this. One that comes to mind is Culture Beat - I was looking for a legal music download of their single Mr. Vain (hey, I actually gave buying music a chance and it disgraced me!!) and all that was available on iTunes was a "Re-loaded" version. Where it's the original artist singing the song quite some years later. And last time I checked the majority of feedback was negative, asking for the original. (And I'm sure the people who left positive feedback didn't hear the original or aren't aware the one they bought wasn't it)
I'd just like to point out, changes in colour are common place on various media formats - it is impossible to determine which is correct and which is wrong for the majority. Even Disney films, when they were rolled out every 7 years or so. For all we know, each re-release could be on totally different film stock, from totally different chemicals with totally different properties.
What you're saying is correct - however, Beauty and the Beast (along with all the other ones made using CAPS) have digital masters. Last time I checked, digital colors never fade or lose quality over the years.
And look at the DVD of Mulan. The newer 2-disc release is a direct encode from CAPS, and I haven't heard any complaints about the coloring of it. Though oddly enough, whoever did the UD review was saying it wasn't as amazing as the digitally restored ones... you obviously can't digitally restore a digital film, there's no point!
Exactly. I'm sick of people blowing this DVD out of proportion to make it sound like it's worse than the Star Wars special editions. Hell, they even give you the option to watch the film with it's original running time, sequence order and not changed backgrounds. In addition to the Work in Progress version. How is that not taking the fans into consideration? It's more than George ever did. They could have just let the IMAX version be the only one included but they didn't. Just because no one complained about the colours until the DVD release, didn't mean they were not the "original" colours on the previous Laserdsic or VHS releases (this is true of all DAC).
That original version is still far from the original. The "stuttering Beast" line is still removed, and I'm sure there are other changes as well. Plus, the "work in progress" version was also cropped from the way it was originally shown... and since they tried to cram 3 versions on the same disc the quality isn't too good for any of them. (And really, that "OTV" is just the IMAX one and the DVD player is told to skip over Human Again. Trust me, I've decompiled the DVD... there's no separate set of files for the OTV version.)