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Yes it really looks terrible. Two different generations of Fox fucking up color on a film baked into one transfer!

domino harvey wrote: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:00 pm This has to be the darkest TT Fox transfer yet-- Jesus!

Ahh, I meant to post this. I have the old German Blu-ray and thought Tooze was overselling this new one. It is extremely dark and quite red.

Drucker wrote: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:11 pm Yes it really looks terrible. Two different generations of Fox fucking up color on a film baked into one transfer!

holy hell, that's a disaster.

domino harvey wrote:This has to be the darkest TT Fox transfer yet-- Jesus!

They really abused the contrast setting to a rather insane degree.

DVDBeaver wrote:It is significantly darker and shows more information in the frame - this is a huge improvement.

What?

There are lunatics defending it at the usual forums for such people too. The German Blu-ray ain't great (nor was the Fox DVD), but at least I can see patterns in the clothing in my hi-def image

Fox restorations are all over the place colour wise since they trashed so many of their original elements.

I believe that even with references, the people who thought this look is OK would have ended up doing exactly the same thing.

For what it's worth, RAH thinks this is one of the better Fox restoration efforts of a 3 strip film and specifically says that the Beaver caps are inaccurate, noting that the disc is not as dark as they would suggest.

It might not be as dark, but it won't be vastly different either. From what I gathered so far from Beaver, the caps might be off by maybe 2 or 3 RGB values (say 10 10 10 instead of 12 12 12), which won't make a (literal) night and day difference.
Not that RAH would know anything about this though, as he repeatedly seemed clueless while facing purely digital aspects of a release.

Talk Radio (Oliver Stone, 1988)

Tentative Release Date: February 19, 2019
Preorders Open: February 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track (Score by Steward Copeland)
  Filming Rage: Oliver Stone on Talk Radio
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

The Admirable Crichton (aka Paradise Lagoon) (Lewis Gilbert, 1957)

Tentative Release Date: February 19, 2019
Preorders Open: February 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track (Score by Douglas Gamley and Richard Addinsell)
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

Bedazzled (Stanley Donen, 1967)

Tentative Release Date: February 19, 2019
Preorders Open: February 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Peter Cook & Dudley Moore on The Paul Ryan Show
  A Bedazzled Conversation with Harold Ramis
  Original Theatrical Trailers

Booklet art:

pointless wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:33 pm Bedazzled (Stanley Donen, 1967)

Tentative Release Date: February 19, 2019
Preorders Open: February 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Peter Cook & Dudley Moore on The Paul Ryan Show
  A Bedazzled Conversation with Harold Ramis
  Original Theatrical Trailers

Booklet art:

This one was so easy to not fuck up....and then they fucked up.

I surely can't be the only one who thought that the popsicle was something else at first?

Boosmahn wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:00 pm I surely can't be the only one who thought that the popsicle was something else at first?

Oh, thank Christ it wasn't just me.

Why not both? (NSFW)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)

Tentative Release Date: February 19, 2019
Preorders Open: February 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track (Score by Cyril J. Mockridge)
  Audio Commentary with Film Historian Dana Polan
  Fox Movietone Newsreels
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

Is this a horror film?

April's releases (via the HTF):
MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980)
THE PAPER CHASE (1973) [Brand-New 4K Restoration]
THE SNAKE PIT (1948) [2017 4K Restoration]
STAGECOACH (1966)

AKA a preview of Indicator's 2019 lineup

Maybe Indicator has the UK rights to Rock Hunter as well, since its out of print from MoC.

Both the above posts are somewhat at variance with reality.