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Am I the only one in the 'Verse that is bugged by the green tint in

POSTED BY: chrisisall
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CHRISISALL

Friday, February 19, 2010 1:05 AM

"The Matrix?"
It worked okay in the theatre, but on my TV it just looks like everyone's going Bruce Banner.
Can we get an obnoxious tint-free version, like on the menu?

The visually irritated Chrisisall

SIGMANUNKI

Friday, February 19, 2010 10:05 AM

If it's really annoying you that much, here's a solution:

1) Rip the DVD
2) Run the files through a filter to negate the green-ness
3) a) Burn the "fixed" copy to DVD and enjoy
b) Watch it on your computer

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FREMDFIRMA

Friday, February 19, 2010 12:36 PM

Funny you should mention that.

Was discussing the horrors of User-Prohibit-Flag.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UserOperationProhibitFlag
With a couple DefCon Geeks a couple days ago.

And one of em landed THIS in my mailbox this morning.

I wish I knew who to credit for it, cause that's pure genius.

-F

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, February 19, 2010 2:15 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

That is hysterical! I make a lot of my own DVD's, burning them directly from Dish Network cable to my DVD recorder. They're great, and I never have to go thru those menus and warnings and hype. I just I go immediately right to the movie when I want to watch.

ZEEK

Friday, February 19, 2010 2:43 PM

Can't you just hit the "menu" or "root" button on your remote and skip all that junk? Over the past holidays my step dad was complaining about just this type of thing and when I said to just skip it with the menu or root button he refused to try it. He just kept showing how the skip forward button did nothing and that all he could do was fast forward. Uh...ok if you refuse to learn so be it.

I watch all my DVDs on my mythtv computer and the root menu select skips past the previews just fine.

Oh and voting with your wallet is fine. As long as they mean just don't buy the DVD. If they mean don't buy the DVD and then go out and pirate it, then it's not cool. You can't just take the product you want cause you don't like the packaging.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, February 19, 2010 2:53 PM

Originally posted by chrisisall:

Quote:
"The Matrix?"
It worked okay in the theatre, but on my TV it just looks like everyone's going Bruce Banner.
Can we get an obnoxious tint-free version, like on the menu

Yes I'm with you on this one Chris - They just didn't know when to leave the levels alone. Stylization gone a tad too far.

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, February 19, 2010 3:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
"The Matrix?"
It worked okay in the theatre, but on my TV it just looks like everyone's going Bruce Banner.
Can we get an obnoxious tint-free version, like on the menu?

The visually irritated Chrisisall

I'm sorry to say Chris that I had the same reaction to the BLUES in Serenity.

There must be a color knob that post production people feel they have to fiddle with.

I agree with TS - style overload.

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

KWICKO

Friday, February 19, 2010 3:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
That is hysterical! I make a lot of my own DVD's, burning them directly from Dish Network cable to my DVD recorder. They're great, and I never have to go thru those menus and warnings and hype. I just I go immediately right to the movie when I want to watch.

Yup, I do the same. I invested in a DVD recorder with a 160Gb hard drive, so I can save them up, edit out commercials, put 4 episodes on a disk, etc.

The downside is that it only burns at 480p resolution, so it's gotten to be a serious downgrade from just watching hi-def shows off the DVR.

I'm holding out for a Blu-Ray burner with hard drive, or thinking of just putting together a Mac-based mediacenter...

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

KWICKO

Friday, February 19, 2010 4:17 PM

And back to the issue at hand, I'm not bugged by the greenish tint of The Matrix. At least, of all the things that bug me about that movie, that's the LEAST of my problems with it. The sequels are probably my BIGGEST gripe.

I just see the greenish tint as part of the filmmaker's overall vision for the look of the film, much as I do the overall BLUE tint in Mel Gibson's "Payback". It doesn't detract from the movie; it helps set the mood.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

TWO

Friday, February 19, 2010 4:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
And back to the issue at hand, I'm not bugged by the greenish tint of The Matrix. At least, of all the things that bug me about that movie, that's the LEAST of my problems with it. The sequels are probably my BIGGEST gripe.

I just see the greenish tint as part of the filmmaker's overall vision for the look of the film, much as I do the overall BLUE tint in Mel Gibson's "Payback". It doesn't detract from the movie; it helps set the mood.

Matrix had not one but two colors so you could subconsciously know reality from simulation. "... the film's production design placed a bias towards its distinctive green color for scenes set within the Matrix, whereas there is an emphasis on the color blue during the scenes set in the real world." - http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_Matrix

There is David Chalmers’ paper “The Matrix as Metaphysics”. http://consc.net/papers/matrix.html The key takeaway point is that various hypotheses (maybe the world is a holograph, maybe the world is a computer-simulation, maybe the world is someone’s hallucination) are often presented as skeptical hypotheses when we should probably think of them as metaphysical instead. In other words, instead of saying “everything we thought we knew about the world is wrong and it’s all fake!” we could just say “aha, this is an interesting new fact.” After all, at one point it was determined that what we thought we knew about solid objects was all wrong. Solid objects, it turned out, aren’t actually solid at all—they’re made up of atoms, and the atoms are composed of protons and neutrons and electrons and are actually mostly empty space.

But people didn’t run around freaking out at the discovery that the world is fake and actually it’s all just a bunch of empty space. Instead, we learned that molecules are made of atoms and atoms are made of protons and neutrons and electrons. Further discoveries about the nature of sub-atomic particles are, similarly, interesting and important scientific discoveries but they’re not taken to somehow debunk our previous knowledge of the existence of macroscopic objects. Similarly, if subatomic particles are “really” a reflection from a different 2D surface I think the important thing is to take the revelation in stride, as we have a whole series of scientific revelations about the nature of matter. - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/02/is-the-universe-a-h
ologram-should-we-care.php

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two