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That “ridiculously bad color correction” is actually… the original theatrical film! I’m not kidding. To quote AVForum: Now The Matrix has been an odd fish in

That “ridiculously bad color correction” is actually… the original theatrical film! I’m not kidding. To quote AVForum: Now The Matrix has been an odd fish in terms of releases on home formats, with a reasonably natural tone to its original almost flagship DVD release back in 1999 (it was one of the first titles that many DVD adopters bought), but - years later - a very different look to its 2004 re-release on DVD. Everything in 'The Matrix' suddenly became really green. This green-tinged 'style' carried on to its Blu-ray release in 2008, where things were dialled back a little, but some sequences were still almost monochromatic in their green bent. It's a stylised look which, for many, doesn't really capture the original vision of The Matrix that was in theatres back in 1999, so it's a massive relief that this new native 4K remaster - culled from the Super 35 negatives with 2K VFX shots and supervised by the original director of photography - has been completely regraded to give an all-new look which suits not only the modern sensibilities of HDR10 and Dolby Vision, but also the original theatrical vision of the piece. https://www.avforums.com/reviews/the-matrix-4k-blu-ray-review.14950/ https://www.avforums.com/reviews/the-matrix-4k-blu-ray-revie...

kranke155 3y ago
That’s interesting. I only watched the first Matrix on DVD I was too young for theatrical. It was an amazing experience to watch it projected in our living room. I can’t say anything about what the theatrical Matrix looked like since I didn’t watch it, but the Color’s are so garish and over the top on the 4k, I really struggle to believe that was 100% the original look. 35mm film just doesn’t look like that in my experience.
kranke155 3y ago
Ah so you’re wrong. I watched the first release of the Matriz, which was correct. It was the second release which was green. This was after the sequels. So it depends which release you watched. So since I watched the first DVD release I’m assuming that was close to the theatrical. And it Didn’t look at all like the 4k “remaster”.

kranke155 3y ago

That’s interesting. I only watched the first Matrix on DVD I was too young for theatrical. It was an amazing experience to watch it projected in our living room. I can’t say anything about what the theatrical Matrix looked like since I didn’t watch it, but the Color’s are so garish and over the top on the 4k, I really struggle to believe that was 100% the original look. 35mm film just doesn’t look like that in my experience.

kranke155 3y ago

Ah so you’re wrong. I watched the first release of the Matriz, which was correct. It was the second release which was green. This was after the sequels. So it depends which release you watched. So since I watched the first DVD release I’m assuming that was close to the theatrical. And it Didn’t look at all like the 4k “remaster”.