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Alien vs. Predator Requiem DVD color grading... on purpose or defect?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantGrendell
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If anyone owns and watched the Alien vs. Predator Requiem Unrated DVD (standard def), you'll know how DARK this movie is. You can hardly see a thing.

When looking at the original trailer that was posted to IGN before the movie came out, it looked like this:




This is the exact same scene as captured from the Unrated edition standard def DVD:




This clearly looks like a product defect to me.

Does anyone know anything more about this? Is the studio planning on replacing these discs? I can't see how they actually intended it to look this way.
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This was discussed on the forums before and I believe it was said to have been done on purpose...something about trying to hide the poor alien costuming. Or something to that effect.
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The Blu-Ray disc is also very dark. Even the scenes in daylight seem too dark.
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If you watch the featurettes, they will tell you it was done on purpose.  It sounded like a good idea, but I think they took it way to far.

The reason they don't do it for the trailers should be obvious...if you saw the second image in a trailer, would you go see that movie?
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