To reply to your question concerning posting a pic, do you have Underworld? If so, I'll try to get a screenshot or two tonight for an example. I've never shot screenshots of that movie and I don't know how they'll turn out. Fact is, the things we're looking for are very subtle on the screen, so taking a picture of that, in a dark scene, is challenging to say the least.
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Furthermore, there are movies that may not be good gauge of what a proper calibrated unit because of the way the director intended it to be seen, color may be saturated or done in such a way as to convey a particular tone etc.
Precisely why I would not use content to "Double Check" anything.
There was a scene in one of the LotR movies, (TT I think) that was used in a projector review shootout which I saw some time ago. The premise was to show how different projectors showed details in the dark areas of the screen. It was very interesting to see how some displays simply don't show certain things on the screen.
While I don't use movies to determine anything about my cal, many times it's awakening to see the content with accurate settings vs wrong ones.
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For checking color accuracy, you need to view content that has well balanced overhead lighting, as opposed to the spot lighting that many movies use in many scenes.
And now if you "think" something is wrong, (and have thus proven you can't get the calibration correct because it is), exactly what are you supposed to do to fix it? And please don't say to go arbitrarily change color settings till it's fixed.
Just having the idea that it is wrong, is making an assumption that the calibration process is flawed, and that to fine tune, we would need a wild ass guess to make it better.
Enter in some serious calibration experience to pull that off. Sorta like flying a plane in heavy fog, I'll trust the instruments, thanks.
