Blu Ray's that show the HD capabilities
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Batman: Dark Knight is excellent and I found 3:10 to Yuma very good as well. Waltz with Bashir is very powerful and looks good in HD. Blade runner is worth a look if you liked it, it has some stunning sequences and still looks fresh. Casino Royale is also fantastic if you like action, alone with the Jason Bourne trilogy.
To be honest, I tend to watch the films I'll enjoy anyway and let those films be enhanced by the HD experience. I'm not a massive fan of style over substance cinema. Films with the biggest explosions or designed just to be showy tend to leave me a bit cold.
To be honest, I tend to watch the films I'll enjoy anyway and let those films be enhanced by the HD experience. I'm not a massive fan of style over substance cinema. Films with the biggest explosions or designed just to be showy tend to leave me a bit cold.
WeirdNeville said:
Batman: Dark Knight is excellent and I found 3:10 to Yuma very good as well. Waltz with Bashir is very powerful and looks good in HD. Blade runner is worth a look if you liked it, it has some stunning sequences and still looks fresh. Casino Royale is also fantastic if you like action, alone with the Jason Bourne trilogy.
To be honest, I tend to watch the films I'll enjoy anyway and let those films be enhanced by the HD experience. I'm not a massive fan of style over substance cinema. Films with the biggest explosions or designed just to be showy tend to leave me a bit cold.
Yeah, but you still need a film in your collection that knocks people's socks off when they come round your house and say "what's this blu-ray all about then???To be honest, I tend to watch the films I'll enjoy anyway and let those films be enhanced by the HD experience. I'm not a massive fan of style over substance cinema. Films with the biggest explosions or designed just to be showy tend to leave me a bit cold.
The opening sequence of Casino Royale is indeed a belter, especially as he drives through the quarry, you can see each individual rock in the distance. on my projector, it has left everyone who has seen it open mouthed.
What others are as visually and aurally stimulating?
Greg
Stu R said:
Cars is pretty good eye candy. I guess a lot of the pixar stuff will be.
Personally, I'd avoid any Pixar stuff as it's animation and deliberately made to be ultra-sharp, have over-saturated colours and lots of 'pop', which look good on an LCD in torch-mode.The best blu-rays are the classics such as The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938 and The Wizard Of Oz:70th Anniversary edition, scanned in 8k from the original Technicolour negatives.
Film will always look more natural than anything made digitally in a computer.
Greg_D said:
Yeah, but you still need a film in your collection that knocks people's socks off when they come round your house and say "what's this blu-ray all about then???
Well, I don't have my set up to show off! Only 5 or so people have seen it!However, for sheer balls out showyness I use the "Dark Knight Prologue" on my Batman Begins Blu-Ray. Filmed in IMax, and using the full screen at 1080p, it looks fantastic and gets people wanting to watch the Dark Knight. The sweeping shots of the city, combined with the detail work and some gunshots tend to get people suitably fired up.
Greg_D said:
The opening sequence of Casino Royale is indeed a belter, especially as he drives through the quarry, you can see each individual rock in the distance. on my projector, it has left everyone who has seen it open mouthed.
Greg
Isn't that the start of 'Quantum of Solace'? Greg
Casino Royale is the Free Running sequence (which incidentally is also excellent on Blu-Ray!)
Scott
Scottman said:
Greg_D said:
The opening sequence of Casino Royale is indeed a belter, especially as he drives through the quarry, you can see each individual rock in the distance. on my projector, it has left everyone who has seen it open mouthed.
Greg
Isn't that the start of 'Quantum of Solace'? Greg
Casino Royale is the Free Running sequence (which incidentally is also excellent on Blu-Ray!)
Scott
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