need some help picking out blu rays

barone

so got a v good deal on a 50in panasonic 3d tv,2 3d glasses,panasonic blu ray player,and stand..

now ive never even watched a blu ray movie before so im asking for help in selecting movies that i should get to get the best out of my viewing experience with the new tv,im open to any suggestions, movies/docus etc etc

so what have you seen in blu ray thats awesome? more so than in standard format.. 3d blu ray suggestions also..

avatar is a definate,loved it in cinema..

avatar haters ,save the comments

thanks

Fishooks12

barone wrote: »

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avatar haters ,save the comments

thanks

Wouldn't have said anything until you used 'that' word...

Avatar is visually grandiose but lacks any real emotional substance or unique plot point.






Haters gotta hate...:pac:

Outkast_IRE

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Haters gotta hate...:pac:

I hate when people say
"Its just Dances in wolves in SPACE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


Well i love dances with wolves and love space movies so STFU

Sad Professor

There’s already a lengthy thread about what Blu-rays are worth getting:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055936504

And since we're talking about Avatar: I love Dances with Wolves as well and Avatar shamelessly rips it off. I'd much rather watch the original than James Cameron's big blustering and totally soulless sci-fi take on the same story.

Fishooks12

Dances with Wolves + Smurfs + 3d = Avatar

barone

Sad Professor wrote: »

There’s already a lengthy thread about what Blu-rays are worth getting:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055936504

And since we're talking about Avatar: I love Dances with Wolves as well and Avatar shamelessly rips it off. I'd much rather watch the original than James Cameron's big blustering and totally soulless sci-fi take on the same story.

search did not throw up that thread thanks,

cant we just all get along

Tipsy McSwagger

Blade Runner
Band of Brothers
All the Pixar films
Apocalypto
How to train your Dragon
Kung Fu Panda
Inception

Off the top of my head these all look beautiful on blu ray. As for 3D if you can get the Shrek films they look great.

jaykhunter

The Dark Knight; those imax scenes just blow me away.
Terminator 2 looks amazing on blu-ray; so much better than the DVD.
As said, AVATAR looks spectacular in 2D/Bluray. I can't vouch for the 3DTVs.
It's an old blu but it looks amazing - Casino Royale.
Definitely Pixar movies all look awesome in HD.

but ya SP mentioned the bluray thread which is full of great recommendations.

MrJoeSoap

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Blade Runner
Band of Brothers
All the Pixar films
Apocalypto
How to train your Dragon
Kung Fu Panda
Inception

Off the top of my head these all look beautiful on blu ray. As for 3D if you can get the Shrek films they look great.

Yes, yes, yes and yes to Blade Runner, Band of Brothers, Pixar Movies and Inception.

The Liquidator

The landscapes in 127 hours are fantastic on blu-ray.

Voodu Child

The Dark Knight is very average on Bluray, soft image and very noticeable edge-enhancement.

Inception has a very blurry, dull picture. There's no detail in dark areas. If you love the film then great, but it is definitely not reference/demo material. Same with all Nolan films, ugly cinematography.

Band of Brothers looked better on HD-DVD, Spielberg deliberately shot on grainy film stock but the great unwashed don't like grain so the Bluray has plenty of DNR and lacks the fine detail of the HD-DVD.

Terminator 2 on Bluray is complete garbage. They've been throwing out release after release of this movie all using the same soft old master. Again, one of my favourite action movies but definitely not reference material or an example of the best that Bluray can do.

You can't go wrong with the Pixar movies as reference material.

Sad Professor

Yeah, Inception on Blu-ray looks very waxy. I don't remember it looking like that in the cinema. The IMAX scenes in TDK look great though. So I'd blame it on the DNR monkeys at Warners rather than the cinematography. Having said that, Nolan is colour blind, which goes a long way toward explaining the style of cinematography in his films.

Fishooks12

Sad Professor wrote: »

Yeah, Inception on Blu-ray looks very waxy. I don't remember it looking like that in the cinema. The IMAX scenes in TDK look great though. So I'd blame it on the DNR monkeys at Warners rather than the cinematography. Having said that, Nolan is colour blind, which goes a long way toward explaining the style of cinematography in his films.

Literally or figuratively ?

Sad Professor

Yeah, he really is colour blind.

Fishooks12

Sad Professor wrote: »

Yeah, he really is colour blind.

wow, never knew that, goes a long way to explaining some of the lack of focus on colour in his pictures alright

rockatansky

Of the Blu-ray films I've watched the most visually impressive are Avatar and the the last Star Trek movie released in 2009. Even if you're not a trek fan it's definitely worth a watch just to see how well it looks in 1080.

jaykhunter

Christ, don't mince your words Voodu Child. (paraphrasing "see your suggestions? complete garbage") Well, that's the first time I've heard Nolan's films having ugly cinematography. I've only ever heard the exact opposite. In any case, the shot where Batman's standing over the wreckage/rubble (which was shot in IMAX) is absolutely beautiful.

Black Hawk Down is stunning. The Thing looks brilliant imo as well.
Attenborough's Planet Earth/Life..

em.... The Fall is really gorgeous as well.

Any word on how Jurassic Park on blu-ray looks?

johnny_ultimate

The biggest problem with the Dark Knight on Blu-Ray is how much better those IMAX scenes look. It's distracting, if ultimately worth it for the quality you end up with for those prettier moments. Still, they could probably have done without the random city inserts that ever so briefly switch to IMAX format. I've seen the film in IMAX, and would still make the same criticisms about it.

Animation is definitely the best Blu-Ray proving ground. Pixar, naturally, are top. I have a few anime BRs that look absolutely stunning - the superb Summer Wars and the two brilliant new Evangelion movies.

Outside that, Planet Earth and Life (even more so the latter, nearly!) are just extraordinarily gorgeous. Se7en stands out as a particularly pretty addition to the connection. I haven't really dabbled in older movies on BR, but got a dual format copy of Harakiri in the post the other day that I really can't wait to watch

Mickeroo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Outside that, Planet Earth and Life (even more so the latter, nearly!) are just extraordinarily gorgeous.

Frozen Planet which started on bbc a few weeks ago is even more gorgeously filmed than those two series, and thats saying a lot, it's going to be unbelievable on Blu-ray I reckon.

Keith186

Read this thread earlier and then came back to say to get Planet Earth but its already been said now.

I haven't watched a lot of blu rays but it was easily the most amazing.

Apocalypse was class too.

johnny_ultimate

Mickeroo wrote: »

Frozen Planet which started on bbc a few weeks ago is even more gorgeously filmed than those two series, and thats saying a lot, it's going to be unbelievable on Blu-ray I reckon.

Yeah haven't watched it yet, and probably just gonna wait til the HD version gets released!

Most importantly, it better have production diaries. I'll be perfectly honest, I get as much of a kick out of them on the Life discs as the show itself. Production pr0n at its finest.

Mickeroo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yeah haven't watched it yet, and probably just gonna wait til the HD version gets released!

Most importantly, it better have production diaries. I'll be perfectly honest, I get as much of a kick out of them on the Life discs as the show itself. Production pr0n at its finest.

I'm pretty sure it will, the last ten minutes of each show on tv is basically a segment of the production diaries, I think they did the same thing when Planet Earth and Life were first screened. I agree they're just as good as the main show, i presume there'll be more in depth ones when it finally makes it to BR.

MrJoeSoap

BBC are really good at this HD stuff, aren't they?

Voodu Child

jaykhunter wrote: »

Christ, don't mince your words Voodu Child. (paraphrasing "see your suggestions? complete garbage") Well, that's the first time I've heard Nolan's films having ugly cinematography. I've only ever heard the exact opposite. In any case, the shot where Batman's standing over the wreckage/rubble (which was shot in IMAX) is absolutely beautiful.

Im not knocking the movies themselves, but just in the context of the OPs question...if you've got yourself a brand new TV, brand new Bluray player, the works, Inception just isn't the kind of movie to make you go 'wow, so this is what it's all about'. imo anyway. Its just too soft and dark for most of the movie.

Any word on how Jurassic Park on blu-ray looks?

Rubbish :pac: Sorry, its true. They used an old master, just a dull uninspiring picture. The other two movies in the set are rubbish looking too.

barone

thanks folks,shopping to do, keep em comming for my xmas request list

barone

also where is the cheapest place to buy ? play.com?

do they get hit by customs now?

barone

just orderd gladiator special edition 2 disc, braveheart, and planet earth 6 disc special edition.. and am bidding on 4 pixar movies on ebay

Tipsy McSwagger

barone wrote: »

also where is the cheapest place to buy ? play.com?

do they get hit by customs now?

Amazon is the best by far. You really should wait until Black Friday and buy a load of blu rays off of Amazon.com for cheap prices.

barone

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Amazon is the best by far. You really should wait until Black Friday and buy a load of blu rays off of Amazon.com for cheap prices.

amazon.com?

whats black friday

jaykhunter

barone wrote: »

amazon.com?

whats black friday

it's the first day of christmas shopping in the States (where all the shops make a profit and hence go "in the black"). I dunno about region encoding for blu-rays/ps3s etc so it'd be worth making sure everything's cool before plonking down the cash

MrJoeSoap

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

BBC are really good at this HD stuff, aren't they?

There are till you realise that many of the shows they release are just upscaled DVDs.

MrJoeSoap

Deleted User wrote: »

There are till you realise that many of the shows they release are just upscaled DVDs.

Well Life, Frozen Planet and Planet Earth are probably three of the greatest series television has ever produced.

barone

frozen planet is next on the list

Vic Vinegar

District 9 looks unreal on Blu-ray.....