There are those who believe the coloring and lighting errors present on old film prints of Alien and Aliens are somehow superior to the cleaned up versions on the Blu-Rays.
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There are those who believe the coloring and lighting errors present on old film prints of Alien and Aliens are somehow superior to the cleaned up versions on the Blu-Rays.
SCULLIBUNDO
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I don't know why TAJ thinks Alien is unfaithful. Aliens has the Cameron Blue tint over it now, which imo looks fantastic.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It used to have a lot of scenes that were blue. Now almost every frame is teal.
Alien is also teal/orange now.
Fellowship of the Rings takes 2011 coloring timing, and throws in shots that look like you're viewing them through sunglasses for good measure.
I've seen them, and am certainly very pleased, they look beautiful to me. But yeah, thanks for clearing that up.
OJdaKiller
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Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline are both really nice looking on BR.
SCULLIBUNDO
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I haven't actually had my rewatch of Aliens on blu yet. Only done the quick disc pop in to check out the transfer and it looked pretty great. Waiting for my flatmate who has never seen it.
Will watch in the next week and judge.
The only revision Cameron has done that I haven't liked is the recolouring of Avatar from the theatre release to the home release - where they took the greenish-blue OUT of the film.
He looks like Waxed statue Arnold not like a real human.
Some of the color timing changes have been pretty extreme on blu-ray. Fellowship of the Ring certainly looks drastically different than it did at release. It kind of annoys me too but it's better than nothing.
As for Aliens, Cameron was never happy with the way the movie looked and I think the new transfer is out of this world amazing.
ThatObviousUser
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Just watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on Blu-ray. Puts all film-based transfers to shame but I can't say if it's better or not than The Social Network. It's a newer camera but I couldn't see a noticeably improvement, then again I never noticed any "banding" or flaws with TSN, so to me, both movies have perfect transfers. And I guess you can't improve on perfection.
Here_Try_This
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I would agree with some of the posters here that BARAKA is not always the best looking, but so many great scenes.
Also, If your going to be showing off your system its great to pop in and do other stuff.
Or something you can watch with friends over, Easy to talk-over without having to worry about missing the plot etc.
Big Chungus
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Redline.
I watched it the other night in Blu-Ray for the first time. A pretty amazing transfer if you ask me. Really enjoyed the Director's Cut too (first time seeing it as well).
ThatObviousUser
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I think this is in Alpha Centauri.
Here_Try_This
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Ha, dunno what your referencing, i've only played a tiny bit of that game.
ThatObviousUser
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I think it's one of the images for a secret project dealing with nerve stapling.
perineumlick
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Drive is one of the best transfers I've seen recently. Almost perfect IMO.
Here_Try_This
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Trojita
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I really wish I still had a Kuro 
Why did mine have to break......
My Sony HXH929 is pretty good but the black levels are still not near the Kuro's blackhole esque blacks. I really should get the HX929 fixed like I was supposed to because of really bad clouding, but I've been really busy.
Why did mine have to break......
My Sony HXH929 is pretty good but the black levels are still not near the Kuro's blackhole esque blacks. I really should get the HX929 fixed like I was supposed to because of really bad clouding, but I've been really busy.
Well I am not one of them.
RukusProvider
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Apocolypto.
ThatObviousUser
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Not my screens, but screens nonetheless.
The Lamonster
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I just ordered Speed Racer. I've never actually seen it but some of the screen caps look amazing.
And got damn @ Rooney Mara
And got damn @ Rooney Mara
Escape Goat
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I rented The Fifth Element blu ray just to see what it looked like and it was garbage. I couldn't believe it was a bluray so I popped the disc out to make sure.
ThoseDeafMutes
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I watched it when my sister picked up the Blu-Ray, hadn't seen it in years. Everything looks way faker than I remember.
There are a couple different versions of Fifth Element on blu. One is supposed to be better than the other, don't know which though.
Escape Goat
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NekoFever
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Yeah, they did a complete reissue. It's an improvement but still nothing mind-blowing. The best version available is actually the one released in Scandinavia.
Future proofing, ironically. Warner's been making 8K (8192x4320) digital masters of classic movies shot in the 30s, whereas a movie shot digitally is always going to be that resolution. Hell, there are major blockbusters from less than a decade ago that were only shot in 1080p.
sixteen-bit
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Delicatessen has an awesome transfer.
Miggytronz
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Tin Tin looked amazing.
StriKeVillain
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I admit, I own an embarrassingly high amount of Blu-rays. Some of my favorites are:
- Blade Runner
- Hot Fuzz
- ALIEN
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Game of Thrones (currently GOAT)
- Beauty and the Beast
- Tree of Life
I got Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for my birthday but still haven't seen it. It looks like Tin Tin dropped in price too - might have to pick that up.
I've been mostly purchasing Blu-rays recently to test my new sound system. It's my first foray into actual high quality sound. Had only a Dolby Digital Onkyo HTIB before and upgraded to a mid-tier Denon receiver with some Bowers and Wilkins bookshelves + center. The difference is astounding. I'm hearing stuff I've never heard before in movies I've watched hundreds of times before.
- Blade Runner
- Hot Fuzz
- ALIEN
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Game of Thrones (currently GOAT)
- Beauty and the Beast
- Tree of Life
I got Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for my birthday but still haven't seen it. It looks like Tin Tin dropped in price too - might have to pick that up.
I've been mostly purchasing Blu-rays recently to test my new sound system. It's my first foray into actual high quality sound. Had only a Dolby Digital Onkyo HTIB before and upgraded to a mid-tier Denon receiver with some Bowers and Wilkins bookshelves + center. The difference is astounding. I'm hearing stuff I've never heard before in movies I've watched hundreds of times before.
It really is something else. I prefer 1.85:1 blu rays, always have more visual impact
BotoxAgent
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Blade Runner, Alien, and Aliens are my favorite catalogue transfers
Been wanting to know this as well. Which version of Blade Runner is recommended?
I really wish I still had a Kuro
Why did mine have to break......
My Sony HXH929 is pretty good but the black levels are still not near the Kuro's blackhole esque blacks. I really should get the HX929 fixed like I was supposed to because of really bad clouding, but I've been really busy.
Clouding issues on local dim led set? Is yours turned on? Clouding does appear on menus. I'll admit I havent seen a Kuro in person, but my 929 is fucking awesome.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It's easy to tell which one you have. The banner at the bottom that says 'Experience High Definition' is grey on the old one and silver on the remastered one.
Because he doesn't like grain. (derp) The new grading never occurred to him until everyone in Hollywood started doing it recently. It's bullshit. I just saw Tower Heist, and it looks like shit just because of the timing. Ocean's 13 still has the ugliest, most fucked-up timing of any movie from the last several years, though.
bernardobri
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2001: A Space Odyssey and House of the Flying Daggers.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Did they remaster that? The one I've seen was notorious for being one of the worst Blus.
Trojita
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Yeah. The problem is that the clouding is apparent when the zones have to be turned on. If the screen didn't have clouding, they wouldn't appear. Kind of suck :S
Plus I tried to play a game in gaming mode with local dimming off and it had several completely dark settings and it looked awful.
FootballFan
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Looks pretty good. I haven't seen it yet, bought it yesterday. Looking forward to watching, heard some positive things.edit
Just wondering, is there any place out there where I can see the top 250 or so blu-ray movies(picture quality wise). I own quite a bit of Blu-Rays and Planet Earth and Spartacus both look much better than the rest of my collection.
70mm film prints? Because I thought the working maximum usable resolution able to be (realistically) pulled from 35mm caps out at around 5K.
Theonik
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They are probably scanning from negatives and several prints for colour balance.
Dreams-Visions
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My short list:
Apocolypto
Avatar
Baraka
Black Hawk Down
The Dark Knight
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
The Tree of Life
Apocolypto
Avatar
Baraka
Black Hawk Down
The Dark Knight
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
The Tree of Life
But why would that necessitate 8K, rather than 4K or 5K?
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