Blu Ray's that show the HD capabilities

[macey_j2]

Hi, i've heard "Wall-e" is a particulary good disk to show the capabilities of Blu-ray disks. Are there any others that are particularly impressive? I dont mind if they are films, documentaries, or any other type of programmes.

Cheers for your help

[Stu R]

Cars is pretty good eye candy. I guess a lot of the pixar stuff will be.

[Slate99]

Blue Planet is excellent.

[E31Shrew]

You'll see a previous thread about 6 months ago on here!

[macey_j2]

Thanks for your imput, any key words to search for the previous thread?

[macey_j2]

EEeeeeeeventually found it, cheers

[E31Shrew]

Might be this one...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Good luck

[WeirdNeville]

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.

[Greg_D]

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???

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

[mp3manager]

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.

[MiniMan64]

Star Trek next month should be a belter.

[WeirdNeville]

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.

[BERGS2]

As maybe previously mentioned - Zulu looks absolutely stunning.

[GlenMH]

Slate99 said:

Blue Planet is excellent.

And Planet Earth - mind boggling aerial shots...

[talkssense]

I got the IOM TT review for 2009 in Blu Ray at the weekend. The whole thing is really good picture quality, but anyone who isn't amazed by the super slo mo sequences in blu ray needs their eye's testing

[G20RG B]

ZULU is stunning in HD.........honest

[Scottman]

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'?

Casino Royale is the Free Running sequence (which incidentally is also excellent on Blu-Ray!)

Scott

[OldSkoolRS]

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'?

Casino Royale is the Free Running sequence (which incidentally is also excellent on Blu-Ray!)

Scott

I'm sure it is Quantum of Solace: I put this on as a demo for some family friends to show them what my projector setup is like and they were sat there ducking and screaming as the debris sprayed around the screen (like when the Landrover hits a wall/other vehicle). I think they were impressed........

[Asterix]

Interestingly, I used exactly the same last night to show a mate who simply said 'WOW!' when the opening bit had finished.

I then stuck on the start of Le Mans for no other reason to watch and listen (extremely loudly) to some vehicular pornography.

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G20RG B said:

ZULU is stunning in HD.........honest

Probably the best disc I have...