Best blue ray experience film?

[Athlon]

Go on then Piston Headers, which, in your opinion is the best film to watch on Blue Ray for the whole sound and visual feast? I want to try out my new PS3 and AV set up and I don't think my wifes Xmas pressie of American Werewolf in London will be up there regardless of how great a film it is!

Thanks and have a great new year

[BigAlinEmbra]

If it has to be a film then something sci-fi would be a good bet, I'd probably go for T2 or something like that.
I got Planet Earth on Bluray for xmas and am looking forward to getting stuck in to that.

[flat-planedCrank]

How about The Dark Knight? Looks pretty terrific in bluray The whole city glistens in the sun, then turns to dazzling light-show in the night shots, top stuff

(The photo-nerd in me also loves the shallow imax dof in the initial scene with the Joker )



..oh, and the film is quite good too




Cheers.

Edited by flat-planedCrank on Wednesday 30th December 21:02

[ErnestM]

The 5th Element. Hi-Def dream.

Also the Watchmen was quite good in Blu-Ray, especially the Mars bits.

[Gun]

I got Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen on Blu-Ray for Christmas, not a brilliant film but it looks amazing, especially the bits filmed using the Imax cameras.

[Mr Dave]

Walle. Amazing Colours and picture.

Fast and furious Tokyo Drift. Don't laugh, I really was very very impressed with the picture on this, have no idea why but it is really very good.

[flat-planedCrank]

Mr Dave said:

Walle. Amazing Colours and picture.

Fast and furious Tokyo Drift. Don't laugh, I really was very very impressed with the picture on this, have no idea why but it is really very good.

Another vote for Wall-e, superb.

[leeeeshad]

Band of brothers box set, very good

edit and only £18 on play for 10 hours of HD war film goodness

Edited by leeeeshad on Wednesday 30th December 21:18

[Athlon]

ErnestM said:

The 5th Element. Hi-Def dream.

Also the Watchmen was quite good in Blu-Ray, especially the Mars bits.

The 5th Element, one of my all time movies, I will try that!

Thanks everyone! loads to go at there but keep 'em coming!!

[Bungleaio]

Not a film but the planet earth BBC/Attenborough series is very good on Blu ray.

[theboss]

Some of you chaps may find this amusing - but the one single blu-ray which literally had me falling off the sofa over visual quality - is the remastered Wizard of Oz. Absolutely staggering for a film which pre-dates WWII.

[The_Burg]

theboss said:

Some of you chaps may find this amusing - but the one single blu-ray which literally had me falling off the sofa over visual quality - is the remastered Wizard of Oz. Absolutely staggering for a film which pre-dates WWII.

Much akin to the LP versus CD debate in audio.
Old films were filmed, quality only limited by lens quality and film grain.
Digital drastically limited same as CD.
Anologue by design has an infinite level of subtelty whereas digital as a strictly defined level and thats it.

[Killer2005]

Mr Dave said:

Walle. Amazing Colours and picture.

And another for Wall-E

Decent film and REALLY shows what a hd tv and blu-ray can do

[FourWheelDrift]

I haven't seen them but I would suspect that the Lord of the Rings films will be very good in Blu-Ray, the big landscapes, huge battles and loads of characters.

[North West Tom]

I Am Legend is great.

[ajprice]

Dark Knight
Kingdom Of Heaven
Wall-E (or however you spell it )
Transformers 2
Fifth Element

I don't own all of these (Ok just the Dark Knight), but have heard and read very good things about the picture and/or sound quality of them.

[Goldmember1]

Another vote here for Dark Knight.. Very good visuals and stunning atmospheric soundtrack..even Batman Begins I thought looked great and sounded superb. Transformers 1 .. Found it very impressive to watch.. cheesy storyline, but hey it's got robots,great sp effects and cool cars in it ! Got 2 but not watched yet.
Just tried Terminator Salvation..watched 1st 30mins and was well hooked and would say it's worth a look too ..visuals and sound impressed me..tho maybe cos Terminator 1 was on tv tonight anything will look good
Also would recommend Ironman .. One of my favourites!

[Hammerhead]

+ another one for Watchmen. Watched it last night, great film with a fantastic picture and sound (and some great totty, to boot).

[bobthemonkey]

Baraka.

Nothing to do with Japanese communal masturbation, before anyone gets confused.

Film Geek part.

It was shot, without sound on 70mm film, compared to the 35mm most stuff is done on nowadays. It has about four times the resolution of a regular film.

For the blu-ray release, it was scanned at 8K, compared to either 2K or 4K for a normal film. 2k is ~10% larger than a full HD (1920x1080).

Put another way, 1/16 any single frame is equivalent to the maximum resolution of a blu-ray disc.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Baraka-Blu-ray-Revie...

Edited by bobthemonkey on Wednesday 30th December 23:48

[Ecurie Ecosse]

The original Italian Job is rather good.