Blu Ray - Latest Acquisitions

[Albershide]

@ r-type. I want to see your bookcase.

[r-type]

@ r-type. I want to see your bookcase.

Ok, just this once.

[Albershide]

Ok, just this once.

:borat

Which are the Blu-Rays with best special features that you have? I love those and try to find as many as I can. Such as TF movies, Hellboy 2, Alien Anthology, etc.

[Hardkore]

BeetleJuice

[r-type]

Which are the Blu-Rays with best special features that you have? I love those and try to find as many as I can. Such as TF movies, Hellboy 2, Alien Anthology, etc.

A recent one is Fincher's Girl w/Dragon Tattoo, with the exception of extras on music (seems like a pattern with some of ones with music that I want to learn more about), pretty good features-wise.

Others that I own with pretty solid features:

Blade Runner
Disney Platinum Editions/Pixar releases generally put out well rounded sets.
Videodrome (Criterion)
The Rock (essentially the Criterion features ported over)
The Matrix
Avatar (3 disc)
Children of Men
Minority Report
Sin City
American Werewolf in London
Taxi Driver
Gladiator


Recent purchases:

BloodSport/Timecop
The Bourne Ultimatum
Backdraft
Executive Decision

[r-type]

Dodgeball
Get Smart (2008)
M:I
M:I 2
M:I Ghost Protocol

[Ed Fuego]

Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol. I love this movie, and when I got it I had to put it in just to watch the Dubai scene. Here's my question about that scene, that I'm hoping someone can answer (SPOILER):


SPOILER

Did it seem to anyone else that the Dubai scene was cut differently than in the theater? In the version I just watched, after Ethan falls and catches himself, it immediately jumped to him being outside the server room (with the glass cutter) again. I could've sworn that the theatrical scene was way more prolonged, and if he falls, how in the hell does the next scene put him at the place that he fell from? I don't get it. I didn't see the movie in IMAX, so that couldn't be the issue. I'm confused. I've watched the scene a couple times and there is just no way that it was cut that way in the theater. Or am I just remembering the scene incorrectly?

END SPOILER


Ed Fuego

[Bot of Badassness]

Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol. I love this movie, and when I got it I had to put it in just to watch the Dubai scene. Here's my question about that scene, that I'm hoping someone can answer (SPOILER):


SPOILER

Did it seem to anyone else that the Dubai scene was cut differently than in the theater? In the version I just watched, after Ethan falls and catches himself, it immediately jumped to him being outside the server room (with the glass cutter) again. I could've sworn that the theatrical scene was way more prolonged, and if he falls, how in the hell does the next scene put him at the place that he fell from? I don't get it. I didn't see the movie in IMAX, so that couldn't be the issue. I'm confused. I've watched the scene a couple times and there is just no way that it was cut that way in the theater. Or am I just remembering the scene incorrectly?

END SPOILER


Ed Fuego

Comes out in New Zealand today, I need to go grab it. Judging by what you just wrote, it does sound like the cut is different to what was in theaters. I'm pretty sure that after Ethan falls, you slowly crawls back up the building (I'm can't remember though if he finds his busted glove on some glass on his way back up or if that is in a shot earlier or later in the sequence).

[r-type]

Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol. I love this movie, and when I got it I had to put it in just to watch the Dubai scene. Here's my question about that scene, that I'm hoping someone can answer (SPOILER):

SPOILER

Did it seem to anyone else that the Dubai scene was cut differently than in the theater? In the version I just watched, after Ethan falls and catches himself, it immediately jumped to him being outside the server room (with the glass cutter) again. I could've sworn that the theatrical scene was way more prolonged, and if he falls, how in the hell does the next scene put him at the place that he fell from? I don't get it. I didn't see the movie in IMAX, so that couldn't be the issue. I'm confused. I've watched the scene a couple times and there is just no way that it was cut that way in the theater. Or am I just remembering the scene incorrectly?

END SPOILER

Ed Fuego

Scene-wise, looks the same to me as it did in theaters.

Note: Saw it in genuine IMAX (those sequences were vertigo-inducing), little disappointed (just a little, not a deal breaker) that they opted for a constant screen ratio across the board for home releases.

[Ed Fuego]

Scene-wise, looks the same to me as it did in theaters.

Note: Saw it in genuine IMAX (those sequences were vertigo-inducing), little disappointed (just a little, not a deal breaker) that they opted for a constant screen ratio across the board for home releases.

Yeah, after watching it again, I think its the same. The first time I was a few beers deep, so maybe that had something to do with it.

I haven't seen a movie yet in "real" IMAX (I really wanted to see Ghost Protocol, but I just didn't have time; I'm making sure to see The Dark Knight Rises that way), so it's hard to know what I'm really missing. I have the aspect ratio shifting version of The Dark Knight, and while I guess the IMAX scenes were a little more impressive on my 50 in. tv, they weren't all that. Going from 2:35 to 16:9 on most tvs isn't really that much of a change. And the aspect ratio shift did distract me slightly.

I am really disappointed I didn't see Ghost Protocol in IMAX, especially that scene. I mean, just in the normal theater I had a death grip on my seat.

Ed Fuego

[Michael Do]

[r-type]

I love steel books, but boy do they dent just by looking at them wrong.

Yeah, after watching it again, I think its the same. The first time I was a few beers deep, so maybe that had something to do with it.

I haven't seen a movie yet in "real" IMAX (I really wanted to see Ghost Protocol, but I just didn't have time; I'm making sure to see The Dark Knight Rises that way), so it's hard to know what I'm really missing. I have the aspect ratio shifting version of The Dark Knight, and while I guess the IMAX scenes were a little more impressive on my 50 in. tv, they weren't all that. Going from 2:35 to 16:9 on most tvs isn't really that much of a change. And the aspect ratio shift did distract me slightly.

I am really disappointed I didn't see Ghost Protocol in IMAX, especially that scene. I mean, just in the normal theater I had a death grip on my seat.

Ed Fuego

That's true. I guess also if it were to really "open up" to the IMAX scenes, for the home releases it would be to a pillar-boxed 1.44:1, not matted. Probably making it even more distracting. For me, the 16:9 shifts just kind of act as IMAX scene "bookmarks" is all. (ala ROTF and TDK)


Topic at hand:

The Big Lebowski
Risky Business
Animal House
Serenity
Army of Darkness

[r-type]

Kung Fu Hustle
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Italian Job (2003)
Space Jam
¡Three Amigos!
V for Vendetta
Beetlejuice
Neverending Story
Big
Full Metal Jacket
Forrest Gump
Blazing Saddles

[Albershide]

Inception
Sucker Pinch - Extended Cut
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
King Kong
Fight Club
X2

[Hardkore]

The Sound of Music

[r-type]

Ninja Assassin
Blow
Predator
Uncle Buck
Land of the Lost
Public Enemies
Lost in Space
Devil Wears Prada
Apollo 13
Haywire
Last Samurai

[r-type]

Adventureland
Silence of the Lambs
Dances with Wolves
Underworld Awakening

[r-type]

The Grey
Chronicle

[Hardkore]

Dances with Wolves

Is this the theatrical cut or the 4 hour extended cut.

[r-type]

Is this the theatrical cut or the 4 hour extended cut.

Extended only. Wish they'd included both.

[Hardkore]

Alien

The Dark Knight

[Hardkore]

Serenity

[r-type]

Where the Wild Things Are
Last of The Mohicans
I, Robot
X-Men: The Last Stand
Fight Club

And a handful of Steelbooks:

[r-type]

[Hardkore]

Stargate ~15th Anniversary edition

Defiance