So far I'm thinking

1 Planet Earth
2 Close Enouncounters
2 The Shining

I'm surprised Raiders of the Lost Ark is not out on Blu-Ray yet. They are doing special editions just in time for the new Indiana Jones movie, but those are regular DVD.

The Fifth Element.

Planet Earth is just spectacular. When I show people movies on Bluray vs regular DVD, as a general rule, not everyone sees much difference, but with Planet Earth, people just gasp when they see it. It is "knock you over the head" better. It's like looking through a window whereas movies originally shot on film don't look all that much better.

Just my humble opinion. I'm sure others will disagree.

1. Any of the animations

2. The Pirates of the Carribean Series

3. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City

4. Black Snake Moan

5. Elton 60: Live at Madison Square Garden

6. Galapagos (as good as Planet Earth)

7. Blade Runner


John

Fifth Element is very good, and Blade Runner-Final Edition is phenomenal.

Heck, most of over the air PBS is phenomenal also!

I must say that I am most impressed with both the audio and video of "Across the Universe". The "I am the Walrus" and "Happiness is a Warm Gun" clips left both my jaw dropped and socks rolled down!

David

I must say that I am most impressed with both the audio and video of "Across the Universe". The "I am the Walrus" and "Happiness is a Warm Gun" clips left both my jaw dropped and socks rolled down!
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Good movie for people who were too young to remember the time period. For most of us who do remember, it was a mish-mash of thrown together Beatles songs with a failed attempt at telling a false story.

John

telling a false story

I'm intrigued. Please explain what you mean by this.

telling a false story
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Aside from the film being nothing short of a haphazardly strung together collection of sabotaged Beatles song interpretations, it built a plot by injecting songs like Let it Be into the middle of race riots, "Lucy" joining a protest group that all of a sudden becomes the "Weather Underground" led by a womanizer; but her boyfriend is too busy designing album covers to be bothered, a rooftop scene that was supposed to depict that final powerful Beatles concert on the Apple Records rooftop turned into a Hanna Montana kiddy show, a washed up Greenwich Village singer that was supposed to remind us of Janis Joplin, a quick dumb trip to California and back just to show that California was part of the sixties culture too and nothing more, a quick spin around a campus singing "a little help from my friends" to show that colleges were part of something or other in the sixties, Eddie Izzard, Joe Cocker, and Bono taking turns at playing smirking chimps just to show that cameos were part of the sixties too, hippies enamored with consumer products, "Jude" having Thanksgiving with a contrived WASP version of an upscale family, a Jimi Hendrix character patterned after Lou Rawls, and a finale that concludes "All You Need Is Love".

Nothing ever said that is witty. Songs pop up with no good reason. Nothing of any depth or any substance. A disgrace to the period. A disgrace to the band.

John

1. Any of the animations

2. The Pirates of the Carribean Series

3. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City

4. Black Snake Moan

5. Elton 60: Live at Madison Square Garden

6. Galapagos (as good as Planet Earth)

7. Blade Runner
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just my opinion but...
OUCH! On all these with the exception of #6 and 7. Especially the inept Carribean series. If those weren't hyped-dog poo I don't know what is.

So this child (are we right in assuming this is a child?) can't enjoy any movies on DVD?...it has to be Bluray eh?

This is one child that could probably use a football/baseball/skates/etc., and some time OUTSIDE with his uncle over any blu-ray anything.

telling a false story
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Agreed, but not bad for a ONE TIME watch and return. Any more than that and it's time to exchange some bluray discs for CD's...cause you don't know the beatles. Reharmonization/re-arranging isn't the hard part (not at all)...it's writing the original that takes work and risk.

Of course we need artistic visuals to wrap a film like this in...one simply cannot enjoy the original beatles music or live footage unless it's a$$-packed with teen stars, animation, and superimposing aren't along for the ride.

(Just my opinion, you may not agree.)

JFJ,

Based on your last two negative posts, I would assume that if the "child" did go outside to play, you'd be the old curmudgeon screaming at them to stay off your lawn.

"Just my opinion, you may not agree"

John

C'mon, It's just more plastic crap for the landfill.

Fact is, the kid's gonna remember a day of going out/outside and having fun with uncle over ANY pos flick you can buy (dvd or bluray).
Just telling it like it is. You call it negative, I call it an honest tip.
Heck, film the day and give him a DVD of it if it has to be TV/video related.

As an uncle of 10, ...the plastic crap piles up. Especially rehashings of feature films on disc. Just ask the parents.

Am i saying the pirates trilogy is aimed at morons though?...

Well....ummm...let's stop there.

Oh yeah, the DVD of Uncle Buster and Billy's Nature Walk. That will get played over and over. I can't wait for the sequel.

You are entitled to your opinion and my opinion remains that you are a curmudgeon.

Regarding the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy, it was big-budget, mindless fun. I guess I'm a moron.

My favorite movie of late is "No Country for Old Men" but that certainly isn't kid's fare. Anything by the Coen Brothers works for me.

I loved No Country for Old Men. The ending was not as good the first 85%, but that was the ending of the book which they followed very closely.

One thing about No Country for Old Men was that if you told someone the plot, it sounds like pretty standard fare and the experience of seeing it, is far, far above standard fare. The editing and sound in that movie are incredible.

About a month before it came out, I saw Joel Coen and Frances McDormand walking in Riverside Park in NYC. Even at that time I wished I had already seen the movie so I could say something.

i just want Tformers, Matrix and Bourne series to hit BD... Yes wow factor shallowness IS a good thing sometimes.

"The editing and sound in that movie are incredible."

That can be said of every Coen Brothers movie.

As an aside, "No Country for Old Men" was primarily shot here in New Mexico. But then again, so was "Wild Hogs", which was an amazingly stupid movie. Regardless, the movie business is going like gangbusters here and has been for some time now.