Watched it tonight. Have to give it a NO as far as the film is concerned. I sometimes wondered what the heck did I just watch? I admit not being familiar with the graphic novel, then again I was unfamiliar with X-MEN when I saw that and loved it!! I just didn't find the characters or story compelling.
I'm not a fan of the stylized picture. I felt there were moments when we were robbed of the finest detail, however it was a fairly sharp picture, however I think that 300 had more fine detail than this film and that one was intentionally grainy. However i'll accept that the film is suppose to look that way and so no major issues.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who had to keep turning their volume knob up about 5dbs over my standard for DTSMA. I'm betting that Warner actually used the non-default dialnorm setting as i've never had to raise a DTSMA track this high before! However once I got a good level, the soundtrack had lots of punch. While the sounds can be very aggressive at times, i'm suprised by the lack of discrete effects and panning in this film. While well recorded, it didn't display the finest of detail to rank it as reference. However I will say that no one will be disappointed with this track.
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