Carrie & Poltergeist

[DJD]

Hi guys.

With halloween approaching and Blu Ray.com failing to review them, I was wondering if anyone has seen these Blu Ray disks and supply some review of the quality of the video & audio.

Thanks in advance.

[ShelbyGT500]

Just watched Poltergeist over at my friends house and it was awesome! The PQ/AQ is great. The screen was so clear and you could hear the different sounds coming from all over the room. After watching it I'm definitely going to go buy it!

[demoni]

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/reviews.html have reviews of both these. Poltergeist gets a 4/5 score on both image and sound (ok, only 3 and a half on sound...), and Carrie gets a 2 and a half for the image and 2 for sound.

But how can Poltergeist be a PG rated movie? It's been a while since I saw the movie, but the scene where one of the scientists eating the chicken and ripping his face off in front of the mirror must be far beyond a PG rating??

But hey, as long as there's no nudity I guess American ratings will pass anything to the kids...

[nycomet]

Watched Poltergeist tonight. Very pleased with both PQ and AQ. Coffee Book packaging is nice, but would be better with a slipcase.

[AintNoSin]

Originally Posted by demoni

But how can Poltergeist be a PG rated movie? It's been a while since I saw the movie, but the scene where one of the scientists eating the chicken and ripping his face off in front of the mirror must be far beyond a PG rating??

1. Spielberg was involved. That's like a automatic one rating bonus. He could make a porno and get an PG-13.
2. There was no PG-13 at the time and the scene wasn't realistically gory enough to be an R. Raiders of the Lost Ark has melting faces and exploding heads and got a PG.

[Blu-Ron]

Wasn't impressed with POLTERGEIST that much. Still...the best version out there.

[Moefiz]

Spielberg was involved. That's like a automatic one rating bonus. He could make a porno and get an PG-1

[owa]

Haven't seen Carrie yet but I thought the picture and sound quality of Poltergeist were pretty good.

[Bullseye]

It always amazes me the difference of opinions in PQ. Some think its great and others not so good. I think we all need to realise for one reason or another older titles are not going to look as good as say "Speed Racer".

[PCiAM]

While this is true (no one should expect a dated catalog release to look as good as a recent film), there have been very impressive catalog transfers thus far to date; The Shining and the 1978 original Halloween both have very stellar transfers. They don't have that tremendous pop that the newer releases have, but the transfers are still very impressive with nice clarity and rich colors. Many of the daytime scenes in Halloween look as if they could have been filmed yesterday--if the wardrobe hadn't given them away. As for Poltergeist, the PQ was pretty decent, but it doesn't look anywhere as impressive as those two older films. Perhaps Warner didn't want to give it a better treatment or perhaps that's the best they could do with the original source. Nonetheless, Poltergeist's transfer, in my opinion, is just slightly above mediocre.

[Moviemaniack1993]

You guys are nuts. I thought Poltergeist looked fantastic for being a 1982 film. The original snapper and re-release DVDs did not do it justice, but the Blu-ray looks phenomenal! And the TrueHD soundtrack is incredible too. You guys expect too much. Again, the film is from '82, not '02.

[InfectedStranger]

At first I was really excited for these, but my friend said the quality of the discs themselves was very low.

[PCiAM]

Originally Posted by Moviemaniack1993

You guys are nuts. I thought Poltergeist looked fantastic for being a 1982 film. The original snapper and re-release DVDs did not do it justice, but the Blu-ray looks phenomenal! And the TrueHD soundtrack is incredible too. You guys expect too much. Again, the film is from '82, not '02.

No one expects Poltergeist to look like a newer film. But there have been catalog titles that are even older than Poltergeist (Halloween, The Shining, the original Superman w/ Christopher Reeve) that look much better than Poltergeist does. That being said, I didn't say Poltergeist's transfer was bad. I just said it wasn't as good as a transfer as some of the older films have received. Poltergeist has quite a bit of blurring on the sides of several scenes. This may not be fault of the transfer; it could be a source issue.