As 2009 comes to a close

[wnicholas76]

Another great year for Blu-ray!! What is your:

Best PQ Blu - Star Trek / Terminator Salvation / Watchmen / District 9
Best AQ Blu - Star Trek / District 9
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Star Trek
Favorite Animated Blu - Up
Bargain of the Year - The Wizard of Oz ($12.99 at Target's Black Friday sale); Spaceballs ($9.99 at Hastings' Black Friday sale)
Worst Blu - None for me so far, as I try to be careful with what I buy
Highlight - The Bourne Trilogy
Low Point - Waiting even longer for the LOTR Extended Editions
Must Purchase for 2010 - Back to the Future Trilogy, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 1 and 2, Star Wars Trilogy (Originals and Prequels), Alien Quadrilogy, Avatar

[gates70]

Best PQ Blu - Star Trek
Best AQ Blu - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Star Trek
Favorite Animated Blu - 9 (only one I've seen)
Bargain of the Year - Sin City $14.99 CDN (Blus in Canada are expensive and my collection isn't that big)
Worst Blu - None that I can think of made in 2009...but one that I did buy this year was Planet of the Apes (new version) or The Punisher
Highlight - Inglourious Basterds and Watchmen...was pleasently surprised on a blind buy for both.
Low Point - Waiting even longer for the LOTR Extended Editions...same here
Must Purchase for 2010 - Alien Quadrilogy, Indiana Jones series, Avatar, Star Wars Trilogy (Originals and Prequels), The Abyss (if it comes out)

[WMAangel]

Best PQ Blu - Star Trek (live action), Up (animated)
Best AQ Blu - Star Trek
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series
Favorite Animated Blu - Up
Bargain of the Year - The Wizard of Oz "3-Disc Emerald Edition" for only $7.99 at Target (with $5 off coupon on Black Friday)
Worst Blu - lame release of Waterworld...bare bones and theatrical cut only? No thanks....
Highlight - TF: ROTF "Big Screen Edition"...those Imax scenes look SWEET!
Low Point(s) - Gladiator video quality, MGM stopping the Bond releases, and Warner releases lacking lossless audio...
Must Purchase for 2010 - so far, just Toy Story and Toy Story 2, guess we'll wait and see what will be announced...

[masoud90]

Best PQ Blu - Terminator Salvation / Transformers 2 / Inglourious Basterds
Best AQ Blu - Terminator Salvation / Transformers 2
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Inglourious Basterds
Favorite Animated Blu - Up
Bargain of the Year - Gone With the Wind ($12.99 Black Friday), Forrest Gump, Cars, There Will Be Blood ($9.63 Amazon.com - they had credited my account for late arrival of a product)
Worst Blu - None so far.
Highlight - Terminator Salvation / Inglourious Basterds
Low Point - Where is Titanic? The Sound of Music?
Must Purchase for 2010 - All the upcoming Pixar movies, disney movies, LOTR!!!

[RebelPrince1986]

Best PQ :: Star Trek
Best AQ :: Star Trek
Favourite Live Action Blu :: Rogue / Star Trek / Terminator Salvation / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Favourite Animated Blu :: Pinocchio
Bargain of the Year :: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ($4.99 + a $5.00 gift card)
Worst Blu :: The worst of the ones I purchased, The Wizard of Oz.
Highlight :: The start of Disney's Diamond Line
Low Point :: There weren't a ton of catalog titles I wanted this year.
Must Purchase for 2010 :: AVATAR ! The Princess and the Frog, Beauty and the Beast and whatever other animated classics Disney or Pixar release. Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge !

[crazyBLUE]

BEST PQ ~ STAR TREK
BEST AQ ~ TRANSFORMERS - ROTF
FAVORITE LIVE ACTION Blu ~ TRANSORMERS - ROTF
FAVORITE ANIMATED Blu ~
BARGAIN OF THE YEAR ~ EVERY Blu I BOUGHT
WORST Blu ! NONE
HIGHLIGHT ~ THE WAY I GET TO VIEW THEM
LOWPOINT ~ NONE
MUST PURCHASE FOR 2010 ~ AVATAR & ANYTHING ELSE I MIGHT WANT

[Spit_Fire]

Originally Posted by gates70

Favorite Animated Blu - 9 (only one I've seen)

not even UP? Beats all animated films this year

[Bud2003]

Best PQ Blu – Harry Potter Half Blood Prince
Best AQ Blu – True Blood
Favorite Live-Action Blu – District 9
Favorite Animated Blu – Monsters, Inc.
Bargain of the Year – Band of Brothers ($37.99 @ Best Buy)
Worst Blu - Doubt
Highlight – Up…one of my favorite blind buys (even ahead of Wall-E)
Low Point – Cousin coming over and putting fingerprints all over several blu ray discs.
Must Purchase for 2010 – LOTR Trilogy

[kman]

Best PQ Blu: Up, Transformers ROTF, Star Trek
Best AQ Blu: Transformers ROTF, District 9
Favorite Live-Action Blu: Star Trek
Favorite Animated Blu: Up
Bargain of the Year: Up and Monsters, Inc. for $20 day one , Pinocchio for $5 at Best Buy
Worst Blu: Gladiator, Hangover (Expecting better AQ/PQ transfers)
Highlight: Holiday new movie prices
Low Point: Universal bringing back flippers
Must Purchase for 2010: Avatar, Any Pixar/Disney Classic, Iron Man 2

[MrFilmFanatic]

Best PQ Blu - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Best AQ Blu - Star Trek
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Star Trek
Favorite Animated Blu - Up
Bargain of the Year - Up/Monster's Inc/Cars @ Amazon
Worst Blu - Land Of The Lost (purely because movie sucked)
Highlight - Braveheart
Low Point - No Spielberg in 2009 on Blu
Must Purchase for 2010 - Alien Quadrilogy & Indiana Jones 1-3

[gates70]

Originally Posted by Spit_Fire

not even UP? Beats all animated films this year

Nope haven't seen that one

[Al_The_Strange]

Best PQ Blu: A tough choice between "Star Trek" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." "Star Trek" probably has the most consistent quality, but "Transformers" has the smashing IMAX scenes.

Then again, the CGI ones like "Up," "Monsters Inc," and "Battle for Terra" are practically perfect.
Best AQ Blu: I'm not a huge audiophile, but I liked the sound design in "Star Trek" '09, and it has a cool lossless soundtrack.
Favorite Live-Action Blu: Probably "Transformers: ROTF," for it does have awesome quality and I enjoyed the movie.
Favorite Animated Blu: "Akira," with "Ghost in the Shell" and "Final Fantasy: Advent Children" as close runner-ups.
Bargain of the Year: "Children of the Corn" for a whopping $6.99 on Amazon.
Worst Blu: "Gojirra," the movie's alright, but the PQ/AQ is pretty hideous.
Highlight: We got more Blu-Ray releases than in last years, much more!!!
Low Point: No "LOTR" still?! "Ichi the Killer" got pushed back. And "To Live and Die in LA" got pushed back! Wah!
Must Purchase for 2010: "Avatar," the "Alien" series, more Pixar movies, "LOTR" (for real hopefully, with EEs!), "Indiana Jones," "Star Wars," "The Abyss," "Minority Report," "Evangelion 1.11," "The Protector," "Ichi the Killer," "36th Chamber of Shaolin," the original "Clash of the Titans," "The Running Man," "The Music Man," maybe "Cliffhanger," "Gunslinger Girl," the original "Aeon Flux" series hopefully, "To Live and Die in LA," more Disney, and more from the Criterion Collection (oh yeah, "Yojimbo" is coming out too!). And I gotta see what "Planet Hulk," "Dante's Inferno," "Red Cliff," "Surrogates," and "Pandorum" are all about too.

[Michael1989]

Best PQ Blu - Sin City, Forrest Gump, Event Horizon
Best AQ Blu - The Fast & The Furious, Knowing, Star Trek, Drag Me To Hell
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Sin City
Favorite Animated Blu - Don't have any
Bargain of the Year - Death Race £5.95, Overall quality of blu-ray + price
Worst Blu - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I know it's the intended look but it's still shit)
Highlight - Matrix Trilogy £16.99
Low Point - No Pulp Fiction
Must Purchase for 2010 Pulp, Alien Quad, Jurassic Park, Titanic, Deep Blue Sea, War Of The Worlds, American Pie, Jeepers Creepers, 2012, just to name a few.

[MaCruz]

Best PQ Blu - UP, Terminator Salvation
Best AQ Blu - Terminator Salvation, GI Joe, Any Fast & The Furious, Drag Me To Hell.
Favorite Live-Action Blu
Favorite Animated Blu - UP
Bargain of the Year - I Am Legend UCE for $7.99 @ Bestbuy.com
Worst Blu -
Highlight -
Low Point -
Must Purchase for 2010 Avatar!!!, Alien(s)!!!, Star Wars, Back to the Future!!

[tiger roach]

Off the top of my head:

Best PQ Blu - Inglourious Basterds
Best AQ Blu - Stop Making Sense / District 9
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Inglourious Basterds
Favorite Animated Blu - ?
Bargain of the Year - ? I just buy the ones I want, I'm not a very good bargain hunter
Worst Blu - ?
Highlight - Inglourious Basterds
Low Point - Knowing I can't have Avatar NOW
Must Purchase for 2010 - Avatar, Moon, Zombieland

[BluBrown]

BEST PQ...Star Trek
BEST AQ...Transformers ROTF
FAVORITE LIVE-ACTION...District 9
FAVORITE ANIMATED...Up
BARGAIN OF THE YEAR...Getting Up and Monsters Inc. for like $1 after all the coupons were applied at Target.
WORST BLU...???
HIGHLIGHT...Upgrading to HD audio system and Blind Buying LOST seasons 1-5 and Dexter seasons 1-3 and loving them!
LOW POINT...G.I. Joe (terrible)
MUST PURCHASE FOR 2010...Avatar, Toy Story 1&2, Indiana Jones Trilogy (if it comes out)
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

[SteelPen]

Best PQ Blu: Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation and District 9
Best AQ Blu: Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation
Favorite Live-Action Blu: Star Trek
Favorite Animated Blu: Up
Bargain of the Year: Band of Brothers - $37 @ Amazon / Firefly - $40 @ WalMart
Worst Blu: Inglourious Basterds
Highlight: My BD collection has grown
Low Point: ???
Must Purchase for 2010: Avatar and Toy Story 1/2

[kpkelley]

Best PQ Blu - Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best AQ Blu - Akira
Favorite Live-Action Blu - Braveheart
Favorite Animated Blu - Coraline
Bargain of the Year - Pushing Daisies Season 2 $14.99
Worst Blu - Police Story or any of the Chinese/Japanese martial arts films released with HD audio dub, but no HD audio for the original language.
Highlight - Gone With The Wind and Wizard of Oz Collector's Editions
Low Point - Criterion losing rights to Contempt, Ran and other titles.
Must Purchase for 2010 - Yojimbo/Sanjuro, LOTR Trilogy, any Pixar/Disney Animation, other Classics yet to be announced(I'm looking at you Spielberg)

[blukrank]

Yeah very great year for Blu-Ray.Nice to have such great movies on Blu-Ray such as Snow White,The Wizard of Oz etc,etc.
Glad that we finaly got all 3 seasons of the original Star Trek on Blu-Ray. Thoe I have yet bought the 3rd season on Blu-Ray,but I will be picking it up real soon. But I did enjoy watching season 1 and 2 on Blu-Ray. And I loved the new Star Trek movie as well. And the Blu-Ray version of the new Trek is incredible. Great 1080p picture and a kick ass audio to boot.
Looking forward to seeing what gets released on Blu-Ray in 2010. I know one movie I'm looking forward to getting is The Road. Gush I want to see that movie so bad. I loved the novel,and I'm sure I'm going to like the movie as well.And I was planing on going to see it at the theaters,but sadly no movie theater in my area had it.Owell I'll will see it when it comes on Blu-Ray.
Well anyways cheers to 2009 a wonderful year full of great movies! And great Blu-Ray's too!!

[Kobe24]

Best PQ Blu: Star Trek, Transformers ROTF,
Best AQ Blu: Transformers ROTF, Godzilla, Fight Club
Favorite Live-Action Blu: Green Mile
Favorite Animated Blu: Coraline
Bargain of the Year: Lost Season 1-5 Amazon Gold Box deal
Worst Blu: I love you beth Cooper ( I know I know)
Highlight: Target 5 coupons, and Amazon Gold Box deals
Low Point: Still waiting for Bad Boys 1 and 2
Must Purchase for 2010: Avatar, Zombieland