Most disappointing Blu-ray releases so far

[met1128]

Originally Posted by Evra

As for Batman Begins, the point is if the film could have looked as good as The Dark Knight could, it is disappointing that we got the transfer we have had to settle for Batman Begins.

Is it inferior to the DVD? NO!
Is it as good as TDK's transfer? NO, hence the disappointment.

You guys who get so anal about this stuff Have way too much free time.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by NathanDrakeFan

I was also dissapointed by Planet Earth. The grain was so extreme and distracting at points. I know the whole thing about film and grain, but this was ugly grain. Deja vu, The Spiderman Trilogy, Superbad, etc...... have very fine grain that is usually unnoticeable from standard viewing distance.
The whole reason I bought it in the first place for I think $80 was because I heard it was a spectacular looking blu-ray, but man was the grain distracting and unattractive.

That isn't,however, knocking movies that have excessive grain as a atylistic choice or transfers that are limited by the original film stock.No. Planet Earth is not the grainiest Blu-ray.Far from it, but it is the ugliest grain ever

I was very disappointed with it as well. Both reviewers and regular folks have
strange kind of eyes sitting in their sockets.

Btw., it's not grain, it's digital noise. PE was shot digitally, and the black leves were very bad, and dark scenes extremely noisy.
All the terrible banding, and other compression related artifacts such as macroblocking..due to the sometimes frighteningly low bitrate, as well as flickering didn't help either!

Life is quite a bit better, but each episode varies, and not one is truly perfect.
The colors are outstanding however. Banding is much less, as the bitrate is super high...but DEMO discs they are not. Some scenes, SURE!

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

Good point. And that is one of the things I appreciate about Criterion. They go the extra mile, in bringing the film experience to the viewer.

Like Charade? I was one of those who was disappointed with their release of said film.
I even noticed weird artifacts druing the movie, that makes pixel blocks dance around like crazy (check out my post in the Criterion thread for details)

Originally Posted by 42041

Kurosawa's Ran deserves much better than the upscale-ish garbage Lionsgate is currently peddling in North America.

AGREED! RAN deserves the best Criterion treatment!

The PQ was OK, but the SQ was completely messed up in parts.
I thought my speakers were going to get killed in the process.

Originally Posted by OneWayFilms

I would say the ONLY disappointment from me reguarding blurays are when they release a title on blu WITHOUT all the special features from it's dvd counterpart. At that point, I now have to keep the for the extra special features. Blu holds enough info, there's no reason why a blu could not have al the special features that it's dvd holds. Sad.

Yes, that's the LEAST they can do.

I want them in HD too!

Originally Posted by RiseDarthVader

Batman Begins was a pretty crap transfer. The whole movie looks soft probably because of DNR combined with a low bitrate.

Originally Posted by met1128

You guys who get so anal about this stuff Have way too much free time.

Actually watching a movie with one's eyes open is having too much free time?????

My biggest disappointment was Terminator 2: Skynet Edition

It's DNR'd to death and has way too hot contrast, which makes it pretty much unwatchable for me!
What a stinker!!!

Luckily, I don't care too much for the movie anyway, and got it quite cheap.

[Marcus Wright]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

I was very disappointed with it as well. Both reviewers and regular folks have
strange kind of eyes sitting in their sockets.

Btw., it's not grain, it's digital noise. PE was shot digitally, and the black leves were very bad, and dark scenes extremely noisy.
All the terrible banding, and other compression related artifacts such as macroblocking..due to the sometimes frighteningly low bitrate, as well as flickering didn't help either!

Life is quite a bit better, but each episode varies, and not one is truly perfect.
The colors are outstanding however. Banding is much less, as the bitrate is super high...but DEMO discs they are not. Some scenes, SURE!

Luckily, I don't care too much for the movie anyway, and got it quite cheap.

You dont seem to nderstand that for people who are not PQ professionals things like artifacting or exsessive grain dont matter.

I, for one, though Planet Earth looked outstanding

[bmogav]

Last Action Hero and The Killer

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by Marcus Wright

You dont seem to nderstand that for people who are not PQ professionals things like artifacting or exsessive grain dont matter.

I, for one, though Planet Earth looked outstanding

No, I don't.

I am no professional either. I just open my eyes and see problems if there are any.

How far do you sit from your TV?

I only sit about 2-3m away from it, so I notice the most minute flaws.

[NathanDrakeFan]

oddly enough, the Matrix Trilogy are some of the better looking Blu-rays I own and that's just an HD-DVD port. I want a re-release in which the wachowskis do the transfer from the ground up.
It would look amazing.

[cheez avenger]

Batman Begins? No way. It looks and sounds GREAT. You're in a group of one if you think it looks awful.

[McCrutchy]

1. The Killer. Like many other Dragon Dynasty Blu-rays, this should never have been released in the first place. Yes it is better than the DVDs, but it could have been so much better if proper time and money were invested.

2. Any feature film title that comes to Blu-ray without lossless audio, as that is simply ignoring the qualities of the medium.

3. Any Blu-ray/DVD combo pack or "flipper" where the extras, and especially the audio commentary, are only on the DVD.

4. The Davis-Panzer Highlander TV series releases. Again, like Dragon Dynasty, these should never have been released. I haven't seen them personally, as I'm not about to buy any, but the review and specifications alone are quite telling.

[bmogav]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Worst transfers in terms of picture quality for major movies:

Patton
Apocalypse Now
Spartacus
Countless Warner movies
first version of Gladiator
Back To The Future
Lord Of The Rings trilogy

The list could really go on and on.

yeah OK lemme guess too much excessive DNR and EE right

[blufellas]

Originally Posted by GunRanger

I really don't see he problem with Heat.

I also thought Heat looked good.

[nascar2010]

For me, it's "Ghostbusters". I had to double-check that I was watching the blu-ray version. Luckily, only spent $7 on it.

[poke smot]

Originally Posted by blufellas

I also thought Heat looked good.

heat looks fine to me as well. its the horrid audio track that made me sell it for $3. at times, dialogue just faded into mute. it was unwatchable. big disappointment.

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by nascar2010

For me, it's "Ghostbusters". I had to double-check that I was watching the blu-ray version. Luckily, only spent $7 on it.

Even with all the grain, Ghostbusters still have good picture quality

[Canada]

The remake of the Italian Job with Mark Wahlberg, the transfer actually looked worse than the DVD and I was disappointed that DTS was advertised but it was only DD.

[Belloche]

The cheap out audio on Speed Racer really bugs me. The dynamic, candy colored visuals are so dazzling that the audio should match, I find it really brings the whole movie down.

[faraz69]

Originally Posted by Valkyr47

This is one of the most horrible topics ive ever read on blu-ray.com

Batman Begins is a dissapointment because the intro to TDK looked better? lol

Have you even watched TDK on blu-ray? are you aware that the intro to TDK looks better than 99% of the rest of the movie, due to being shot for IMAX?

if they had showed any non imax scene from TDK and put it on Batman Begins i would assume you wouldnt be so dissapointed

thats just a really horrible reason to be dissapointed in a blu-ray release, i seriously have to question your opinion on anything

and put me down for seeing nothing wrong with HEAT either... as the owner of both dvd and blu-ray versions i thought the upgrade was fantastic.

preach on!

+10000000

[nolfoc]

Originally Posted by heatison10

Kickboxer... Just wish there was some better Special Features...

thanks for not saying it was the PQ because this also looked great.. This thred title should be most disappointing Blu-ray releases with no extras.. cuz some of these titles being thrown around in regards to PQ is crazy!

[Hatter]

I was going to say Blair Witch project in terms of availability but it seems it will finally see a canadian blu/dvd combo release in two days.

Tomb Raider - very average MPEG-2 transfer and a lossy audio track.

[HD Goofnut]

Many of the BDs in these two lists are disappointing:

MPEG-2 BDs

Lossy Audio BDs

[Obilink]

I was slightly disappointed by many of the early catalog releases because they had almost no extras. The only real disappointment I had was with the US Back to the Future trilogy release. The disks were good, but the packaging made me loathe it >=(