Best Blu-ray Menu Design

[jtu128]

It seems like Blu Ray menus are more generic (Universal... no pun intended)than DVD's were, but does anyone have favorites? I personally like the menu for Scott Pillgram.

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by jtu128

It seems like Blu Ray menus are more generic (Universal... no pun intended)than DVD's were, but does anyone have favorites? I personally like the menu for Scott Pillgram.

To tell you the truth.. I like the simple design of Universal blu-ray menus, simple easy to use unlike some of the Disney Pixar Menus which can be but my favorite would have to be Iron Man.

[BaronVH]

Everytime this topic comes up, I always say the same thing: I like the first Warner movies that had no menu at all. The movie just started playing without any commercials or trailers.

[ArrestedDevelopment]

Originally Posted by BaronVH

Everytime this topic comes up, I always say the same thing: I like the first Warner movies that had no menu at all. The movie just started playing without any commercials or trailers.

+1. Paramount and Fox blus tend to have nice, simple menus too.

Universal has the most annoying, cluttered menus.

[Ite]

The Running Man has a great menu.

[octagon]

For general design I really like the approach Criterion takes. They use the same simple menu tabs across all their BDs (or at least all the ones I've seen). Not only are they clean and functional, it reinforces the idea that the films they distribute are part of a collection.

Individual design? Oddly enough, The Maltese Falcon. I didn't hate the stark red, silhouette cover but I wasn't crazy about it either. But the menu features the same layout and for some reason that tied the whole thing together in a pretty cool way.

Oh, and the Alien Anthology menus and splashscreens are pretty freaking cool too.

[The Mad Kiwi]

I like the virtual fly-throughs on Beauty and the Beast and Alice in Wonderland (animated). I feel those are more interesting than the usual movie montage found on Universal and Fox discs and hope we see more of those on Disney titles.

I can't stand Fox's pop-up menus because you can only see one selection at a time within a box. Plus, when they do an extended cut and theatrical on the same disc, they create separate menus for each with unique bonus features. Really annoying.

[42041]

Early Warner; Avatar. Just let me watch the movie.

[Yojimbo68]

Originally Posted by 42041

Early Warner; Avatar. Just let me watch the movie.

Yeah but early Warner defaults to lossy audio. Every time I watch "The Dark Knight" I have to pause, pick the HD audio and make sure I DON'T select sub-tities by accident. No, early Warner's suck.

[Duffy12]

My favorites right now are all three BDs of 'The Man With No Name Trilogy' (A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

I could probably watch all of those on a loop all day long.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Originally Posted by BaronVH

Everytime this topic comes up, I always say the same thing: I like the first Warner movies that had no menu at all. The movie just started playing without any commercials or trailers.

+1, cut all the BS, and just play the movie

if u want trailers, they are in the special features
if u want the menu, then press menu button

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Lt. Aldo Raine

+1, cut all the BS, and just play the movie

if u want trailers, they are in the special features
if u want the menu, then press menu button

Oh yea, then how about those movies that start playing a lossy soundtrack over a lossless one?

I HATE it when they do that.

[42041]

Switching to the lossless track (provided there is one, which isn't the case for many Warner catalog releases) takes much less time than dealing with the average menu.
One company whose blu-ray authoring I just can't STAND is Disney. It's always some obnoxious BD-Java contraption with countless trailers that takes forever to get to the film

[SlickDamian]

I think it seems really cheap and lacks class when there are a bunch of trailers before the menu.

The best menu design, by far, is the Criterion Collection. Really clean, focused and refined.

My favorite outside of Criterion would have to be Road To Perdition.

[ImportFanatic]

Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

Yeah but early Warner defaults to lossy audio. Every time I watch "The Dark Knight" I have to pause, pick the HD audio and make sure I DON'T select sub-tities by accident. No, early Warner's suck.

Agreed. I go through that same BS too.

[seigneur_rayden]

I like the trailers up front because not only it makes me feel I'm in the theater, they warm the PJ and let me prepare food, drinks, ...before the movie.
I hate early Warners release that had no menu (cheap and stupid).

[42041]

Originally Posted by seigneur_rayden

I like the trailers up front because not only it makes me feel I'm in the theater, it warms the PJ and let me prepare food, drinks, ...before the movie.

You can't do that before you put the movie in?

[PDFierro]

Universal menus have always been my favorite, but that's just me.

[seigneur_rayden]

Originally Posted by 42041

You can't do that before you put the movie in?

Warm the PJ or prepare the food and drinks? Either, the answer is NO

[Daaark]

Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

Yeah but early Warner defaults to lossy audio. Every time I watch "The Dark Knight" I have to pause, pick the HD audio and make sure I DON'T select sub-tities by accident. No, early Warner's suck.

You can always pick the audio and sub options without even using those menus. You have buttons on the remote for that.