The Fifth Element 4K UHD (1997) (20th Anniversary Edition)

[MovieHermit]

I want the 4k Fifth Element Disc so badly it hurts.
Have to wait 5 months. July 2017 release date.

Fixed!

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by MovieHermit

I want the 4k Fifth Element Disc so badly it hurts.
Have to wait 8 months. July 2017 release date.

More like 5.5 months, but who's counting?

[Dubstar]

July will be here before you know it ...

[Synchg]

Apart from the fact that most of the CGI effects in this movie barely hold up. I have no interest in watching sony's second hand sourced transfer in 4k. It just looks so ugly and dank. As hilarious as it was, that they tried to emulate the golden hue look from the french transfer. They had no business re-color timing it. A brightness/contrast level fix; sure, but not on the scale of revisionism. Even though I feel sony's 4k release was a tad too dark. There is only a scene (or maybe two) in my opinion, where the gaumont version appears too bright, but the overall image loooks so godamn clean and colorful. Sticking with my UK copy. Gaumont should re-release their own 4k remastered version to spite sony, now THAT i would import for nearly $100 in steelbook packaging!

[StingingVelvet]

Gaumont looks much worse to me in caps but hey, we all have different preferences. Also I remember the effects holding up rather well, much better than a lot of other movies from the period, but again... different eyes and whatnot.

[Ray_Rogers]

I betcha the BD in this dual format release will be the exact same one as the below. The UHD disc better be BD100 cause of the crazy film grain and such. AND another Digital Copy code to sell.

[Sky_Captain]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Gaumont looks much worse to me in caps but hey, we all have different preferences. Also I remember the effects holding up rather well, much better than a lot of other movies from the period, but again... different eyes and whatnot.

Watching the Gaumont transfer, with HDR added...

[Geoff D]

....but the Gaumont may have a ton of highlight detail that was blown out to balls for that particular SDR master, an HDR pass should be able to keep both that insane Toht-melting level of brightness AND actually retain the highlight detail too.

Gonna be interesting to see how the Sony transfer looks in HDR, anyways. The sharpness is my #1 concern tho. I've got a clip from the ripped 4K download (SDR), I need to go and have another look at it.

[AutomationLV]

If the same care is taken in mastering the 5th Elemement for 4K is taken with adding HDR (either HDR10 or betterbyet Dolby Vision). Then playing this on an OLED such as even a B series LG will be as if you have never scene the movie before. Also, will likely be almost as good looking on the Samsung's Quantum dot screens for half the money.

And get the 2017 version of the LG. Gone are the days of clipping above your displays Nit limit. They now scale and you can actually see a tremendous amount of detail. Though technically not at the mastered luminance.

Watching now on a W5000 BenQ 1080P projector on a 10' screen and at 10' away the picture is better than cinema. Waiting for JVcs laser projector to get below $3k.

I anticipate the UHD upgrade to be similar to standard def vs HD, even from the 4K blue ray master. HDR is, for lack of a Samsung marketing tool, a quantum leap over 4K in what you can see in the picture.

[SPIDERone]

I'm really glad that this wasn't a day-1 release. SONY tends to release The Fifth Element on formats right at the start. I believe the DVD was a 1997 release, the Blu-Ray (and UMD?) were all early releases on those formats and they could've been better if they had just waited a bit to work out some of the issues.

Seeing this coming out a year or so after the UHD format is awesome -- really hoping its a great release!

[Dubstar]

considering Sony did a 4K mastering for both bluray and a DCP transfer - I wonder how much more they could with a HDR pass of the movie ... this is getting overkill if you ask me ... just put the damn UHD up for preorder already.

[mzupeman]

This film can take great advantage of being seen in HDR. I am intrigued and may have to buy this.

[Geoff D]

There's no "may" about it for me, I'm all over this one. Where's Leon though? As good as TFE may be there'll always be a kind of grittiness there, but Leon was shot anamorphic and should look insanely gorgeous in UHD.

[wesslan]

They better but DV on disc this time since they are all in now

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by wesslan

They better but DV on disc this time since they are all in now

Sony's doing Dolby Vision thing now? How'd i miss that news?

[tyrok]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

Sony's doing Dolby Vision thing now? How'd i miss that news?

A lot of their rentable 4K titles on Amazon have Dolby Vision.

[wesslan]

Originally Posted by tyrok

A lot of their rentable 4K titles on Amazon have Dolby Vision.

And on all their Oleds and other top tier tvs 2017 so it should only be months away since all said DV discs in 2017.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by tyrok

A lot of their rentable 4K titles on Amazon have Dolby Vision.

Such as ... ? ...I want names damn it!

[tyrok]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

Such as ... ? ...I want names damn it!

-After Earth
-Elysium
-Fury
-Hancock
-Men in Black 3
-Pineapple Express
-Salt
-The Smurfs 2

[Quint van der Vaart]

I'm game for a Fury UHD Blu-Ray