Mission: Impossible 1-5 4K UHDs (1996-2015)

[Dreamliner330]

Originally Posted by TitusTroy

this like the Fast and the Furious movies are one of the rare long running movie series to get better as they go along...the MI: Fallout trailer looks fantastic...Henry Cavill looks like the breakout star...

Except for FF8. That was a giant turd. Tied with 2 & 3 for worst of series. 7 was easily the best, followed closely by 5: 7, 5, 6, 1, 4...8...3, 2.

[Sky_Captain]

Nah, mate.

[bbwiscfan]

Paramount deserves some praise here, these are phenomenal upgrades compared to their blu counterparts. There really isn’t a whole lot to be said that hasn’t been said already, the resolution bump is so apparent in GP it’s like you’re looking through a window. Yes, when Cruise is making the climb it’s just as dazzling as you’d expect it to be. Everything is razor sharp here. Detail is impeccable, blacks are gorgeous and deep and the HDR once again brings such a beautiful saturation to the colors you don’t want to take your eyes off the screen! It’s that good. I can see where people like GP the most, but RN is no slouch. That underwater sequence is pretty awesome as well as the bike chase. Just take a look back at GP, when they are driving through the desert, the color of the sand and the blue of the sky. Rich, bold and just lovely. Can’t get enough of these transfers.

I can’t wait to view 1-3. I’m excited and I for one can say you won’t be disappointed by the video on these UHDs, it’s well worth your money.

[lquevideo]

picked up mi 1 at fry's. luckily they had one last copy.
really impressed with the overall upgrade, but i can understand the limitations of the source.
i wore out my vhs copy as a kid, and didn't revisit the film until recently. saw a cable presentation and wasn't amazing.
the 4k does look nice, subtle but nice.
i will say, i was kinda hoping for the noc list room to be retina-burning white like the matrix was in some scenes. the red push is really noticeable in some scene.
but alas, the overall package is pretty good.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Dreamliner330

We can’t be friends.

Problem is I love them all, and 2 and 3 will flip.
But I just cannot hate 2!

[Sky_Captain]

The HDR in M:I-2 just highlights how little they gave a f*** about attempting to match the colour of the skies from shot to shot, in pretty much the entire film.

[Kazuma-]

am i the only one who find ghost protocol the best transfer of 5 ?

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

The HDR in M:I-2 just highlights how little they gave a f*** about attempting to match the colour of the skies from shot to shot, in pretty much the entire film.

It was finished photochemically so it is what it is, we're so used to modern DIs making everything seamless from cut to cut that new transfers like this have decisions to make. Do they use the tools to match the cuts better (which may have been the inadvertent cause of the posterisation on Gibson's boat race in Braveheart) as was done on, say, Groundhog Day, the DP being very conscious of the fact that it was supposed to be the same day repeated over and over, or do they use the new grading as an accompaniment to the original photography and keep that baked-in inconsistency?

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

I managed to get the first three films for $31 at my local Bull Moose, after selling back a few titles. They only had one copy of each. I’m always so grateful to have a Bull Moose in my area... I wish they could expand outside New England.

Originally Posted by TitusTroy

this like the Fast and the Furious movies are one of the rare long running movie series to get better as they go along...the MI: Fallout trailer looks fantastic...Henry Cavill looks like the breakout star...

Justin Lin elevated that series and they fell apart when he left.
His best is 3, his worst 4.

[KcMsterpce]

Mission: Impossible III

Another great presentation. This movie has a lot of shadow, even in broad daylight, and the 4k takes it all in with aplomb. Ethan's black jacket looks great, even when he's hiding behind a black vehicle as rockets and explosions envelope him on a bridge, with the sun's shadow causing the fabric to be steeped in darkness. Well, I saw no crush.
I also love how much color and texture there was in Maggie Q's red silk dress at the cocktail party. Just plain gorgeous; the dress is, too!
The audio is also very robust and active. Do I wish there was an Atmos mix? Of course I do. However, I won't fault the strengths of the TrueHD 5.1 track. It might lack a little "punch" in the LFE, but not enough for me to care. I could just jack up the sub a couple/few notches, but I was having too good a time to care. It would have benefited from an Atmos track more than the previous two installments, especially during the "airplane chair dump" sequence. Or the bridge attack scene. Oh, and the city street ambiance in Shanghai! Or, perhaps in....

I haven't seen the blu-ray, so I don't have a basis for comparison.

The movie itself:
I remember enjoying this installment back in 2006, and my opinion hasn't changed one bit. This is a very well paced, competently filmed action spectacle. The handheld action bits were given proper consideration for the viewers' potential motion sickness woes by being executed in short bursts, with an establishing shot and/or slower panning/handheld shot interspersed between the shaky insanity. This is especially evident during the haywire parachute jump from the building in Shanghai, and I commend the editing. I was able to maintain geolocational coherence even though everything kept spinning and flopping around!
Also great is the special effects. It looks really good, very organic. This actually might be my favorite Abrams movie. I love Star Trek (2009) as well, but the screenplay has a lot to be desired. Also, his lens flare goes apeshit by that point. In 2006, he still wasn't quite "there" with the overblown flare-festival.

[Show spoiler]Finally, Ethan's woman gets to kick ass in the final moments. I forgot how rad that was.

Nothing like a desperate rookie taking advantage of the tools at hand! I like the abrupt ending, and the final two-shot walking towards the camera. The story has been told. No need to take your time ending it!

[Show spoiler]I had a quiet chuckle at how they didn't reveal what the "Rabbit's Foot" actually is. Basically, it's a MacGuffin; that's all that matters. haha!

I am looking forward to checking out parts 4 and 5 in the next couple days. Hopefully. Depending on how busy I am doing other chores.

[Agent Kay]

It's close to the best JJ if not the best, it's that or Trek for me.
But if we are ranking,

Trek 09
M:I III
Force Awakens
Super 8
Into darkness

[chad_1138]

1-4 are in stock for shipping at Best Buy!!!

[GenPion]

I’m glad these got such great presentations from the sound of things.

[BrandonJF]

Originally Posted by KcMsterpce

I lol'd quite hard at that moment. It's not just that he's catching a scarf caught in the wind - which requires no skill whatsoever to accomplish; has zero bearing on the plot of the movie; is an item that has no relevance or significance to the story (is not a MacGuffin); and is played in slow motion as if he's catching a bullet with his teeth. But also... the MUSIC. The music goes SUPER EPIC when he catches the scarf. I got seriously pumped up!!
Then yes, it continues to focus on her. And him. And him looking at her. And then her. And then him again. Music being all epic and shit.
I LOVED IT.

I don't think that was really supposed to be about the scarf, was it? It was supposed to be about what he might do with the scarf (not that he couldn't have just fit his hands around Newton's neck anyway). Whether it was successful or not, I seem to recall (it's been a while) that there was supposed to be some tension and it was one of those introduction scenes where we weren't supposed to be sure if the bad guy would be "welcoming" to the person who was just sent there to spy on him. She was the ex of a criminal - it seems like we were supposed to wonder if he'd choke her with the scarf.

[cynatnite]

Originally Posted by chad_1138

1-4 are in stock for shipping at Best Buy!!!

Thanks. Got them in my cart. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the rest of my reward points and will get them at a pretty good price.

Watched Rogue Nation last night. IMO, it's a better PQ than Ghost Protocol. Very nice with great HDR, colors and all that.

I just love this movie.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by cynatnite

Thanks. Got them in my cart. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the rest of my reward points and will get them at a pretty good price.

Watched Rogue Nation last night. IMO, it's a better PQ than Rogue Nation. Very nice with great HDR, colors and all that.

I just love this movie.

It’s not every day that PQ is so good that it bests it’s own release

[Geoff D]

Got my UK set today. Have already divvied up the UHD discs into their own separate cases to make my custom versions, I'll sell the BDs as they come in their own neat little case.

[cynatnite]

Originally Posted by ROSS.T.G.

It’s not every day that PQ is so good that it bests it’s own release

Yeah, didn't know it could do that.

Fixed.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

The HDR in M:I-2 just highlights how little they gave a f*** about attempting to match the colour of the skies from shot to shot, in pretty much the entire film.

The thing about the sky is that it does two things:

• Changes color throughout the day (keep this in mind when you select the 'Daylight' white-balance on your still cameras folks)
• Changes color and luminosity depending on camera angle (north is a whole lot different than south, and both change throughout the day as mentioned in the first bullet).

And of course those scenes took days to shoot.

So if they went through all the trouble of matching temperature and tint for the sky in post-production from scene to scene, everything else would change (actor skin tones, color of the ground, clothes, etc.).

The only way to compensate for that during the shoot is to always shoot during the same hour or two ("alright, everybody back here tomorrow at 2pm") and always keep the camera pointed the same direction. And if clouds show up that weren't there the day before, you either don't shoot or accept the change. So they pretty much want to do as much as they can in one day.

Chris

[IXOYE1989]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Got my UK set today. Have already divvied up the UHD discs into their own separate cases to make my custom versions, I'll sell the BDs as they come in their own neat little case.

You don't care about the special features on the BDs?