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Blu-ray Samurai
Mar 2009
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Not worth the five star rating given by Empire but still highly entertaining, this film starring Brendan Gleeson is released by Studio Canal on 16th Jan 2012. Amazon is only listing the DVD at £18 so far but HMV and Play have the blu listed at £16. Checking the features listed in the news pages of this site the US Sony release appears to be better featured with a commentary and Q&A not mentioned on the UK release.
Recommended for anyone who liked In Bruges. Sadly, Gleeson's brilliant I Went Down is still unreleased on DVD let alone Blu |
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Really wasn't a fan of The Guard at all. I found that it tried far too hard and came across like a cheap early 90s direct to Video Tarantino rip off. The scene in the car with the baddies discussing their favorite philosophers was one of the most painful things I ever saw, completely ridiculous and seemed to be there for the sake of appearing quirky. It also looked so cheap, had the production values of a day time soap opera, I imagine that the budget went on the cast and everything else was an afterthought.
When they were shooting the film I did meet Don Cheadle on a number of occasions, he was staying in a hotel just down the road from me. He was rather pleasant and was happy to have a chat. |
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Another rubbish transfer from Optimum. Encoded at 1080i, it has also implemented the ICT flag which restricts the resolution via component to 720x576 - so no better than DVD when viewing on an HD projector with component input.
Not a problem if you're HDMI equipped, but a pain if you aren't. No mention of ICT on the packaging, which is a bit underhand. Funny thing is that they managed to encode their company logo/ident in glorious HD, just not the menus or the film itself. I note the US version is a proper 1080p master. Same problem afflicted 'Men Who Stare at Goats' and 'The King's Speech'. Optimum had responded to consumers on the latter thread to state they would look at soucing 1080p masters in future. Well I guess they had a look and just couln't be bothered! Optimum used to do a good job with DVD presentation for the UK, but they just don't seem to get Blu-ray. |
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update never-mind cover has wrong info no surprise checked the website and they clearly state 1080i. got my hopes up there for a second Last edited by josuv22; 01-12-2012 at 06:52 PM. |
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Blu-ray Samurai
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digital fix review, and yup, in 1080i
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Oct 2009
London, UK
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I watched this tonight - really good film. Brendan Gleeson is on top form. Liked the ambiguous ending. What made me laugh is that when you select "play movie" you get the StudioCanal logo intro...at 1080p/24fps - and yet the movie itself is only 1080i!! WTF
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Blu-ray Samurai
Mar 2009
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No complaints about the quality of the US disc except it hasn't half got a lot of trailers at the start. Still, one of them was actually useful as Take Shelter was already on my list for consideration and the trailer for it does look interesting.
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can you confirm the region coding of the us disk
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Oct 2011
U.K
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Just been added to Play's 2 for £10 offer even though it's £15.49 on it's own! 1080i or not i reckon it's worth a fiver!
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/3-/648135/2-/Promo.html |
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