Starship Troopers 4K UHD (1997) (20th Anniversary Edition)

[Darcy1]

Originally Posted by Adam_ME

Even today? I got my steelbook last night and tried redeeming it and it said invalid. This morning(the official release date) it went through without a hitch.

Did not try today. That must have been the issue. Thanks


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[PissedOffPeoN]

Anyone's amazon order ship by AMZL? they never used that before and it says out for delivery and it is still not here and i can't really track it. O.o?

[cynatnite]

Originally Posted by PissedOffPeoN

Anyone's amazon order ship by AMZL? they never used that before and it says out for delivery and it is still not here and i can't really track it. O.o?

Once it says it's out for delivery, then that's pretty much it until it arrives on your doorstep. The same thing has happened to me a couple of times. Annoying as hell, but it usually comes the next day.

[Pgcmoore]

Originally Posted by PissedOffPeoN

Anyone's amazon order ship by AMZL? they never used that before and it says out for delivery and it is still not here and i can't really track it. O.o?

i call it amazon drive by, they will be there, got something last week at 9 pm, some guy in a car drives up, taps the door and leaves it

[Synchg]

Originally Posted by LoSouL

The HDR and WCG is 100% natural

I have the js8500 tv and k8500 player as well. The picture quality on your tv is couple notches higher but not that vastly different, and i'm gonna have to disagree with you on that, especially the HDR/natural comment. Come on guy, but then again you're using warm 1 sooooo

[chelray1]

Since the new blu ray is the same as the old blu-ray, and since I like the disc art on the old release, I took out the ugly plain disc from the new set and put in the old disc and now Im going to sell the new BD.

[Pgcmoore]

i thought the location shots in the badlands are represented quite accurately in this new release

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[LoSouL]

Originally Posted by Synchg

Come on guy, but then again you're using warm 1 sooooo

And another poster who agreed with my post is using Standard. Neat.

[mzupeman]

Loving this release!

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by JohnnyF

Didn't mean to offend your delicate sensibilities.

I don't have a 4K set up. Given that THE PROFESSIONAL, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, BRAM STOKER's DRACULA and CROUCHING TIGER all had "mastered from 4K" editions it seemed a given that the blu included would also be remastered. Sources at Sony erroneously stated that the blu was a remaster and not a ten year old disc. Roll your eyes all you want, I'm not paying $21 for a disc I can get for $7.

Professional and Fifth Element were released before the 4K UHD format was available.
Crouching Tiger remastered BD is also available as a separate release. There is no separate release of Starship Troopers. It's pointless to buy a 4K UHD version if you have no intention of upgrading.

[JohnnyF]

You're right, maybe I should return it!

[Lord Method Man]

UV won't redeem on Vudu.com here, and the Sony Pictures Site wants me to sign up for an account and it requires that I sign up for spam from them to proceed.

[EbonDragon]

Originally Posted by Lord Method Man

UV won't redeem on Vudu.com here, and the Sony Pictures Site wants me to sign up for an account and it requires that I sign up for spam from them to proceed.

That doesn’t sound right. No retailer has ever required signing up for spam to make an account.

[MagellanvsHimself]

Based on the scenes I scanned through earlier - I think that this is an EXCELLENT looking disc. Grain, effects, fine details, very very nice looking transfer.

[Jpapp25]

Just watched it and it looks great. There was only one scene where things seemed a little off which was the scene where they exit their school and run Denise Richards and Casper Van Dean run over to check their tests scores near the beginning of the film. There seemed to be some awkward stutter as they ran but even that was just a few seconds. Everything else was great and the color looked really good. I've always loved this film as well so no complaints from me on this release.

[cynatnite]

"They sucked his brains out"



Best line of the movie and Michael Ironside saying it with a straight face. I love it!

[DJR662]

Originally Posted by LoSouL

OMG that was so good. I really like this movie and it looks amazing on my end. Some of the posts in this thread had me shook, but Sony came through for me once again.

Skin tones are great (whew). There's no sunburnt orange bake to anybody, these are just a lot of people with healthy skin, good circulation, good tans and a little bit of natural make up. Especially leading man Rico, he's basically a Ken doll, so at times you might think he looks unreal, but he's definitely real. The one shot of him getting a laser tattoo might look a little contrasty and baked, but I think that's just a consequence of him being in the background with superimposed FX on a front layer... rather than the usual live action in front/green screen in the back. Gotta be an original production thing.

Grain? Yeah, it's there. It's immaculate to me, but I guess you're going to hate it if you're allergic to it. The only aggressive, possibly erroneous grain I saw was a total of a few seconds... those seconds consisted of the opening Tristar logo and the moment when the camera cuts to "#4" for a few seconds when they're about to get

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on Denise Richard's watch. I've seen real noise watching Walking Dead season 7 on Netflix last week, and this grain isn't even 1/100th of that.

The resolution makes it look larger than life, super full pixel density, like Leon and Fifth Element. This is what I was hoping for.

The HDR and WCG is 100% natural, and you just see nice color, skin tones, light cast on everybody when applicable and nothing artificial, garish or overblown. The blue light flares and fire effects are perfect. They're not flashing out of your screen like newer movies do, but they're as vibrant and vivid as can be without artificial, revisionist augmentation. Barring all-CG fire in stuff like Great Wall and Skull Island, this might be the best real film fire hue I've seen on the format. It's like that one explosion from the Leon UHD, except it happens more often. The carpet bombing shot will surely impress. None of the shadow is overly darkened to make anything look more modern or heavily atmospheric in a way that it never was. The image may not have the depth and contour that some other releases have, but it is a generally daytime/daylight movie.

CG has aged great. UHD color really helps with that too, I'm sure, but seriously this CG somehow looks like really limber practical effects most of the time. So when it's mingling with actual practical FX and live actors, it doesn't miss a beat. That's seriously impressive for '97, even if it's just bugs. Sure beats Mummy '99 imo.

I'm on a KS8000 with my same old K8500 player, for reference. imo buy with confidence if you appreciate and enjoy this era of films, or just dig Starship Troopers and you're confident in your display capabilities. I think this was the 4th time I've seen it? Excellent movie. Master level mix of satire and playing it straight.

Now this is exactly what I wanted to hear.

Got my copy yesterdat but haven't seen it yet, will probably watch tonight.

[StingingVelvet]

This disc is so gorgeous. Amazing, amazing remaster and put perfectly onto UHD disc like Sony always do. Yes it is grainy, especially darker indoor shots, and yes it looks stunningly film-like and detailed as a result. Daytime scenes pop pop pop and look so detailed it puts 4k mastered digital movies like The Revenant to shame. The CGI and models look much improved with HDR for the most part, though some overly ambitious bits are what they are. My jaw was pretty much on the floor the whole movie though. I put the BD in afterward and literally laughed after a handful of seconds and stopped bothering to compare.

Flesh tones looked perfectly fine to me, and I use Warm 2 like good little boys and girls should. Casper Van Dien is one tan ass dude which might be throwing people off, and some lighting is very warm, but in general I thought flesh tones on Busey, Ironside and the rest looked perfectly normal and lovely. I literally have zero to complain about with this disc, I'd give it a 5/5 if I reviewed shit on here.

[DJR662]

Thanks, SV.

Will definitely be watching this now tonight!

[singhcr]

Awesome! Thanks for the review. I had the DVD, Superbit DVD, and the original BD release and thought they looked spectacular. What you describe here makes me very happy: a wonderfully detailed, film like image with natural colors and depth. If you laughed at a stellar BD this must be something special indeed. Time to add this to my UHD pile. Once I get a job, I will have to start looking at OLED sets and UHD drives because you all sound like you are really experiencing something special, especially these 4K film transfers. I love love love it.

What do you mean when the daylight scenes pop? I hear that term a lot and am not sure what it means. A lot of detail and rich natural color that gives the image a lot of depth? I definitely felt that when seeing Dunkirk in 15/70.

I am really looking forward to seeing the UHD releases of RoboCop and Total Recall, the latter in particular being one of the best transfers I have ever seen. Rich, tight, healthy amounts of grain with loads of depth, detail and wonderful color, odd milky sections being aberrations in my mind given everything else.