Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K UHD (2018)

[elwaylite]

Not as good as the last one, but the PQ and AQ are great. Looking forward to Jurassic World III

[Vangeli]

It'll be the spiritual successor to Sharknado; "DINOTSUNAMI!"

[ndtechie05]

Originally Posted by Cherokee Jack

Appreciate the the suggestion but REDcard members shouldn't be dealing with this second rate shipping in the first place. It'd be one thing if it was just a standard membership card but you'd think they wouldn't cheap out on people who go to the trouble of getting a credit or debit card through the company.

I hear ya. Same thing with the red card. QVC does the same nonsense and you pay for shipping each item individually. Just another way for companies to make more money.

[GasmaskAvenger]

Got the Target 4K store exclusive set up for store pick-up.

Will get it on Wednesday alongside two other new releases.

[slappywhite78]

It seems the Target edition is the way to go.

[Nuck Horris]

Something important not mentioned in the onsite review:

The film was shot in CinemaScope, and is the first entry in the Jurassic Park series presented in a 2.40:1 aspect ratio. The film crew used Arri Alexa 65 exclusively.[91] Several scenes were shot to reference various films including From Here to Eternity (1953) and Dracula (1979), as well as Spielberg's films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).[76][111] Spielberg was shown scenes from the film during production and offered Bayona his opinions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurass...ingdom#Filming

One of only 2 films shot in this format since the 60s, the other being Deadpool 2.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Nuck Horris

Something important not mentioned in the onsite review:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurass...ingdom#Filming

One of only 2 films shot in this format since the 60s, the other being Deadpool 2.

Nope, that's complete and utter nonsense. CinemaScope is the old name for Panavision anamorphic, commonly abbreviated to 'scope, and FK wasn't even shot anamorphic. It was shot flat using spherical lenses and then matted to widescreen just like a thousand and one other movies, literally. It's the first JP to be shown in 2.39 widescreen but we're still waiting for the first anamorphic JP feature.

Deadpool 2 was indeed shot anamorphic but there's nothing to differentiate that process from any of the other dozens of movies that are still shot anamorphic every year.

La La Land is one that did actually harken back to the olden days of 2.55 'scope because they used the full width of the 35mm negative (2.66 cropped down to 2.55) unlike most productions which take into account the Academy sound offset, thus reducing the squeezed 2.66 on the negative down to the correctly framed 2.39 in final projection.

[ROSS.T.G.]

I can wait for Christmas on this one.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by ROSS.T.G.

I can wait for Christmas on this one.

That's what you said about Deadpool 2!

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

That's what you said about Deadpool 2!

[Colson]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

La La Land is one that did actually harken back to the olden days of 2.55 'scope because they used the full width of the 35mm negative (2.66 cropped down to 2.55) unlike most productions which take into account the Academy sound offset, thus reducing the squeezed 2.66 on the negative down to the correctly framed 2.39 in final projection.

I do love La La Land.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by Nuck Horris

Something important not mentioned in the onsite review:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurass...ingdom#Filming

One of only 2 films shot in this format since the 60s, the other being Deadpool 2.

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Nope, that's complete and utter nonsense. CinemaScope is the old name for Panavision anamorphic, commonly abbreviated to 'scope, and FK wasn't even shot anamorphic. It was shot flat using spherical lenses and then matted to widescreen just like a thousand and one other movies, literally. It's the first JP to be shown in 2.39 widescreen but we're still waiting for the first anamorphic JP feature.

Deadpool 2 was indeed shot anamorphic but there's nothing to differentiate that process from any of the other dozens of movies that are still shot anamorphic every year.

La La Land is one that did actually harken back to the olden days of 2.55 'scope because they used the full width of the 35mm negative (2.66 cropped down to 2.55) unlike most productions which take into account the Academy sound offset, thus reducing the squeezed 2.66 on the negative down to the correctly framed 2.39 in final projection.

Can't even blame Wiki for this one, its source links out to a /film article in which Bayona uses the term CinemaScope: https://www.slashfilm.com/j-a-bayona-interview/2/

That’s one of the things I love about TV now, because it… It keeps you on your toes as a viewer, because nobody’s safe and they’ll kill a fan favorite or whatever. Like I love that kind of shock.

Bayona: But at the same time we wanted to make it feel very classic. One of the first things I asked, and I have the support of everyone, was that we are shooting in CinemaScope. We are shooting in 2:40 and never has a Jurassic movie has been like that. But I thought that–

Yeah, it was 1:85, right?

Bayona: Yeah. But I thought that we wanted to make it bigger and we wanted to make it more epic. We wanted to make it… So I had the support of everyone. And I can tell you it looks amazing.

What are you shooting on, Arri 65?

Bayona: Yeah. And it looks amazing. I think that the island looks beautiful.

With the widescreen format, did you look at any particular cinematic inspiration for that? Because, I mean, Leone shot that wide and David Lean famously shot very wide, too.

Bayona: Yeah. Exactly, you know. I think one of the things I’m telling the camera operator is that we need to do a movie that cannot be seen on a plane. So we are using all the format, from the extreme right to the extreme left. So we are filling the frame in a beautiful way. This guy, you have references like, I mean, Vilmos Zsigmond, the movies he did with Michael Cimino. You saw the frame, when you see the frames of these movies and they look like paintings, you know.

Yeah. There’s fore, mid and back, there’s always there’s layers, yeah.

Bayona: Exactly. And Steven, all the Indiana Jones movies and the frames, they look like paintings. And I wanted to have that in a Jurassic movie. So we created this big canvas. And we played out making interesting compositions.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by slappywhite78

It seems the Target edition is the way to go.

The bonus disc being a DVD sucks though.

[formula_nebula]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

The bonus disc being a DVD sucks though.

Anybody know what's on the bonus disc, and how long it is?

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by ROSS.T.G.

I can wait for Christmas on this one.

I said Black Friday but just picked up my copy

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

I said Black Friday but just picked up my copy

Lol luckily I have so many coming in the next few weeks that I won’t be tempted.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Nope, that's complete and utter nonsense. CinemaScope is the old name for Panavision anamorphic.

Keep in mind the first CinemaScope films didn't use Panavision lenses or cameras, they used Bausch & Lomb lenses (famous or infamous for the "CinemaScope mumps"). But filmmakers to this day will call a film shot in Panavision or some anamorphic process as "'Scope." It just refers to the 2.35-ish ratio, as Bayona is doing.
Some great info here http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingcs8.htm


(Yeah, yeah, nitpicking I know - that's why we calibrate our sets, no?)

[nusilver]

Originally Posted by formula_nebula

Anybody know what's on the bonus disc, and how long it is?

From here:

• Hollywood Royalty (2:57)
• Fallen Kingdom: The Villains (3:48)
• To Live and Die in Jurassic World (5:13)
• Zia & Wheatley (3:11)
• The Fallen Kingdom Rises: Production Design (7:53)
• Secret Revealed: Maisie (3:18)
• Giacchino/Bayona (6:43)

I really wish literally every cover they've released for this movie wasn't so crap-tastic. I didn't love the movie to begin with, but my general enjoyment for most of the the other movies makes me want to own this. Probably not the Target version, though. That sounds like a bunch of fluff to me.

[cgpublic]

Soaking in the J before tonight's screening of the best Jurassic film since the first, which just may lead to a marathon of moar roar:

[RD1973]

Did anyone get this at Barnes and Noble? The website seems to list an exclusive for $39.99. No idea what it is though. It doesn't even have a picture.