Fifty Shades Freed (2018) / Fifty Shades Collection (2015-2018)

[pacaveli420]

Originally Posted by critterdvd

I purposely only purchased the first two films on iTunes in anticipation of purchasing the trilogy in 4K. However, since Universal decided not to release a 4K trilogy I just went with iTunes again, and I really wish I had splurged for the 4k disc. It's a crap movie, but a wonderfully filmed crap movie that would have looked great in 4K...

https://realorfake4k.com/my-product/...es-collection/
10bit/HDR is still probably enough of a reason though.

[Schecter123]

Originally Posted by JezelleGHartman

Although the digibook is pretty, I’d go for the 4K! As soon as the movie started that was my first thought. “I should’ve went for the 4K” Bc this is the most beautifully shot fifty shades movie ever and although the blu looks fantastic, an extra “pop” would look even better

P.s. I don’t do steelbooks either unless I have to.

Thanks. Just got the digital from iTunes for 14.99. It links to VUDU in HDR so yeah for gift cards!

Still wondering if the DVD from Target is worth it. What's on it anyway?

[emailking]

Originally Posted by emailking

Do these have a pause bar or progress bar when you pause? If so how intrusive on the picture is it? And does it go away after a few seconds or can you down arrow it, or is it just permanently there?

I'm pleased to report that while there is a pause bar, it only just barely intrudes on the movie frame part of the screen, and it can be down-arrowed, for all 3 movies.

The movies have abysmal bit rates, less than 10 MBps most of the times, especially the first 2 movies. I've never personally seen bit rates so low on blu-ray for a high budget movie. The PQ is still pretty good though.

But the 3rd movie (Freed) had a ton of audio issues. 15-20 times during the movie the audio just drops out completely for about a second. It's repeatable, so not a momentary glitch. The closest thing I can compare it too is audio draops for the blu-ray or Total Recall (2012 version). Although those were extended drops and only occurred past the half way point, whereas these were momentary drops and occurred throughout.

The second movie (Darker) has a 2 channel English audio track which has some kind of copyright protection issue or something and if you have an updated blu-ray player it will disable the audio at certain points and put up a message that the audio has been disabled. It's a Cinavia error message. I had never seen something like this before ever. It doesn't happen if you use the 7.1 track. I always use 2 channel track if there is one since I just listen through the TV speakers and those surround tracks come out real quiet. I couldn't do that, because the audio just keeps getting forcibly disabled.

So I was pretty disappointed about these audio issues and the picture bit rate, but I was definitely happy there are no major pause bar issues, and overall it was a pretty positive experience rewatching these on BD.

When I first watched these, they were years apart, as they were released. But really it's almost a continuous story, and there are constant minor references to the previous movies that you only pick up on if you just watched them. So back to back to back I think is the best way to watch these. I guess that will probably be how anybody with the box set watches them though.

[#Darren]

When will we get the sequel where she has a change of heart and charges him with sexual battery and rape? 50 Shades of #metoo

[bennyb98]

My bad if this was discussed earlier, I didn't see it mentioned but when I redeemed tonight on Vudu it only gave me the theatrical version and not the unrated version, anyone else have that issue? I have the discs for both versions.

[Art_Vandelay]

Originally Posted by bennyb98

My bad if this was discussed earlier, I didn't see it mentioned but when I redeemed tonight on Vudu it only gave me the theatrical version and not the unrated version, anyone else have that issue? I have the discs for both versions.

Same thing happened to me.

[bennyb98]

Originally Posted by Art_Vandelay

Same thing happened to me.

I ended up emailing Universal from the Universal Redeem page and they gave me a code for the unrated but I had to take like 10 photos showing the case, disc, a printed copy of my Amazon order all with a sticky note with my ticket number lol. Not sure it was worth the effort haha

[Art_Vandelay]

Originally Posted by bennyb98

I ended up emailing Universal from the Universal Redeem page and they gave me a code for the unrated but I had to take like 10 photos showing the case, disc, a printed copy of my Amazon order all with a sticky note with my ticket number lol. Not sure it was worth the effort haha

Lol yeah not gonna work for me because I just got a code from someone on here. I think what happened is when I redeemed the code I accidentally picked the theatrical version instead of Unrated but I thought it didn’t matter and would’ve redeemed both since there’s only 1 code for both as far as I know

[mulscul]

Does the bonus features in the complete collection include the bonus features that were exclusive to the target versions of each of these films or would we have to track down those versions in addition to the 4ks to get the complete round of bonus features?

[ccateni]

If anyone is still a fan of this franchise (I'm not but I thought I would post this), there's a steelbook release of all three films on the way. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fifty...lu-ray/284208/

[cupboy]

Originally Posted by ccateni

If anyone is still a fan of this franchise (I'm not but I thought I would post this), there's a steelbook release of all three films on the way. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fifty...lu-ray/284208/

I picked up the steelbook this morning at Target.