What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight it was the turn of the blu-ray of "Oppenheimer" , I thought that as its a three hour movie, I would most likely watch the feature over two nights. Well I was wrong, I landed up watching it right through, not only that, but one of the special features "To End All War: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb" which ran for 1hr and 25minutes as well.

So it was a long one tonight, with a total of almost 4hrs and 25min of viewing time all up. I don't usually last that long, but it was all very interesting, highly recommend this blu-ray.

[Graham Ritchie]

It was a couple of nights ago after picking up a copy of Jurassic Park "Dominion" this week that I thought I should give it another go watching this movie. The last time was at the cinema, and at the time I was not impressed with it. In fact I was glad to get to the end after getting my ears blasted for over two hours was really enough for me.

So this time round, and the fact I have control of the volume I managed to watch the whole thing, what did I think? well I still don't think to much of the movie. I still feel it really was a missed opportunity with having both the cast members of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World not to come up with I think a better script. As far as the blu-ray is concerned, both the picture and sound are really excellent, and its much more enjoyable to watch on the VP at home than the last time at the cinema. I am glad to have given "Dominion" another go, at the low price for under $20 the disc was worth it. I am looking forward to going through the special features sometime in the near future.

After watching the last two movies, I thought that tonight it was a time for a different direction, what better than just the "Bad News Bears", included here are a couple of screen shots from its last screening with the grandkids.

[Graham Ritchie]

Ed

I just picked up the blu-ray of "Oppenheimer" this week so hope to watch it very soon.

Last night Steven my son payed us a visit and I said I have just the movie for you? what is it? you will see he always does that and I never give away what it will be. I like to keep people in the dark

Well it was this one "Apollo 11" and I must say the 70mm footage is truly amazing to watch. Its a must have to own for any blu-ray collection, Steven was amazed not just of the film itself, but the quality of the image shown on the Epson VP, certainly recommend it.

[Ed Gordon]

Last night I watched the three hour epic Oppenheimer. I decided not to view it in my home cinema since I knew I would not sit still for 3 hours. I had read the reviews, and already knew that this would be a "talking heads" kind of movie, with occasional explosions. I also was well aware of the complaints about unintelligible dialog in Nolan films. I am glad to report my concerns had no merit.

The DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack is superb. Although many scenes have the background music competing with the dialogue, I had no problems understanding the dialogue. Everyone talks a lot in this film, and they often speak rapidly to get across their point.

It's wedded to virtually nonstop music by Ludwig Göransson that fuses with the equally relentless dialogue and monologues to create an odd but distinctive sort of scientifically expository aria that's probably what it would feel like to read American Prometheus while listening to a playlist of Philip Glass film scores.

Credit: Matt Zoller Seitz July 19, 2023, (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/o...lm-review-2023)

The 4k image is excellent, but since the aspect ratio varies from IMAX flat to letterboxed scope, I preferred watching it 16:9 TV screen.

The 3 hour runtime is not a problem. I pressed play on the remote, and did not stir for and hour and 40 minutes. It turned out that at about the 1:37 the film has a perfect place for an intermission. I downloaded the subtitles file for the movie and found the exact spot to break for intermission:

1996
01:37:18,898 --> 01:37:20,733
What do we call the test?

1997
01:37:21,834 --> 01:37:25,605
"Batter my heart,
three-person'd god."

1998
01:37:25,638 --> 01:37:26,739
What?

1999
01:37:28,108 --> 01:37:29,508
Trinity.

Cillian Murphy does a great job carrying the film, and the supporting cast is solid. The film is good enough to merit more than a single viewing.

[Graham Ritchie]

Being Saturday night last night had me thinking should I watch a double feature? something nice and easy to watch mmmm...so I thought all about Liberad A Willy that's Spanish I think for Free Willy, this blu-ray came from Spain but it goes straight to English DTS 5:1 which is neat as its a title you cant get here. The Picture quality is really good as with the sound. A nice step back in time when we all went to the cinema to watch it. Second choice was going to be The Fog but decided on another blast from the past with the live action of 2003 release of Peter Pan that we ran the 35mm print at the cinema long ago.

By the way the Peter Pan 2003 Scope Super8 trailer is really good, With Free Willy I have the 35mm trailer on one of my mix it reels.

Anyway The Fog will be good on its own tonight

A couple of screen shots from last night.






Trailer also on 35mm but as flat not Scope like the Super8

For me the Super 8 feature release is one of the best color films released by Derann and simply magic to screen through the GS1200.