What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Graham Ritchie]

Every so often, if I am in the right frame of mind to watch a film that I have seen a few times before tonight was it with "Airport 75" The picture quality with this French blu-ray is very good, I just have to go to the menu at the start to select "original" soundtrack in English that is

[Graham Ritchie]

Its hard to believe its been now 15 years since I ran this film during the school holidays. I still remember doing the schedule for those holidays and cramming in as many sessions of Mr Bean as possible. I took the gamble, that there were more people like me who like Mr Bean. Two days before the holidays were to kick in the numbers for the prior Thursday and Friday were not that great. So here was me with all those screenings in the schedule to, I was starting to think, I have made a "boo boo". Well on the first actual day of the holidays, being the Saturday "Mr Bean's Holiday" took of, one session after another was doing really well, with some being totally sold out earlier.

It was a great relief to, with only a running time of 1hr 28minutes it really was brilliant film to schedule. Needless to say it did very well indeed for those holidays, the feedback also was great. One scene you can see in this attached you-tube video, is where Mr Bean is just about to catch up with the ute, when the dog jumps out at him. From the projection room I used to like watching the effect of that moment, people really did jump, it worked every time, plus I used to turn up the monitor on that music number, it was brilliant I really liked it.

Anyway I watched the blu-ray tonight using the Panasonic VP, here are a couple of screen shots from one of my previous ones.

[Graham Ritchie]

Hi Ed

I did watch the blu-ray 3D a while back, cant remember to much about it for some reason. I don't think it had the "wow" factor in the conversion compared with Jurassic Park and some others and that's probably why it didn't leave its mark. I again watched 2049, as just the normal 2D on the Epson and thought it was a good movie, a nice follow on from the original. The effects certainly looked great, story wise that was really good to. .

Regarding brightness on the 2D blu-ray it looked fine to me, it might be a we bit on the dark side but nothing I would have thought as to dark

[Brian Fretwell]

Mark Kermode wrote in one of his books that the most common reasons look too dark in cinemas is because the people running it have not bothered to take the polarising filters off the projector when changing from a 3D film to a 2D one.

The price of not having a real projectionist on site?

[Ed Gordon]

It would be interesting to see the original Blade Runner in 3D. The opening of Blade Runner which as I recall was the last major film to use analog special effects. The fires were real, and special effects set caught fire (after they had the scene "in the can"). Here is the opening scene I am talking about:

They did release Blade Runner 2049 in 3D


I got this one after seeing the movie in 2D at a local AMC with a large screen. I don't know if it was the movie, or the theatre, but the whole presentation was on the dark side. I have not watched the 3D Bluray yet, but the reviews on Amazon are underwhelming.