Couple of days ago I bought two blu Ray movies that were packaged together at Dollar General store. They were 5 bucks. Final Fantasy Spirits Within and Resident Evil Degeneration.
What are some movies to get for blu ray to start out with?
300
Transformers
Thor
Taxi Driver (4K mastered version)
The Avengers
The Terminator
Alien Quadrilogy
Elysium
Dredd 3D
The blu Ray bonus features any good?
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Lawrence of Arabia
Tron (both classic 1982 version and Legacy sequel)
Steven Spielberg's films
Ridley Scott's films
Ben Hur
2001: A Space Odyssey
the Star Wars saga
the Lethal Weapon films
the superhero movies
Alien
American Psycho
Fight Club
A Nightmare on Elm St
The Dark Knight / The Dark Knight Rises
Halloween
all look spectacular on Blu Ray and are great transfers.
Alien Quadrilogy, Transformers, 300 all have excellent extras. Other titles with substantial extras:
Apocalypse Now 3-disc limited edition has excellent extras, as do all the other Transformers 2-disc versions.
Most older titles were simply loaded with the existing DVD extras, often in standard definition. Some, like the Lord of the Rings films and Hellboy 2, simply come with the same DVD, others port the SD extras to Blu Ray. One title which really shows off the capability of BD to provide unique extras is Return to House On Haunted Hill - this one has an interactive "choose your own path" mode with literally dozens of possible outcomes. Also some BDs have interactive extras which allow you to branch out from the film and watch scene-specific extras either in a smaller window or as branching clips before returning to the film. Crank: High Voltage has a cool switchable Picture in Picture mode that can be switched from big PIP/small movie window or vice-versa.
Get the remastered edition of JAWS.
Looks like it was made yesterday, you will be stunned.
JAWS: I agree. I've seen JAWS a lot of times in cinema and on home video and the transfer and restoration job done for this blu-ray is by far the best-looking version of JAWS I've ever seen. With the exception of the opening dolly shot of the kid chasing Chrissie along the Amity boardwalk at night, where the edge of the darkness on the left side of the screen looks faded red a bit, this is a perfect, flawless version of the classic 1975 shark movie. Universal even used this restoration to make a new legacy 35mm negative of the movie to make future 35mm prints from for theatrical re-releases!
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Street Fighter II The Animated Movie (1994) It hasent been released yet but Discotek Media will be soon. :).