My boys begged for a PS3 for Christmas so yesterday I picked up a 320G one. I have a 50" Bravia TV which I’ll be hooking it up to but I’d like a movie recommendation to show off the Blu Ray-ness of the system (yes, I got the remote). The guy at the store suggested Inception but I’ve never heard of it.
Any help would be appreciated. Also any games you can recommend… but that may fit better in the Game Room.
Sorry, this was supposed to go in Cafe Society. If a mod could move it I would appreciate it.
My boys got a PS3 last year at Christmas, and the first Blu-Ray movie we watched on it was District 9. Besides being a good movie, I remember being impressed by the HD-ness.
How old are your boys? District 9 is full of the f-word.
13 and 14… I think they have heard it already.
Any of the Pixar movies look amazing on bluray (Toy Story 3 is one of the best). Iron Man and the Batman movies are great as well.
blue-ray.com has really good reviews of both the movies as well as their BR quality.
Nice 50" big screen HD TV and a sub-HD console. Makes a panda sad.
For awesome blu-ray goodness try just about any action-y block buster. Avatar, Iron Man 2, Braveheart, The alien movies, Lord of the rings, etc.
The higher resolution will make most movies look amazing, really. Stay away from indie movies shot at crappy quality like the zombie flick 28 days later, for example. The movie is great, but it was not shot in HD, so it won’t show off Blu-ray’s capabilities.
PS3 games… Mass Effect 2 is coming to it soon. Heavy rain and Uncharted got great critic reviews. The latest metal gear game and little big planet are also staples on that system.
Get Planet Earth and Life. I’ve seen them in 1080p and they are just stunning.
Get the BBC versions rather than discovery, the narration is better.
Why is it a sub HD console? I didn’t really get it for the Blu Ray but thought that was an added bonus. I thought they were all basically the same.
I would suggest that the answer to that would be offtopic and a hijack. I know he runs a HTPC and you referred to games, so I guess he’s commenting about how the games won’t actually take advantage of the TV and run at 1080p typically. The movies will though.
Moving to CS from GQ.
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I just asked something similar–some great suggestions in What’s your reference CD/DVD(s) for testing a new system?.
28 Days Later was filmed on 35mm, which has a much higher resolution than anything in 1080p. Also - the PS3 is a fantastic bluray player.
28 days later was shot on Canon’s XL1, which is a consumer grade camera and uses standard def digital (DV). I remember there being some commentary about it at the time of release.
That’s not what IMDBsays, or am I reading it wrong?
Ah - looks like just the ending was 35mm, the rest was on a Canon DV camcorder. The blu-ray.com review covers that.
One thing that confuses people is “why in the world would I buy an old film on bluray - they didn’t have HD back then!”, when in fact, filmstock is in a much higher resolution than you’ll ever get on bluray.
“DV (source format)” is what it was recorded in. “Printed film format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)” is what they copied the original source onto in order to send to movie theaters.
I think.
Here’s quite a bit of info about it.
This is true, but it depends on whether they’ve preserved the original film masters. Sometimes they have to make DVDs out of something of lesser quality if that’s all that’s still around.
The last 5 minutes of the movie were shot with 35mm film, yes. And those last 5 minutes look fabulous. The other hour and a half, not so much.
I know. It was the first blu-ray movie I picked up for my HTPC. I was disappointed to say the least.
EDIT: You guys ninja’d me!
Second this. Absolutely breathtaking.
Getting back to the OP for a moment - you’ve never heard of Inception? It was one of the most widely discussed movies of the year.
Saving Private Ryan, for both the visuals and the sound.
And The Fall looks stunning in Blu-Ray.