Blu-Ray Discs: Your Top 5

With all the news as of late, I can imagine that there will be a few people turning to Blu-Ray (like me) sometime in the near future. For the past few months I've been reading reviews on this site for movies in all formats, but I'm still interested in finding out some information from Blu-Ray owners:

What are your Top 5 movie recommendations of the format currently?

For "movie" value or "transfer" value?

Like "POTC - At World's End" was a great transfer, but I'd probably not put it near my top 5 list for entertainment value Same for "Shoot Em Up" - demo quality transfer, but just darn right silly in the movie department. Movies like "The Host" though I thought were underrated both for movie value and what I thought was demo quality video material.

Do Warner titles count?

If you are talking about recomendations on PQ, you have to go with the disney tittles. They have some of the best transfers right now. They will defenetly make your tv shine....

These five are both amazing movies and have spectacular pictures. Sound varies from excellent to spectacular.

Apocalypto
Blade Runner
Close Encounter of the Third Kind
2001
3:10 to Yuma

But it's hard to only pick 5. Here are a few more great looking and sounding titles:

The Rock
Crimson Tide
Deja Vu
Gone in 60 Seconds
Enemy of the State
Underworld 1 & 2
Hellboy
Halloween
Dawn of the Dead
King of New York
Stir of Echoes
Swordfish
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Fifth Element (remastered)
Black Hawk Down
Reservoir Dogs

And which Blu Ray player do you use vortex?

The first generation Philips, the BDP9000. It's been good to me for over 9 months, but in a few weeks I'll be giving it to my parents since thay have a nice new Philips LCD TV anyway. That should be a good match.

I'll be buying a PS3 soon, but I'm also getting a PC Blu-ray drive and either the upcoming Panasonic DMP-BD50 or Pioneer Elite BDP-05FD in a few months. This way all the rooms in the house will be covered.

casino royale
troy
kingdom of heaven
the corpse bride

And I cannot believe no one has mentioned ratatouille! That has to be the most amazing looking disk on BR right now.

Spiderman 2 isnt shabby either

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[Post edited by markleville01 on Feb 17, 2008]

Ratatouille and Cars are supposed to look amazing on bluray.

From the instore Blu displays I've seen Cars and Ratatouille looked incredible. Once Blu hits my pricepoint I think Cars will be my first disc. Thanks for everyones input on this. It's good to know what are the good transfers and what to avoid.

Hell it looks amazing on SD DVD, so I am sure it looks flippin amazing on Blu Ray.

Still the hands down best transfer I've seen on ANY HD disk is Hot Fuzz. I know its HD-DVD, but my god is that thing clear. Ratatouille is great, but the thing that gets me on CGI movies is they already look incredible as they're generated by computers so high def is almost overkill. I'm much more stunned by seeing realistic shots looking sparkling. POTC 2 was pretty spiffy (though I'm less fond of 3's pq). Lost was pretty damn stunning, too, and a good benchmark of quality for HD presentation.

and, of course, you have Planet Earth. On any format, that's frakking brilliance.

My local store had an offer with 2 free movies so I picked up Apocalypto and Pan's Labyrinth with the player. Yes, I am now converted by the Blu Side of the Force.

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My local store had an offer with 2 free movies so I picked up Apocalypto and Pan's Labyrinth with the player. Yes, I am now converted by the Blu Side of the Force.

Welcome and enjoy!

I have Cars on SDVD and my PS3 unconversion makes it look pretty darn good. I don't own many BD but my favorite is the Fifth Element:Remastered.

Hey Tony, if you really want a true reference quality movie that's also great then pick up Apocalypto. That is id you don't already have it of course. You will definitely not regret it.

gvortex, that was going to be my next post. What do people use as reference material. I have Chicken Little (LOL my 7 yr old's movie, but for a kids movie it packs alot of LFE punch) and the picture and LPCM track running thru my ONKYO is amazing.

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[Post edited by tony1569 on Feb 17, 2008]

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gvortex, that was going to be my next post. What do people use as reference material. I have Chicken Little (LOL my 7 yr old's movie, but for a kids movie it packs alot of LFE punch) and the picture and LPCM track running thru my ONKYO is amazing.

You can also try these:

Crank
The Messengers
Mr. Brooks
Live Free or Die Hard
The Guardian

They're all reference quality for both audio and video. They'll blow your mind. Movie values are a different story. They vary from decent to excellent.

Crank is on my list to pick up sometime soon, but with DeepDiscount's HD blowout I put it on hold.
Im kinda holding off to see if they put out a new version (perhaps the international one) when it gets close to Crank 2's release