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silverado

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 7:44 PM

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I was in my office and heard my son and his friend laughing in their room really loud. I ventured down and asked him what was so funny? He was watching Smallville Season 7 on Blu-ray with his PS3 and he said "you got to see this Dad, funny stuff" I sat down and he played a scene where Lex was in a hospital and he had his chest cut up, and the fake skin and cuts was so visible that if you weren't watching for it, you couldn't miss it!!
The Blu-ray version clearly shows it was make up and fake skin that it actually took away from the story. My sister has the SD version and we watched hers tonight and if you aren't looking for it, it is not that noticeable.
My biggest concern with Blu-ray was it might show flaws with movies that would not be noticeable unless you were looking for it.
The Smallville scene was really fake looking and took something away from the story. If Jaws was on Blu-ray and it showed how fake the shark was with the PQ, I know that would take away from the suspense the movie has.
Just me venting my concerns.

Skyhawk

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 7:55 PM

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Don't worry. I saw Jaws on the big screen when it first came out in the theater and I thought it was all completely real! So real, I couldn't go in the water for days! Err... then again I was only like 12 years old ..

Movielover316

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 9:00 PM

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Actually the Shark in Jaws looks very fake, which was on of the reasons Spielberg kept it off screen as much as possible. That and it kept breaking down.

posters5

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 10:10 PM

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mistakes are noticeable in every movie.

watch the battle scenes in "braveheart". the extras stand in the background, look around as if they're confused, half-heartedly swing their swords, and then stand around looking like idiots again. oftentimes, it's apparent that swords didn't hurt anyone, but they pretend that they got hurt.

Tim Raynor

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 10:15 PM

says... It looks fake . . . very fake!

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I seem to remember Marty McFly making a comment about this in Back to the Future II, "The shark still looks fake"!

I totally agree that Blu-ray can bring out the flaws of CGI. While we do get a superior PQ, it can also bring out the fakerfication of many effects, especially with much older films. Plus, I think it's also a matter of what amount of fakery is acceptable because of how the film is presented. For example, a lot of superhero films or certain sci-fi movies, I don't have a problem with some flawerfication because the film is sort of presented that way. However, where I would expect something closer to realification, like Jaws, I think the flaws can tarnishify the overall effectiveness of the movie. There are even times when too much makeup can look flawcerfied in Blu-ray. Overall, hi-def is certainly adding some new challenges for Hollywood to addressify.

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[Post edited by Tim Raynor on Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 10:16 PM]

John J. Puccio

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 10:48 PM

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High definition simply means the format can more closely replicate the source. If the movie's special effects looked fake in a theater, they should look just as fake in high def (as opposed to standard def, which might blur some of the effects). However, high def should not add anything that wasn't there in the first place. I think the problem a lot of viewers have is that they don't go to the movies often enough to know what they're supposed to be seeing or not seeing in their home.

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Mike37

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 11:02 PM

says... http://twitter.com/DoctorTran37

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I was watching the first disc of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, and... in the end of the first episode they go forward in time to 2007. Now as we know, in the world of Terminator you can't travel with anything. You go naked. So they show up naked. The close up scenes were obvious, head and shoulders, however they later had a shot of them running down a small hill and across a construction lot. And you can clearly CLEARLY tell... they're wearing tan body suits. It made me sad. And they were in the background, slightly blurred even.

bladerunner1

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 11:10 PM

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^^^ Or their televisions aren't set up properly. This is kind of a science. And A dying breed as far as ISF calibration goes. I thought we were seeing 4k resolution in movie houses?

silverado

Oct 24, 2008 - CDT 11:48 PM

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OK Jaws was a bad example. I don't have a major concern, just something in the back of my head. If I see a movie in the theater and something makes me jump or puts me in a state of awe, I don't want to see it later on Blu and say "Damn that looks fake as hell!!" I know Bruce wasn't revealed until later on in the movie Jaws, but that was obvious problems and even with a VHS version of the movie, it still looked fake.
This is the first time I have come across something like this (mind you I own 5 Blu and just purchased Smallville) and I hope not to see this being a problem for me.