Blu-ray Discs: Reviewer's Recommendations - Page 17

Ralph how do you like those Canton speakers? Nice to see someone else rocking them. They don't get much love on AVS.
Thanks for the list. I have been using it as a buying guide. I watch more movie than most normal people, but will buy about anything for good sound.

Ralph: I'll send you my wish list of BD's.. You could play Santa for me .. Great reviews, keep up the good work.. Matt

I picked up some more good ones worth considering -

Title
Black Hawk Down Action Adventure Drama
Chocolat Action Adventure Drama
The Godfather 1 and 2 Action Adventure Drama
Hot Fuzz Action Adventure Drama
The Illusionist Action Adventure Drama
Memoirs of a Geisha Action Adventure Drama
The Prestige Action Adventure Drama
Arthur Family Comedy
Out of Africa Romance / Romantic Comedy
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Sci Fi Fantasy
Sin City Sci Fi Fantasy

My personal add-on for the list would be Vantage Point (especially for video)!

I can't wait to see if Immortals falls on this list. As of this writing, I don't think it's on Blu yet, but I have great expectations for it. I saw it in the theatre and I hope it will transfer over well.

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium -
I just bought this and really enjoyed it. This is a great one to have playing when you have guests over.

The Last Play At Shea, staged on July 16 and July 18, 2008 before a combined 110,000 fans, comprised the final performances ever at the historic stadium. Live At Shea Stadium contains two and a half hours of hits and album favorites, featuring special guests Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, John Mayer, John Mellencamp, Steven Tyler and Roger Daltrey.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Prelude/Angry Young Man
2. My Life
3. Summer, Highland Falls
4. Everybody Loves You Now
5. Zanzibar
6. New York State Of Mind (with Tony Bennett)
7. Allentown
8. The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
9. She's Always A Woman
10. Goodnight Saigon
11. Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
12. Shameless (with Garth Brooks)
13. This Is The Time (with John Mayer)
14. Keeping The Faith
15. Captain Jack
16. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
17. The River Of Dreams/A Hard Day's Night
18. We Didn't Start The Fire
19. You May Be Right
20. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
21. Only The Good Die Young
22. I Saw Her Standing There (with Paul McCartney)
23. Take Me Out To The Ballgame
24. Piano Man
25. Let It Be (with Paul McCartney)

BONUS PERFORMANCES
Walk This Way (with Steven Tyler)
My Generation (with Roger Daltrey)
Pink Houses (with John Mellencamp)

I also bought this one too. If you like Adele - this is a must have. Great sound and picture. Also came with a CD of the concert. Catch the preview on youtube. Warning - she does have a potty mouth.

My favorite concert on Blu-Ray is still Pink Funhouse Tour: Live In Australia. It's like a cirque du soleil show. She does a great Bohemian Rhapsody. I have had guests who have never heard of her mesmerized by the show. Very entertaining.

I am eyeing the Sting in Berlin concert next.

Hey guys


dvd "3 idiots"


subtitles
Half english

Guys Ive seen this movie 4 times
I rarely watch a movie twice.




Basically 3 engineering students in india studying and unravelling lifes lessons

movie"s funny
clever sad .

Perfect

Need an official review of Redline (was just released 1/17.) It's an anime film with near reference video and 5.1 surround audio and a different experience than any other animated film - it's basically the tron Legacy of anime...

Got my US release in yesterday and watched it for ~ the 15th time on Blu-Ray last night (have the Japanese & UK Special/Collector Edition releases) and it was still as awesome, hilarious, and exciting as ever (in Japanese w/English subtitles...not too keen on the English Dub...)

Also looking for your review of Moneyball starring Brad Pitt. I got this the week it was released and thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course it helps to be a baseball fan.

Thanks all - keep the recommendations coming ... I picked up these now too ...
Black Book
Flight of the Phoenix
King Kong
Salt
Space Cowboys
The Sum of All Fears
Thomas Crown Affair
Star Trek Wrath of Khan

I liked 3 idiots a lot, too.

Any recommendations for top notch foreign blurays?

Top notch foreign - I just picked up Black Book and Red Cliff. I really enjoyed Black Book for the story too. I can't wait to see Red Cliff (preview looks great). They use House of Flying Daggers as a demo at Gramophone - for sound and picture - and really enjoyed that one too. It's much much better than Couching Tiger Hidden Dragon - quality, story and effects.

I didn't see anything for moneyball in the threads or the database. If there is no review for it, I would like to recommend it! Thanks!

Sent from my nexus s 4g via the AVS Forum app.

Ip Man 1 and 2.

I'm happy to see Rambo on the list! Nothing makes me appreciate my LFE more than when you hear that .50 caliber go THUNKA-THUNKA at the end. Makes me smile every time.

I watched the 2011 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last night - and then watched the original 2009 European version on netflix to see how it compared. The Euro version seemed very choppy. The 2011 version had a better overall flow.

My opinion tho - Noomi Rapice is much better looking Lisbeth than Rooney Mara's version. I would not toss Noomi's Lisbeth out of bed for smoking. The movies are pretty rough stuff though. Rated R for disturbing violent content including rape, grisly images, sexual material, nudity and language. I would typically avoid a film like this - but it was a very good story (and my hunch was right on what was going on - but still I was not disappointed).

Also check out Noomi Rapice in the trailer for Prometheus (Alien prequel coming this summer). I am more stoked about that movie. I have watched the trailer 20 times now.

Solaris (Original)

+1 for Redline and Jurassic Park, they are absolutely beautiful, both in picture and sound. JP in particular was very "in your face".

I really enjoy coming back to see how often this list gets updated. IO have most of the movies on here and look forward to seeing if The Avengers and John Carter makes the cut when they come out.
Not listed but definitely on my on list are the following movies for both sound and video.
The Warriors Way
Season of the Witch
Sucker Punch
X-Men: First Class
The Island

Super 8

Redcliff 1 or 2 offer both top notch video n audio quality. Make sure u test out the Taiwan version which is the reference standard.

ok - I'm going to go out on a limb and ask if there is a definitive list of criteria that gets used to determine what goes on the list and what doesn't? You guys can tell me to go pound sand now if you'd like.

thanks Ralph - it makes perfect sense to me but then my head moves in mysterious ways sometimes - also I don't know of a better group than the AVS clan for setting this kind of standard - I'll be on the look-out for your paper. Fired up?

Thanks for all the work you do Ralph.
Just finished watching Sin City I was amazed at how crisp that film looks. I would have never thought a black and white film could look so good.
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