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post #61 of 77
9/20/11 at 1:32pm
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Yes and yes. There was also a quick reference to "Stark" (Iron Man) earlier in the film.

The Avengers in 2012 and Thor 2 in 2013 (has a script and has been greenlit). Always liked Thor. Was a mythology and comic book fan as a kid. He can cause some serious collateral damage when he gets excited. I liked the movie and they certainly teased that aspect with the fairly sparse action scenes (during hammer time). The film did a great job of grounding the story for non-geeks. Great fun.
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post #62 of 77
9/24/11 at 7:25am
Watched this last night on blu (2d version) and I enjoyed it MUCH more at home vs the $1 theater I watched it in. Awesome video, and the audio was as reference as anything I have heard this year..........WOW! Incredible dynamics, great surround use and the standout......LFE......man the LFE was just fantastic! TONS of it and incredibly powerful/potent. The last big action scene had absolutely stunning .1 activity and I was floored.......loved it!

Thanks for the review Ralph and needless to say I agree with your thoughts on this one.

Will be adding this to my collection when I can find it on sale.
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post #63 of 77
9/24/11 at 12:21pm
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Watched this last night on blu (2d version) and I enjoyed it MUCH more at home vs the $1 theater I watched it in. Awesome video, and the audio was as reference as anything I have heard this year..........WOW! Incredible dynamics, great surround use and the standout......LFE......man the LFE was just fantastic! TONS of it and incredibly powerful/potent. The last big action scene had absolutely stunning .1 activity and I was floored.......loved it!

Thanks for the review Ralph and needless to say I agree with your thoughts on this one.

Will be adding this to my collection when I can find it on sale.

Greetings,

Glad to hear it Todd. Enjoy!

Regards,
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post #64 of 77
9/25/11 at 8:24pm
1:07 into Thor blue blob on guy's face at the bar talking to Thor.....behind them highly oversaturated blooming colors......Other blue blobs found but I don't have the times on them....

Other horizontal blue saturation streaks appearing from lights etc....

Both on blu-ray and standard DVD.....

Tried different players, different TV's, changing all kinds of settings upgrded all firmware.

If you back off color saturation to lessen the effect, the rest of the movie looks washed out....If you try to just block the blue saturation on the TV other sections are not balanced.....

Looks like a bad color rendering with no one tending the copy machine. This probably will not be able to be fixed....too bad......love the imagery and the movie.

Anyone else got the "blues" over Thor..???
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post #65 of 77
9/26/11 at 4:10am
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Originally Posted by Ron Temple View Post

The Avengers in 2012 and Thor 2 in 2013 (has a script and has been greenlit). Always liked Thor. Was a mythology and comic book fan as a kid. He can cause some serious collateral damage when he gets excited. I liked the movie and they certainly teased that aspect with the fairly sparse action scenes (during hammer time). The film did a great job of grounding the story for non-geeks. Great fun.

Thor was my favorite "super hero" as a kid also. I like the way he talked in the comic books and also the mythology of the Norse gods. One thing I really enjoyed in the movie was when Thor would be in the air and twirling his hammer...IMO they did such a good job with the special effects and it looked very real. It was just like he did in the old cartoons! I had been wondering before I seen the movie if they would be able to have him do that, and was very please that they did.

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post #66 of 77
9/26/11 at 10:54am
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1:07 into Thor blue blob on guy's face at the bar talking to Thor.....behind them highly oversaturated blooming colors......Other blue blobs found but I don't have the times on them....

Other horizontal blue saturation streaks appearing from lights etc....

Both on blu-ray and standard DVD.....

Tried different players, different TV's, changing all kinds of settings upgrded all firmware.

If you back off color saturation to lessen the effect, the rest of the movie looks washed out....If you try to just block the blue saturation on the TV other sections are not balanced.....

Looks like a bad color rendering with no one tending the copy machine. This probably will not be able to be fixed....too bad......love the imagery and the movie.

Anyone else got the "blues" over Thor..???

Upstairs old Vizio and old 40gb PS3 we saw blue streaks with the DVD. Downstairs with slim PS3 and LN52a650 didn't notice any streaks playing the BD, though I took my eyes off the screen for a bit (making breakfast).
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post #67 of 77
9/26/11 at 5:53pm
On my projector, many of the Asgard scenes seems to be out of focus. I tried on both my Elite plasmas and the "problem" persists. Is this supposed to be intentional?
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post #68 of 77
9/26/11 at 8:39pm
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Originally Posted by David Susilo View Post

On my projector, many of the Asgard scenes seems to be out of focus. I tried on both my Elite plasmas and the "problem" persists. Is this supposed to be intentional?

I thought the same thing before realizing that I'd put the DVD in instead of the BD.

They hid the BDs under the Digital Copy paper on the left instead of putting it on the right of the case...
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post #69 of 77
9/26/11 at 9:15pm
That's what I originally thought to the point I took the disc out to make sure I didn't insert the wrong disc. Bit it's the BD for sure.
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post #70 of 77
9/27/11 at 11:11am
I saw this in IMAX 3D in the theater and the Asgard distance shots were slightly blurred and grainy. The BD on my Mits DLP are better (in 2D), but I think that it's just a production error that didn't get fixed. For a good looking film, it's pretty egregious.
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post #71 of 77
9/27/11 at 11:13am
I think it's pretty sad when the CG is actually blurrier than the actual non-CG material
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post #72 of 77
10/2/11 at 3:09pm
Don't bother with the 3D version. It's a fairly poor 2D conversion.
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post #73 of 77
10/29/11 at 11:09am
Finally had a chance to rent this last night, fun movie!
And helllllllloooooo lfe! As others have mentioned it was the star, deep, tight, room filling, accurate, vibrate the hairs on the back of your goodness
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post #74 of 77
11/25/11 at 11:21pm
Anyone play the 2D BD on an Oppo BDP 83 via analog outs? Loved the movie. Great sound but with a few scenes I get a pop in the rears. Always reproducible and at all volumes so I don't think it's clipping. No problems at any other times but always reproducible at about the 1hr 32 minute mark as Thor flies toward Loki over the rainbow bridge. As he passes the "pillars" it pops. I do not have any other bd player with analog outs to test. On a ps3 with another receiver via bitstream I don't get this.
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post #75 of 77
12/1/11 at 5:53pm
Have a PS3 and PN59D7000 tv that both have the latest firmware but when I go to play Thor 3D a blue screens comes up and says in order to play this disc it requires a capable HDTV and Bluray player, which I have... I can play 3D from the sat dish like ESPN3D... confused!
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post #76 of 77
12/1/11 at 7:37pm
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Have a PS3 and PN59D7000 tv that both have the latest firmware but when I go to play Thor 3D a blue screens comes up and says in order to play this disc it requires a capable HDTV and Bluray player, which I have... I can play 3D from the sat dish like ESPN3D... confused!

Are you running with an HDMI cable? Is it passing through a receiver at all (perhaps non-3D capable)? Maybe there's a setting on the PS3 to turn on/off 3D, I don't particularly know myself. I only ask these because I have the same two things (59D7000 and PS3), and I'm not having any problems with 3D Blu-ray discs whatsoever.
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post #77 of 77
1/29/12 at 1:25pm
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Watched this last night on blu (2d version) and I enjoyed it MUCH more at home vs the $1 theater I watched it in. Awesome video, and the audio was as reference as anything I have heard this year..........WOW! Incredible dynamics, great surround use and the standout......LFE......man the LFE was just fantastic! TONS of it and incredibly powerful/potent. The last big action scene had absolutely stunning .1 activity and I was floored.......loved it!

Just saw this last night in my theater...wow what a fun movie to see and hear with the wife and company..
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