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I received the French 2D BD and although I wasn't fussed on the audio mix, the PQ has none of the issues apparent on the US disc.

No drop outs on my redbox bluray rental played thru PS3 and Denon 4520CI.

I have no issues with the audio on the US disc. There are PQ issues, ramped up contrast, brightness and digital noise, which the French disc does not have. The black levels are perfect, unlike the various other releases I've seen, which are too bright, or too dark.

I was shocked by how much digital noise there was in some of the dark-ish scenes. You go from a very good looking image to one that looks like it came from a 2nd tier cable channel. Still, a very enjoyable movie - for me.

How is it, Duke, that you even get your hands on so many copies made for different countries?

FWIW, mine is US and I think it's great! 7.1 is awesome, but I truly envy those who can go Neo:X up to 11.1!

The world is an open market. If you can use the internet and have a credit card and/or Paypal, you can shop pretty much worldwide.

Oh and Amazon...

Region-free. It's the way to be.

I'd hate to see how much you've spent on Dredd alone, you crazy guy you.

Yeah, let's not go there.

I resisted that huge French tinned release, I'm proud of that, lol

Meh, I’d say it would have made a better rental than purchase – I bought the 3D version from Amazon. 3D was off for me and I couldn’t figure out what was up – it was like one eye was off just a bit here and there and I couldn’t get it ironed out no matter what adjustments I made. My tv has adjustments for favoring one eye even and that didn’t do the trick for me. Distance, pop out, etc. didn’t fix it either.

The slow-motion effects as they describe in the extras was pretty cool combined with the 3D I will say. I can’t say that I agree with the commentary that the bloody, gory, bullets through heads and blood spewing were ‘beautiful’ or whatever they called it. It was just gory looking to me personally, but maybe I’m ‘squeamish.’

Overall, I’m not really sure I’m onboard with the theme of the movie/comic generally. I’m not too much for Judge, Jury, and Executioner. I’m more of a 3 Branch System of Government kind of guy myself (with a healthy 4Th Estate pulling its duty) ensuring the adherence to Due Process, etc.

It’s just a movie though. I get it that it’s a futuristic dystopian society depiction, etc. It was enjoyable. Pretty awesome sound fx – the lfe when they went slow-motion was cool.

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