Skyfall - Page 6

Even if he does pay 24.99 that doesn't make them thieves. It just makes him unlucky. That was the price when he bought it. That's just another case of these people who feel like they are owed something when they are not.

Amazon is not a bunch thieves but you are jumping to conclusion.

Amazon has like the best customer service. Even if they charged the wrong price, Amazon would have credited him for the difference and issued additional $10 promotional credit for the inconvenience. I wish Amazon would over-charge me 

One of three things will happen with Amazon. First is that they will automatically drop your price before they ship. Second, they won't drop your price, but charge you the $24.99 and then issue you a credit in one of two days. The third and it's happened to me, is that they won't automatically drop the price, will increase the price before the release date, and charge you either the $24.99 or the new release day price. Even then, if you complain to customer service you're likely to get a credit between the lowest and what they charged you at release.

I personally always look to see if my order price has been adjusted if I see a price drop. If yes, no problem. If no, I cancel and just re-order because I just don't want to deal with credits on my card.

LOL, this movie doesn't even street 'til next week and it appears to have given you more grief than a tax audit!

Lmao at that, nice

One of life's great pleasures, observing people shelving the planets real issues and focussing on 1st world problems lol.

Just found out from the IRS that my refund was approved and will be deposited in my bank account on the 12th. Same day as Skyfall's release. Quite good timing, I must say.

If you're counting on a tax refund to be able to justify the purchase of a $20 disc, you may want to re-prioritize a little.

Lol. Yeah, upon re-reading what I wrote that didn't come across so great. Probably should have also stated that the refund is allowing me to finally get new tires for my car so while I'm out doing that, I can go and pick up the Blu-Ray once the new tires are on.

If you do preorder, don't you get a refund if the price drops?

I got a bunch of refunds when I preordered the Indy collection and The Game on BD.

Forget him. 007 should be the first priority.

lol you have no idea about cameras do you? whats low resolution? its shot 2.7K RAW and Alexa's dynamic ranga is waayy better than film..Also i personally OWN RED cameras and 5K means (Higher RES) means nothing for some DP's they prefer to choose better color science and higher latitude.
What you ll get more if this movie being shot on Red Epic?(hence some parts in Turkey shot on Epic we rented camera for heli shots i filled imdb info) but he didnt like the Red and he wont never.He s an arri guy from the beginning.
there are many movies shot on 5K Red Epic and they looks like shi* on the bluray.
BTW go watch Assassination of Jesse James

Alexa's dynamic range is certainly not way better than film. They are about the same with advantage to Alexa in the shadows and advantage to film in the highlights. The first camera with (way) better dynamic range than film will be Red Epic with the new Dragon sensor.
Concerning looking like **** you can shoot your stuff with Alexa or Red Epic and it will look like **** on BD if you don't know what you are doing or great if you do. The relevant differences will be visible best at 4K, not 1080p, where Alexa with its half resolution is clearly soft compared to Red Epic.

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/8113/skyfall.html

Review is up. Time to test the limits (and neighbors patience) of the audio receiver this weekend. What's the loudest anyone heard a movie at home? -30db?

I think both the Arri and the Red are great cameras. Lots of films filmed on the Arri look great IE Avengers and Argo. So does films shot on Red IE Prometheus, District 9, Flight, and Total Recall.

I saw Avengers and Skyfall on a 4k projector and thought i looked pretty good! For some odd reason, I always have preferred the "Red" look for films with a lot of CGI like Prometheus and Total Recall while the Arri look for...I guess Dramas.

Just watched Skyfall and it was all I hoped it would be. One of the few blind buys I have ever made. Because of the answers to my questions by members here I pre-ordered this title. Thanks again to members here for answering my questions sometime back.

At some point we will need to ask ourselves when we should transition from "film look" (which is a product of the technology available for so long, along with its limitations) to "life-like" (with the new digital cameras).

It's sure going to look different, but then when 24p was introduced I was over the moon to finally be rid of pulldown judder and 120p presentation even reduced the inherent 24p judder.

I don't see the real world through a film of grain (well, not yet anyway).

Looking forward to receiving my copy of Skyfall.

The PQ of the BD of Skyfall is excellent....good depth and detail.
Needless to say, with Roger Deakins behind it, it is to be expected.

The audio was good enough.

Good to hear Oink im looking forward to it.

I finally saw this last night and thought it was 1 of the better looking and sounding BR's I've seen.

I can agree with some of the complaints about the movie. The ending though is my biggest issue.

And maybe I'm missing something but no one else seemed to have an issue with the following...?!?!
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Does anyone have any issues playing back "Skyfall"? I have a Pioneer BDP-09FD and BDP-05FD... Both players stop after the opening 20th Century Fox splash screen and then nothing...

It plays back fine on a Oppo and a Sony player...

Sorry you are having problems with your Pioneers. Played fine on a Panasonic DMP-BDT220.

Funny. For me it's the other way around. I like Arri more than Red. Red has a flat digital look to it. Arri is digital but it has film like qualities.

Exactly. Too bad Fincher didn't shoot The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on Alexa. The cinematography is great in both these films, but they have this flat, depthless look, also medium shots are not so impressive when it comes to facial detail.

Alexa is wonderful in my opinion, at least in Roger Deakins hands. I can't wait to see what he does next with that camera.

Personally I'm more interested in what the Sony F65 can do. Uncompressed true 4K from an 8K sensor, 14 stops of dynamic range... should make for some lovely IMAX blowups.
Never been a big fan of movies shot on the Red cameras. There's something about the way it renders colors...

That's quite possible seeing as how we only have average multiplexes in the area with basic DLP projection systems. However, I may not like the modern, heavily stylized digital IP "look" and modern amber/teal color timing in general. Give me real 65mm any day. The cinematographic work of Ron Fricke, who normally shoots with large-format film and custom cameras, is breathtaking and far more natural than the work of today's Hollywood DP.

Wasn't Arri supposed to be coming out with a 4k capture and workflow version of the Alexa to compete with Sony, RED, etc.?

It'll be interesting to see what Panavision comes up with in the 4k and 8k arena, seeing as how their Genesis camera wasn't all that great and very video-ish.

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This is all very clearly explained in the movie.

I know that. You missed my point...
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Come on, it's just a movie. Compared to based on magical coincidences Silva's plan, Bond's strategy was masterful.

If it was so masterful why did it end up being a complete failure?

I guess if you mean you liked the way it made the story unfold and how it added to your overall enjoyment of the movie than that's fine.

I think if I was M I'd be pretty PO'd at Bond for being put in that situation.