A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

If you read that carefully you'll see that it says that KOCS has 450 effects shots in the whole movie. Thats only 100 more than the original Star Wars had in 1977. Thats not very many for a modern movie.

Doug

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

I think Crystal Skull is kind of Lucasfilm's test case for blu-ray. If it sells well expect to see more Lucasfilm product on blu-ray in the near future.

Doug

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I agree. Provided this release does well it will be hard for LucasFilm to not add Blu-ray releases this to their revenue stream considering the market is already saturated with both single disc and boxset versions of Star Wars and Indy.

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

back in 1989 I was more excited about the new batman movie with keaton then indy 3. this year I was more hyped up for indy 4 then dark knight. I know that some do not like this new movie.. I liked it for many reasons. one was that it was harrison ford best movie in a while. the last 3 before this were just terrible.. so when you compare it to those.. then indy 4 is much better. I thought shia did fine as mutt.. a differnt role from transformers. it was also a fun movie and much better then either the stupid mummy films or even national treasures films. I look forward to getting indy 4 on bluray.

Jacob

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

It's ironic that someone with a username of TheBat is more excited about Indy than Batman.

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

that was when I was a batman fan.. died out after the forever and B&R.. and never really recovered.

Jacob

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

Came early as anticipated so saw the whole lot today.

PQ I would only give 9.5/10 not quite perfect as intentional grain is everywhere in the night scenes and first half of the movie. Spielberg loves the grain texture of film as opposed to digital so this is as good as his movies get until (if ever!) he uses digital cameras & film.

Audio is 10/10 reference quality. Very deep bass (had to turn down from the THX reference levels!!) and good directional effects. Ben Burtt demonstrates he is a master of sound design. This should be an oscar winning sound mix but as its a sequel not sure if it will be.

With regards to people talking about what is obvious CGI and hating on it (Prairie Dogs, Monkeys & Jungle) it all looked a lot more natural on Bluray and TBH the Prairie Dogs looked very real to me. The monkeys I noticed 1 quick cut where some of them in the background were not rendered with as much detail as the foreground but unless you were looking for it not that bad at all (the thing that compounds it is that the CG lighting was slightly oversaturated and needed more work to look natural).

The Jungle I cannot understand why people are moaning about as its a real location in Hawaii!! according to the Extras on Disc2 and almost the entire chase is not CGI but I admit looks like it due to the set background lighting choices made on location.

The extras are spread out over both discs and some of it has already appeared in low res on :: INDIANA JONES - OFFICIAL SITE :: but its all in HD here and some are longer. Best docs to me were the ILM & Ben Burtt ones (which are not on the official website) the rest were ok but mainly typical recent Spielberg DVD EPK level stuff with no real depth to them beyond the sound bite.

This movie is very solid and entertaining once you can adjust to the 1950's era Indy.

Spielberg hits it out of the park with his smooth shooting & editing styles. Ford is so natural in the part that you forget its been 19 years since TLC.

I hope that Indy5 comes sooner rather than later as there is just about enough mileage left for the years!!

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

I would have knocked points off for not having "intentional grain." That the disc attempts to reproduce the film's actual appearance rather than presenting noiseless, over-processed data gives it bonus points. (See: Patton.)

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

Ain't nothing wrong with grain.

Re: A few words about...™ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - in Blu-ray

It is interesting in that Steven Spielberg did not want KOTSC to be shown on digital theatre screens. He finally backed down since there are some theatres that are all digital with only a couple of 35mm small houses for the independent films. I was told by a friend at Paramount that the digital prints for the theatres were softened to give it a 35mm look. I saw the film in digital and was still impressed with the picture, I also enjoy the film.

I have not seen the BR version yet, but will pick it up next week. It appears from the reviews and postings in this thread that Mr. Spielberg tried to make this BR as film like as possible. Thank you Mr. Spielberg.