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Cloverfield (2008), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), are a pair of High-Concept horror/thrillers, from Matt Reeves and Dan Trachtenberg (via J.J. Abrams), and they're both fun.
My personal preference is the Lane variant.
The first was shot HD, which means that up-rezzing to 4k will allow viewers to see the details on a monster's tentacles from at least half a mile away. Pretty cool!
10 was shot as data, and looks pretty much the same in 4k as it does on Blu-ray.
Of course, the release of these two exceptionally high-end, highly resolved productions is all prelude to the Netflix release of the appropriately entitled, The Cloverfield Paradox, which strangely, was shot on fillum, and finalized as a DI, sporting Dolby Vision and HDR10, yielding a production of which rogerebert.com's Matt Zoller Seitz noted: "The Cloverfield Paradox" is a bit of a scam job, promising to reconcile entries in a series that have little in common save for a shared genre. It fizzles so badly at the end that you might legitimately wonder if it ever had anything to do with the other two films in the first place, or if it was produced independently of the series and retroactively added."
The important thing to keep in mind, here, is not the quality of the third film, but that Paramount is able to release two totally unnecessary 4k Blu-rays into the wild.
I'd trade all three for a nice 4k of The Court Jester.
Image - 5
Audio - 5 - Cloverfield (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dolby Atmos)
Pass / Fail - Pass
Upgrade from Blu-ray - Cloverfield - Seriously?
10 Cloverfield Lane - No
RAH
My personal preference is the Lane variant.
The first was shot HD, which means that up-rezzing to 4k will allow viewers to see the details on a monster's tentacles from at least half a mile away. Pretty cool!
10 was shot as data, and looks pretty much the same in 4k as it does on Blu-ray.
Of course, the release of these two exceptionally high-end, highly resolved productions is all prelude to the Netflix release of the appropriately entitled, The Cloverfield Paradox, which strangely, was shot on fillum, and finalized as a DI, sporting Dolby Vision and HDR10, yielding a production of which rogerebert.com's Matt Zoller Seitz noted: "The Cloverfield Paradox" is a bit of a scam job, promising to reconcile entries in a series that have little in common save for a shared genre. It fizzles so badly at the end that you might legitimately wonder if it ever had anything to do with the other two films in the first place, or if it was produced independently of the series and retroactively added."
The important thing to keep in mind, here, is not the quality of the third film, but that Paramount is able to release two totally unnecessary 4k Blu-rays into the wild.
I'd trade all three for a nice 4k of The Court Jester.
Image - 5
Audio - 5 - Cloverfield (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dolby Atmos)
Pass / Fail - Pass
Upgrade from Blu-ray - Cloverfield - Seriously?
10 Cloverfield Lane - No
RAH
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