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RE: Recommendations on first Blu-Ray disc.

Posted by cfraser on September 9, 2009 at 12:17:35:
For the most impressive PQ I'd go to one of the more recent comic/superhero flicks. Ones I think look excellent are Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Hellboy (I and II), Dark Knight. But: these are really best appreciated with a good surround sound setup. King Kong has an almost 3D-like PQ, very nice and eerily pretty. I just watched the Incredible Hulk again yesterday, and though it has some really nice and interesting scenery (and IMO a very smooth sound mix, not common for action flicks), Iron Man is still my tops for PQ impressiveness (lots of techy detail to be seen, which I like). Transformers has lots of that too, and does look "good" in its way, but not one scene with "natural" color, and the story and editing is mind-numbing. For animated, Wall-E looks excellent, but again the story is too childish even for me (generally I like Pixar stuff, a safe bet for great PQ). A different type of animated that looks very good is Coraline, better story-wise for adults.

Pirates of the Caribbean (2 and 3, I don't have 1 in BD) are excellent too; actually Disney has a great BD record overall for PQ, as does Sony.

If you like mostly "real people" stuff, Kill Bill 1 and 2 are very well done. Apocalypto looks great too.

Many of the BDs I think are "best" overall are because of their sound mix, along with great PQ of course. I can't really include them because I'm presuming you don't have a surround setup since you didn't mention it...

I have not yet seen a catalog (i.e. old) title that blows me away. Many look truly excellent, but hard to compete at the top PQ level with stuff made recently. Even if they're much better films, that's not what we're talking about... How the West Was Won is a very fine example of a "classic" film done extremely well on BD, quite cheap too. The Searchers as well, a much better movie, but HTWWW is more impressive PQ-wise to me.

Story counts if you're buying, since presumably you will watch the movie eventually and not just "look" at it, so for the first impressive experience (that's worth watching again) I'd have to say Iron Man.