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 House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray] :: 140271386X
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Author: Guest
I purchased "Flying daggers" thinking it would be an interesting and beautifully filmed action movie. while it is that, I was surprised at the depth of the love story that propels this movie forward. It seems more a fable of old, a story meant to convey a moral lesson and it does and I found myself truly enjoying (and missing) this genre. I would highly recommend this movie. Just be aware that it is not an all-action tale but rather an very sweet love story with some very cool fight scenes.
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Author: Guest
I have the DVD of this, and in most of the movie, the DVD version looks better. The Blu-Ray version is so blurry and out of focus that I thought something was wrong. The only thing on the whole disc that looks nice is the trailers for Hitch and Resident Evil 2, which are sharp and colorful.
The sound in the movie is great, with uncompressed LPCM 5.1 (which has a bitrate so high that its about the same as the VIDEO on a DVD (around 4500kbps) and it also has DD 5.1.
I guess since this is a first-gen Blu-Ray disc that it will look a little blurry, but I can't understand why the movie looks so bad, but the trailers look amazing.
Hopefully, future Blu-Ray discs will look better.
Using an Acer Travelmate 8210-6038 to watch the Blu-Ray.
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Author: Guest
I picked up a copy 2 days ago and I looks gorgeous. I couldn't believe many of the reviews I've seen that said the picture quality was awful on this picture. The colors of this movie are stunning, with rich blues, greens, reds, fire red.
I have a 55" Sony SXRD screen and a PlayStation 3 for Blu-ray player. I would not hesitate to use this disc to show off how good the TV is.
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Author: Guest
I just finished watching this on my Sony blu-ray disk player and Fujitsu 50 inch plasma tv and the picture was so sharp and clear that you can see individual hairs on the actors heads. This is an amazing movie the colors, costumes and beautiful disk, I think some of these people that are complaining about blu-ray don't have true HDTV's. I have this on DVD and it looks terrible compared to blu-ray.
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Author: Guest
Since none of the other reviews for this movie seem to focus on the Blu-Ray disc, I decided I'll throw my $.02 in.
The movie is a very good, well told story. The other reviews tell you that. What they don't tell you is that the Blu-Ray version is a waste of money.
The first issue I had when playing the movie was the menu. Something told me that when the menu come on and it looked no better than DVD that something was amiss. I had hoped it was just the menu. I was wrong.
I then started the movie up with subtitles and when the actual movie started I raised my hand to my head and began to scratch it. The video looked HORRIBLE. Pixelated and blurry and lacking detail.
I paused the movie just before the drum scene. I then put the DVD into my Oppo 971 DVD player, switched the input on my TV to the DVD player and skipped to the same scene on the DVD. I was amazed. The DVD upconverted to 720p using the Oppo 971 looked BETTER than the 1080p image coming from the PS3 through HDMI! The only difference is that the PS3's image is a bit brighter. This may be because I haven't calibrated the color for the HDMI input and not a true representation of the transfer.
The sound is really good, but not a whole lot better than the DVD. It certainly isn't worth the price to upgrade to Blu-Ray when the sound nearly imperceptibly changes and the video looks this bad.
Looking at reviews on-line for the disc and given they were giving the movie decent video ratings, I thought it may be a problem with my setup, so I called Sony's PS3 support line and basically was told that as long as my other movies looked good (Corpse Bride looks simply stunning in Blu-Ray) that it was likely the way the movie was authored. Pretty sad that Sony, who are the biggest backers of the format, can't even author a movie properly. I have since learned from sources other than people trying to justify the expense of their $1000 players that HoFD is widely regarded as Sony's most poorly authored Blu-Ray title. Part of the issue may also be that Sony has an aversion to VC-1 (which is supported by Microsoft) and instead focuses on using MPEG-2 to encode the video. Talledega Nights also uses MPEG-2 but looks light years beyond HoFD.
Do yourself a favor if you want to purchase this on Blu-Ray; save yourself some money and buy the DVD version instead. The content doesn't change and it honestly looks better than the Blu-Ray disc. If you want something to show off the clarity of Blu-Ray, pick up Corpse Bride.
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