The first release of Predator was pretty nasty. The picture details were completely overshadowed by utter grains. In fact, i gave it away to someone that movie, cause the picture quality was so bad. Also , noticeably the colors were bad. I think the DVD version that i had was far watchable than the blu-ray ones.

The re-release review states as following :- "There is almost NO FILM GRAIN TO BE FOUND HERE". "The black level is solid, there is some detail in some close-ups and such when things aren’t totally smoothed over, the color palette is vibrant (especially through the thermal imaging of the Predator vision) and flesh tones are accurate."
Bro, for that amount you better get it here in MYS. Warranty easy to claim, and its not taxed. If you gonna buy this and bring in, just imagine the amount of tax u gonna cry for..

i was just passing on my opinion to other enthusiasts that i found that particular title being definitely demo worthy material for those who want to show some friends the capabilities of the bluray format and in particular the dynamics of their home theaters...

From a personal point, my obsession with Picture Quality and Sound Quality of blurays simply stems from the fact that i feel that bluray is (still) a format that only a minority of people have bought into. Alot of it has to do with economics. Quite simply, the average person will not pay 70-150RM for an original bluray title given the widely availability of pirated movies we have access to. It makes bluray a still prestigious format of watching movies at home. Showing friends scenes from Planet Earth, Avatar or The Dark Knight, it fills me with great pride when their jaws drop and they comment "wow, your home theater is awesome!". Yes, admittedly its a show off thing and i am not ashamed to admit it because i am sure that most people  here can be guilty of this pleasure as well

Like so many of us here, I have invested alot of my hard earned moolah on equipment to realise "a 24 frame 1080p picture" and "a lossless audio" on a "90+ screen" at "bitrates of 25mb per sec" etc

I do admit that on many occasion i would appreciate PQ and AQ even over the actual fact that the movie was generally rubbish (Revenge of The Fallen anyone?) and this has become criteria to ALOT of my bluray purchases. Is this just being silly? perhaps.

i could write about references to particular scenes of a movie to talk about tonal balance, skin tones, palette drop outs, over saturation, pixilazation etc but then i don't think the general audience of this thread would show much interest.

Yalor.. sigh.  Hey, Valho & wiNd, the 'apocalypse now - full disclosure' Contains 'apocalypse now, apocalypse now redux & hearts of darkness' Only got 1 movie and the rest is documentary & the making of.. rite? 
I think I will kena teruk la... cuz after the submission suppose collect payment.. now the person went home edi..  Not blaming anyone but my curiosity 

For war movies on BD, my personal favourite is still Full Metal Jacket

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One of Stanley Kubrick's best 

My favourite war movies are Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Platoon and The Deer Hunter(can we consider that a ware movie?), Bridge on the River Kwai.... Full Metal Jacket is also a classic

Having said that I have three war movies on BD, namely The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. The accolades for ryan and red line have been discussed at great lengths among Home theater fans all over the net... getting near perfect scores in all departments from many reviewers alike...

War is certainly fun... only when its not real and on big screen of course

dariofoo i have not seen FMJ on BD yet but i can whole heartedly recommend ryan and redline on bluray

Yonggoh:


FMJ may not drop any jaws but it's a different perspective on war altogether, souped up and served Kubrick-style 

Saving Ryan's Privates, ooops, I meant Saving Private Ryan goes without saying. AQ is reference material right? I found The Thin Red Line and Platoon a bit too dreary for my liking.

hairylgs:


I've got Patton BD but yet to find the mood to really sit and watch it. Am sure it'll be great. 

Work has definitely taken its toll on my BD watching. I only managed to watch 2 of my 15 unopened BDs this month. And I am about to further my studies in January. Bollocks!

[sKyWiR3pT3lTd,Dec 20 2010, 08:48 AM]
Guys,

Does any of you know if the movie "I Spit On Your Grave (2010)" ever showed in cinema's here? I did not see it in the cinema listing.
Assume it was completely banned?
definitely not shown here...video nasty(ala cannibal holocaust) mana boleh bro....got the 1978 version on dvd....one of the nastiest rape revenge film...

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Added on December 20, 2010, 10:25 amtalking abt concerts....ill recommend u2's 360 bd...great aq/pq..

Hi,
Does your "We Were Soldires" have a,ot of "hissing' sound"? Mine does although Amazon has repalce the BD for me. Both of them ha ve quite a distractiong hissing sound.

Is it part of the movie? I notice it sounds only in the HD audio tracks.

Allycat

Haha. Wait til you get married with kids, bro. You can only start watching around 11pm after the lil ones are asleep. 

By the time the movie ends, you're too groggy to enjoy the special features 

From the movie. Righht from the beginning. I thought it was the background jungle noise. but then it continues throughout the show until its overwhelm byt the battle scenes. Exmaple, it's also there in the scene when Moore approaches Snake and Too-tall during the baseball game.
Allycat

I got it from Amz UK. So maybe their copies have this problem.

I guess I'll have to live with it.

guys... is there any horror/thriller/ghost movies dat u guys recommend in Blu-ray?
im not into those brutal/gore murders kind of movies...
more prefer to the type dat can give us the suspense and make our hair behind the neck to stand...

Second that..also would like to recommend Orphanage, The Exorcist, The Shining, Orphan, Halloween, Drag Me To Hell & get all Saw sequels.

a bit - a bit brutal ok la... but not all the way through the movies and the movie itself dont have any story...
anyway thanks for the suggestion... im thinking exorcist also... The Orphanage havent watch before... but can be in my list...

Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer

i like the scenery

.. but the ending is... 

Watchmen (Night Owl Ship) - shipped today 20 dec

spent more than 1K on blurays these months Nov-Dec 2010   

Yup.........I've watched it at the cinema and I'll give it a C. Wanted & Mr & Mrs Smith were much better. Anyway I'll still buy the BD when the price is right. Did I forgot to mention that I fall asleep watching it, such a rare case. 

That is not ham sap, those are Art Films

Hamsap is gooood!  Anyway is another way to improve our skillz.. the soft core way  Just curious ketam dont disturb meh.. heard from a friend now ketam watching very closely on our BD imports.. some may require Finas clearance 

Queer as Folk also kena ah...... Maybe that ketam is Gay, want sapu for own