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Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 13:16
by bradavon
If Revolutions is awful, that makes it overrated, no?

You can get just The Matrix on BD. I already own the HD-DVD box set though.
saltysam wrote:lol i don't recall hearing one positive review of part 3 and 2 was greeted with an extremely lukewarm response.don't know why you think they were overrated.
I'd say more love all of them than not.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 13:30
by saltysam
bradavon wrote: I'd say more love all of them than not.
You are joking there aren't you! :lol:

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 14:10
by grim_tales
Revolutions is awful, but its acknowledged to be poor/shit, how does that make it overrated?

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 14:34
by gasteropod
Yeah, the sequels aren't overrated because they're generally disliked.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 16:08
by Markgway
bradavon wrote:Anyway, you got my point.
And you got mine...

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 17:13
by Shingster
bradavon wrote:If Revolutions is awful, that makes it overrated, no?
No if it was shit and it recieved positive reviews, that makes it overrated, the clue's in the name: OVER RATED. We need a forehead slapping smilie! :D

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 17:18
by romerojpg
Nahh just ban the word Overrated, he would be lost :lol:

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 21 Aug 2009, 21:35
by saltysam

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 16:28
by romerojpg
May be time to jump on Haloween in HD :D I have had every other bloody disc over the years and to me the upgrade is massive from what I have seen, I dont mind the slight colour changes so it is a big upgrade :D

http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleic ... #vergleich

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 17:11
by gasteropod
Yeah I'd really recommend it Romero, it's got a very impressive picture for its age, very film-like and three-dimensional in places, and it doesn't appear to have been tampered with either as far as EE and DNR goes. Original mono too!

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 17:17
by IronMonkey
Yeah its a cracking disc. I've got it. I've also got the 4 disc DVD and the 2 disc DVD sets to round out my Halloween collection. :)

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 17:50
by gasteropod
The only other one I want is Season of the Witch, I think all the others are pretty shit.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 18:06
by romerojpg
I have avoided all the other Haloween films all my life, never wanted to water down the origanal :) amazingly I think I have only seen Season of the Witch and H20 only, which amazes me that I have not bought them all yet.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 19:45
by gasteropod
I only recently saw Halloween: Resurrection on TV, and it was one of the worst films I've ever seen, I was actually laughing out loud in its opening scenes.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 20:08
by romerojpg
I caught about 30 seconds of that, looked like Big Brother so I turned over pretty quick :D

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 22 Aug 2009, 20:50
by Markgway
I'd rate the series as follows best to worst:

1, 2, 4, 7, 5, 6, Remake.

Haven't seen 8 or the as yet unreleased Halloween 2 (II).

3 isn't really a part of the series so it doesn't fit.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 24 Aug 2009, 00:44
by bradavon
Chocolate for £6.99:

http://www.hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProduc ... sku=862878

I'm very tempted for that price.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 24 Aug 2009, 04:08
by Markgway
Good price, mediocre film.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 24 Aug 2009, 10:16
by Yi-Long

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 24 Aug 2009, 10:45
by bradavon
Markgway wrote:Good price, mediocre film.
I was worried about that.

Ong-bak was okay, TYG better but the stories are so woeful it made it hard to fully enjoy the fighting and did this Elephant really have to get killed? For a country that's national animal is officially the Elephant, Thailand never treats it very well.

I do want to see this but reckon I'd be disappointed I bought it.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 24 Aug 2009, 16:53
by saltysam
Some excellent action in Chocolate,well worth a watch at £6.99

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 24 Aug 2009, 23:24
by Yi-Long
saltysam wrote:Some excellent action in Chocolate,well worth a watch at £6.99
I watched Chocolate in HK while me and my girlfriend were at her family's house (it was shown on TV in the afternoon). It was decent, but I was kinda disappointed with the action actually, with the girl looking a bit too slow and the fights a bit TOO staged (people 'waiting' to be hit, going by the motions, etc).

I really like the lead-actress, but I wasn't all that impressed by her martial arts performance, which could also be because of lazy directing (not demanding enough).

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 25 Aug 2009, 19:32
by Markgway
saltysam wrote:Some excellent action in Chocolate,well worth a watch at £6.99
£6.99 is pricey for a glorified rental.

Maybe worth taking a chance for something that's deemed a classic of its kind... but Chocolate isn't a great movie by any means.

The action isn't bad but I expect Brad wants more than that for his buck.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 25 Aug 2009, 20:37
by bradavon
Mark has summed it up perfectly. I'd take the risk except I found both Tony Jaa films sorely lacking. I enjoyed TYG more but it's no keeper.

Re: The Blu-Ray movies under £7 thread

Posted: 25 Aug 2009, 20:45
by gasteropod
Chocolate's a rental, I sold my BD (partly due to the bad artefacting).