Yeah that is pretty bad ass. I haven't seen the movie yet but I think I too am going to have to get into this blu ray world i was trying to avoid.

I really really wish I hadn't watched that clip. Damn you Blu-ray!

Hmmm...a DVD feature where the director pauses, rewinds, and does all kinds of crazy features. Sure, for something like, say, Watchmen, this is awesome...but imagine if a really shit poor movie gets this feature?

"Okay, let's rewind, pause, and zoom. See, we decided that since Devastator is a Transformer that is a combination of 5-6 Decepticons known as 'buildicons' or whatever the fuck they were called in the 80s, it'd be great to show his genitals as two wrecking balls. Sure, most wrecking ball machines only have one wrecking ball, but hey, that'd be stupid to have Devastator having an undescended testicle! Now let's slow-mo on this for 5 minutes to show how well they managed to render Devastator's balls."

The jump from DVD to Blu-Ray isn't as drastic as, say, VHS to Laserdisc/DVD, since DVD's share the same size dimensions and can be played in Blu-Ray players with the proper codecs, so I don't feel compelled right now to upgrade titles I currently own on DVD. However, the day that it becomes mandatory for all movies to have the MST3K crew shadowed below and riff it, no matter how good or bad the film is, is the day that Blu-Rays become worth their weight in gold.

But the magic about optical devices is that a new technology does not exclude the previous one. Bluray players can read old cd's and dvd's as well. It's not like when vhs died and all your anime OVA tapes and cicciolina movies became garbage overnight.

MattK really hit on something, I suppose that it's probably a cost thing, but selling Blu-Ray add-ons of MST3K/Rifftrax would be as glorious as first seeing the show

IMHO, Blu-Ray is highly overrated and not nearly worth the extra bucks they want up to pay.
On the other hand, "Serenity" looked gorgeous on Blu-Ray; I am so torn...
I'd throw in ten buck$ so the SO can get a PS3; he does work really hard here. But on the condition that he never mentions Transformers 2 again.

The thing with Blu-Rays is that you don't have to re-buy all your DVD's in the same way you had to with the jump from VHS to DVD. VHS weren't compatible with DVD players (duh!). DVD works fine on a Blu-Ray though. Infact mine claims to upconvert DVDs, making them look even better. Not sure if it does, or what upconverting really is. But they sure don't look worse.

So instead of avoiding the format entirely because you don't want to re-buy the movies you already have, you get blu-ray but only buy movies on blu-ray you don't already have.

Simple as that.

That made me want even less to see this movie, and I already didn't want to see it at all.

Why waste so much fucking time on the murder? Seriously.

Fuck this movie. And fuck Zack Snyder up the ass with a goddamn rusty garden weasel.

snyder: You see, I thought the slo-mo would really bring out the emotion in the Comedian's tragic death sequence; it's such a powerful and underused tool... in fact let me just slow it down just a, a bit more... unnnhhhhhhh ohh man that's the sllllloooooowwww shit. I am a fucking VISIONARY!

As far as I know, all Blu-ray players upconvert DVDs. So if you're satisfied with the quality of your 100s of DVDs, don't rebuy anything. But at least with a Blu-ray player, you have the option to rebuy your favorite movies. Of course, for some people like me, once you start watching movies in HD, you might become dissatisfied with DVD... so in that sense, I guess that creates some desire to spend money replacing the collection. But that decision's all on me, not on the studios or the player.

I'm obsessive-compulsive enough that if I had a Blu-ray player, I would feel compelled to re-buy all my DVDs. I know that's ridiculous, but so am I. So I've just avoided the temptation altogether (so far).

I got a Blu-Ray player for a holiday present, so that's not an issue for me thankfully. They do seem to upscale my traditional DVD's a bit, so that's nice, and there are of course some films that demand the higher definition. This is one of those films.

If there's one thing you can never accuse Zack Snyder of, it's lack of dedication to this film. I mean look at that shit. That's awesome.

...also for some reason I really love his strange voice.
Basically, I'll be buying like 6 different versions of this. Sigh.

Plus,the Blu-Ray has an official Amazon exlusive version that comes in a badass replica of the Owl Ship....I'm a sucker for novelty packaging,and combined with all the awesome features I may join you in finally breaking down and embracing the Blu-Ray madness. Heres my one and only problem with Blu-Ray....Blu-Ray movies wont play on my portable DVD player...or my computer...or most of my cheap-ass friends non-Blu Ray players. If I start buying movies on Blu-Ray that means I can ONLY play those movies on my one and only Blu-Ray Player...unless I want to upgrade every DVD player I own,and its not cheap enough to do that.

That being said,if I DO take the Blu-Ray plunge,I'll still only buy certain movies in that format and I WILL NOT be compelled to go back and upgrade everything I own...with the exception of Dark Knight and possibly Serenity.

I have a blu-ray player, and there really is a difference on in quality. One thing I think about when I'm buying movies is if I want a movie on blu-ray or not because it is more money. Blu-ray players "up convert" regular DVDs so you get better quality from them in general.

For Watchmen, I'm planning on buying it in blu-ray because it's a highly stylized action movie and because of the commentary/features. However, I didn't feel the need the buy say Juno on blu-ray because I don't need to see Michael Cera's pores.

watchmen was a great movie for what it was, too bad people had to compare it so much to the graphic novel...

God I hate that word upscale

I'd like to see the portion of the film where he points at the screen and says "This is where the alien squid would've gone ... I obsessed over getting every detail of the comics into the film but somehow couldn't be bothered to faithfully recreate the original ending."

seeing that clip makes me not want to wait for the version where the black freighter is finaly mixed into the film. and also making mew wish the release date for the dvd of watchman would arrive

Yeah, if you have a Hi-Def TV I don't see the point of not upgrading to Blu-Ray. Like a lot of people have said: Blue-Ray players are backwards compatible, and they upconvert DVDs (so re-buying your entire collection is unnecessary). Also, Blu-Rays are already starting to dip in price, and in some cases even sell for less than DVDs (Amazon is selling the Blu-Ray of Mad Men season 2 for a dollar cheaper than the DVD).

That was really interesting, but I'm afraid I still fail to see the attraction of Blu-ray. Why do I wanna buy a whole new set-up (TV, player, sound etc, all at roughly the cost of my tuition for a year) when I can inevitably just find this stuff on youtube, or tv documentaries, or torrents?

That sounds bad even to my ears, because I've always been a staunch supporter of buying things like movies and music to support the creators as opposed to internet bootlegging, but frankly, I just really don't get why they expect me to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars replacing all my equipment and DVDs just so I can... what? In most cases, it just lets me see their zits under the makeup. That's gross. No thanks, Sony.

I actually would chip in $10 for Rob to get a PS3 too. But then he would have Blu-Ray, and I would not. But I still might do it anyway. Hmm . . .

For a moment I was totally digging Snyder in my personal fanboy ranks of Scorsese, early Spielberg, pre'77 Lucas, Favreau, Leone, etc...a month or so prior to Watchmen's release I picked up Dawn of the Dead and found myself loving it more than I thought I did in 2000; I was more detached from the original so it was a better third or fourth viewing, whatever.

So then a week before 3/6/9 I checked out 300 with commentary. This was a feature if you were interested in the inspiration of the story/character-slash-what kind of production--all Snyder did was identify the CG shots.Everfuckingshot.

The Watchmen film was a great take on a great novel. Besides the forced 80s rock, I loved ever bit of it. In regards to the 'stuff' cool movies are made of, it lived up to what the opening title montage promised this film would be. But I don't care to to watch this yes, great visionary director with major creative talent, however, dork in a tshirt pointing at screens we both know arent there.

I'll take a revolving splitscreen experience. Save the weather report.

What's another word for visionary? That term meant to peak my concern and passion for the art of moving pictures is about as unique as 'true story'.

PS. Blue-ray rawks. I saw a demo at Best Buy: Batman Begins; Batmobile over rooftops, I thought I was watching live news footage!

I happend to really enjoy this movie. The clip almost makes me want to concider a blu-ray. However since i am too cheep to pay full price for most DVD's (opting to wait for a sale or buy them used) I don't see my self shelling out the cash for blu-ray disks even at sale prices let alone the player. Also I am suddenly reminded of the days when i was nicknamed the DVD player distoroyer because I broke or burned out 4 DVD players in 2001-2002 time period. So blu-ray is going to do a lot more convincing than that to get me on board

I see no reason why this commentary couldn't be included on a regular DVD or VHS.

The jump in quality was too little? Man, what DVDs have you been watching? The difference between DVD and Blu-Ray is amazing. I have a hard time watching a non-upconverted DVD now.

I too admit I wasn't hot on replacing movies, but I figure I don't need to replace all of them. There are certain categories of film that I don't need to see in HD nor do I think they'll ever reach the format since they're so obscure. I just buy mostly new movies I don't have on Blu-Ray and "replace" my core nerd/action ficks.

Blu-Ray is a flash in the pan. 5 more years, it'll be a niche videophile format, and we'll all be getting our movies from digital delivery with no media.

"I see no reason why this commentary couldn't be included on a regular DVD or VHS."

Ditto.

"'I see no reason why this commentary couldn't be included on a regular DVD or VHS.'

Ditto."

That fragment shows some of the finer details of the scene, which go hand in hand with the 1920x1080 HD of a Blu Ray. And that certainly isn't the only bonus content on that disc. I have 300 on Blu Ray and it's got A LOT of extra content (BTW, nothing beats "This is HD Sparta!" :D).

So yes, you could've had SOME of that on a DVD, not all of it. Having said this, good sir/madam, I unditto your comment.