Bullitt [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Bullitt [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Bullet BluRay DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie was delivered quick and easy to my home! The movie was a bit slow, but the car chase senes was worth it!Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie, of course, is still the same great Steve McQueen car chase movie I remember, which is why I gave it 2 stars. As a movie, it is worth more, but as a BluRay product, I wouldn't even give it that.
Often, the "great" movies of my youth turn out to be "I really thot this was GOOD??!!?", like "The Omega Man", for instance.
I purchase BluRay for myself if it is 1) a spectacular movie (scenics like "Lord of the Rings" or "Hidalgo"), 2) actions like "Fifth Element" or the "Mummy" series, 3) to replace a DVD which plays in Letterbox on my BluRay player (like "Enemy of the State" -- and I'm still waiting for "Armageddon" on BluRay), or 4) if the price is under $15 for a movie I care about.
"Good story" movies like "There's Something about Mary", "Executive Decision" or "A Few Good Men" still tell their story on DVD just fine. If I have them on DVD, I won't replace them, but if I don't have them and they show up for under $15 on BluRay, I'll buy them.
"Bullit" fell in to the "Letterbox on BluRay player" and "Under $15" categories, but I might as well have kept the Letterbox version. The sound was 2.0, and it didn't appear to me that the picture was any better than an up-converted DVD.
Certainly, having it in full widescreen instead of Letterbox is an improvement, but not worth the price when I already had it on DVD.
Movie Review: Cropped, and dark (blu ray)
Summary: 2 Stars
The image is cropped, especially on the top and sides. I don't like seeing the tops of heads cut off in every other scene. It's grotesque.
The dark areas are too dark. Much detail is gone.
I'm new to blu ray. I thought they were supposed to look better, not worse, than DVDs.
Movie Review: Film: ***** Blu-Ray Disc: * Rent it, or buy it used or on mark down...
Summary: 1 Stars
Better view than the DVD. But only worth renting, or if it can be purchased used or on mark down at $5 or less.
A great film with very problematic picture and sound quality on Blu-Ray. The source transfer for "Bullit" has obviously not been re-done for Blu-Ray, and appears to be the same source transfer used for the older DVD edition of this film. Although the superior medium and capabilities of a 1080p Blu-Ray disc make this an upgraded way to view this material, the limitations of an aging source transfer abound and call attention to themselves. Detail is OK in well lit scenes, much less so on indirectly lit surfaces and shadows. Blacks are unstable and milky, and there is motion judder and blur of in motion detail in shadows. Skin tone and texture show the waxy effect of DNR (digital noise reduction). Surface detail is mediocre at best. Sharpening is obvious and annoying. All in all a better view than the DVD version. But only worth renting, or if it can be purchased used or on mark down at $5 or less.
Movie Review: Very Poor Quality
Summary: 1 Stars
I have both the standard DVD and now (unfortunately) have the Blu-ray DVD. I was very disappointed in the extremely grainy picture quality on this disc. After watching the movie on Blu-ray I inserted the standard DVD and compared a few scenes. The main difference I can see on the Blu-ray copy is that some scenes appeared brighter. Even on sale for $9.99 this was a waste of money.
Since initially writing this review I have decided there is one benefit to the poor quality of this blu-ray release. It will actually save me money because I now have no desire to replace any movie in my existing collection of standard DVD's with its blu-ray counterpart. Probably not the result Warner Home Video was looking for, but what they should have expected.