Cast Away [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Cast Away [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Excellent A1, good PQ
Summary: 4 Stars
A movie worth viewing again in BluRay. The sounds of the waves really enhance the feeling of that struggle to overcome it. The still loneliness is punctuated by crisp audio. Picture quality is ok, a bit on the grainy side.
Movie Review: Blu-ray version review
Summary: 3 Stars
I own movies in both HD DVD and Blu-Ray formats so I've seen very many HD movies and am well familiar with the formats capabilities.
Being one of my favorite movies, Cast Away's release in Hi-Def got me very excited. I'm a big fan of the movie and give the movie itself 5 stars but am only reviewing the quality of this release here. The opening sequence where the FedEx truck drives up and picks up the package for delivery to Russia looks only slightly better than the standard DVD. When the truck opens up and the Russia scene starts it looks a lot better, but still more like 720p quality. Through the rest of the movie the HD quality stays about the same, decent but not great. It's certainly a step up from DVD but there are a few scenes that seem to be no better than my 2 disc DVD edition. The best looking scenes are the closeup scenes where the HD quality becomes more apparent but it still doesn't look anywhere near as good as other HD titles I own. Some of the best looking HD titles I own are: The Matrix collection, 2001, The Fifth Element, Apollo 13, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean, and number of others.
While watching the movie and examining the quality I came to the thought that it might not be the transfer that's the issue but possibly it was the director of photography's filming. It looks like the DP tried hard to keep a balance of focus between the actor and the background thereby not getting a truly sharp focus. I could be wrong but this is what it looked like. The 5.1 surround sound was fantastic. I didn't notice any difference between my DVD and Blu-ray versions, though I do admit I really didn't examine the audio.
Overall the movie was nice but I was let down as I was expecting better, especially from a movie with such a great environment. If you own the 2 disc DVD keep in mind the 2 disc set has all those extras and this hi-def release does not. So you may want to hold onto your set. Don't go getting Cast Away expecting the same HD quality you see in all those top notch movies that people use to showcase the format. It still looks great and certainly better than DVD just not leaps and bounds better for most of the scenes. Again, I can't say for sure but it may simply have been the way it was filmed.
Viewed on:
Sony PS3 (latest update)
Samsung LN-T5265F 52" LCD 1080P (calibrated)
Toshiba 5.1 surround sound system
Movie Review: Wilson should have gotten best supporting actor
Summary: 3 Stars
Anytime Robert Zemckis makes a movie I take notice. He more than even Speilberg is the stereotypical American Director(like Frank Capra).
So what about Cast Away. I think it's a pretty good movie, a little long but then a lot happens.
Watching Tom Hanks learn how to survive on the island was educational. I found myself asking, "Do I know how to make fire?" "Do I know how to find water?" Crazy questions I guess every should ask.
The setting of the island was beautiful yet with an ironic twist. By that I mean scenicly it is beautiful, but absent are all things that make life worth living, namely companionship(no offense Wilson)
The love story at the end was painful and when the two were looking at each other in the rain it was like they wanted to kiss more than breathe.
I really liked the movie and the extas are worth the cost of the movie by itself.
Movie Review: Blu-ray version no better than DVD.
Summary: 3 Stars
I own the original DVD version of the film and love it; it's one of my very favorite movies. So I was pretty excited to see it out on Blu-ray and picked it up. I knew that the island scenes would be amazing with the higher resolution...
I was wrong.
I'm seeing this in other movies, too. Some films, like the Pirates of the Carribean series are so sharp they makes your eyes hurt. Cast Away looked so much like the regular DVD version I though I'd bought the old format version.
I'm convinced there must be a cheap fast way and an expensive right way to issue a blu-ray film, and I'm convinced the studio took the easy way out on this one. Since I've got both version it's easy to compare, and sad to say, the blu-ray isn't worth the money. It's an awesome story, but I expected more from the blu-ray experience. Other movies do.
Movie Review: just the movie
Summary: 2 Stars
This blu-ray version only has the movie, no extras.
What blu-ray manufacturers are thinking? The disc suppose to have 50 Gb of space. But they decided to only put the movie. Plus the quality is Ok, just a little bit better than the dvd version. What a waste of money.