Chronicals of Narnia 5/5 Picture quality?

[Clessy]

Ionno what peter was thinking but, Chronicals had to be one of the unimpressive releases after reading his review. The colors on it absolutly suck. They lack color and saturation. While the picture is crystal clear and sharp it looks like you're watching the movie on a rainy day. Dont use this review as a refference for buying it. First time a review here as absolutly let me down.

[Sarang]

It could be the way the movie was meant to look. I'm still considering giving it a look considering how consistent the quality of Disney releases are suppose to be.
Btw Clessy how'd you think up your name on here? I mean it's great, so cute.

[Clessy]

It's just Cless with a y.

Cless Corwin is my actual name.

Also while im on about this topic of color let me say I don't give a fuck what the director intended for the video to look like.

In HD I want over saturated over the top fakeness in brightness and contrast. I want everything to be shinny and smooth. I dont want any grain rather its intentional or not I dont want it. I can watch a dvd for grain. Hell half the time a dvd doesnt have the quality to store grain so the dvd version will give me a picture more towards my liking on some films.

I think everyone should look at 300 of a perfect example of how not to do HD. Fuck the director level this one to the encoders. It has grain everywhere. Sure the movies "supposed" to look like that but the style could of been convayed just as well without it if not better. All the color blooming would of looked just as fantastic and it wouldnt of horriable masked all the detail granted to the movie by it being in hd.

[GamerGuyX]

Originally Posted by Clessy

It's just Cless with a y.

Cless Corwin is my actual name.

Also while im on about this topic of color let me say I don't give a fuck what the director intended for the video to look like.

In HD I want over saturated over the top fakeness in brightness and contrast. I want everything to be shinny and smooth. I dont want any grain rather its intentional or not I dont want it. I can watch a dvd for grain. Hell half the time a dvd doesnt have the quality to store grain so the dvd version will give me a picture more towards my liking on some films.

I think everyone should look at 300 of a perfect example of how not to do HD. Fuck the director level this one to the encoders. It has grain everywhere. Sure the movies "supposed" to look like that but the style could of been convayed just as well without it if not better. All the color blooming would of looked just as fantastic and it wouldnt of horriable masked all the detail granted to the movie by it being in hd.

Thankfully most people on this forum will disagree with you.

Blu-ray (and HD DVD when it was alive) was created to allow us to see our movies as close to the original intent as possible with high-def resolutions. So that means if a movie was intentionally drag looking in theaters thats how its going to look on Blu-ray.

I'd prefer it no other way.

[gene9p]

looked very good on my panny plasma..some scenes of course were more impressive than others..not as good as I expected ..but certainly well worth the rental..the soundtrack on the other hand is awesome

[Clessy]

Watched it on 3 tvs to make sure i wasnt crazy.

Sony XBR
Vizzo Crap
And some samsung

2 of those tvs are very highly thought of tvs.

Plasma always have flat color anyways. So if you're keen on plasma your not really gonna be dissopointed with color as they dont have the super brightness like lcds.

[taygan315]

Just watched this Friday night with my daughter. Thought the pq was good in spots, occasionally great. Other times I thought it was decent. We love the movie so it is all good in the end. I would give it a 4.5 star for pq.

[Scripture]

Originally Posted by Clessy

Ionno what peter was thinking but, Chronicals had to be one of the unimpressive releases after reading his review. The colors on it absolutly suck. They lack color and saturation. While the picture is crystal clear and sharp it looks like you're watching the movie on a rainy day. Dont use this review as a refference for buying it. First time a review here as absolutly let me down.

Well, I think you're completely out of your fucking mind. I agree with Peter on this one, it's an excellent transfer visually speaking. The movie is vivid and clean, with generous depth for punch. The blacks are strong, and the colors are a cosmic wonder on the eyes. Not much more to say there....

[requiem960]

Originally Posted by Clessy

It's just Cless with a y.

Cless Corwin is my actual name.

Also while im on about this topic of color let me say I don't give a fuck what the director intended for the video to look like.

In HD I want over saturated over the top fakeness in brightness and contrast. I want everything to be shinny and smooth. I dont want any grain rather its intentional or not I dont want it. I can watch a dvd for grain. Hell half the time a dvd doesnt have the quality to store grain so the dvd version will give me a picture more towards my liking on some films.

I think everyone should look at 300 of a perfect example of how not to do HD. Fuck the director level this one to the encoders. It has grain everywhere. Sure the movies "supposed" to look like that but the style could of been convayed just as well without it if not better. All the color blooming would of looked just as fantastic and it wouldnt of horriable masked all the detail granted to the movie by it being in hd.

Wow! I'd hate to ask what kind of coloration you want out of your speakers!

[nickherum]

Originally Posted by Clessy

It's just Cless with a y.

Cless Corwin is my actual name.

Also while im on about this topic of color let me say I don't give a fuck what the director intended for the video to look like.

In HD I want over saturated over the top fakeness in brightness and contrast. I want everything to be shinny and smooth. I dont want any grain rather its intentional or not I dont want it. I can watch a dvd for grain. Hell half the time a dvd doesnt have the quality to store grain so the dvd version will give me a picture more towards my liking on some films.

I think everyone should look at 300 of a perfect example of how not to do HD. Fuck the director level this one to the encoders. It has grain everywhere. Sure the movies "supposed" to look like that but the style could of been convayed just as well without it if not better. All the color blooming would of looked just as fantastic and it wouldnt of horriable masked all the detail granted to the movie by it being in hd.

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

[melodywhore]

i don't think every film should have the same colour palate. film is a collaborative work of art - from the director's vision to the cinematographer to the set designers to the costume designers to the special effect artists, lighting, matte artists, composer, editor... if they all looked the same, you wouldn't be able to glean the feel out of a dark film with a gritty picture or out of a gradual colour palate change from the beginning of the film to the end. the matrix would have the same look as the real world instead of that old 8086 green screen monitor colour. 300 would have been an entirely different movie all together. the digitally crisp no grain look has its place just like the soft focus look has its place, too. but to say that everything should look like this... you could actually be removing some of a film's identity by doing that.

[PIHB]

i think the battle scene is one of the best looking pq i have seen to this date (i have seen at least 250 blu ray and hd dvd combined)

[Clessy]

Not saying the colors need to be the same colors. Im saying the picture should have no grain what so ever intentional or not and that colors should pop and be lush and vibrant. Someone used matrix as an example aganist my arguement but the Matrix is perfect source material and a fine exmaple of how hd should look. To be honest Warner does everything great with HD. Only flims they released that looked poorly in HD where the first 2 lethal weapon movies. Its a damn shame they did 2 and stopped also.
Also V for Vendetta is another good example of how great the picture needs to look while still preserving all the intent of the orginal picture. I've been watching alot of westerns recently(mostly sergio leons stuff) and the look better than 300 or narnia did on Blu ray on a regular dvd.

[PIHB]

Originally Posted by Clessy

Not saying the colors need to be the same colors. Im saying the picture should have no grain what so ever intentional or not and that colors should pop and be lush and vibrant. Someone used matrix as an example aganist my arguement but the Matrix is perfect source material and a fine exmaple of how hd should look. To be honest Warner does everything great with HD. Only flims they released that looked poorly in HD where the first 2 lethal weapon movies. Its a damn shame they did 2 and stopped also.
Also V for Vendetta is another good example of how great the picture needs to look while still preserving all the intent of the orginal picture. I've been watching alot of westerns recently(mostly sergio leons stuff) and the look better than 300 or narnia did on Blu ray on a regular dvd.

tell that to the director of the movie who intends for the grain to be there. did you complain about this on regular dvds too?

[PIHB]

frankly clessy... i dont think you deserve to watch movies in high defenition because you dont know what you are talking about. you can shit in one hand and wish in the other and see what fills up first