"Birthday Wishes" Thread

[jed]

In honor of High-Def Digest's first birthday, our editor Peter Bracke has posted this list of ten titles that he'd love to see hit high-def over the coming year:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/feature...daywishes.html

What do you think of his list, and which titles would *you* add to it?

Please, no format bashing here. For the sake of this discussion, imagine a perfect world with a single high-def disc format -- which movies would you want to see on it and why?

[Dyers Eve]

Hmmm, good article. Well, here's my 10 that I wish for. (In no particular order)

1. Lord of the Rings trilogy.
2. Band of Brothers
3. Spiderman 1,2,3
4. Harry Potter
5. Master and Commander
6. I, Robot
7. Alien
8. Gladiator
9. Rome (HBO series)
10. Star Wars

[hautjobb]

my top 10 (no particular order)

1. in the mood for love
2. 2046
3. the new world
4. bladerunner
5. mulholland drive
6. fight club
7. the good, the bad and the ugly
8. brotherhood of the wolf
9. the passion of the christ
10. spirited away

[Beetle53]

First of all, thank you High-Def Digest. You are the first place I go for all my next-gen DVD information. This is the place I tell everyone to come when they are thinking about a movie or looking for info on release dates. I have been using this site on a daily basis since you've launched! So I just want to say thnak you and keep up the Great Work you guys do!

[chooch]

Thanks for the first year High-Def Digest!

My list include:
1. Braveheart (My favorite movie!) How about a nice Special Ed. with deleted scenes and a video commentary.
2. Tombstone (The best modern day western)
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5. Die Hard Trilogy
6. Lethal Weapon Series (both theater and director cuts) Audio commentary with Gibson, Donner, Pesci and Glover.
7. Alien movies
8. The Ghost and the Darkness
9. All six Star Wars movies
10. Last of the Mohicans (The original theatrical version)

[Dr_Gonzo]

Here is my ten most wanted:

1. Tideland
2. Brazil
3. Mission to Mars
4. Citizen Kane
5. Blue Berry
6. Magnolia
7. Adventures of Baron Munchausen
8. 2001: A space Odyssey
9. Baraka
10. Waking Life

[Das Koopa]

Very good article i iwould have to say i agree wiith almost every pick. My top ten would be the following in order.
1.Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. Star Wars 1-6 whats the use of only having half of them in high def
3.The Abyss
4. Kill Bill 1&2
5. E.T.
6. Heat
7. Braveheart
8. Lost abc series
9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2
10. Life Aquatic

[Brad1963]

My 10 most wanted:

1. Amelie (BD)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (HD DVD)
3. Pride & Prejudice (2005 version) (HD DVD)
4. Bowfinger (HD DVD)
5. I, Robot (BD)
6. Vertigo (HD DVD)
7. Rear Window (HD DVD)
8. Three Kings (HD DVD)
9. Inside Man (HD DVD)
10. The Birds (HD DVD)

[jbschanding]

... I would love to have in HD:

1. Amadeus
2. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
3. Chocolat
4. Firefly (TV series)
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. North by Northwest
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8. Peter Pan (2003)
9. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
10. Some Like It Hot

[akalefty]

Here's my list, no order:

1. Braveheart
2. Strange Days
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
5. Gladiator
6. Boogie Nights
7. Fight Club
8. The Incredibles
9. Blow
10. Old School

[KaneRobot]

Happy anniversary HD Digest.

This list is disregarding formats. These are just the films/shows I want in HD, in no particular order:

1. Rocky anthology
2. Band of Brothers (U.S. release...I know it's coming in Japan)
3. Blade trilogy (I'll just ignore the third one )
4. The Crow
5. Freddy vs. Jason
6. Jurassic Park films
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Mortal Kombat (shut up, I'm sick of the godawful non-anamorphic DVD release)
9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
10. Spider-Man films

...and I wouldn't cry if all of the Star Wars movies were released. I'm not really a fan but I'm sure they'd be the pinnacle of picture and audio quality for HD.



One thing in the original article - it says...

Every new format needs its one, unadultered cinema classic to really sell it to the diehard film buffs.

What's Casablanca? Chopped liver?

[mplsfalls]

1) Titanic
2) The Professional
3) Gladiator
4) Twister
5) Star Wars of course
6) Top Gun
7) Anything and everything

[bigmez]

I just want to commend everybody at High-Def Digest for doing a phenomenal job at covering all that is HD. This is the first site I visit every morning. I can't think of a higher compliment than that. I also admire the level-headedness in your editorials regarding this pointless format war. My biggest wish would be for the format war to end quickly. The sooner it does, the sooner we'll all benefit.

Most of my favorite titles are older or low-budget films which I know wouldn't look all that great in HD. So I've left them off this list. Omitting titles that have already been announced as being in the works, my wishlist for favorites that would shine in HD is as follows:

1. The Thin Red Line
2. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Hero
5. Apocalypse Now
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Big Trouble in Little China
8. Master & Commander
9. Geronimo: An American Legend
10. Baraka

[Master X]

1.The BoonDock Saints (aka best movie ever IMO)
2.Blade
3.Lord of the Rings
4.Gladiator

[Sandberg23]

Great list ... here are the ones on my top ten:

1) Gladiator
2) Braveheart
3) Glory
4) Tombstone
5) It's a Wonderful Life
6) Star Trek the Next Generation TV Series and Movies
7) Princess Bride
8) Quantum Leap
9) Ken Burns' Baseball and Civil War Documentaries
10) Disney's Pocohantos (not better than Beauty & the Beast but the quality on the DVD is so bad, I'd like to see if in High-Def)

And, I like jbschanding's addition of Romero & Juliet -- good stuff!