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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject: Forrest Gump coming to Blu-ray: Nov 3, 2009 |
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This one's one of the all-time favourite movies.
Release date is Nov 3, 2009
September's going to be a busy month of (re) watching some of the favourites in HD!
Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002L9N4DS/ref=nosim/curtpalmecrtp-20
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Date is set for Nov 3, 2009!
The 2-disc set will feature 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video, an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements include: Commentary with Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Rick Carter; Greenbow Diary; Commentary by Wendy Finerman; The Art of Screenplay Adaptation; Getting Past Impossible - Forrest Gump and The Visual Effects Revolution; Musical Signposts to History - Music as "Chronological Set Design" for the Times of Forrest Gump; Introduction by Ben Fong-Torres; Little Forrest; An Evening with Forrest Gump; Easter Eggs - Groom on Gump; and Archival Special Features.
Link to order: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000NU2G68/ref=nosim/curtpalmecrtp-20
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Oh yeah! One of my all time favourites makes the "MUST HAVE BLU-RAY" list for audio/video quality! Thank you thank you thank you!
A MUST OWN:
Forrest Gump Video: 4.5/5 Audio: 4.5/5
| Quote: | Paramount’s Sapphire series continues with an American classic that inspires us all to make life simpler and live it to the fullest. ‘Forrest Gump’ is an American classic in every way, and is a perfect addition to any Blu-ray collection. With its stunning audio and video presentations, and its complete host of extras, Paramount has put together a Blu-ray release that is a must own for anyone.
The Video: Sizing Up the Picture
‘Forrest Gump’ bursts onto the high definition scene with a stellar 1080p AVC-encoded transfer. For a film shot in 1994, the visuals here are fantastically reproduced in high-def. Keeping the cinematic grain from its original debut, ‘Forrest Gump’s transfer is as film-like as you can get. The detail is ramped up from the previous DVD releases. From brickwork to lush foliage, everything is richly handled. Colors are perfectly rendered, giving the greens of Alabama and Vietnam a fine stage to shine on. Digital artifacts like blocking or aliasing are nowhere to be found. Black levels are handled to perfection, with delineation in the darker scenes being wonderfully defined. Unfortunately, the high definition has a habit of pointing out some of the green screen work done by Zemeckis, when cartoonish mouths move on Lyndon B. Johnson or John F. Kennedy, they almost give the appearance of Conan O’Brien’s famous skits involving superimposed lips moving over a celebrity photograph.
Beginning at about the point when Forrest comes back to visit his mother after she becomes ill, original source noise begins to pop up rather frequently. The blips and specks that pop up now and then are the only thing keeping this transfer back from absolute perfection.
The Audio: Rating the Sound
The DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio track from ‘Forrest Gump’ is fairly front-heavy, because of its dialogue centric story. The voices are presented clearly through the center channel, with directionality from the front channels working well. When people are talking to Forrest on the bus bench their voices are perfectly placed within the soundfield regarding their position on screen. The film does offer up some pretty intense action scenes, with sound effects bleeding into the surround speakers. At first the surrounds seem a tad soft, turning them up a little may be in order. The sound effects, however, like bullets whizzing by, are clearly defined and engulfing to listen to. Another moment of surround sound excitement can be found during the hurricane while Forrest and Captain Dan are at sea. Overall, this is a solid audio presentation for such a classic film, although it isn’t as memorable as the other Sapphire release by Paramount, ‘Braveheart.’ |
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