28 Days Later

Ron-P
Ron-P Posts: 8,520
edited August 2008 in Music & Movies
I searched but nothing came up, only for 28 Weeks Later. This was given to me as a gift on Blu so first, I'll start with the PQ/SQ...

What a steaming pile of ****, the worst blu-ray disc I've ever viewed, it's so bad it cannot even compare to 90% of my SD-DVDs, it's that bad. Sound was decent but nothing very exciting either. My guess, cheap-o director who wanted to hide the fact it's low budget, he wanted a big looking movie on a shoe-string budget. Blur out the images, throw in lots of film grain and shoot the film on a handy-cam from Best Buy. The image quality is so bad it was a constant distraction throughout the film.

The movie itself, good, nothing great, I was more entertained with Doomsday, far more entertained. Good acting in this but that's about it. No scary, not intense and nothing really note worthy at all.

This is a blu disc I'll be trading / selling, it's just too painful to try and watch.
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  • millerman 3732
    millerman 3732 Posts: 1,488
    edited August 2008
    28 Days Later, was only shot in SD 480p. That would explain the minimal upgrade in PQ. There was a thread over at AVS some time ago discussing why it would have even been transferred over to BD, I haven't seen 28 Days Later on BD myself, not that big of fan of the series, But I'm sure that the PQ has to be alittle better than than the SD DVD version, and surely the DTS-MA track is an improvement over the SD version, right?
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited August 2008
    The audio IS an improvement, the PQ, not so much, it does look worse then the majority of my SD-DVD's, seriously! The image is completely blurry, there's no detail in anything and EE is everywhere, terrible, terrible PQ. It's some of the worst I've ever seen.
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  • Big Dog
    Big Dog Posts: 7
    edited August 2008
    If I remember correctly this was shot with digital media instead of film making it one of the first major releases to use that then new medium. I checked IMDB for a note but found very little to go with.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited August 2008
    Big Dog wrote: »
    If I remember correctly this was shot with digital media instead of film making it one of the first major releases to use that then new medium. I checked IMDB for a note but found very little to go with.

    I think you're right.

    This is probably one of my favorite horror flicks of all time. It's too bad to hear the HD version sucks so much. Was looking forward to picking it up for the PS3.
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited August 2008
    "Steaming pile o ****"...

    Sounds great. I am running out to pick it up today! I cannot wait to see it.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited August 2008
    Demiurge wrote: »
    This is probably one of my favorite horror flicks of all time.

    I definitely have it in my top five.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited August 2008
    hockeyboy wrote: »
    "Steaming pile o ****"...

    Sounds great. I am running out to pick it up today! I cannot wait to see it.

    Just to make sure you read my post correctly, which by your post you did not. My quote above is in reference to the actual image quality, not the movie itself.
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited August 2008
    No I got ya. Definitely a pass.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited August 2008
    I liked the alternate endings as well...

    Don't know about the quality, but I liked the movie itself
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited August 2008
    I thought it was great. They did well with what they had.
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  • edossin4
    edossin4 Posts: 105
    edited August 2008
    Absolutely, it is a very good low budget horror movie. It is hard to do something interesting with zombies these
    days. I thought 28 weeks later was even better.

    As a rule of thumb if Ron P doesn't like a movie it is probably worth checking out. He has some **** taste in
    movies.:D
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited August 2008
    Or maybe I don't and you do...
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