I'd like to have Man on Fire, but it always seems to be a little more expensive than I would like. I am disappointed in Planet Earth. I got the Dave Matthews disc because my brother used to be a pretty big fan. He hasn't seen it yet, but I personally got pretty bored rather quickly (two songs, and I changed discs). However, I've heard other tunes of his that I liked, though I don't know what they are called.
Just got 5th element, have yet to watch it. I also received a few gifts from a friend, being Serenity and Beowolf on HD, and Final Fantasy on BD. I would never have bought these for myself, but I am glad I got them now. I know this is a BD thread, so I'm sorry that I interject HD time to time.
Awesome PQ with amazing color palette and richness to boot: Ratatouille
Amazing PQ, serious cinematic effect along with sound, just awesome: last battle scene of Beowolf (or roughly last third of disc).
Most accurate looking faces I've ever seen: Darkman on HD. You can see the villain's contact lenses its so damn sharp. At first I was disappointed that the colors weren't richer (since this is probably the best transfer of live action that I've seen, in my noobie's opinion) but I've been told the color palette I saw is typical of what they did to movies in the 80s.
Blade Runner is very, very good, but not as good as the above, IMO. I appreciate the work that must've gone into the re-master, but I dunno...
Casino Royale, POTC II/III are fine, but not my demo discs. There are a healthy amount of titles out there that I really enjoyed, had wonderful PQ, but just would not use for demos.
I need to get around to borrowing my friend's King Kong disc. He says the sound track will knock the pictures off the wall ...
Its good to hear Close Encounters is up there. Was wondering about that one.
I'm still waiting on other Pixar movies, notably Finding Nemo and the Incredibles. Also, of course, LOTR 1/2/3. Who knows how long these will take. Last I read, Nemo got delayed yet again to spring '09.
