Blu-Ray\HD video recommendations?

[CaptNKILL]

Anyone have any recommendations for HD movies, shows, documentaries or other videos that are interesting or look awesome?

My brother and I are still chipping away at the Planet Earth box set on Blu-Ray and its great but I want some more variety.

Any recommendations are welcome. Either Blu-Ray or something downloadable. Preferably in 1080P. I love documentaries too, so if you know of any good ones, that's perfect.

Also, where are some good places to shop for inexpensive BR movies? They are cheaper on Amazon, but still a bit pricey for me.

Here is my current list of Blu-Ray to buy...

Band of Brothers
The Prestige
The Fountain
28 Days Later
Cloverfield
Casino Royale
Blade Runner
Terminator Trilogy
Wall-E
Mad Max - The Road Warrior
Transformers
Iron Man
Predator 1 & 2
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

[mullet]

Gladiator & Braveheart Blu-Ray September 1st release. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!

[nrdstrm]

Costco has (or had, havn't checked in a bit) a series of blu-rays about National Parks that looked pretty cool (and cheap, around 10 bucks/per disc I think)...Might be worth checking out...

[CaptNKILL]

Sadly, I've never even seen a Costco. I don't think we have them around here. :(

[Redeemed]

Sadly, I've never even seen a Costco. I don't think we have them around here. :(

:lol:

Country livin' FTW! :D

[nekrosoft13]

Capt, do you actually collect movies?

if not why not just get netflix subscription, for same price of single bd release you get a month of rentals.

[mullet]

CaptN get "The Boondock Saints" Blu-Ray at walmart you will really like it, lots of guns. It is only $9.99.

[CaptNKILL]

CaptN get "The Boondock Saints" Blu-Ray at walmart you will really like it, lots of guns. It is only $9.99.

The Boondock Saints is a great movie. I have it on DVD.

I don't remember seeing the blu-ray at wal-mart though... let alone for that price. I think the DVD is still $9 or $13 at our walmart. I'll definitely check it out tomorrow though.

And yeah nekro, I do sort of collect movies.

netflix doesn't seem to have any information in the sign up process about Blu-Ray though. If the selection or availability of movies is limited I'd rather just buy them.

[nekrosoft13]

so far haven't found a blu-ray that netflix didn't have.

i stopped collecting movies couple years ago, i had a gigantic VHS collection before, then i started collecting DVDs. Some of the same movies that I already had on VHS I then bought on DVD. Then blu-ray came along.

waste thousands of dollars on VHS, then DVD, now BR came along, later replaced by something else.

What is the point of collecting it

[CaptNKILL]

Good point.

Now that I think about it, I've barely watched the DVDs I have even though most of them are excellent movies. Haven't watched any of the extras either, despite buying several special editions.

Maybe I will just do Netflix. :o

One less thing to spend all my money on would be good. I just filled a shopping cart at amazon with $70 in blu-ray movies and decided to back out since I haven't had any time to watch movies anyway. :p

How much do you spend on netflix and how many can you get at a time?

[CaptNKILL]

Wow... they make that way too easy.

I now have a NetFlix + Blu-Ray subscription. :o

Its $11 a month, and for how little time I get to actually watch movies I think that'll work out fine.

[nekrosoft13]

How much do you spend on netflix and how many can you get at a time?

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[CaptNKILL]

Wow, you spend $36 a month renting movies? :lol:

[mullet]

Holy Cow!!!!!

[de><ta]

Sunshine
The Fall
Sin City
Matrix Trilogy
Death Race
300
Hero

[nekrosoft13]

Wow, you spend $36 a month renting movies? :lol:

its shared between other family members, and i basically don't watch normal TV.

[DJMONDY]

If your after a great film that looks awsome try out The Dark Knight. its probably one of the best looking Blu-Ray films out (imo anyway :))

Also try:

Rambo
Taken (Awsome picture and sound)
Max Payne
Cloverfield
Defiance
300
Wanted

All look awsome on Blu-Ray!

[CaptNKILL]

Ok I got Cloverfield from netflix over a week ago and the disk wouldn't play in TotalMedia Theatre 3 on my brother's computer. It had some strange lines that looked like dents in it and there are these crazy wavy lines all over the surface of the disk that aren't on any of the other disks I've played.

I had them send me another one because it looked to me like this one was either damaged or defective.

When I got the replacement it had the same wavy lines and similar sharp dents in the surface of the disk. All I can think is that its some kind of copy protection.

I tried playing the second disk on my system in Power DVD 9 and it worked fine for a while then froze up about 3/4 way through the movie. I've been trying to just rip the disk to a video file just so I can watch it at least once on the HDTV but it keeps coming up with read errors.

I shined the disk up as best I could and it at least allowed the movie to play... once... but after sitting over night its giving me read errors again.

What the hell is this crap? I've lost over a week of my netflix on this one movie and still have yet to watch it.

EDIT: Well, between the two disks they sent me I managed to get all the files off that I need to actually watch the freaking movie. This will do for now but I'm going to tell them this disk is messed up as well. I'm not asking for another one, but they need to know that this is completely unacceptable. Whether its due to damage, defects or copy protection, I shouldn't have to spend a week of my netflix service trying to get two copies of the same movie working.

[mullet]

I like PDVD 7.3 and 8 the best, 9 seems to be a little bloated. I have used TotalMedia Theatre 3 and I think it's horrible. The onboard ATI3200 worked the best for me with the drivers on the disk for XP. I was able to set the video memory to 256 in the bios. The system still was a little slow (I guess I got to use to my X3350 quad core) so that's when I dropped the HIS 4670 1GB card in there and walaaahhh smooth as butter. I disabled the onboard video/sound/serial/1394/NIC. I haven't rented any Blu-Ray's from netflix just dvd's, if the movie is really good then I will buy it on Blu-Ray.

[CaptNKILL]

No version of PowerDVD works properly on my brother's computer for some reason. It seems to be related to his 8800GTX, but we tried a few different drivers and none of them worked.

PowerDVD is a piece of crap when it comes to compatibility. It made up these stupid errors saying that the video drivers or the graphics card weren't HDCP compliant, but TotalMedia Theatre 3 loaded the movie just fine.