Blu-Ray Finder | Blu-Ray Movies» :: Blu Ray Movies :: Blue Ray Movies http://blurayfinder.net Blu_Ray Movies Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:35:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Kung Fu Panda Blu Ray http://blurayfinder.net/kung-fu-panda-blu-ray/ http://blurayfinder.net/kung-fu-panda-blu-ray/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:24:14 +0000 admin http://blurayfinder.net/?p=46 ]]>

Director: John Stevenson

Genre: Action / Animation / Comedy / Family

Blu ray: 2.35:1 1080p AVC and Dolby TrueHD 5.1

Plot: What's a panda to do when his dreams of kung-fu awesomeness awake to the cold reality of noodle-making? Clumsy, overweight Po (Jack Black) dreams of becoming a kung fu master like China's revered "furious five," but instead seems destined to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather in the restaurant business. When great leader Oogway has a vision that the imprisoned kung fu warrior Tai Lung (Ian McShane) will soon escape, he declares it time to choose China's dragon warrior--one kung fu master deemed worthy of possessing the dragon's scroll and its secret to limitless power. Po and all the townspeople rush to the Jade Palace atop the highest mountain to witness the contest between Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogan), Crane (David Cross) and Viper (Lucy Liu), but Po is locked outside the palace. After a miracle of sorts, Po lands inside the palace gates, where he is chosen as the dragon warrior and placed under the tutelage of the decidedly non-plussed master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). An unconventional student to say the least, hilarity reigns as Shifu tries desperately to make Po into some semblance of a kung fu warrior. Can Po possibly fulfill his destiny as dragon warrior, or was Oogway's final decision a critical mistake? A film rich with hilarious moments, superior animation, and an important message about believing in oneself and the power that comes from within, Kung Fu Panda is great entertainment that will have the whole family laughing and begging for more.

Extras for the release are massive, and include:

  • Filmmakers' Commentary
  • Meet The Cast
  • Pushing the Boundaries
  • Sound Design
  • "Kung Fu Fighting" Music Video by Cee-Lo
  • Mr. Ping's Noodle House
  • How To Use Chopsticks
  • Conservation International: Help Save Wild Pandas
  • Dragon Warrior Training Academy
  • Weblinks & Printables
  • DreamWorks Animation Video JukeBox
  • A Day in the Life: A Shaoin Monk in Training, Po Around the World (BD Exclusive)

Comments:

As always Jack Black delivers his lines in only the way he can. Jackie Chan has only limited dialogue but just the knowledge that he's in it is good enough for me.
Really funny film, brilliant, have pre-ordered my copy. You need this film in your life!!

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Director: Ben Stiller

Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / War

Blu ray: 2.35:1 1080p AVC and Dolby TrueHD 5.1

Plot: It's not really a knock to say that nothing in Tropic Thunder is funnier than its first five minutes, so sly that--especially for people watching in theaters--you don't realize right away they are the opening minutes of the movie. This outrageous comedy begins with a series of fake previews, each introducing one of the main characters in the film-proper (not that there's anything proper about this film) and each bearing the familiar logo of a different motion picture studio: Universal, DreamWorks SKG, et al. Such playing fast and loose with corporate talismans verges on sacrilege, but it's an index of how much le tout Tinseltown endorses the movie as a demented valentine to itself. The premise is that the cast of a would-be "Son of Rambo" movie shooting in some Southeast Asian jungle get into a real shooting war with drug-smuggling montagnards. Don't ask--though the movie does have an answer--why such highly paid, usually ultra-pampered personnel as superhero Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), Mozart of fart comedy Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), hip-hop artist Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and five-time Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus from Aus-try-leeah (Robert Downey Jr.) should be running through the jungle unattended and very vulnerable. It matters only that the real-life cast has a high time kidding their own profession and flexing their comedic muscles. Bonus points go to Stiller for co-writing the script (with Justin Theroux) and directing, and to Downey, brilliant as a white actor surgically turned black actor for his role and utterly committed to staying in character no matter what ("I don't drop character till I done the DVD commentary").

Extras for the release are massive, and include:

  • Before the Thunder (5 minutes):  looks at the genesis of the project and features interviews with Stiller and his co-writer who discuss how they were working on the script for nearly a decade.  The highlight of this piece is a clip of the first read through of the script which is hilarious.  I would like to have seen the entire thing.
  • The Hot LZ (7 minutes):  A look at filming the opening sequence.
  • Blowing Shit Up (6 minutes):  an interview with the special effects person in charge of the pyrotechnics.  This was pretty enjoyable.
  • Designing the Thunder (7 minutes): a look at the set designs.
  • The Cast of Tropic Thunder (22 minutes):  Most of the actors involved with the film get a few minutes to talk about their characters. *yawn*
    Rain of Madness (30 minutes - HD):  The highlight of the extras.  This is a mockumentary on the creation of the film that was being made in the movie.  A parody of Heart of Darkness which chronicled the creation of Apocalypse Now, this bonus, like the feature itself, is a stroke of genius.
  • Make-Up Test with Tom Cruise (2 minutes):  Early test footage of Cruise.  While he's in front of the camera he starts dancing and it was so funny they worked it into the film.  Hilarious!
  • Deleted Scenes / Extended Sequences / Alternate Ending (19 minutes): four extra scenes and an alternate ending.  Most of these were entertaining, (especially the scene of Jack Black with the water buffalo!)  and are nice inclusions.   I think they went with the correct ending however.
  • Full Mags (11 minutes) is a film magazine worth of raw footage showing the actors improvising on the set.  Nice to watch and funny in parts.
  • MTV Movie Awards - Tropic Thunder (4 minutes, SD) a wonderfully amusing video that the three main actors created to promote the film during the MTV Music Awards.

Comments:

"Tropic Thunder" is a very funny spoof of Hollywood movie making starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey, Jr., Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan, and Matthew McConaughey. A film crew is on location in Southeast Asia to make a film about the Vietnam War. The filming is way over budget, director Damien Cockburn (Coogan) incorporates dangerous methods to elicit believable performances from his pampered cast, and the actor/soldiers come into conflict with decidedly humorless drug runners. Downey is a standout as Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, who's undergone a series of skin pigmentation treatments in order to play a black American soldier. Aside from a slew of tepid jokes that never land, the basic premise is funny and the first five minutes of the film are particularly inspired, hysterical satire. The two-disc Director's Cut contains several featurettes, deleted and extended scenes, an alternate ending, and video rehearsals.

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]]> http://blurayfinder.net/tropic-thunder-blu-ray/feed/ 0 Wall-E Blu Ray http://blurayfinder.net/wall-e-blu-ray/ http://blurayfinder.net/wall-e-blu-ray/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:42:34 +0000 admin http://blurayfinder.net/?p=18 ]]>

Director: Andrew Stanton

Genre: Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Blu ray: On this three disc, video will be presented in 2.40:1 1080p AVC and be accompanied by DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1.

Plot: In the early 22nd century, the megacorporation "Buy n Large" assumed control of every economic service on Earth, including the government. Overrun by un-recycled waste, the planet became so polluted that it could no longer support life. Buy n Large CEO Shelby Forthright developed "Operation Recolonize," that would have all humans spend the next five years in outer space aboard fully-automated luxury starliners, while an army of "Waste Allocation Load-Lifter Earth-Class" ("WALL-E") robots would organize the waste for disposal. However, the plan broke down, and thus humanity continued to live aboard the starliners for centuries. After 700 years of living in micro-gravity, the humans underwent substantial bone loss, thus becoming too obese to do anything without the help of robotic assistance, including piloting the ships, which is handled by their individual computerized autopilots. On Earth, all of the WALL-E units have deactivated except for one; this remaining unit still performs his duties but, after centuries of prolonged activation, has achieved a form of sentience, collecting interesting knickknacks, befriending a cockroach, and watching an old videotape of the movie musical Hello, Dolly! to learn about human emotions including love.

Extras for the release are massive, and include:

  • A digital copy of the film you can transfer to an iPod, iPhone or similar device.
  • An audio commentary with director Andrew Stanton.
  • The Pixar short "Presto" that opened for WALL-E in theaters
  • A second Pixar short, "BURN-E." This is a short about the welder robot who was seen banging his fists against the door of the Axiom spaceship. It was produced at the same time as the movie for inclusion here.
  • BnL Shorts. Some amusing peeks into the workings of the Buy n Large Corporation.
  • Deleted scenes (with introductions), including "Garbage Airlock" (WALL-E rescues EVE from being ejected from the ship, then revives her) and "Dumped" (when WALL-E gives the plant to EVE, she realizes she must take it to the bridge so it can be analyzed).
  • "Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds From The Sound Up." Complete with historic footage, this featurette compares Ben Burtt's work on WALL-E to the sound design in early Disney films.
  • "WALL-E's Tour of the Universe." The press release says "Join WALL-E on his own private tour of the Universe through the World-Wide Telescope, narrated by Auto-Pilot."
  • An interactive game, "WALL-E's Treasures and Trinkets."
  • The "Lots of Bots" storybook, the video re-creation of a cute actual storybook.

Comments:

I am floored. I didn't think it was possible for Pixar to surpass Toy Story, but it has. A sophisticated treat for adults and teens, a cuddly romance for the juice-box set, this comedic science fiction thriller romance (really!) takes the company to a new, more mature level. Filled with artistry, depth, meaning and a lot of humor, WALL-E is a masterpiece. Where Cars was a kid's movie with added adult themes, this is an adult movie with added value for children.

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