Dredd:Blu Ray review

[radiator]

Yeah, it's like a biscuit tin.

That's exactly what it's like!

[radiator]

As well as arriving in a pretty bashed up state, the top hinge just fell apart, which is a bit of a fucker.

Anyway, here's the pic:

[radiator]

[Hawkmumbler]

Mine's still not arrived. Bloody thing might have been caught at customs! 
It does look great mind, love me a steel tin.

[alyd]

Yeah I hear even the tins sent from amazon.fr in good packaging (unlike fnac) are suffering from scratched backs even though they're clingfilmed. You can also see on you youtube clip posted earlier a guy unboxing his and commenting that that inside case is a bit bashed. The French edition is a nice idea but I don't buy discs for the packaging, and certainly not when there's a good chance that packaging will be damaged. YMMV.

Anyone notice the blood doesn't leave the frame on the blu-ray the way it did in cinemas? I know it was probably done to enhance the 3D effect (and worked a treat) but wouldn't have thought there'd be any harm in keeping it in.

Glad I'm not the only one to notice this

My god, overall the quality of the 3D is even better than that of the cinema.  There was only one exception that I could see - the exploding cheek.  I'm sure some of the blood sprayed past the black border bottom right in the cinema. On the Blu-ray it didn't. It disappeared behind the edge of the frame.  A small gripe, 'cos the rest was brilliant!

Wasn't the blood splash outside the screen achieved in the cinema simply by introducing a 'fake' border at the bottom of the screen in black and the letting the blood go over that? It didn't actually 'leave' the frame, it looks as though they didn't bother doing this for the Bluray.

Yup, in the cinema black bars aren't usually in place, they just scale the movie to the screen and use the curtains. However, proper screenings of DREDD 3D had a safe area of black letterboxing to allow certain particle effects to appear to leave the screen, like so;



I wonder if this is somehow not allowed by the DVD and Blu-ray specification? I can't think of a disc that has anything break the border of a screen ratio in this way. At least all editions seem to be the same in this respect and aside from this forum, I've not seen anywhere else even notice

[JOE SOAP]

Yeah I hear even the tins sent from amazon.fr in good packaging (unlike fnac)

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Mine was delivered in two strong boxes from amazon.fr. Can't fault them.

[blackest]

got one from amazon.fr which arrived in excellent condition.also got one coming from a guy in france who got some of the exclusive instore editions.

[Stan]

Oh I'm way to OCD for that French thing. I used to hate the way the large Jurassic Park VHS case ruined the streamlined flow of my video shelf.

[radiator]

I like it - I have quite a few odd-shaped boxed sets and things.

I draw the line at that novelty type packaging though.

[Stan]

Yeah, I think I'd need a dedicated entertainment room before I bothered with that silliness.

[Steve Green]

Regarding the breaking the border thing - there'd be nothing to stop them doing it, but I'm guessing that because the 2D shares the 3D transfer they decided to leave it off.

[Hawkmumbler]

I like it - I have quite a few odd-shaped boxed sets and things.

I draw the line at that novelty type packaging though.

I have the Terminator set. It's ace so job done.

[sheldipez]

I had the Alien head but sold it on when the Alien blu-ray set was released. Lovely set, weighs a nice bit so you know its quality!

[Fisticuffs]

My missus has something like that Alien head. Keeps getting me to buy batteries for it for some reason??

[Stan]

I think it's best if we don't tell him.