Sunday, May 27, 2012

Cyber City Oedo 808




Cyber City Oedo 808 is a series of three stories featuring three convicted criminals that are forced to work for the government in order to reduce their sentences, each story features a different character as the lead.

The stories themselves aren't bad and I'm not offended by swearing but the producers seem to think excessive swearing makes their stories edgy ( especially during the first episode ) but honestly it just gets annoying after a while.

Cyber City Oedo 808 is worth a look but I wouldn't say it's essential viewing.

Appleseed: Ex Machina




I'd seen Appleseed: Ex Machina once a couple of years ago on DVD and I thought it was a fun movie, enjoyable but nothing special, about a month ago I picked up the Blu-ray pretty cheap and I finally got around to watching it a couple of days ago and the Blu-ray version of the movie is gorgeous, this would be a great movie to demonstrate the difference between DVD and Blu-ray formats and the fact it's a decent movie doesn't hurt either.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Planet of the Apes ( 2001 )




This is such a technically well made movie, it looks good, it was well designed and the make up is fantastic but somehow it all goes so very wrong.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Star Trek Season 1 Blu-ray




Just before Christmas last year I went a little crazy and bought all three seasons of the original Star Trek on Blu-ray, I watched the first two or three episodes and was quite impressed with the restoration work done on the episodes, the enhanced special effects were another thing however, I do rather like some of the new digital effects that were created for the show but some of the new effects are just too over the top for a show of Star Trek's age more disturbingly there has been the occasional new effects shot that was just terrible and makes me wonder why they bothered if that was the best they could do.

One of the great things about the Blu-ray release is that you have the option to watch the episodes with the original effects if you'd prefer and I'm sure thats what a lot of the fnatical purists do, I wanted to and still want to see how the show has been restored and reinterpreted for the high definition age.

Of course the great thing about Star Trek is the stories not the special effects and I've been enjoying seeing these old episodes again.