Gran review para una gran película UHD

GEOFF D:

Default HDR10 4K BD review, OPPO 203 into Sony 65ZD9

Watched this yesterday. It's funny, I was there waiting for it to get bad and it never did, while when watching Atomic Blonde I was waiting for it to get good and it never did, yet AB is the one that I wanted to watch far more based on the trailers. Huh. In others words, I thought this flick was terrific! Jennifer Lawrence is excellent, reigning in her usual acting schtick and delivering something cooler and more detached, and the movie is a slow burning thriller rather than the lurid exploitation piece it was always marketed as. Seriously, it seems like every sexy/nude moment in the film was put into the trailers and that's just not what this film is about, at all.

I LOVED the visuals, I'm not talking about the UHD itself (will do in a moment) but the look of the movie itself, they shot everything on location and it's so refreshing to not have so much as a lick of ****ing greenscreen filling in for [insert exotic location here]. It just looks so real, so tactile, and the photography reflects that, DP Jo Willems wanting a sharper set of anamorphics for a more contemporary look than the older glass they used on the Hunger Gameses - but anamorphic is still anamorphic, so naturally the images have a softer, more diffuse look with the usual traits on display e.g. horizontal streaking, elliptical bokeh, bowed edges etc. The lighting only ever looks real, rather than having an overtly stylistic exaggeration for the sake of it (Willems calls it "enhanced naturalism"), so the movie doesn't 'pop' with excessive colour/range/sharpness but it really does have a beautiful look for the world it's trying to portray. And how good was that J-Law face replacement on the ballerina at the beginning?? Amazing.

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Originally Posted by TpFox View Post
Really interested on your take for the video on this one, thought it was great in theaters.
I thought it looked bruddy marvellous, NOT in an eye-wateringly sharp way that immediately attacks the senses (see above) but the detail of the 4K master (shot 3414x2198 ARRIRAW, though the anamorphic lenses will only cover 2.8K's worth of the sensor width) filters through in subtle ways, like the net curtain you can see over to the right side of frame at the start of chapter 10, or perhaps 11. The fine lines of the curtain are simply not there on the 1080p Blu-ray, and it's not just due to the HDR but also the sheer resolution of the UHD Blu. The 1080p disc is still excellent, as Fox's regular BDs usually are, but the UHD is that bit better in terms of resolution.

The HDR itself is quite lovely, bringing back a good deal of range in most areas of bright specular detail but without wrecking the underlying intent, e.g. blown-out windows still look bright and blown-out but retain more highlight information nonetheless. The windows behind Charlotte Rampling as she addresses her students is a nice example. These highlights are often SUPER bright too, I find myself reminded of Roger Deakins' reluctance to have his windows burn out too brightly in HDR but hey, he wasn't shooting this flick. Black levels are decent, the initial show LUT that was developed for the film was intended to have "deep blacks without looking crushed" and the UHD conforms to that intent, it always defers to having more shadow detail than not so the blacks aren't always ULTRA deep but it fits the imagery perfectly.

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Curioso este comentario de GEOFF, porque tuve exactamente la misma sensación, que es la de estar esperando a que sucediera algo que jamás se produjo, que no es otra cosa a que en algún momento la película se viera mal, cosa que no sucedió.