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I also find CinemaSquid the most useful, particularly that you can search by title and bring up all the information on it that Ronnie mentions. For those of us in Europe it is helpful to get the right information for our region, which is often inferior to the US version.

Some of my favourites,

Gladiator - character with honour and fantastic sound.
American History X - powerful story, well acted with fantastic dialogue. I remember standing in front of a new team of 14 salesman in Jan 2002. Part of the ice breaker and introduction was favourite film. 5 or 6 all named American History X which says a lot.
Cinderella Man - fantastic true story, great acting and amazing fight scenes.
Ray - Ray Charles movie with totally amazing acting by Jamie Fox and great soundtrack.
Man on Fire - powerful story of revenge - Denzel Washington.
Gangs of New York

Just a few of my favourites from a list i could spend all day typing.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen directed by Terry Gilliam on Bluray is very good! Tons of nice bonus. A must have release IMHO. The image is a little noisy but the master used here is immensely better than the DVD one. The sound is very good to my ear. It's an unbelievable release. One of the if not the best Gilliam for me.

Home alone, on Bluray is pretty cool. Nice master, sound is good. But few bonuses.

Twelve monkeys by Gilliam. it's a command movie, not written by Terry. The budget was tight and it shows. Overall good video master but the french Bluray is a rip off because the subtitles are permanent on screen for the VO language!! Dumb authoring work if you ask me. Also NO BONUS, it is cheap IMHO. Not recommended unless you saw it only in VHS!

I'll Second the Adventures of Baron Munchausen recommendation.

The MATRIX on HDDVD if you have one or in Bluray

Just watched ‘Kingdom of Heaven` directors cut on BD - excellent film one of my favorites. Anyone seen it?

Superb film and beautiful to look at; I particularly like the (honest) depiction of the muslims as the more enlightened of the two sides. Only the casting of Orlando Bloom lets it down IMO; he's just too lightweight at times (though he's growing on me).

Yes I totally agree - the depiction of the Muslims was not an easy task.

I worked in Algeria for two years from 1984-86 I didn`t encounter any problems - no reason why I should - wandered about on my days off with my camera - how the world has changed - it makes me sad.

Just watched the new Star Trek film; I contemplated for a while before I bought it, as I missed it at the cinema and I wasn`t sure what to expect, anyway if you have any misgivings don`t - it is a good film. For me it worked through the characters we know and love but we are also meeting them for the first time.

We all know the one liners but it was still a joy to hear the new characters` utter the famous lines. Like Spock when he first says ‘fascinating`. Same story - this time it`s the Romulans, however, I am not sure where the next film will go though.

what do you think?

Hi Shaun

I thought it was a great reworking of the old Trek, and a jolly good romp too; I've heard mention of bringing in the Borg, but I really hope they don't go down that route. I'm sure there are plenty of new adventures they can get up to, having freed themselves of the constraints of all the previous Trek history.

Interestingly, this was the one Bluray where I was a bit disappointed when I watched it with my new PJ set up. I then realised why...I saw it at the IMAX when it was on general release!

Cheers

George

moon best film ive seen in ages , good soundtrack to.

+1 for Moon and Star Trek. This is probably the best ST film of all.

Saw Hurt Locker last night on BD. A bit grainy picture quality (deliberate?) but quite thought provoking with everyone going quietly crazy in their own ways.