Incredibles

i don't have any of my top ten actually. some come close like Shaun, Love Actually, Taxi Driver is closest, Serenity...
just a measly 5.1

thanks for all the suggestions. keep em coming. tv should hopefully be here before weekend. i hope! still in 'shipping soon' stage

i really am torn, but in a fun way...

I'd say The Incredible Hulk for reference PQ and especially AQ. Also, Baraka is breath taking to say the least in terms of PQ.

My personal favorite is Ratatouille.
PQ, AQ, Pixar/Disney, Story, it's got it all.

I'm going to say 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Seriously blew me away and I had been into blu for well over a year when I saw it.

if your receiver does 192KHz sound check out Akira - the soundmix is underrated IMO and definately an aural experience.

likewise the anime series Freedom - the sharpness of the image is eye-piercing.

the soundmix on Despicable Me, the bass is assaultive. I watched this on a friend's home theater system and it sounded better than the theatrical version I saw/heard.

Avatar.

"Taxi Driver" is supposed to be an amazing upgrade according to every single person that owns it.

Although I'm quite impressed with the range of Blu-ray titles that I have experienced, one thing that I did notice right off the bat was that Wall-E release set the bar extremely high for everything else (the front end imaging is among the best I've heard). The same really can be said of all the Pixar releases.

As far as Serenity - the audio on Serenity is very aggresive (as it damn well should for an action oriented sci-fi piece) and it looks fantastic.

Had to scroll down farther than I thought to get to the Dark Knight:

Watch the Scenes that switch to "Full Screen", this is when the IMAX filming kicks in. This is the way every movie should be filmed and then transferred to Blu-Ray. Every time I watch the movie, I have to keep re-watching the scenes over and over again - I am still amazed years later.
-Chase under Gotham City (Joker chasing Harvey Dent)
-Several others...


Pixar is what you want to put in to marvel at perfection.

"Beauty and the Beast" shows off Disney's artwork, the picture is perfect and the colors JUMP off the TV. Everyone that has watched it on my HDTV, have noticed immediately how the VQ is amazing.

Seconded.

And why isn't this a poll?

Tangled, Tron Legacy, Red Cliff: Parts I & II, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (despite the film being totally braindead), and Casino Royale make for a great A/V experience.

I agree, I generally thought T:RoF was seriousily flawed, but I must admit the action scenes are cool, very noticeable on the Walmart 'IMAX' bluray edition - again, the scenes that open to 1.75 - are exceedingly sharp and leap off of the screen

while I can't say much about the Magnolia edition of The Good, The Bad and the Weird - the Korean edition is jawdropping, the image is so sharp and clean, the film looks like it was shot in 65mm and the 7.1 soundmix is insanely loud and highly creative.

Watch the intro to TF2 and turn it off after the shanghai sequence. That's all you need otherwise...it gets really stupid fast.

talk about a missed opportunity of NOT shooting that with IMAX cameras, the rolling down the highway with cars exploding and flying around should have looked massive - but it wasn't, oh well that's the ineptness of Michael Bay for you.

I agree. The scene would have been great starting in a combination of A35 and S35 like it did but then opening up to IMAX the moment Wheelbot was revealed and ending in S35/A35 when Optimus Prime blasted his head off. That would have been epic.

But, in all fairness, I recall reading somewhere that shooting in IMAX was very last minute and/or an afterthought.

not to be a dick, but blu-ray in HD? As opposed to what, a blu-ray in standard? Come on now

I know a few people who own Blu-Ray movies and a PS3 but still use it on an SDTV. They would rather spend money on content and keep their SDTV until it breaks basically, and then they will upgrade.

Not my personal choice but some do feel this way. It's the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality.

You could display a blu-ray on a non-HD monitor/TV and it would be downconverted to SD, correct?

I would say that you shouldn't set the bar too high on your first viewing. Watch something with average picture quality first, so you're used to something a little sub-par and can adjust your expectations according, thus leaving you BLOWN AWAY by the best of the best.

If I'm not mistaken blu-ray players only have HD outlets for hdmi or composite cables...and if they have standard a/v slots....why?? Totally defeats the purpose

So that they will connect to any TV. If they didn't include them, retailers would have to deal with customers that "couldn't get them to work." While those people shouldn't be buying the players in the first place, it's better to just include those connections than to have to eat the cost of returns.

If that's the case then buy DVDs.

Transformers 2

Eh, regardless, anyone who buys a blu ray player and blu rays but does not upgrade to an HDTV is an idiot.