A Film by Guillermo del Toro (HD, 4:47) – The cast and crew discuss the changes a film undergoes through del Toro’s direction. The leader of the dying Jaeger program (Idris Elba) is able to sway Raleigh into one last hoorah mission to close the Kaiju rift in the ocean floor. Like I mentioned up above in the video section, the below audio score and critical comments of such are based solely upon my viewing of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation of Pacific Rim. And I’ll leave you with this…watch to find out why the color red is so important to GDT in this feature. And while I haven’t seen all his work I still went into Pacific Rim with very low expectations because his flicks always don’t do it for me completely.

We'll look at this again in the future when there could be more interesting differences to point out in other types of productions. I see a little more artifact in the 1080P image, possibly due to bitrate differences or maybe the upsampling algorithm. MadVR has separate settings for screenshots, and they could be very different from the settings for video viewing. For many films and depending on the size of your screen, that still looks very much better than "standard definition" 480P from the DVD days.Monsters roar and chopper rotors whirl overhead, while there's a fantastic sensation of diving under the ocean surface anytime the camera drops below churning waves. Surround Sound Presentation: My favorite surround moments are heard when Jaeger pilots enter into a drift.

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Just watched this again for the first time in like a year and woof, after so many very refined UHDs this looks lurid. When my reviewer Gerard Iribe and Aaron Neuwirth (his Comic-Con 2012 coverage here and WonderCon 2013’s here) first brought Pacific Rim to my attention, I wasn’t sold on it at all. alien monster anime ever created – most notably the seminal Neon Genesis Evangelion– acclaimed director Guillermo Del Toro’s mega-budget Summer blockbuster Pacific Rim somehow managed to be more than just the Transformers vs. If you like a slow, thought provoking sci-fi story like "2001A Space Odyssey" then this most definitely is not for you! Jake is joined by gifted rival pilot Lambert (The Fate of the Furious' Scott Eastwood) and 15-year-old Jaeger hacker Amara (newcomer Cailee Spaeny), as the heroes of the PPDC become the only family he has left.

Media criticism (66) MQA (47) Computer Audio (45) DAC (39) Listening Test (36) Hi-Res Audio (29) Digital Filters (27) Audiophile Philosophy (26) Snake Oil (26) Amplifier (21) Audio Cables (21) Multichannel audio (19) Vinyl (16) Audiophile psychology (15) Audio Shows (14) Jitter (14) Objectivism vs. As you can see above, with my biases tossed aside, there’s no denying Pacific Rim actually has a lot of grand things going for it. electric blues and fiery reds emerge to begin the movie, building in complexity and intensity with incredible eye-catching results. I'm bumping this because I bought Pacific Rim HDR and a 4K Blu-ray player over the weekend and it's glorious. We see how they get into their Jaeger, how the mental connection (known as "the drift") functions and how they co-pilot their robot.When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. And, on top of that, you get a reference quality Dolby Atmos sound mix as well as an UltraViolet code that can be redeemed for VUDU UHD, which includes Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. I was expecting a drawn out fiasco to get some resolution but instead found instant refund with this more than fair top seller. The next chapter in the fight against the apocalypse is more of the same without completely being a carbon-copy of its predecessor, littered with contrivances for bringing back hideously imaginative monstrosities from another dimension.

resolution, the freshly-minted transfer, upscaled from a 2K digital intermediate, arrives in the nick of time with razor-sharp definition in every scene.Dialogue is rendered with clarity and coherence throughout, afforded priority across the fronts and centre channels where necessary, whilst the generic but still effective score offers some added tension-heightening threat, and rousing tones where necessary. The vibrancy of the Hong Kong neons, fiery explosions and computer graphics really pop against the wide color gamut of this HDR presentation. If you love Charlie in comedies such as Horrible Bosses, then there’s no way you’re not going to adore his character here. And speaking about hilarious…that brings me to another character who absolutely had me in stitches…Burn Gorman as Dr.