The story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), who must leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition travelling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Product details
Language
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English
Product dimensions
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1.4 x 13.5 x 17 cm; 80 Grams
Item Model Number
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R-115449-8
Director
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Lynda Obst, Christopher Nolan
Media Format
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Blu-ray
Run time
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2 hours and 49 minutes
Release date
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8 April 2015
Actors
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Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine
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Great film. It’s one of those movies that at the end has a “oh wow” moment when you realise what’s happened. The overall movie is entertaining and insightful into our planet and humans.
Amazing movie, I highly recommend watching it But it doesn't come with the digital copy which the item displayed shows which is one of the only reasons I brought this
I am not going to review the movie on this UHD Blu Ray - there are better sites for that and my opinion won’t carry much weight. Let’s just say that this is more “2001: A Space Odyssey” than “Inception” and leave it at that, which should give you an indication of whether you will like it or not. Setting aside the movie itself, I have seen a let of negative reviews of this UHD Blu Ray release so thought I would voice my own thoughts having just watched it. The major criticism I consistently read about this release is about rising black levels by comparison to the HD Blu Ray. That criticism is valid, but it sort of misses the point that this is part and parcel of the whole high dynamic range that comes with this release. The HD Blu Ray definitely had silky black blacks, but as a result it also had a slight crush in shadow detail. With the high dynamic range, you get light filtering into those blacks that was in the film negative. Take for example, the early scenes of the film with Cooper waking up in his bedroom. On the HD Blu Ray the surrounds of Cooper’s bedroom are pitch black, but in the UHD Blu Ray the morning sunlight is filtering in, making those blacks a reddish dark grey. Sure, it won’t show off the ultra blacks of your new OLED panel, but it’s more accurate to the filmed image. And therein lies the real issue - this movie is not meant to be watched on your little 65” OLED with its blacker than black blacks. It’s meant to be projected on the biggest screen you can fit in your room on the brightest projector you can buy with a sound system that will scare your neighbours. Your “raised blacks” then just translate to improved shadow detail, and that’s what you should be getting with HDR and that’s what you do get here. The other, in my view unfair, criticism I read about this release is that a lot of shots are out of focus and lack detail. Again, this is a true criticism of some shots, but it’s not a fault of the transfer, rather, it’s an artistic choice of the director of photography. There is a clear intent in many of the slightly out of focus shots to pay homage to those early science fiction films that this movie as a whole is a love letter to - specifically the aforementioned “2001” and also “Solaris” (the Russian version, not the US remake) which employed that filming technique for visual effect. The same scenes do not look quite as soft on the HD Blu Ray because of the lower resolution in that image. It’s not a fault of the transfer though, it’s inherent in the source. Whether this is worth an upgrade for you though, in my experience, depends on what your display is. If you’re just watching this on a panel that’s 65” or under, I am not sure you will reap the benefits. Any bigger than that, and you probably will. If you have a projection system, you most definitely will. For me, this UHD Blu Ray is now the only way to watch the movie, but I see why for others it won’t be.
