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September 25, 2008

Sleeping Blu-ray

The magic of Blu-ray and the trend to CG animation, watching Sleeping Beauty on Blu-ray is a revelation… as is the preview of Pinocchio’s Blu-ray premiere in the spring.

It is a whole different form of art… as it should be understood to be.

It’s a weird thing how people decide that one form of cinema is all that they should be asked to consume at one time. If it’s CG animation, if it’s not that, it’s junk. If movies are being quick cut, classics are too slow. If Bruckheimer’s smoke machine is making money, everyone has to make their action movies look like there is a smog alert, even inside.

There is simply something amazing about watching the unique depth of field and visual lushness of the backgrounds and colors that have a pop that is analog to the digital Crayola set of CG animation. It’s a little like experiencing claymation these days. It’s very different. But it can be oh so beautiful

And this Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray is just breathtakingly beautiful… so much so that it’s almost impossible to believe it was just restored. Gorgeous.

And you remember… all the toys are fun… but good story well told… it’s everything.

Posted by dpoland at September 25, 2008 05:48 PM

Comments

While I haven't bought a player yet, I am going to make a point of buying the classic animated Disney films on Blu Ray. Probably one of my favourite experiences in the past couple of years was watching Lady & the Tramp on regular DVD - it was magnificent. I won't be double dipping on too many movies that I already own on DVD, but Disney will definitely be the exception.

Posted by: Aladdin Sane [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2008 12:12 PM

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