Posted by Martin:
Video: B+
Audio: A-
Extras: D
Twilight
hit big screen last November under some intense expectations. I was not familiar with the book series before the movie, and it apparently got a mixed review when it came out. You can see the result over at Rottentomatoes.
hit big screen last November under some intense expectations. I was not familiar with the book series before the movie, and it apparently got a mixed review when it came out. You can see the result over at Rottentomatoes.
The Video:
The video is an excellent transfer in MPEG-4 1080P, shown in the theatrical 2:35:1 format. The video is very clear as would have been seen in the theaters, but for me this is not the most visually attractive movie to show off your theater. The colors don’t seem to pop as well as they could, but that probably has more to do with the washed out look the cinematographer was looking for.
The Audio:
The audio is DTS-HD 5.1. I’m still surprised that 7.1 is not used as often, but that is for a different discussion. This is a well done sound stage. The rear channels are used effectively, and the LFE is used as it should be, it is not overdone, but still effective.
The Extras:
The extras on this disc are mediocre, all the feature here can be found on the 2 disc DVD, nothing special for just the Blu-Ray.
There is an audio commentary with Director Katherine Hardwick, Actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart the two leads in the movie.
Three music videos are included. Five extended scenes with Director commentary are included, as well as five deleted scenes with director commentary.
The most interesting of the extras is the seven part PiP The Adventure Begins: The Journey from Page to Screen.
On the Blu-Ray the documentary can be seen as a Picture in Picture feature, or can be seen as one documentary on it’s own. The first parts of the documentary is about the Twilight story and phenomenon, not much interesting for those wanting to learn about how the movie was made. The later parts discuss more the day to day aspect of filming. It was interesting to learn how the beach scenes were shot on a day with huge rain, when they were expecting a sunny day.
You do learn that Hardwicke shot a lot of digital video footage in the preproduction process to give the CGI guys an idea of what to expect. I had always thought of pre-visualization as something a Pixar or Star Wars movie does, not a live action film. There was not a lot of explaining the importance of the previsualization for this movie, I’m sure it served a purpose, but we don’t learn what it is here.
Overall:
This movie is for teenage girls, that’s not a bad thing, but know the intended audience. Unfortunately so is the rest of the disc, no real meat here in the film making process.
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