I’m sure that some diehard collectors thinks that barely merits a yawn but I’m just a amateur collector who buys maybe a few disks a week nowadays so to me 1 600 titles is quite a lot. Continue reading Hit 1 600 titles in my movie collection today.
A while ago I picked up my new Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray player and 9-channel AV receiver with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X to go with my new OLED 4K TV set. Since then I have had some experience with my new gear and I am indeed quite happy with it so here’s some ramblings from me about OLED, 4K, HDR and Dolby Atmos. Continue reading 4K goodness continued…
Over lunch today I picked up the last missing bits of my 4K-capable home cinema setup, a Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray player and a 9-channel AV receiver that can handle Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Tonight I will go straight from work and start installing and setting it up. I can hardly wait. I will probably forget to eat tonight 🙂 I suspect that there will … Continue reading 4K goodness here I come!
With my ever growing movie collection, which at the time of writing this stands at 757 titles, I needed more shelf space. So over the last two weekends I knocked together a new DVD and Blu-ray shelf of the same style as the ones I’ve already made for the living room. Actually, I moved the, also growing, game collection for the PS3 out of my … Continue reading Needed more DVD and Blu-ray space
We watched Harry Brown last weekend. I’m afraid it wasn’t as good as I hoped. I often like Michael Caine but I really didn’t like this particular movie. Some people say this movie is a British version of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino but that’s really stretching it as far as I’m concerned. Gran Torino had quite a few bright moments although the film as a … Continue reading Harry Brown…not as good as I hoped
This week Bodil picked up two new movies, Hoodwinked Too and Harry Brown, for my collection at MediaMarkt when she waited for the kids at the Swedish school in Meyrin. It’s really a long time since we bought films at MediaMarkt. It doesn’t happen very often any more. We used to get all our films there but with the convenience of Amazon where you can … Continue reading Picked up some new Blu-rays at MediaMarkt
Drive have received some very positive reviews so I ordered it some time ago when Bodil mentioned it. It’s quite an interesting movie. Those who expect something like Fast & Furious are going to be very disappointed. I didn’t really know what it was all about, although I had read the summary at IMDb of course, so I didn’t have any expectations in particular. I’d … Continue reading Watched Drive the other day
As has become a bit of habit since there’s usually nothing worth watching on satellite and none of us has to wake up early in the morning, Friday evening was a watch-something-from-the-not-yet-watched-shelf-of-my-film-collection evening. So we sat down and watched Final Destination 5. A lot of people have claimed that this release in the series is better than the other ones. I disagree. I do not … Continue reading Final Destination V
Trust Steven Spielberg to manage to get aliens into just about every possible situation. He managed to squeeze them into Indiana Jones, which I wasn’t too thrilled about, and now he has managed to make a western movie with aliens. As you might have guessed, we watched Cowboys & Aliens yesterday evening. Quite an okay movie. I wasn’t as disturbed by seeing aliens in a … Continue reading Cowboys and Aliens
Nothing really on TV yesterday evening so it was perfectly suited for watching the Green Lantern. Especially since there’s, obviously, no school today so Timothy could sit up late. Since the film is pretty much all about green special effects he, of course, just had to see it. As is often the case with these films, the film was okay (pretty much saved by it’s … Continue reading Watched Green Lantern yesterday evening
Jonathan was, like myself, really keen on watching Space Battleship Yamato so when there wasn’t really anything we cared to see last Friday we sat down and plopped the disc into the Blu-ray player. As I mentioned in my previous post this film beat Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows at the box office in Japan when it came out in 2010. Well, now having watched … Continue reading Space Battleship Yamato
So the first bunch of films for this year has arrived in the mail from Amazon. Sure we have a lot of watching hours still pending given that we bought the full sets of both Mash and The Addams Family for Christmas presents but you don’t just want to watch TV-series episodes all the time you’re in front of the TV. Also, I want to … Continue reading First bunch of films for the year
Last evening we watched Conan the Barbarian, the 2011 remake, on Blu-ray. Jonathan had been complaining for days that we never got around to watch it since we got it so yesterday we gave in. I quite liked this film, more than I liked Captain America: The First Avenger that we watched a couple of days ago. It has gotten some rather disappointing ratings, only … Continue reading Conan the Barbarian (remake)
We weren’t able to resists the kids harping about seeing it more than a day after we got the last instalment of the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, on Blu-ray from Amazon last Thursday. Thus we sat down and watched it last evening. So, that was the end of that, end of the series, the bad guy is dead … Continue reading Harry Potter, end of the line
A while ago we got around to watch Fast Five on Blu-ray. Fast Five, also called Fast & Furious 5, is the fifth installment in the Fast & Furious series. This one is really good. It brings the series back in good shape. Unlike some of the lesser installments in the series this one has Vin Diesel in it which of course is a plus. … Continue reading Fast Five, Vin Diesel back in shape
We got Transformers – Dark of The Moon delivered by mail from Amazon yesterday. Jonathan was hovering over me from the second I got home from work wondering when we where going to watch it :roll:, so we ended up watching it last evening. The film was splendid in doing exactly what it was intended to do, that is display a special effects loaded action … Continue reading Transformers – Dark of The Moon
Nothing interesting on TV last night so we resorted to the not-yet-watched shelf of our film collection. The choice fell on the fourth installment of the Final Destination series. For some reason this one is named The Final Destination instead of Final Destination 4. Almost looks like they expected this installment to be the final in the series but since the 5th one is about to come out … Continue reading The Final Destination (Final Destination #4)
We watched X-Men: First Class on Blu-ray the weekend that passed. Good movie. Not spectacular but good. Maybe I’m getting too used (spoiled) with all these super-hero movies that’s produced nowadays but they fail to really impress me lately. I just feel they’re not going that last 10 or 20% from very good to excellent. I had the same feeling with Thor. Actually with Thor … Continue reading X-Men: First Class on Blu-ray
When Fast & Furious 5 came out we wanted to see it so we bought the set with all 5 of the movies. We had already seen the first three and liked all of them although none of the sequels could really measure up to the original so we decided we wanted the complete set in our collection. Since we didn’t want to see the … Continue reading Fast & Furious 4
Last evening was film-time evening again and we sat down to watch the Thor Blu-ray that was delivered from Amazon a few days ago. I have to say that I was slightly underwhelmed. Sure the special effects was not bad and the sound, DTS Master Audio 7.1, was just excellent but it simply felt a bit on the cheap side. The script was just silly. … Continue reading Thor, slightly underwhelming
I hadn’t read up on this movie very much before getting it. Although few of his movies can rival Braveheart, which he filmed in 1995, I have generally liked Mel Gibson’s movies so I simply ordered Edge of Darkness a while ago when it popped up in the list of new Blu-ray releases at Amazon. I did expect an action movie but this is really more … Continue reading Mel Gibsons Edge of Darkness on Blu-ray
I actually find it kind of weird that, more often than not, we do not find anything that we care to watch on a Saturday evening. Sure there’s a bunch of movies on a lot of the channels but we’ve already seen the good ones and the other ones, well we could perhaps be bothered to sit through them on a workday evening but not … Continue reading Final Destination 3, not as good as 1 & 2
Last night there was nothing on TV. Well, there was plenty on TV of course but either we had already seen it or we didn’t really care for seeing it. So we watched Priest which we had just received on Blu-ray from Amazon instead. I film just in my style. It’s a future/alternate reality kind of apocalyptic action/horror movie. Fairly simple and straightforward plot where … Continue reading Nothing on TV last night, watched Priest instead
End of last week and this weekend we ticked off another couple of films from the Pending Films List of my Film Collection. At the end of the week we watched I am Number 4. Quite an okay movie. The script was definitely tuned for the younger audience with a plot that was quite simple and certainly had some holes in it. For instance, if … Continue reading I am Number 4 and Source Code
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