The Kite Runner + A Mighty Heart + Things We Lost In The Fire (Paramount Blu-rays)

 

Picture: B     Sound: B/B+/B     Extras: B-/C/C     Films: B/B-/C+

 

 

Paramount and DreamWorks are continuing to reissue films on Blu-ray they issued on DVD and the now defunct HD-DVD format.  Of the new batch, it is ironic that two of them were barely issued on HD-DVD as the format fell to Blu-ray, but we have covered all three films just the same as the following links will show:

 

The Kite Runner DVD

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6859/The+Kite+Runner+(Paramount/Dream

 

A Mighty Heart HD-DVD + DVD

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6188/A+Mighty+Heart+(HD-DVD+++DVD

 

Things We Lost In The Fire DVD

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6796/Things+We+Lost+In+The+Fire+(2007

 

 

It is also by coincidence that all three have a 2.35 X 1 aspect ratio and the two we did not cover on HD-DVD (Runner, Fire) look far better here in their 1080p digital High Definition presentations than their anamorphically enhanced DVD counterparts.  Still, they have image limits, while Heart looks as surprisingly impressive as it did before on the out-of-print format.  The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix is also identical to that older version.  The other films also have TrueHD 5.1 mixes that do their best to make the sound as clear and clean as possible, but they are dialogue-based productions, so only expect so much.  The extras are also all the same, though the trailers are upgraded to High Definition.  Thus, justice has been done to all three films in Blu-ray, but Heart is the playback winner.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo