Michael Shamus Wiles

8 films on Best Blurays3 in 4K5 in HD

Michael Shamus Wiles (born October 27, 1955) is an American character actor of film and television onscreen since the 1980s who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He portrayed Marc Mitscher in Pearl Harbor and Mr. Parmagi in Hellraiser: Inferno. He is also known for recurring roles as ASAC George Merkert on Breaking Bad and as Jury on Sons of Anarchy. Other notable appearances include Puppet Master 4, Lost Highway, Fight Club, Rock Star and Transformers. In 2011, he appeared in Rockstar Games hit detective game L.A. Noire as Fire Chief Albert Lynch. He appeared in a 2015 production of the Hydrogen Jukebox.

Biography from TMDB

By format

List

3 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Lost Highway (1997)

Small role · Director: David Lynch

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray slightly better

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has best encoding. France Potemkine and Criterion UHDs slightly worse.

Best Audio:

4.1

Transformers (2007)

Small role · Director: Michael Bay

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

3.3

Fight Club (1999)

Small role · Director: David Fincher

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray for a purist version

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · notonbluray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray for a purist version or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray from the original 1999 telecine transfer

Video Notes:

Disney 4K Blu-ray, while a good release by itself, is very revisionist albeit made by Fincher. It has a huge amount of tinkering, a different grade, and at times uncanny with the sharpening. Caps of just how revisionist the new master is.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

All Blu-ray tracks have significant limiting.

Disney 4K Blu-ray has some alterations, otherwise similar to the Fox Blu-ray

Additional Info:

A blog article going over the home video history of Fight Club: https://notonbluray.com/blog/fight-club-compared-blu-ray-vs-itunes-vs-d-vhs-vs-dvd-vs-laserdisc/

5 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

Small role · Director: Jeff Burr

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

2.3

Dark Blue (2002)

Small role · Director: Ron Shelton

4K · Worse Than BD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Arrow Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray disappointing, nice new master, but poor encode, grain completely crippled in some scenes, artifacts abound, etc, makes Kino Lorber look like FiM.

3.2