Baby Driver (2017)
Action, Crime • 1h 53m
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Jon Bernthal, Eiza González, Flea, CJ Jones, Lanny Joon, Micah Howard, Morse Diggs, Sky Ferreira, Lance Palmer, Hudson Meek, Viviana Chavez, Hal Whiteside, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Brigitte Kali Canales, Patrick Walker, Ben VanderMey, David Robert Lewis, Big Boi, Killer Mike, Brogan Hall, Allison Gabriel, R. Marcos Taylor, Paul Williams, Joe Loya, Andy McDermott, Christopher Beanland, Andrea Frye, Thomas E. Haynes, Russell B. Spencer, Cynne Simpson, Keith Hudson, Sidney Sewell, Thurman Sewell, Elijah Everett, Jon Spencer, Walter Hill, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Jeff Chase, Shellita Boxie, Marshall Choka, Juliette Sicard, Marvin E. West, Connie Lee, James Blackshear, Erica Frene, Elizabeth Davidovich, Duke Jackson, Colin Lacativa, Trey McGriff, Donald K. Overstreet, Danny Le Boyer, David Conk, Troy Faruk, Kenneth Manos, Nathaniel Perry, Whit Whitman, Perry Zulu Jr., Chad Joyce
Best English-friendly, video & audio release · updated 1 year ago
Sony 4K Blu-ray has reference Atmos track
UHD tiers
Reference Atmos; solid video
Overview
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Director: Edgar Wright
Director: Edgar Wright
Best colors of the Cornetto Trilogy on 4K Blu-ray, very good detail, blacks are crushed if not as much as on Shaun and Hot Fuzz
Director: Edgar Wright
2024 remastered Universal 4K Blu-ray
20th Anniversary UHDs
Better than the original 2019 4K Blu-ray, but there are a few shots with heavy DNR that look worse than the old 4K Blu-ray. The 2024 France StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has a better encode than the 2024 Universal 4K Blu-ray (but forced France subs)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Frank Capra
Director: John Carpenter
Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)
Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar
Director: Michael Arias
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray is a sharpened upscale. Caps
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a true lossless English dub and correct volume levels for the Japanese audio
Director: David Fincher
4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael Apted
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Richard Linklater
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Blu-ray uses the same transfer as Sony but the encoding is slightly worse than Sony and barely noticeable see caps
Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray in viewing looks very similar to both the Criterion and Sony caps, but no side by side comparison available
Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion
More Action on Blu-ray
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: James Gunn
Commentary is only on Streaming
Director: Anthony Mann
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Olive Blu-ray
Barebones Olive BD of a Paramount HD master. Visually it's solid overall with some moments of great clarity, primarily in the big outdoor and aviation sequences. Otherwise it shows its age.
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
review: Disk Kino
better encoding, some shots are better on Shout! Factory, others on Arrow
Shout! Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
Director: Michael Mann
Director: Guillermo del Toro
WB 4K Blu-ray teased by Guillermo Del Toro
CA Alliance Blu-ray or dutch Blu-ray are the same masters but have additional sharpening.
The original DVD has an isolated score and a exclusive easter egg
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