Skyfall (2012)
Action, Adventure, Thriller • 2h 23m
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Ola Rapace, Helen McCrory, Nicholas Woodeson, Bill Buckhurst, Elize du Toit, Ian Bonar, Gordon Milne, Peter Basham, Ben Loyd-Holmes, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Wolf Blitzer, David Gillies, James Li, Kenneth Hazeldine, Orion Lee, Dave Wong, Tank Dong, Roger Yuan, Liang Yang, Yennis Cheung, Chooye Bay, Sid Man, Angela Tran, Milorad Kapor, Huw Edwards, Adebayo Bolaji, Elio Lo Tauro, Amir Boutrous, Khan Bonfils, Nicholas Goh, John Hodgkinson, Kurt Egyiawan, Oliver Johnstone, Harry Kershaw, Burt Caesar, Paul Venables, Crispin Letts, Kammy Darweish, Beatrice Curnew, Dominique Anne Jones, Ross Waiton, Jim Conway, Jens Hultén, Michael Pink, Jo Cameron Brown, Anthony O'Donnell, Hannah Stokely, Wayne Gordon, Ene Frost, Tom Wu, Jake Fairbrother, Christopher Sciueref, Daniel Adegboyega, Selva Rasalingam, Joss Skottowe, Steve Barnett, Lee Nicholas Harris, Duncan Casey, Tom Coulston, Paul Blackwell
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 1 year ago
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Overview
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
(for original forced subtitles font)
IMAX sequences have not been released on home video to date
Directors: Val Guest & Ken Hughes & John Huston & Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish
Video format: 4K Streaming
4K Streaming
Sources: 007homemedia.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros Blu-ray is the best Blu-ray even though it has color and major contrast issues
4K SDR master on streaming seems to be from the same scan and looks like it has less tinkering than the Blu-ray
Caps of 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Director: Taika Waititi
2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray
Original AR: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
IMAX AR: Paramount 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D version: Disney 3D Blu-ray or Disney+/Apple TV Vision Pro Streaming
Director: James Cameron
Paramount/Fox Blu-ray
3D Blu-ray for the IMAX/Open Matte version
35mm scan for original theatrical cut
4K Blu-ray is AI upscaled
The 4K Blu-ray bonus disc, the 2012 Blu-ray bonus disc, and the 2005 3 disc DVD have exclusive extras.
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
4K Blu-ray has DNR, see caps https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=11748&d2=11747&s1=115760&s2=115776&i=0&l=0
Best Buy Blu-ray has a bonus disc
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Sony Global 4K Blu-ray
> WB US 4K Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos: Sony/Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sony Blu-ray only has 5.1, not Atmos
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Caveat: both releases do not contain their natively shot expanded IMAX aspect ratios
Dolby Atmos: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, Warner Bros Blu-ray
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Caveat: both releases do not contain their natively shot expanded IMAX aspect ratios
Dolby Atmos: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, Warner Bros Blu-ray
Director: Christopher Nolan
Caveat: mild DNR throughout the transfer, non-IMAX scenes appear soft due to being scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative.
Director: Sam Mendes
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Universal 4K Blu-ray see caps: The film was finished as a 4K DI in 2005. The same master was now used for the 4K disc with a new HDR grade supervised by Roger Deakins. The old Blu-ray was badly encoded, the 4K looks much better
No original audio on Universal 4K Blu-ray. The Atmos remix is unusually bad. Blu-ray DTS-HD 5.1 for original mix.
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