Iron Man (2008)
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure • 2h 6m
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich, Sayed Badreya, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Peter Billingsley, Tim Guinee, Will Lyman, Tom Morello, Marco Khan, Daston Kalili, Ido Mor, Kevin Foster, Garret Noël, Eileen Weisinger, Ahmed Ahmed, Fahim Fazli, Gerard Sanders, Tim Rigby, Russell Richardson, Nazanin Boniadi, Thomas Craig Plumer, Robert Berkman, Stacy Stas Hurst, Lauren Scyphers, Frank Nyi, Marvin Jordan, Jim Cramer, Donna Evans, Reid Harper, Summer Kylie Remington, Ava Rose Williams, Vladimir Kubr, Callie Croughwell, Javan Tahir, Sahar Bibiyan, Patrick O'Connell, Adam Harrington, Meera Simhan, Ben Newmark, Ricki Lander, Jeannine Kaspar, Sarah Cahill, Stan Lee, Justin Rex, Zorianna Kit, Lana Kinnear, Nicole Lindeblad, Masha Lund, Gabrielle Tuite, Tim Griffin, Joshua Harto, Micah A. Hauptman, James Bethea, Mike Cochrane, Flavia Manes Rossi, Samuel L. Jackson, Kristin J. Hooper
Disney 4K Blu-ray (OOP France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision)
IMAX version: Disney+ Streaming
DNR free: Paramount Blu-ray
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but is inferior with more washed out colors and inferior encoding plus no hardcoded subtitles for the Portuguese language parts
Director: Jon Favreau
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Disney Blu-ray for non-DNR version
Director: James Gunn
Director: Steve James
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.
(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)
Director: Jon Favreau
US Universal Blu-ray with both cuts, Kino Lorber Blu-ray (extended cut only) included in the disappointing 4K Blu-ray and International Paramount Blu-ray (both Theatrical and Extended Blu-rays in different countries) have similar encoding.
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray disappointing review
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