Harry Potter: The Complete 8-film Collection [Blu-ray] [2001] [2016] [Region Free]

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In an ideal world, they would have just shot a four and half hour movie and released that, it has been done before, but the studio have to get their money’s worth. Unlike the first five discs, this is really a disc for the world, offering the English audio in Dolby True-HD 5. Indeed it looks as if they are hell-bent on persecuting him to the full extent of whatever law minister Cornelius Fudge can devise. This is very much a step in the right direction, if not quite offering all that Blu-ray is capable of.

But more than that, there’s a mysterious plot afoot at Hogwarts, and that while Voldemort’s power might have waned, it hasn’t vanished just yet. He soon discovers, though, that there is a much darker side to the wizarding world than any of them could have imagined. Year 7 - Part 2: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into all-out war. widescreen transfer uses the AVC codec, although I’m hard-pressed to notice any difference between this and the previous film.In the hands of director Alfonso Cuaron, you also get a film which rightly incorporates magic as a fundamental, and background element of its world, not the moments of wonderment and fascination that it was in the first two films. For the week that ended on July 21st, Warner Home Entertainment's Rampage debuted at number one on the Blu-ray-only and overall package-media charts. Incidentally, Boyhood might have picked up the Oscars, but Harry Potter did it first, and on a much larger scale. Catalan, Spanish and Czech, with subtitles in those languages, Arabic, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, and Slovenian.

That didn’t happen with The Philosopher’s Stone, as it plays out just like the book, albeit with a few bits left out for time. Such movies need to find one or maybe two or three ongoing plot lines and develop them through the script so that you get a narrative flow through the film. But unlike last year, this year Dumbledore has a plan to deal with Voldemort, and Harry’s right in the middle of it. It’s the worst time for Harry to be on the outside, as his dreams have been getting worse, almost as if he’s sharing Voldemort’s vision, and it becomes clear that Voldemort is after a new weapon.What`s worse is that the Dementors of Azkaban have been unleashed to affect his recapture, and have taken up residence around Hogwarts, but also seem to take an uncommon and debilitating interest in Harry. He expects to be censured for breaking the law against underage wizardry, but is surprised to find that the Minister of Magic is inclined to be lenient. That’s why the usual novel adapted to a movie has drastic changes to it, whole characters and plotlines dropped, time condensed, even key moments changed.

Part 3: Creatures - Meet a new group of wizards: the artists who created the monsters and marvels in Harry's world. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. The problem always was that the Harry Potter books always had such a density of plot, so many details to keep in mind, that it often felt as if half the important stuff was left off screen. Quidditch - At last, the secrets behind the special effects required for the breathtaking Quidditch scenes are revealed!The final three films on the other hand boot to a main menu screen, and let you set-up the disc before watching the films. This year, Draco Malfoy has a mission of his own, one that visibly takes its toll on Harry’s nemesis, and a mission that will change Hogwarts forever. with her wand, both will become friends for life and always no-matter what by Harry's side when needed. The Deathly Hallows, Part 2 doesn’t really put a foot wrong in my estimation as it barrels headlong towards its conclusion.

The CG effects also blend in seamlessly, and Dobby and Kreacher in particular have never looked so tangible and part of the action. There might have been a smidge of digital banding around an illuminated wand at one point, but that might have been my imagination. I don’t see them as great cinema, They are fulfilling, decent adaptations of the books, which bring that magical world to life with visual flair certainly, but it was usually a case of distilling the books down to fit the screen, rather than finding what is most cinematic about the stories. We may cut away briefly to see Hermione and Ron’s battle with Nagini, or Voldemort’s latest charge against the castle, but all these diversions always serve Harry’s story.

I have to say that to my ears it actually sounds better than the Dolby TrueHD efforts that came previously, I was wholly impressed with the quality, clarity, and power of the surround audio, the niftiness of the sound design, the impact of the action sequences and the well-balanced audibility of the dialogue. This fourth year of the Harry Potter cycle is when teenagers start being obnoxious to each other, on top of becoming painfully thin-skinned, and that is reflected in where the characters are. Of course I’ll begin by re-evaluating The Philosopher’s Stone, thirteen years after I first reviewed the DVD for this site. For the week that ended on October 15th, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's Jurassic World: Dominion topped the Blu-ray-only chart, just edging out Walt Disney Home Entertainment's Thor: Love and Thunder, which dropped to second place in its third week. Part 6: Magical Effects - Watch how technical wizards conjured up an amazing alternate reality using CGI and practical effects.