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by Ian Pugh Fittingly, Surrogates is a patchwork substitute for any number of recent films that informed it. (All things considered, the '05-'06 comic series from which the movie spawned may be the least of its sources.) Just look at its pedigree. Given that it's about the schism between mortal man and unstoppable machine, it's the second Terminator film for both director Jonathan Mostow (after Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and star Bruce Willis (after Live Free or Die Hard), the third for screenwriters Michael Ferris and John Brancato (after T3 and Terminator Salvation), and perhaps the six-thousandth for 2009 alone--the latest in a long line of pictures that put the human soul behind the wheel of an automaton. Willis's Tom Greer is prescribed the usual problems--dead son, distant wife (Rosamund Pike)--of a rough-and-tumble movie cop, and from there, Surrogates cribs WALL·E's missive about the dangers of excessive comfort and The Dark Knight's casual nihilism in exploring the weakness of flesh-and-blood. Almost exclusively cobbled together from recent trends in American cinema, there's no denying its overfamiliarity--every twist and turn the movie has to offer is obvious at least forty-five minutes in advance. But as potentially the last straight action flick of the decade, Surrogates' derivative nature manages the improbable: it compacts the zeitgeist into a neat little package.

THE BLU-RAY DISCby Bill Chambers Buena Vista brings Surrogates to Blu-ray in a 2.40:1, 1080p transfer I can only describe as difficult. As director Jonathan Mostow says in his feature-length commentary, the movie boasts some 800 visual effects shots, most of which involved digital facelifts to give the actors a more uncanny appearance. But while the surrogates do look plastic-fantastic, that airbrushed quality almost never seems unique to skin, resulting in a cruddy, eye-straining image only exacerbated by the picture's noir aesthetics. (Blacks bleed together in deep, detail-swallowing pools.) According to the IMDb, Surrogates' D/I was 2k, which seems low for a contemporary, F/X-heavy film, and artifacts abound--chiefly, solarized whites--that I haven't seen since the early-'90s, when outputting CGI to film was a relatively new procedure. Grain? Mercurial, at best. An aptly imperfect presentation, perhaps, but an off-putting one just the same. While the mix itself is surprisingly hemispheric except during a pivotal chase scene through a junkyard, the attendant 5.1 DTS-HD audio sounds clean, rich, and suitably aggressive. On another track, find the aforementioned yakker from Mostow, who does eventually run out of material and start narrating the flick but has a lot of interesting things to say until such time. I was particularly intrigued to hear that he fished a few wide-angle lenses out of the Panavision vault that hadn't been used since the '60s (shooting in Super35 instead of anamorphic, one presumes, to accommodate them), all in pursuit of angles straight out of the John Frankenheimer playbook. There are probably more "inevitable dashes of pretension" than I can count, although even at his loftiest--Mostow talks about hiring a "mind coach" for the cast to make their performances less human--he's not overbearing.

Video-based extras begin with "A More Perfect You" (15 mins., HD), a combination making-of/speculative piece in which various experts talk up or demonstrate current surrogate technology. Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, who's adapted MoCap techniques to lifelike models, says he wanted to learn what it is to be human by building a robot--speaking for each of these would-be Frankensteins in the process, methinks. We also get to see before-and-after footage of Bruce Willis as a "synthespian" that's quite revealing, in no small part because his female co-stars are protected from the same sudden exposure of their alleged flaws. I must ask, though: if a racecar driver were granted the gift of immortality via an avatar, as speculated, would he or she in fact still be a racecar driver? (Sort of like: is a gambler who cheats to win still a gambler?) "Breaking the Frame: A Graphic Novel Comes to Life" (7 mins., HD) is a truncated-feeling piece on the film's comic-book origins, featuring interviews with author Robert Vendetti, illustrator Brett Weldele, and others including Mostow, who notes compromises had to be made in the adaptation without elaborating on what those were. Four deleted scenes (5 mins. in total) would've maybe belaboured the mutual animosity raging between mechas and orgas, but I appreciated the more definitive glimpse of the Radha Mitchell character's human counterpart. (These elisions, for what it's worth, are lo-res outputs from editing software, superfluously encoded in 1080p.) Breaking Benjamin's tie-in video for "I Will Not Bow" (HD, DD 5.1) joins a sneak peek at the "Lost" season 5 BD, the awesome teaser for Tron Legacy (referred to as "VFX concept test footage"), and trailers for Alice in Wonderland, Everybody's Fine, and the studio's Blu-ray slate in rounding out the platter--the latter three previews launching automatically on startup as well. All this ephemera is native 1080p. Originally published: January 18, 2010.

Apple users think that there are no benefits of 4K video because everyone still uses 1080p monitors. This in a nutshell is the mentality of die hard Apple users today. They can see things like how 4K looks significantly better on their 1080p monitors, but they try to erase from their minds what they've seen, and never research things like why 4K video significantly looks better on 1080p monitors.

hey dude, FYI iphone 5s,6 and 6+ can take 4k video at 24 FPS using other apps in the appstore. We apple users are not dumb for not understanding the quality of 4k videos. The only reason we think its not useful, is because most of the people in this planet has not 4K TV. So its not that much use full. But in the future it will be.

"Apple users think that there are no benefits of 4K video because everyone still uses 1080p monitors." Sweeping generalisation, logical fallacy spotting a mile away. If you want to get a rise out of Apple users, I suggest you try harder.

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Is there any truth to the rumour that anyone connected to Frankie Goes to Hollywood died in the Lockerbie Disaster ? I see a song writer, another musician and the son of an actor did die, but there seems to be no link between them and the aforementioned group ? Also, what about the story concerning some stunt man or actor on Footloose, who is said to have died because he was " too fit for his own heart " ( something I don't have to worry about ), as if that is at all possible ? Initially, people were saying it was Kevin Bacon, so imagine my shock in seeing him in dozens of feature films, all made after Footloose. What, did they dig his bones up, and tie strings to his limbs to get him to move ? I don't think his acting is that bad, although with that Invisible Man movie he made, one begins to wonder. The Russian.202.36.179.66 (talk) 08:53, 11 November 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply] 2b1af7f3a8