Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › IGN review Back to Earth on Blu-ray Search for: This topic has 44 replies, 20 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 2 months ago by ori-STUDFARM. Scroll to bottom Viewing 45 posts - 1 through 45 (of 45 total) Author Posts October 18, 2009 at 8:19 pm #5176 littlesmeggerParticipant http://uk.bluray.ign.com/articles/103/1035277p1.html The first paragraph gives you an idea of what to expect from this budding expert review… sigh… “Before examining the back of the case when I got my copy of Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, I initially thought it was some sort of space-related documentary from BBC. I had little idea that this TV movie was based on a hugely successful sci-fi comedy series that aired in the U.K. from 1989 to 1999.” Anyway, it gives an unbiased review of the bluray version at least. See what you think. He wasn’t all that keen on the audio, I’ll mention that. October 18, 2009 at 8:35 pm #105021 JamesTCParticipant Quite a kind review I think, maybe it was a little too focused on the faults but it given it a good rating out of ten. I presume the person reviewing isn’t from the UK. Looked at the comments below the review – “This sounds exactly like The League of Gentlemen movie.”, epic fail. October 18, 2009 at 8:56 pm #105023 ChrisMParticipant “new hologram. But before [Katerina] does this, she decides to rid the ship of the squid using a dimensional gateway of sorts.” Eh? She created the gateway to get rid of the squid? October 18, 2009 at 8:59 pm #105024 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Ah, come on, he’s only a DVD reviewer, you can’t expect him to understand basic story beats. October 19, 2009 at 10:58 am #105049 AndrewParticipant http://www.bullz-eye.com/television_reviews/2009/red_dwarf_back_to_earth.htm October 19, 2009 at 1:51 pm #105056 The PerformingMonkeyParticipant That’s a really good review. He’s honest about not watching much Dwarf over the years but he doesn’t then proceed to slag off people who have. Care and attention has been made to getting the show and extras details right. October 19, 2009 at 3:10 pm #105057 Mr-StabbyParticipant Despite having BtE on DVD i bought the Bluray purely because i’d just bought a 63 inch TV, and if anything would benefit from Bluray it would be that. The Bluray is miles ahead of the DVD in quality. Not if you’re watching it on a 40 inch or less TV, but anything over it is miles ahead. Where it does go wrong though is the digital zooms that they did. The shots that are zoomed in are very bad quality in a lot of instances on the Bluray. A shot of Lister in the ‘ironing sneezes’ sleeping quarters scene is especially bad. Considering they had 4k to play with, that surprises me some, but it’s bad. The shot where Katarina is talking a load of crap about mining lasers and it digital zooms into her, you can slowly see the pixelation appearing, whereas on the DVD you just didn’t (obviously because it wasn’t high definition enough to see the dodgy bits). October 19, 2009 at 5:55 pm #105070 Ben PaddonParticipant That’s odd, because when I watched the thing on a 63-inch HDTV last weekend I thought it looked stunning from start to finish. Absolutely gorgeous. October 19, 2009 at 6:00 pm #105071 AndrewParticipant As we’ve moved into HD, I’ve become more and more obsessed by the distance between screen and subject. Dunno if that’s apposite here… October 19, 2009 at 7:19 pm #105083 Ben PaddonParticipant The further away from the screen you get, the more the benefits of HD diminish. For example: Helen has a small-ish HDTV – about 19″. It has a built-in DVD player which is, by all accounts, very nice. She wanted to borrow some of my classic Doctor Who DVDs so I let her borrow my spare region-free DVD player. It’s a Coby, it cost $30, and it’s not the best DVD player in the world – the way it handles the PAL to NTSC conversion results in pixelated, almost VHS-like picture quality. However the distance in Helen’s dorm room between the TV and the bed on which we sit on to watch the TV is such that the pixelation becomes almost unnoticeable. I’m sure the inner tech geek in me will get fed up and I’ll probably wind up snagging her the same Philips region-free DVD player that I have (it has HDMI out and upscales beautifully). Then she’ll have to buy a bigger TV. And then, naturally, she’ll need a Bluray player. And of course from there she’ll need a nice couch to sit on… …I may well wing up encouraging her to financially cripple herself in the name of home entertainment. I’m not sure I could live with that guilt. October 21, 2009 at 5:16 pm #105130 AndrewParticipant http://blogcritics.org/video/article/dvd-review-red-dwarf-back-to/ October 21, 2009 at 5:50 pm #105131 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Nice review, but AGAIN with the lack of basic research. October 21, 2009 at 6:31 pm #105132 ChrisMParticipant >Nice review, but AGAIN with the lack of basic research. Heh, yeah. I like how the cat species evolved during suspended animation. October 21, 2009 at 6:55 pm #105134 Pete Part ThreeParticipant “Since the show didn?t have a large budget, Rimmer is a ?solid hologram? and the only difference between him and Lister is the letter ?H? in the middle of his forehead to signify hologram.” Love it. October 21, 2009 at 7:23 pm #105135 hummingbirdParticipant I?m a big fan of Red Dwarf. But not a big enough fan to actually get his facts right. October 21, 2009 at 8:39 pm #105137 ori-STUDFARMParticipant >There have been more rumors of a movie or a new series, and at a recent convention Robert Llewellyn confirmed that series 10 has been commissioned and will make sense since there never was a series nine. Did he? October 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm #105138 JamesTCParticipant Well he was at the convention when he posted it on twitter. October 22, 2009 at 7:12 am #105144 Seb PatrickKeymaster God there are some bad writers on the internet. There’s nothing obnoxious about that review, or anything – it’s just so completely insipid, devoid of any kind of spark, and nothing more than a trotting through of descriptions in unvaried and repetitive fashion. October 22, 2009 at 8:27 am #105145 DaveParticipant >repetitive fashion The use of suspended animation in three consecutive sentences is particularly nice, but there’s something really odd about the lack of explanation of the difference between cat & Cat. October 22, 2009 at 11:47 am #105147 PhilParticipant >repetitive fashion The use of suspended animation in three consecutive sentences is particularly nice, but there?s something really odd about the lack of explanation of the difference between cat & Cat. October 22, 2009 at 11:49 am #105148 Seb PatrickKeymaster See you in ten minutes? November 2, 2009 at 10:55 am #105489 AndrewParticipant http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/39012/red-dwarf-back-to-earth/ (Even when the review’s so positive the little inaccuracies still stick out…) November 2, 2009 at 12:27 pm #105491 John HoareParticipant …Down To Earth? I don’t care for the first paragraph at all, either. November 5, 2009 at 4:57 pm #105652 Bob LoblawParticipant http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Red-Dwarf-Back-to-Earth-Blu-ray-Review/6139/ November 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm #105654 Jason aka Smeg4BrainsParticipant > try as it may, Back to Earth fails to reinvigorate the franchise. They’re making a new series for entirely different reasons then? > Red Dwarf has died a cold and lonely death in the icy vacuum of fandom. Something is not right, it’s saying we don’t exist. November 5, 2009 at 6:08 pm #105660 ori-STUDFARMParticipant He’s talking to a figmant of his imagination! November 5, 2009 at 8:49 pm #105670 Ben PaddonParticipant > Red Dwarf has died a cold and lonely death in the icy vacuum of fandom. Oh dear. I guess everyone at GNP has already cleared their desks by now, then? November 5, 2009 at 9:33 pm #105680 JamesTCParticipant >Oh dear. I guess everyone at GNP has already cleared their desks by now, then? Yep, they are moving to a bigger office to write that show set in the cold, lonely and icy vacuum of space. November 5, 2009 at 11:19 pm #105681 hummingbirdParticipant > Something is not right, it?s saying we don?t exist. I’ve suspected this for some time. November 6, 2009 at 12:22 am #105683 Phil1034Participant > Something is not right, it?s saying we don?t exist. Correction, we don’t ever have existed. November 6, 2009 at 12:55 am #105687 John HoareParticipant …I don’t know that one. November 6, 2009 at 11:39 am #105704 Danny StephensonKeymaster Why not explore the reaches of space? They have. Why not toy with the conventions of your established series? They did. Why not give your beloved characters something more to do than traipse around England questioning existence and reality? I stopped reading after this. November 6, 2009 at 6:27 pm #105729 JoParticipant http://www.joblo.com/dvdclinic/dvd_review.php?id=2541 They were doing so well until… “We also get a pair of commentary tracks , one featuring series creator Greg Naylor” November 6, 2009 at 7:15 pm #105738 AndrewParticipant “(lol- Rimmer)” November 6, 2009 at 8:54 pm #105749 Ben PaddonParticipant Greg Naylor? Really? November 6, 2009 at 9:17 pm #105753 JamesTCParticipant I think they meant to say Doug Garcia. November 7, 2009 at 4:49 pm #105786 ori-STUDFARMParticipant http://www.joblo.com/dvdclinic/dvd_review.php?id=2541 “a female hologram who builds a device to send Lister to another dimension so he can find a mate.” And all this time, I thought it was a genuine attempt to return Lister to Earth! It was all so Lister could get his end away! November 7, 2009 at 6:20 pm #105789 ChrisMParticipant >And all this time, I thought it was a genuine attempt to return Lister to Earth! It was all so Lister could get his end away! To be fair, that part isn’t incorrect. Katarina did state this when she created the device. (Not the end away bit, the bit about returning to Earth to find a mate.) I’m not too clear as to why she wouldn’t just return him to Earth for it’s own sake.. (maybe repopulating the human race in this universe was her concern), but anyhoo, events obviously caught up with them and finding a honey was no longer a priority… except, in the end, it sort of was.. just not in the way they originally thought… Interesting how on pondering the episode I see new things that never quite occurred before. I like that. November 13, 2009 at 11:48 am #106038 AndrewParticipant http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Red-Dwarf-Back-to-Earth-4309.html Hurrah! November 13, 2009 at 2:51 pm #106040 Danny StephensonKeymaster Hurrah! What a nice review! November 24, 2009 at 11:01 am #106455 AndrewParticipant Worth mentioning this little mention: http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/television/83164/greg039s-tawdry-outing ..for this line: “the story line seems borrowed directly from Stranger than Fiction”. There’s something very meta about how many different meta movies/books were apparently ripped off ‘directly’… November 24, 2009 at 11:45 am #106456 DaveParticipant “with up to four people coming out as old fans” Three, then. “and a list of two people who have demanded to borrow the DVD” Can you call a piece of paper with two names on it, a list? I’m sure you can but list implies more. I’m not sure what word he should have used, a pair, a couple, a brace? November 24, 2009 at 12:35 pm #106457 ori-STUDFARMParticipant >Metafiction is primarily associated with Modernist and Postmodernist literature, but is found at least as early as the 9th century One Thousand and One Nights and Chaucer’s 14th century Canterbury Tales. Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a metafictional novel. Quote was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction So, essentially, Chaucer, the thieving fucker, stole his ideas from The League of Gentlemen!! November 24, 2009 at 12:37 pm #106458 Seb PatrickKeymaster >There?s something very meta about how many different meta movies/books were apparently ripped off ?directly?? It’s just people showing off their basic lack of knowledge, and the self-centredness of their frame of reference. If Stranger Than Fiction / LOG’s Apocalypse is the only thing they’ve heard of to do a certain plot, then OBviously they’re the only things EVER to have done it! (it’s similar to Louis Walsh saying that a song didn’t count for X-Factor’s “movie week” because he hadn’t heard of the film it was in) I don’t mind it so much from online commenters, but people who actually purport to be critics should at least know what they’re fucking talking about. November 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm #106460 ori-STUDFARMParticipant And everyone knows it was ripped off of Last Action Hero anyway! 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