After thinking about it the dark scenes may be due to the time of day and being indoors without light.
Yet again I think a 4K transfer with HDR will make the opening shine, but here it's just a bit dark.
As for must-haves that's down to preference.
I'd need to know what films you're in to to suggest anything.
The new Scream UHD Blu-ray is must for any Scream fan.
Every home release has looked bad, this the first time it actually looks good.
It's pretty jarring at first going from the 4K Blu-ray Scream to it's sequel on Blu-ray as the picture and colours are terrible in Scream 2 on Blu-ray.
But I know what you mean I'm just upgrading films I really want (which is a lot ) and I haven't even scratched the surface of my collection.
Generally I get all the big films and the occasional film I liked that has gotten a 4k release and had decent/excellent transfer in comparison to it Blu-ray counterpart, and like you said the difference in some completely changes the film in some cases.
Sometimes it makes you appreciate the practical effects in those films because they look fantastic in 4K HDR, like in SPEED for example.
Looks better then the CGI **** we get these days
But I'm mainly aiming for lot of early Blu-rays.
like H20 for example just got 1080p transfer on Blu-ray with no love or care to the source.
Now most studios are now cleaning that stuff up and releasing brilliant transfers both on UHD and Blu-ray (like Paramount Premium Collection)
Your guess, that I´m into horror movies was right. Thanks for your infos about the Scream-ones. I will buy the
Scream 2-release then, because it was released remastered on Blu-Ray in Germany and maybe I will give the whole series a second watch and then watch the new one, that has a lot of decent reviews. Also the Candyman original movie gets a 4K-treatment now, where I think it will profit from the better picture quality and I remember that it wasn´t the best movie at all, but is still a reference for beautiful filmed locations and I liked that hypnotic style that was surely related to the artistic gift of the makers.
When it comes to remastered Blu-Rays it becomes more and more a struggle to point out the good ones, because the audio-tracks are often remastered as well, but only for the original language and then with dubbed ones for all others, what brings one back to DVD-times, like it was with the
Vanilla Sky release and even
Scream. They have remastered video, but unlike earlier releases, that came with DTS-HD I must watch them in DD51, what is very disappointing to me and although I have no expensive soundset this is not acceptable. There`s no bass anymore and the scores are going under.
Hopefully the major labels take a bit more care for that in the future, because it is hard for me to hear slang out of movies and I don´t understand the most ones without reading the subs (and I was a good in English in school, but not that good).
When I´m serious I have seen that coming and often struggled me through the watch with original language for being better proofed for that, but it´s a bit hard and I gave that up after some time, especially when I know the movie doesn´t profit from it or I am used to the synchro-speakers. Sometimes the word-related fun and some jokes are missing, like it is in the Speed-movie. Keanu asks Sandra what she got a penalty for and she answers "Speeding", what was kind of funny, but in the German, there´s no other word with that double meaning, and she just says "I drove too fast" and I always wondered why Keanu laughed about it until I watched it in English. Another example is the
Prince of Persia movie, where they translated "watch your back" in the scene where they enter the gate, although this is a word-joke and everybody understands that. You cannot really translate it, but they did it. The must watch in original language is
Crank, that works much stranger then and I liked it more.
