Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection

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It may be a speed-walking pedestrian, but it’s still a matter of getting from A to B, hitting all the right points in between, and there’s very little room for cinematic flourish, very little that distinguishes the Goblet of Fire from a straight up adaptation, and it doesn’t feel like a movie in the way that Prisoner of Azkaban did. 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.

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. UHD Blu-ray showcases 4K resolution with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and a wider color spectrum, offering consumers brighter, deeper, more lifelike colors for a home entertainment viewing experience like never before. Year 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both Muggle and wizarding worlds, Harry and Dumbledore work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defenses.This is the darkest of the Harry Potter films, the battle of Hogwarts takes place at night for one thing, but black levels are consistently strong, and contrast and dark detail is never lacking. When Dementors attack Harry and his cousin Dudley in Little Whinging, magic is the only way to save them both, but the Ministry of Magic aren’t as forgiving of Harry’s underage use of magic as they were when he inflated his aunt two years previously.

Black detail was always apparent, which in a movie with such a darker palette compared to the first was very welcome. I loved the way the books were written, growing up with their target audiences; fantastic, colourful children’s stories for The Philosopher’s Stone, and full on angsty teen fiction by the time Deathly Hallows came around.

A does lead to B and C and so on, and the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets is always at the heart of the narrative.

If rewatching all eight Harry Potter films feels as daunting as mastering Quidditch, we’ve got you covered with a guide to the franchise’s most surprising moments worth revisiting. There’s little to fault here, with clear and audible dialogue, vivid and effective action sequences making excellent use of the surround soundstage (the letters flying around the Dursleys on Sunday are an impressive sound), and John Williams providing a memorable and appropriate score for the first film that will grow and be built upon in the subsequent films.Making a successful movie from a literary source actually involves a whole lot of adaptation, distillation, and indeed ruthless culling. The Harry Potter stories continue to get darker in tone, and that’s reflected in the look of each subsequent film. It’s not just the cool bits that fans would complain about, wondering why there wasn’t more Firenze, or where all the Quidditch was, it was interesting background details of the characters, particularly Dumbledore’s past in the final film, that couldn’t make it on screen, for lack of time or pacing issues. And just when I thought that the Harry Potter films couldn’t get any darker, they manage to find new shades of black, new degrees of de-saturation for the penultimate film. All eight Harry Potter films on UHD Blu-ray feature DTS:X audio, which replicates and conveys the fluid movement of sound to create a richer experience than previously possible by moving sound to precisely where the mixer placed it.

I was into Harry Potter mania when the first film came out, prompted to go back and pick up the books that all the cool business-folk on the daily commute were reading, and then being there front and centre for when the final three books were released. The Harry Potter 8-Film Collection Limited Edition is limited to 25 000 copies and was released in the UK The surround is nice, resonant, and very effective during the action sequences, and in terms of establishing ambience, giving the film’s music space, but at this point the Harry Potter films start to ape the rest of their cinema peers, and start burying the dialogue beneath the action during the more strident moments, making the presence of subtitles more a necessity than a useful option.The Harry Potter movie collection is very affordable on Blu-ray, and it will provide entertainment for children of all ages, including us middle-aged children, and you might as well pick up a copy, rather than wait for a better transfer of The Philosopher’s Stone, the one film in the series that really needs one. When the trio unexpectedly discover a three-headed dog guarding a secret trapdoor, they begin to suspect that something important might be hidden beneath the school, and when they investigate it leads to an encounter with the evil wizard Voldemort (Ian Hart). Maybe cutting it in half this way was the sensible thing to do, given the length, complexity and density of plot of the final Harry Potter book. There’s a nice level of depth to the image, even in the darker and mistier scenes, while during the more frenetic of action sequences, I didn’t notice any compression or artefacts. The first two films get a regular Amaray to themselves, as do the second two films, one disc on either face of their respective cases.