Director Edgar Wright, who I had the chance to interview following the DVD release of Spaced - which
can be read from the link below, makes excellent use of the full 2.35:1 anamorphic frame and the picture is crisp and
clear throughout with no problems whatsoever for both indoor and outdoor scenes. Everything is nicely detailed and I also
love the whizz-pan shots which are frequently used, even in the most basic of moments of Angel's day as they
make a fantastic impact.
For the record, I'm watching on a Panasonic 37" Plasma screen via a Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray player.
The sound is in DTS 5.1 and is well-used not only during shootouts but for the aforementioned whizz-pan shots, various
other split-surround effects and dialogue is clear throughout.
The extras are as follows:
Also on this disc is a "U-Control" feature, which on this disc gives you, throughout the film, storyboards and extra info,
the latter in the form of the 'fuzz-o-meter'. That rounds off the massive amount of extras on this disc.
The menu mixes images from the film with a short piece of incidental music playing over and over.
There are subtitles in more languages than I can count, while the 28 chapters is perfectly fine for this movie.
However, the menu is incredibly slow to access. Scroll down a list of the 22 deleted scenes for example, and it takes
almost a second for each one to pass by, and pressing 'down' quickly doesn't make any difference.
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