The film is presented in its original 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen ratio and is highly-detailed with no problems.
The excellent CGI work shows that there's no way a 16:9 open-matte version could be achieved so pity the poor viewer if
this gets bought up by a channel too chicken to show it properly. Hopefully, it'll be Channel 4 who get it because, at
the time of writing, the other major terrestrial broadcasters haven't got a clue.
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-HD MA 5.1, although I only had access to it in DTS 5.1, and is mostly used for dialogue and
ambience with no issues at all.
The extras are as follows:
- Whistle (28:46):
A short film by Duncan Jones, made in 2002, and presented in letterbox 1.85:1. It also features his father's haunting
track, Subterraneans.
Ryan (Dominic Mafham), is a man who's taken early retirement in Switzerland. His son, Michael, isn't pleased about
the relocation so he has to attempt to bond with him. Amongst all this, Ryan has a new job he's hiding from son, but
his wife, Di (Sarah Winman), knows all about it. The ubiquitous John Shrapnel plays his boss, Paul.
I don't want to say what Ryan's job is, but it all makes for quite an intriguing film, even if the ending is rather
weird.
- The Making of Moon (16:18):
Duncan Jones and Sam Rockwell talk about what happens during the film, which I won't reveal here, along with other
members of the crew, with work-in-progress footage also included.
- Creating The Visual Effects (11:09):
A year's work very well spent, and I can't go into the specifics as that would give things away, but it makes for a
great featurette.
- Science Center Q&A with Duncan Jones (20:48):
An introduction to the film at a special screening on March 16th, 2009, before he takes questions from the audience.
- Filmmaker's Q&A at the Sundance Film Festival (11:15):
This is where Duncan Jones got to premiere Moon and, again, he gives an introduction, on January 23rd, 2009,
and then takes questions from the audience.
- Trailers:
One for Moon, and then one each for 2012, Ghostbusters, Julie & Julia and Angels & Demons. All of the
special fetaures as in standard definition, and it shows with the Ghostbusters clip which is cropped to 16:9 and is just
there to plug the Blu-ray disc - so perhaps they should've included a Blu-ray-quality trailer?
As for the Moon trailer, it really spoils what was the major twist for me. So glad I saw it AFTER I watched the
film. I was attracted to this film from the good word that was spread and also the talent of Sam Rockwell.
- Audio commentaries:
Two here. One from Duncan Jones, director of photography Gary Shaw, concept designer Gavin Rothery and production
designer Tony Noble; the other from Duncan Jones and producer Stuart Fenegan.
- BD Live:
Connect your Blu-ray player to the internet and it sounds like you'll be able to get info the IMDB page for this film.
I've never got my player to go online properly before, so I'll just visit IMDB anyway.
The menu features scenes from the film mixed together its incidental music.
There are English subtitles plus Thai, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian.
Commentary is also available in English.
However, the film's chaptering is still bad with Sony's strict (judging by all their recent releases)
16-only policy. Come on, Sony, you're not paying by the chapter(!)
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