The visual effects in X-Men: First Class were divided up between multiple visual effects vendors, such as Weta (the studio behind Avatar) and Digital Domain (the studio behind Tron: Legacy). If you’re a mad X-Men fan, or particularly into CG and special effects, you can’t afford to miss how all these techniques came together.
While the DVD copy comes with deleted and extended scenes, you’ll have to pick up the Blu-ray version to make the most of the special features, which include over two hours of the following content:
• Cerebro Mutant Tracker: The complete interactive Mutant Database with interactive videos giving fans the ability to learn about their favourite mutants in the X-Men film franchise.
• Children of the Atom: An eight-part behind-the-scenes featurette, charting the film from pre-production through post-production, including visual effects techniques and cataloguing “X-Men” transformations through prosthetic make-up and costume design.
• Extended and Deleted Scenes.
• BD-Live Portal with additional Cerebro Mutant Tracker profiles.
• Composer’s Isolated Score.
Twentieth Century Fox hasn’t given us an official RRP, but JB Hi-Fi is selling the Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy triple-play disc set for $34.98, and Big W or Target would be worth checking as well.
Image: Digital Domain
Image: Digital Domain
moloko
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 2:51 PMThat movie got raped liked Indiana Jones.
c
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 3:34 PMWat? This is by far and away the best X-Men movie since X2.
Max
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 11:49 PMTo be fair, it’s pretty hard to be worse than X3 and Wolverine ;)
DONAR
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 3:32 PM..from tomorrow?
Got it yesterday from Sanity. DVD/BluRay set for $30.
Michael
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 12:37 AMI watched this yesterday on Bluray on my PC and here are some notes. Cyberlink PowerDVD software is crap. I had the OEM version of version 8, the disc wouldn’t play and just told me to upgrade the player from Cyberlink. Stuffed if I was paying for software that might not play the disc. I ended up “downloading” WinDVD 11. Worked a treat.
Second note. As awesome as WinDVD was at playing, the Bluray transfer seemed alittle off to me. On of the earliest scenes where Erik is talking in German as a kid (thats as much of a spoiler as I will give) the video quality seemed liked a handycam pirate copy from the interwebs. Parts of the image was blured and I thought it was the player. The movie is fun to watch if your not a die hard Marvel/X-men fan. Might iritate you if you are.
Boomzilla
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 8:10 AMI’m pretty sure that power dvd was asking you to “update” rather than “upgrade”, but it is a crap program the last time I updated I found out that It no longer supports HDDVD of which I still have a small collection of.
Michael
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 8:35 PMYeah, I mean update, but there was no update, the only option was to upgrade and hand over cash that could have been used to buy a standalone player. Hollywood really have fuxed us over.