The Sound Design is What Makes This Movie

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2017)

I remember seeing this in the theatre when it first came out. The sound design is what stood out the most, and still stands out today. I can "listen" to this movie over and over again. The DVD version I saw recently has commentary by director Jonathan Mostow. In it he talks about the value of having theatre-style "6-channel surround format (at home) because it really replicates, as close as possible, the experience of seeing a movie in the theatre."
I like watching "older" movies and listening to director commentary, especially when they get technical. Mostow, in his commentary, goes on to say how "with the film to tape transfers now-a-days you can really extract a tremendous amount of visual information out of each frame." (!) "Film to tape."
Film, to tape, to glass master DVD, to DVD replication. Ah yes, the turn of the century technology a mere 17 years ago!
Imagine, 17 years from now, we'll be mocking 4K UHD when we're sitting at home watching our favourite new-release film with some sort of organic-holographic-display-thing that looks so real it will seem like the actors are right in front of you and you can reach out and touch them; with sound so authentic you'd believe you were right there, with them, in the action. OK, maybe not 17 years, but perhaps 20.