Untraceable (Blu-ray)

[Pirate]

Street Date: 5/13/08

Distributor: Sony

Format:
• BD-50

Video:
• 1080p Widescreen
• TBA

Audio:
• Dolby TrueHD 5.1

Features:
• Bonus View Picture-in-Picture: Beyond the Cyber Bureau (Blu-ray exclusive)
• Commentary with Director Gregory Hoblit, Producer Hawk Koch, and Production Designer Paul Eads
• Tracking Untraceable featurette
• Untraceable: The Personnel Files featurette
• The Blueprint of Murder featurette
• The Anatomy of Murder featurette

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if done right this could be an intense thriller, but if the images displayed on the computers in the movie and the technical dialog are not done realistically its going to be annoying. especially if every time something appears on the screen, the computer goes *boop* like in CSI or the million other TV shows out there.

*thinks of Pulse and Stay Alive and shudders*

[ganthc]

This will be a blind buy for me. I can suspend my belief in reality for a bit to watch a movie. Die Hard 4 was very entertaining.

[Pirate]

Beside the fact that this film’s premise reminded me of Donald Kaufman’s script for The Three, I remember seeing the trailer and, in one scene, it seems the killer speaks to Diane Lane via her car phone. Unless I'm mistaken, the voice we hear gives away who the killer is. I hope I’m wrong . . . because that would be sad.

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Originally Posted by Pirate

I remember seeing the trailer and, in one scene, it seems the killer speaks to Diane Lane via her car phone. Unless I'm mistaken, the voice we hear gives away who the killer is. I hope I’m wrong . . . because that would be sad.

I dont remember it that clearly from the trailer, so thats good as I hate it when things are ruined by too much info in trailers.

Originally Posted by ganthc

I can suspend my belief in reality for a bit to watch a movie. Die Hard 4 was very entertaining.

I can suspend my disbelief a lot when watching a film, but bad computer dialog and unrealistically portraying devices that are so prevalent in our society is one of my buttons. It takes so little effort to get computers right in a film, but its all dumbed down again and again in movie after movie.

Die Hard 4 was awesome because it was stupid fun. Untraceable is supposed to be dead serious and if there are lines in the film like ... "We just got this DVD disc from the killer. Lets boot it up", or if the words ACCESS DENIED/ACCESS GRANTED/SECURITY OVERRIDDEN ever appear on a screen in a giant font, I'll be groaning.

However there is the other end of the spectrum where if a film does get computers exactly right it also takes me right out of the film as I am used to seeing giant fonts and computers that go *boop* every time you press a key.

I think one of the best recent films I've seen that danced the fine line between realistic and BS computers in film was Firewall.