Treasure Hunt movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Steven Spielberg
S-Tier Paramount 4K. Crystal Skull is the Indy film nobody loves but everyone buys to complete the set. Paramount released individual steelbooks after the box set, leaving anyone who bought the collection feeling like they'd been double-dipped. The 4K set also had loose discs rattling around inside the case on arrival, which didn't help.
Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
S-Tier Paramount 4K. The best Indy film by popular vote. The individual steelbook has been as low as $13 USD on Amazon and under $15 USD at Best Buy. Paramount has released and re-released these steelbooks enough times that early adopters are pretty tired of it.
S-Tier Paramount 4K. Spielberg's darkest Indy. The individual steelbook came after the box set, which meant double-dipping for anyone who already owned the 4-film collection. The mine cart chase is the demo sequence.
S-Tier Paramount 4K. Spielberg's adventure masterpiece. The individual steelbook with the original title and poster art is much better-looking than the box set artwork. All five Indy films are considered reference-quality discs. The steelbook art debate between the individual releases and the Best Buy set was heated.
dir. Sergio Leone
Leone's epic lives in the top tier of reference discs alongside Dune and Lawrence of Arabia. The transfer does justice to the widescreen desert photography and the Morricone score hits different in lossless.
dir. Stephen Sommers
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.
Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Jackie Chan
88 Films A-Tier 4K with a preorder up at Rare Waves. The region coding is split between the 4K disc (region free) and the Blu-ray (Region B), so check your setup before buying.
88 Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ruben Fleischer
A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.
dir. Renny Harlin
C-Tier StudioCanal 4K. Geena Davis as a pirate. The C-Tier reflects the film's reputation more than the transfer.
StudioCanal
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
C-Tier Discotek Media Blu-ray. Miyazaki's first feature film, a Lupin III adventure. Discotek's release is well-regarded for the label, and they did a new English dub alongside the original. No 4K version exists yet, which is why it's still on Blu-ray. Discotek includes slipcovers as standard on all their releases.
Discotek Media · Blu-ray
dir. Richard Donner
The 4K transfer jumps off the screen according to people watching it this week. A comfort pick that lands in haul posts year after year for the right reasons.
