I watched THE SAND PEBBLES on Blu-ray this evening, all three hours of it. It's too long, but you do come to care about the characters, and the second half certainly gets the juices flowing. Glad to see it again.
The Blu-ray is a good transfer, but certainly not as striking as some transfers I've seen. I have no idea what kind of shape the elements they had to work with were in. Also, I thought for some reason it was Todd-AO, but it was Panavision.
The score sounded marvelous in DTS-HD MA 5.1.