Movie lovers who’ve been itching to dive into high-def home video but didn’t want to do it until the format war was settled can now buy with confidence. While owners of HD-DVD players are scrambling to score bargain discs in their imminently defunct format (see, for example, Amazon’s half-off bonanza), the rest of us can settle in to the Blu-ray world. What are the best movies available already in Blu-ray? Families will be happy to know that Pixar’s Ratatouille and the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy are already in stores, while grown-up comedy fans can look for Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the Eddie Murphy/Dan Ackroyd classic Trading Places and the goofy charm of Talladega Nights. Plenty of great dramas are out already, from recent hits like The Departed to classics like Unforgiven and Goodfellas. There’s a slew of Stanley Kubrick films on Blu-ray already, and even a handful of foreign gems — like Volver, The Lives of Others and Pan’s Labyrinth — have made it to the format. But everybody knows that, for high-tech home theater enthusiasts, action is the big seller, so it’s no surprise that trilogies like Mission: Impossible and Terminator are already out in Blu-ray high-def glory, alongside action titans The Fugitive, Speed and Bullitt.