1-pass or 2-pass? Max out the bitrate?

I'm putting out my final, final bluray of an independent feature, so want to get the highest quality possible. (Final in the sense that it's the one I want to show people.)
From FCP 7 I have an 82-minute ProRes 422 Quicktime that I want to make into a BluRay.
I have had a rough time getting my movie encoded (both in AME and in Encore) and finally gave up and went, within Encore, with a default setting that had 1-pass vbr and I forget how low a bitrate. I was so excited when I finally got a disk in my hand, and then I realized that the image is just a little soft. I've never seen it this soft and of course it's a bit depressing.
Other than the time it takes to encode (or within Encore, transcode), is there anything wrong with setting everything as high as it can go? I just want it to look good. What is the optimum range of bitrate? And is it only too obvious that two VBR passes at the material would lend a better image? Are there any other variables that I should be aware of?
THANK YOU!

Thanks for the reply.
Source is ProRes 23.98 full HD. My AME settings were "h.264 bluray" and I defaulted to all its choices, including "matching attributes".
Basically I was hoping I could encode in AME and then do mulitple copies on Encore, without the dreaded "need-to-transcode" (since I thought I had that covered in AME).
Encore was not a problem so much as, what seemed to be, a desire to transcode each time. (I have since been advised that it might have just been building, not transcoding.)

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