Casino [HD DVD]
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Movie Reviews of Casino [HD DVD]
Movie Review: What does the promo have to do with the Casino Review?
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie was great and seeing what they did to Goddfellas in HD makes this title even more promising.Movie Review: A good performance from Sharon
Summary: 3 Stars
At 178 minutes long, I was expecting to be bored throughout this film, despite everyone raves about this film, along with Goodfellas. And although I did get a bit restless during it, I did find myself sucked into the film and actually trying to work out what was going to come next.
It starts off with a shocking scene, and then is told in retrospective (or so you think), from ten years previously. I certainly sat up straight up when the film started, as this is the scene you're not expecting. Although when it's repeated towards the end, it does tend to go OTT, by showing it from every angle, and showing the viewer what exactly happened.
Visually, the film is very bright, with the neon lights of the casino, and Robert De Niro's colour blinding suits (who puts pink & orange together?!) Honestly when he first walked onto the screen, I thought his wardrobe was made up by a colour-blind person, as most of his suits were OTT bright, or clashed severely. The brightness of the casino is so well done in HD, you almost start to feel like you're there, it's so real, and captures the bright lights of Vegas perfectly.
I thought Sharon Stone's role was the best out of the entire film, as her character goes through such a journey during the film, and the physical changes in her character are shocking. Her character of Ginger is an ex-hooker, who marries Robert De Niro's character, despite not loving him in the slightest. I think she was seeing dollar signs before her eyes. She becomes a mother, and also turns to drink, which ultimately, leads to a shocking end.
This film is definitely not for the fainthearted. There's a closeup scene of someone snorting cocaine, and Sharon's character, Ginger, snorts some in front of her daughter. The F word is said a grand total of 422 times, a bit unnecessary, including in the narration, which makes it a total of 2.4 times per MINUTE on average. The chain smoking is quite harsh as well, as Robert De Niro constantly had a cigarette in his hand in nearly every single scene. (I pity any non-smoking crew on set.) It was necessary to portray what it was like in those days, when smoking was considered classy, and not frowned upon as it is today. I expected there to be some continuity problems that accompanies a chain-smoking character but Robert always held his cigarettes the same distance from the lit end so that their lengths never appear to change.
This film impressed me, and I can imagine it looks so much better in HD, so it would definitely be better than the old regular DVD. But everyone lumping it along with Goodfellas doesn't bode well, cos everyone HAS to like Goodfellas it seems. It's definitely one to watch on HD, and with a TV that's more like a cinema screen would be good too!
Movie Review: Too Much Gore and Foul Language
Summary: 2 Stars
Martin Scorsese directs this movie about Las Vegas set in the 1970's and 80's. The mob is in control and then goes out of control. The whole story makes you want to take a shower and find a safe place.
"Casino" is a story of Las Vegas glamorous past and fairy tale exterior. The mob runs rampant beneath the glitz and glitter as we see the stark contrast of blood money and the beautiful people who own beautiful things. "Casino" shows the rise of a casino owner with mob connections (Robert De Niro), his friend and Mafia underboss (Joe Pesci) and in ex-prostitute with a strong will and expensive taste (Sharon Stone).
Based on a true story, overall it is just too much of everything, blood, gore, gangsters and drugs.
Movie Review: it's junk
Summary: 1 Stars
I've tried to play this movie on 3 different dvd players including the brand new one and my pc. It feels like they forgot to burn the movie on the disc and it's completely blank. I don't recommend it to anyoneMovie Review: Horrible dis not work case was the only good thing
Summary: 1 Stars
This said it would work on all hd players my (ps3) and it didn't idk how to return this product but I'm very disatisfied with this product and will never buy an hd DVD again now I see why they came and went.