Consequence (1977) (Sub B&W)
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Movie Reviews of Consequence (1977) (Sub B&W)
Movie Review: great movie, very disappointing dvd
Summary: 1 Stars
My purpose here is to warn potential customers about the defacement that whoever now has the rights to this title has done on this fine German film. It stars Jurgan Prochnow and is directed by Wolfgang Peterson;the two would later collaborate on another film--Das Boot. The Consequence was made for German television and released theatrically in the U.S. in 1978, which is when I saw it. It was never released on video but was available for 16mm rental until the rental company was absorbed by another and the film diappeared for about twenty years. I was so looking forward to a new dvd of as it became available at last. BUT someone has superimposed large gray-white solid rectangles over the original unobtrusive subtitles (which still are visible from time to time) and put bright large yellow subtitles. I suppose the reasoning was that the original subtitles, which consisted of the dialogue in white superimposed directly on the film image was too hard to read. It WAS here and there when the letters would be white on a light background image. However, now about twenty percent of the image is masked by these large, very annoying rectangles that block out the film image, sometimes cutting off the lower parts of characters' faces or otherwise blotting out the lower portion of the screen. It's maddening to see the original subtitles showing up between when the screen is blocked out and thinking how much more preferable and less distracting it would be to be able to see the full image. I give the film 5 stars and what they've done to it 0 stars (1 is all I could show above)
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