Dead Man Walking
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Movie Reviews of Dead Man Walking
Movie Review: superb
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good movie. Great acting & plot. Very touching. I am very glad I own this movie. I will watch it very often.Movie Review: Dead Man Walking
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a tough movie to watch (for me, anyway), but the acting is fabulous - even from minor characters.Movie Review: Dead Man Walking
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent flick, one of Sean Penn's best movies, definatly tops Fast Times At Ridgemont HighMovie Review: 4 Stars for the FILM, 1 Star for the DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Of course the movie deserves 4 stars, however I wish I could say the same for the DVD. What does it take for DVD company to release each DVD enhanced for 16x9 TVs? Nothing!
Recently I bought a SONY BRAVIA 32 INCH display and I have a collection of over 600 Dvds. I learned now about "Enhanced for 16x9 TVs" and how important it is, I did not care about it or even know about it since I own a standard TV, however all my Dvds are Region 1 and in widescreen, I never buy fullscreen Dvds. So I did an inventory on my collection and realized the following:
Out of 600+ Dvds, 42 are NOT enhanced for 16x9 TVs and they really look horrible when I played them on my PC. Anyway, according to my inventory.
THE FOLLOWING MOVIES / COMPANY HAVE FAILED TO PRODUCE ANAMORPHIC OR 16X9 WIDESCREEN and I hope that these company will release them in the near future so that we can enjoy them on our TVs.
MGM:
Runaway Train
Graduate
No Way Out
Prizzi's Honor
FX
Shallow Grave
Thief
House Of Games
Dead Man Walking
Misery
The Eye Of The Needle
Overboard
PARAMOUNT:
Private Parts
48 Hrs
Coming To America
Primal Fear
The Ghost And The Darkness
Breakdown
UNIVERSAL:
Day Of The Jackal
Psycho (AVAILABLE IN THE RECENT HITCHCOCK'S BOXSET AS ANAMORPHIC)
Vertigo (AVAILABLE IN THE RECENT HITCHCOCK'S BOXSET AS ANAMORPHIC)
The Game
FOX:
Abyss (I WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT MY 2-DISC IS NOT ANAMORPHIC, NOR IS THE LATEST DIGIPACK EDITION)
Raising Arizona
The Edge
Great Expectations
Rising Sun
The Ref
Romancing The Stone
The Jewel Of The Nile
ARTISAN:
House Of The Spirits
The Last Seduction
The Last Emperor
The Eagle Has Landed
Bound
PS: PLEASE ARTISAN, INSTEAD OF RELEASING 'BASIC INSTINCT' FOR THE 4TH TIME, WHICH MOST HAVE ALMOST THE SAME SPECIFICATIONS, CONSIDER RELEASING SOME MORE INTERESTING MOVIES WITH PROPER ATTENTION SUCH AS THOSE MENTIONED ABOVE.
TOUCHSTONE / WALT DISNEY:
Ransom
What About Bob?
PS: IT IS A GREAT NEWS THAT TOUCHSTONE ARE RELEASING 'ENEMY OF THE STATE', CRIMSON TIDE' AND 'CON AIR' IN EXTENDED UNRATED EDITIONS ON MAY 16. I WISH THOUGH THEY DID THE SAME WITH 'RANSOM'
WARNER:
91/2 Weeks
Presumed Innocent
NOTE THAT WARNER STUDIO IS RELEASING ONE OF THE BEST 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION SUCH AS 'SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION', 'HEAT', 'MALCOLM X', 'DOG DAY AFTERNOON', 'ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN' AND MANY MANY MORE.
The reason why they don't release every DVD in widescreen enhanced for 16x9 is beyond me since soon Widescreen Tvs will replace standard ones.
IT IS A RELIEF THAT AMAZON IS NOW STATING WHETHER THE DVD IS ANAMORPHIC OR LETTERBOXED.
Movie Review: For or Against the Death Penalty, Still a Great Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
That this movie stars two of my absolute favorite actors (one of whom has yet to receive the Oscar he deserves) and that it touches on a subject that I have strong feeling about (against the death penalty) would have been enough to get me in the theater to see it. But what could easily have been a preachy, two-dimensional movie that simply flogged it's message and put sermons in the mouths of the characters instead turned out to be a well-written, well-acted movie that doesn't stray from it's message but also doesn't make cardboard cut-outs of its characters or let them be overwhelmed by the subject matter and message. This movie had to be as difficult to make as it was to watch.Some will criticize the movie for not showing more of the victims of the character played by Sean Penn. Of course, those same people will probably also object to the movie's anti-death penalty message. The truth is that a movie about the victims could have been made - and could still be - but it would simply have been a different movie than the director, producers and others set out to make.
What gets glossed over in the criticism is that while this movie never apologizes for it's point of of view, it also never gives short shrift to the other side or attempts to demonize or paint the other side as two dimensional. That Prejean earnestly reaches out to the families of the victims get's glossed over. That the movie gives and honest portrayal of the pain and suffering of the victims' families gets glossed over. That the movie does not downplay Poncelet's crime or guilt, but instead reveals them during the course of the story, gets glossed over.
"Dead Man Walking" takes few, if any, easy ways out. The character's are all fully human in their portrayal, when it would have been easy to paint any of them as monsters or two-dimensional walking viewpoints. It would have been easy to portray Poncelet as a mere monster, instead of a flawed human being who is guilty of despicable acts, but who feels anger, love, fear and even remorse. It would have been easy to portray his family as an evil bunch. It would have been easy to portray the victims' families as bloodthirsty vengance seekers. Instead, "Dead Man Walking" simply tells a troubling story that involves human beings, and that doesn't necessarily have a tidy ending.
This movie isn't likely to change any minds as far as capital punishment it concerned. It won't be all the things it should be to all people. It may simply serve as another means of starting the conversation about the subject, and simply getting people to ask themselves why they believe what they believe in regard to the death penalty.
Regardless, it's just a good movie.