Music Box
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Movie Reviews of Music Box
Movie Review: Another Jagged Edge
Summary: 4 Stars
A lawyer (Jessica Lange) defends her father against charges that he is a Nazi war criminal and in the process learns more about his past than she would care to know.
If you've seen "The Jagged Edge", then you really don't need to see "The Music Box". Both films were written by Joe Eszterhas and he essentially uses the same plot for both. In both cases a lawyer is defending someone whom she is emotionally involved with and in both cases Eszterhas keeps spinning the story so that we are never certain as to whether the client is guilty or innocent. Both are very good films (although "The Jagged Edge" has the better ending) and I highly recommend that you see at least one of them, it's just that if you've seen one, the other isn't going to provide any new insights.
Movie Review: The awful truth!
Summary: 4 Stars
A successful attorney in Chicago (Jessica Lange) assumes the defense about the heinous accusations of War crimes against his Hungarian father.
In search of evidence to refuse these terrible and painful statements she will discover all that glitters is not gold.
The gradual deception around her findings will lead us to a inner climax to a true implosion of inherited blame when she inquires more and more.
American debut of this superb German actor, Armin Müller Stahl, leader star in many Fassbinder 's films.
An European styled picture, slow paced drama, introspective, loaded of dark atmosphere.
Movie Review: WHAT WERE THE DISTRIBUTORS THINKING?
Summary: 4 Stars
I own this film on Laserdisc. It is in WIDESCREEN 2:35 anamorphic presentation. I once saw a VHS version in full screen. Awful! In a world where widescreen and 16x9 are common even for the most dopiest of films that Hollywood puts out, didn't anyone have the sense to care about its original aspect ratio? Guess not.
I did find a region 2 PAL DVD version from Spain that does offer it in WIDESCREEN; runs about $29 with shipping. I ordered it because it's unlikely this film will be redistributed here in widescreen anytime soon. Classic film with great performances.
Movie Review: Music Box
Summary: 4 Stars
The story and film is very good, but the transfer looks as if it was made from video to dvd using home equipment, its looks just like a video copy. No extras and the box cover looks like it was produced by a local photocopier.
What a shame, but I imagine it was not flavour of the month.
Movie Review: Huge disappointment at the quality!
Summary: 1 Stars
Having originally seen the film when it was released, and owning the VHS version ( which by the way has captions) I could not believe the extremely poor quality of the DVD. I have slowly been replacing my videos w/DVD versions. In this case I will keep the VHS and get rid of my just purchased DVD copy. The film, the director, actors, are all incredibly good. I would give it 10 if there were such a number available, but certainly a 5. However the quality of the sound is so poor that if there were minus numbers, I would use them. Others have already written of the format, etc. so I will not repeat all that, but I agree that it should have had the option of widescreen,etc. But for the sound, there is NO excuse. It is not only poor, but at times, when the actors are speaking in a low voice, the DVD is inaudible. There is NO such problem on the VHS, and if there were there is captioning to resort to. Since there is no problem w/the sound on the video, it never occurred to me that the DVD would have such a big one.
If you can find a VHS copy, I would recommend it over this DVD.