Nixon [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Nixon [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
How you feel about Richard Nixon as president is irrelevant in watching Oliver Stone's film. The life and times are here: Checkers, the McCarthy hearings, the 1960 debates and election, opening China, Vietnam and Watergate.
But Stone shows this through the filter of Nixon's wounded, bitter character. Nixon grew up poor and had two brothers die. He had tremendous survivors guilt, and tremendous anger at rich and powerful figures like John F. Kennedy.
This is what fueled Nixon: He fought to reach peak power, and once there, used the flaws of those he hated to justify anything. We can argue if its true--but as cinema, it is amazing to watch these two forces drive the leader of the free world to madness.
You get all the perks of an Oliver Stone movie: great actors, amazing cinematography, detailed history, and epic ambition. But Stone never deviates from the psychodynamics driving the man, and that makes this dark sprawling examination the essential one on Nixon.
Movie Review: Nixon in blue ray
Summary: 5 Stars
Oliver Stone's epic docu-drama pulls no punches in telling the life story of Richard Nixon. Through all the splinters and thorns, Anthony Hopkins brings a nobiity and sympathy to one of history's most troubled figures. The jagged edged editing is fast-paced and fascinating. Sam Waterston is outstanding as Richard Helms. Watch for Larry Hagman as the dark, brooding Texan. Joan Allen and Paul Sorvino are added treats in this historic firestorm.
The Blue Ray version offers the first true widescreen offering of this beautifully cinematic voyage.
Movie Review: One of oliver stones best movies
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was insightful and blended in enough real-life material with excellent acting from anthony hopkins!Movie Review: The Best Nixon Will Ever Look
Summary: 4 Stars
The Blu-ray release of Nixon is of a high standard. The picture combines a lot of stock footage and new film purposely degraded to look old and to match in with the old but the 'present day' scenes look fantastic in high definition. I never owned this on DVD but I have read reviews saying it was a pretty poor transfer - never fear, Blu-ray is here! Clocking-in at three and a half hours you want it to be as pleasant a viewing experience as possible, and it looks great. The sound is solid too. The only fault I noticed was a couple of instances of a blue line running through the picture in the center of the screen at the 2 hour 35 minute mark - watching the additional disc's deleted scenes, which have nearly all been returned to the movie, confirmed the presence of these blue lines in the original film - why this problem wasn't dealt with during Blu-ray mastering is a mystery but it's a very small fault. While the deleted scenes are now in the movie it is still interesting to hear Oliver Stone's explanations as to why they were cut (time of course...every scene seems to be one of his favorites!). The extras are, as so often is the case, not in Hi-def and the source tape of the Charlie Rose Show interview is pretty poor but interesting to see all the same. You will be very happy with the quality of the main film transfer to Blu-ray - enjoy.Movie Review: Enlightening but Chaotic
Summary: 4 Stars
The first hour of this film, after a brief introduction to set the basis of the storyline for the viewer, is a flashback that displays the depth of the subject of this film. The rapid fire nature of the topics that are dealt with forces the viewer to piece together events on the fly, which I am sure was the case during these troubling times.
The approach that Mr. Stone takes to this story telling should be considered an artistic interpretation of what these times really were. The character development of Nixon shows a possible loss of contact with reality.
In a subplot, this film also deals briefly with a familiar subject for Mr. Stone, the Vietnam War.
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