Movie Reviews for Patton [Blu-ray]

Patton [Blu-ray]

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Movie Reviews of Patton [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Phenomenal!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of the best WWII movies I have ever found. It is a must buy for sure!

Movie Review: Magnificent blu-ray
Summary: 4 Stars

As a recent convert to blu-ray and a lover of classic movies, I never cease to be amazed by how good old movies look in this hi-def format. Patton on blu-ray is simply magnificent: from the sands of North Africa to the verdant hills of France, the colours are lush and beautiful; the interiors are detailed and plush. I have the good fortune of watching all this on a 90-inch hi-def home theatre projector, and I was positively salivating at the picture quality. Many scenes have a sharp foreground and a soft-focused background, giving them an almost 3-D quality - a depth of field that would be lost on standard DVDs where everything is soft. The DTS-HD Master audio is above-average, but the balance between dialogue and other sounds was a bit off for me; at times I had to turn on the subtitles to make out what was being said. (I compare this with the blu-ray version of another classic, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, where the sound quality is simply awe-inspiring). Overall, watching Patton on blu-ray was for me like watching it for the first time.

Movie Review: Great Transfer but Not User-Friendly
Summary: 3 Stars

Patton Blu-Ray has absolutely superb picture and sound quality. I'm amazed they could do this to a 40-year-old movie. And it's spectacular in 2.35:1 on a big-screen TV.

But it took forever and was incredibly hard to load, even though my TV and Blu-Ray player are good and fairly new and I have no trouble playing other Blu-Ray DVDs. Once loaded, there was no way to bypass previews and interviews and go straight to the movie (though I was able to "scene-skip" through them). And every time I stopped the action for a minute or two (to answer the phone, say), when I returned, the movie was back at the beginning and I had to start all over, this time scene-skipping, fast-forwarding and fast-reversing back and forth to find my place. I finally resorted to just hitting PAUSE and trying to get back before it cut off. It was as if I was watching a pirated Korean version, though the box looks legit and I got this from Amazon.

BTW, the entire movie is on Disc 1. Disc 2 is nothing but "special features." Neither box nor insert tell you that. So when you reach the intermission, don't eject the disc and put in disc 2. Just hit the scene-skip button.

Movie Review: Quality
Summary: 3 Stars

Picture and sound quality were amazing. I loved the sound because the macrodynamics were right on - in other words, the explosions were really loud, and the dialog was not. This is how things sound in real life - none of this crap you see nowadays where the actors are passionately whispering to each other in the middle of a battle.
The movie sure did move along slowly, though. I thought it was a little boring.