The Graduate
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Movie Reviews of The Graduate
Movie Review: Good movie, Bad DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
I would like to start by saying the movie itself deserves a 5/5. However, if you have an HDTV at home, this is not the DVD for you. This is a letterbox, non-anamorphic transfer, so it will NOT adjust to the size of your wide screen TV. Buy the other edition, even though it is more expensive.Movie Review: An Amateurish Movie Whose Time Has Passed
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't waste your time or your money to buy or rent this movie because it is of little value and little relevance. I watched this for the second time thinking I missed something when I watched when I was younger and it was even worse. I kept looking at the back of the DVD cover the whole time I watched the movie and tried to figure where the NY Times came up with "funny, outrageous, and touching." What's funny,outrageous, and touching was that once upon a time, a year before I was born, people actually thought this was a good movie. I can forgive you if you liked it back then, but grow up for heaven's sakes and admit your mistakes, fast forward to the year 2006 and you find this movie not only boring but shallow. I'd much rather be tortured with reruns of "Footloose" than this movie.
Ben is weak, immature, a stalker, lazy, has bad taste in woman and at 21 is unable to tell his parents no when they ask him to wear a scuba suit for their family friends. Wow! Revolutionary film-making...not!
Ben treats Elaine like crap on their first date and when Elaine asks to leave they make up and fall in love in like 30 seconds. What whiney Elaine sees in Ben is not clear in the movie and what he sees in her is not clear either. All the parents are cartoonish (however, not even a good cartoon today would have such over the board one-dimensional characters as these were) with no depth or realism infused into their characters.
If you have a brain and like to watch movies that stimulates or if you're just into good stories don't buy the Hollywood self-love hype and don't buy this DVD. For good laughs, watch the movie and then read all the reviews of this movie on-line. It's like all movie reviewers have an evangelical duty to promote this movie. Good riddance.
Movie Review: Shame, Shame, Shame...
Summary: 1 Stars
They re-release the Graduate on DVD in 2005 only to distribute the EXACT SAME product only without a very attractive interface and special features, but with the same crappy picture and sound quality!
I give the film "The Graduate" from 1967 as many stars as any ratings measure can grant, but this DVD is a very poor represntation that is disrespectful of the genuine classic piece of cinematic art and cultural revolutionary comedy-piece that this movie was and always will be!
It's a shame. The picture is still grainy and the "widescreen" is still a full-screen image with black bars at top & bottom and NOT a true 16X9 formatted image for widescreen televisions! This true masterpiece of film demands nothing short of the best optimization that current-day technology can (and should) provide! Anything less is completely unacceptable! I'm sorry, but this is a travesy. The Graduate deserves the most pristine image and sound quality that the DVD format can give and viewers should demand nothing short of that high-standard of excellence.
The sound is in a lousy mono and the picture is fuzzy at times, desaturated, grainy, noisy, and compressed too much. The producers of this DVD obviously aren't die-hard fans and did a half-a** job here. Most fans of this film would gladly pay a few extra dollars for a better version, so why go cheap on such a great classic is beyond me?!? That's just a moronic business decision of a cheap corporation that doesn't know art from a hole in the ground, always cutting corners to salvage every penny. For shame!
I wish the Criterion Collection would remaster the Graduate and finally do it right! Amen.
Movie Review: Another pointless re-release from MGM!
Summary: 1 Stars
The Graduate is one of the most appealing comedies of all time. Dustin Hoffman gives a truly spectacular performance as a young college graduate who is unsure about his future. The movie will have you on an emotional roller coaster ride that'll last forever. You'll be laughing at how Hoffman makes a fool out of himself when he's on a date with an older woman, yet crying when Hoffman finds himself trying to win back the love of his life. I really can't see why anyone would hate this film, so I would highly recommend this to anyone that likes movies.
This film DESERVES 5 stars, but I'm giving it one star, due to the fact that MGM has let us down again by giving us ANOTHER pointless re-release. That's right. This disc has the same exact transfer as the 1999 Special Edition DVD. It's non-anamorphic, just like the SE, and contains the same extras that you can find on the SE, which were ported from the 25th anniversary laserdisc.
Buy The Graduate: Special Edition DVD, and stray away from this pointless release.
Movie Review: MGM just doens't get it!
Summary: 1 Stars
How can MGM still continue to release DVD's that aren't enhanced for 16X9 television sets? Just recently, they have re-released many titles, ALL of which are not enhanced. To paraphrase R. Lee Ermey said in Full Metal Jacket, "What is their major malfunction?" Titles that I know of which they are guilty of not doing this with are Red Dawn, 12 Angry Men and now, this version of The Graduate. STILL not actually in widescreen, but a matte Pan and Scan version with muddy mono sound.
DON'T BUY THIS VERSION OF THIS CLASSIC FILM!!! BUt the 40th Anniversary!