The Sting
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Movie Reviews of The Sting
Movie Review: The "Perfect Movie"
Summary: 5 Stars
There is little meaningful that I can add to the lengthy descriptions, reviews, and accolades already enunciated about "The Sting." It is the quintessentially "Perfect Movie," in every conceivable aspect of film-making. The cast, the story line itself, the script, the cinematography -everything. While not a short film by any measure, there is not a weak link in in the sequence of events and it moves along very evenly, with interspersed high drama, excitement, mystery, moments of tenderness, and one of the best "surprise endings" ever conceived. If there were eleven stars to award here, eleven it would be!Movie Review: Widescreen is available - But not for US!
Summary: 5 Stars
Why is the Region 2 release in letterbox but not in Region 1 North America? I don't care if George Lucus, opps, sorry, George Roy Hill mean't for the original print to be full screen or whatever. If Europe can have their DVD version in letterbox, then we deserve equal consideration. I want the movie the way I saw it 32 years ago. That was the way we saw it and that's the way we should get it. Until then it is shown in widescreen on TCM. That should hold everyone until a good widescreen release with lots of extras is released. Redford and Newman are not ancient, but they're not getting any younger.Movie Review: Still Carries A Sting After All These Years
Summary: 5 Stars
First off - this movie was shot fullscreen by Hill and you gain nothing by having a letterboxed version. That being said, this version could use remastering for picture quality, but it doesn't detract from the film's magic spell, stellar cast, and wonderfull depression era atmosphere. I'd forgotten that Eileen Brennan played Newman's squeeze and she is largely forgotten today. I believe the last time I saw her was in Jeepers Creepers, as feisty as ever and turning two minutes of screen time into something special. But I digress. This movie has it all in spades. It's not a big con at all!Movie Review: Widescreen v. full
Summary: 5 Stars
Just to offer my two cents, now that both versions are on DVD:
Regardless of what aspect ratio it was originally shot in, the full-screen version is indeed pan & scan. I now have both. If you compare the two, you'll see the newer widescreen DVD is not missing any of the picture from the top or bottom. It is the full-screen that is indeed missing the sides.
I never saw it in the theater, so I can't say how it was originally projected.
Either way, it's one of the best films ever (way better than Citizen Kane), so watch it however you want and enjoy.
Movie Review: Butch and Sundance do it again!
Summary: 5 Stars
Paul Newman and Robert Redford team up again as they did in the earlier film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and make for a very entertaining flick that just happened to win the best picture Oscar for 1973. For a film about Chicago racketeering during the Great Depression of the thirties, there is surprisingly little violence depicted here. You'll want to cheer on Newman and Redford as they swim with the sharks and beat them at their own games; all to a fine musical score that includes classics by Scott Joplin.