Unforgiven [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Unforgiven [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: A blu-ray dissapointment, but a wonderful movie
Summary: 3 Stars
There are a plethora of reviews of the movie, but my review is mostly a comparison of the BD vs DVD version. I won't discuss its merits as a western, which is a classic and worthy of 5 stars. This BD disk is 3 stars for its technical quality.
The BD version is worth buying if you don't own the 2 disk special edition, which has the better DVD transfer, and cost more, even after discounts! But if you own the better DVD version and are looking to own the best version for home viewing, hold on.
While the audio is crisp and clear, there is no magic in its mastering or imaging, its just clearer sound than the DVD.
The BD transfer is generally sharp, but there are moments so dull, I thought I was running the DVD version. The high resolution of BD removes jaggies seen in diagonal lines and pixelation revealed by DVD resolution projected into a large HDTV, but this BD's colors are often washed out, and edges of objects blurred. This lack of resolution is much worse in the night scenes including the finale scene, and is 80% less during daylight shots. Some of the daylight shots do appear as blurry as the night shots. Unlike better BD out there, overall the background elements do not have more striking detail over the DVD. By comparison, a stellar transfer exists even in old movies. If you are a fan of WWII airplanes, see the 1969 'Battle of Britain' or the classic 2001: Space Odyssey.
However, if you don't own the 2 disk set, this BD disk incorporates all the extras of the 2 disk set into one disk, and a better buy than the original DVD release.
Movie Review: Merely OK
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a reasonably competent oater, but why the critics went gaga over it is beyond me. The first part seemed to me to be slightly pretentious and even self-conscious, not enough to make it a bad movie but more as a reminder that someone was trying to put together all the old movie themes (I will avoid the term "cliches") that he could think of. The last half picked up steam a little, but then it got into pop psychology, or whatever you called it in the Old West if they were calling it anything back then.
I think you could give it a B+, but an Academy Award makes me think that a certain generation of reviewers had never seen a Western before, and thought that they were discovering a new genre. Or maybe Clint Eastwood has a lot of friends.
Movie Review: Unforgiven
Summary: 3 Stars
The transfer of the movie to blu ray was not as good as I had hoped for. I do have the regular dvd, and when played on my Sony bdp-S1 it looks excellent. I just did not get the wow factor on this video or audio transfer.I think most people would be very satisfied with the regular dvd.Movie Review: OVERrated, but still good
Summary: 3 Stars
It's all these guys in their later years so kind of goofy to see them as trying to be studs. Hackman is the best thing in the movie. BR continues to miss on the extras.Movie Review: Movie: 4 Stars, Blu Ray: 2 Stars
Summary: 2 Stars
Let's get this out of the way: Eastwood's riff on the western is a great film, with fantastic characters, a great story, and beautiful cinematography. But this transfer of it has a horrible brown sheen to it that doesn't ruin the experience but definitely doesn't justify buying it on blu-ray. I'm pretty sure the DVD I watched of it originally looked better than this transfer. If that doesn't bug you, fair enough, but buyer beware.