Patton 40th anniversary edition blu ray review

Sold by shiroko76 Patton George C. Scott who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved America with a lofty and historical zeal. Tracing his personal rivalries with such generals as Rommel and Montgomery, his problematic treatment of his own men, and his nearly runaway contempt for diplomacy, the film triumphs as an enduring portrait of a complex and larger-than-life figure.

Additional Product Features Film Country. Show More Show Less. Any Condition Any Condition. See all 7 - All listings for this product. Ratings and Reviews Write a review. Most relevant reviews. Great looking bluray. Fans of the movie will know that Monty Python and the Holy Grail has never really looked that great.

The 1. This movie looks like it was filmed in medieval times, so if you want to see a shining example of what life back then looked like, check out Game of Thrones instead. I highly doubt the target audience will care too terribly much, though. All of the previously-released supplements except the second screen app, which I was unable to find are present here with one new addition. I guess Sony figures they can throw in a new supplement, add some new packaging and sell it again.

No doubt about it, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a classic in all respects of the word. Movie studios use every 5 or 10 years to churn out another version and some are worth it while others are not. This is one of the latter. Review by: Matt Brighton Posted on: October 27th, Director: Franklin J. North , Ladislas Farago , Omar N.

Bradley Starring: George C. Reviewed by Casey Broadwater , November 5, With the arrival of Blu-ray, it took film studios and home video production houses a few years to refine their workflows and figure out how to best treat older catalog titles. Initially, many stuck with what worked in the DVD days, smoothing away grain with heavy digital noise reduction and trying to make details pop with edge enhancement.

In strong enough doses, edge "enhancement" gives footage a harsh, filtered quality, adding halo-like artifacts to hard outlines.

Worse, de-noising invariably robs a high-def picture of clarity, softening the image and giving actors' faces a shiny, unnatural, almost airbrushed-looking sheen. The two go hand-in-hand. DNR is accomplished through wholesale blurring, and then digital sharpening is used in an attempt to restore detail. The argument for keeping these techniques in place was that viewers wouldn't want a grainy picture on their slick new HDTVs. In the six years since the first batch of Blu-ray titles first hit U.

They've gotten better at high definition mastering. Better at compression. And they've learned to use their digital toolboxes more inconspicuously. See the excellent recent Jaws release, or just about anything put out by the Criterion Collection. But yes, there were unfortunately some early casualties, including the monumental war biopic, Patton , which was first released on Blu-ray in June of This is a movie that deserves to look its best, especially considering that it was shot in large-format 65mm, which should deliver stunning clarity in texture and detail.

That initial edition , however, was quite literally glossy ; the natural filmic patina of the fine-grained original 65mm negative had been egregiously scrubbed out of each and every frame, inadvertently removing detail in the process.

At last, George C. Scott's iconically craggy face no longer looks like a lump of half-molten candle wax. Read on to see exactly why the picture quality is unassailably better this time around:. Patton Blu-ray, Video Quality. Patton Blu-ray, Audio Quality. Patton Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras. Patton Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation.

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