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Author Topic: Gone With The Wind BR Review Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-03-2009 01:23 PM                  The first online review: DVD Beaver - GWTW Notice in the comparison screen caps that the full width of the frame provides extra image on the sides.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-03-2009 01:32 PM                        Wish I could be enthusiastic about GWTW on Blu-ray. Unfortunately I hate the movie and have never been able to watch it all the way through. I'm sure that makes me a bad person.  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-03-2009 01:50 PM                  David - that makes you and my mom. When was the last time you gave it a try? Admittedly it's primarily a chick flick but Clark Gable elevates it by portraying Rhett Butler as someone to whom a man can relate. Add to that the historical context of the story and the fantastic production values and performances all around and it's quite an achievement. Obviously no movie can be everyone's "cup of tea" but GWTW is one of my favorites.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-03-2009 07:50 PM                        I saw GONE WITH THE WIND for the very first time at the California Theatre in santa Barbara in 1961 when I was studying photography at Brooks Institute and loved it! Funny, I never considered GWTW a chick flick although it was about a very beautiful young woman who was attracted to a happily married man who did not share her affection. This is one of very few movies I had seen every time it was re released to theatres. I even saw the dreaded 70mm release and walked out after watching about an hour of it. Joe, it seem from the screen captures, the four disc DVD set picture looks sharper than the Blu Ray. I am fully confident, I will be happy with the BD when it is released in two weeks. By the way, did you pick up NORTH BY NORTHWEST on Blu Ray today? I did along with the BD of FORREST GUMP and can hardly wait until tonight to watch them. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-03-2009 10:06 PM                     I've always felt that GWTW is a movie one only sees in a movie theater that has really comfortable seats . Not for TV watching I'm afraid... Mark  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-04-2009 10:15 AM                  Mark - I would have agreed ten years ago. Claude - Not sure I agree about the sharpness. Perhaps because the DVD caps are smaller they look a little sharper? Look at the picture where Scarlett is talking to Big Sam in Atlanta and compare the bricks on the buildings.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-06-2009 10:09 AM                        I added it to my netflix queue, will give it another try.  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-06-2009 12:22 PM                  David - I'll be looking forward to your opinion.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-12-2009 02:58 PM                        I just learned the Target Blu-Ray edition of GONE WITH THE WIND will be single disc and priced at about $30.00 If it was the expected two disc, it would have included all of the special features about the movie including the documentary about MGM during 1939. The only thing missing would have been another copy of WHEN THE LION ROARS and a CD of a few musical tracks from the movie. If Target was selling a two disc set, it would included new stuff that were not in the previous four disc DVD that I would love to have. The Target single disc will only have the movie only and commentary. What is a person to do when the choice is between a $20.00 bare bone set at Target and a fully loaded box set that costs over $50.00? -Claude  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-12-2009 04:14 PM                        I don't exactly hate the movie, but I always felt it was way over acted and melodramatic, which I found annoying beyond tolerable. If it wasn't for the great score, I probably wouldn't have been able to sit thru it even in the theatre. Running it was a pleasure, however. I remember thinking, too bad they couldn't have just cut out everything except the opening title, the scenes just before the intermission, the intermission music and the opening scenes of the the second half and then the closing scene and exit music. As a projectionist, that was all I was really interested in. All the gurlie whining in between was pretty painful. And I've run it enough times to know that seeing it again on Blu-Ray or any other format won't change my opinion much. I'll just listen to Max Steiner score and that will be more than enough for me.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-12-2009 09:29 PM                        Frank, The reason GONE WITH THE WIND does not appeal to you and David and many that are much younger than I am is due to the fact that you all belong to a different generation. Compared to more modern films, yes GWTW is a overdramatic film but is keeping to the way books, were written and films made during that period . Although I was in my late teens when I saw the film for the first time in 1961, I could still relate to it because life at that time was not as faced paced as it is now and very much like it was in the thirties and forties except rock music was exciting all of us 'young people'. -Claude  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-12-2009 10:28 PM                     quote: Claude S. Ayakawa The reason GONE WITH THE WIND does not appeal to you and David and many that are much younger than I am is due to the fact that you all belong to a different generation. I'm pretty sure I'm in the same generation as those guys...and I think it's a great film...not just good, but great.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-13-2009 09:39 AM                        I'm probably older than you think Claude. I love some old movies like Wizard of Oz and Casablanca and many others. But something about GWTW just doesn't work for me or at least not when I tried to watch it.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-13-2009 01:27 PM                        Where do you have your fountain of youth stashed, guys -Claude  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-13-2009 01:44 PM                        Claude, I am sure I am only a few years younger than you, if that. Now mind you, I appreciate GWTW on many levels, top of the list in my mind is the great Steiner score -- I swear it's better than Viagra. I can't run that picture without getting goosebumps at the crescendos of the main title theme at the opening and the lead-in to the intermission and finale. And I certainly can appreciate all the other inventive and well executed elements of the film, it's the acting style that just rubs me the wrong way, not to mention that incessent whineyness of it; can anyone say soap-opera?! And you are right, it is an acting style that was accepted much more during that period. But then again, CASABLANCA and CITIZEN KANE are its contemporaries, yet that broad acting style is much more pulled back and controlled in those films than it is in GWTW. Maybe it just that in the hands of really talented directors it doesn't get quite as out of hand as I perceive it to be in GWTW. As for it being a "great" film, well, I always contended that what was most masterful about GWTW was the brilliance of the MGM marketing department. They had the hutzpa to announced flat out that GWTW was the "Greatest Film Ever Made" And it seemed to stick. They used a re-release schedule that consistantly reinforced that tag every time they brought it back to the screen pretty consistantly very seven years or so, always making that "greatest film ever made" claim. No doubt GWTW does resonate with a good portion of the population, but it sure wouldn't be on my top 10 or even my top 100 for that matter. Using that proverbial "what if" scenario of surviving a shipwreck and being washed up on an island with only one film that I would be able to watch (presumably a DVD, not to mention a battery powered DVD player and monitor, also washed ashore with me as well), I think if I discovered that the DVD was GWTW, I would just jump back into the sea.  |  IP: Logged

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