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Summary: The Greatest Movie Ever Made on a Great DVD
Review: I'll keep this short. Lawrence of Arabia is one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. Visually inspiring with a script wrought with profound insight into human identity. The DVD extras make this a worthy investment short of owning a 70mm print.
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Summary: Lawrence of Arabia - Majesty of the land
Review: Just watching the movie without the sound shows you the majesty of the landscape. This is so real looking, you have to dump the sand out of your shows after watching it.
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Summary: Superb in virtually every respect
Review: As repetitive as it may sound, this is definitely one of the masterworks of cinema. Fantastically shot and superbly acted, I absolutely had to purchase the DVD when it was released. Knowing that the film had been restored by Robert A. Harris, I figured I was in for a treat. I was right. The transfer is pristine. The only thing I noticed were the light vertical bands in some of the desert scenes, caused by heat damage to the camera rolls during filming, not to any DVD transfer problem. The only other minor blemish was in the tent scene with Feisal--the brightness level pulses up and down at a regular interval, again likely due to uneven weathering of the original print. These complaints, however, are trivial when viewed in respect to the film as a whole. The cinematography is nothing short of stunning (I absolutely love the well sequence when we first see "Fred" Sharif) and the DVD captures it perfectly. The soundtrack is also magnificently presented in 5.1 channel Dolby Digital. Ignore the "Widescreen Review" information provided by Amazon...it seems to be for the wrong film. You won't go wrong with this DVD.
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Summary: A Timeless Classic
Review: Lawrence of Arabia was the winner of seven academy awards in1962, including Best Picture. That should say enough, but of course, it does not! This is a movie on the same scale as Ben Hur, Spartacus, and Elizabeth Taylor's version of Cleopatra. This DVD is director David Lean's uncut version, which is over three hours long. As always the director's cut is the best! This movie took two years and three months to complete. Great movies like this just are not made anymore. Made in the days before special effects and settings were just mere computer illusions. Everything is "real", or as perhaps T.E. Lawrence would say, "Clean." This DVD version has some outstanding extra features. Four original featurettes: "Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic," "Maan, Jordan: The Camels Are Cast," "In Search of Lawrence" and "Romance of Arabia." There is an exclusive documentary entitled "The Making of Lawrence of Arabia", which is outstanding. Also, a conversation with Steven Spielberg, original newsreel footage of the New York premiere, advertising campaigns, and talent files. As an added bonus there is even a reproduction of the 1962 souvenir booklet. This is an outstanding film that will go down in history as one of the all time best!
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Summary: A must have
Review: Lawrence of Arabia is one of the finest films ever made. I know that sounds obsessive, excessive, and cultish, but it's true anyway. If you've never seen it and feel a little put off by it being an old movie or a long movie, dont worry, you'll enjoy it. It's an easy movie to like. But it also has an incredible amount of depth to examine closer and closer on each viewing. You just may end up watching it 5 or 6 times in as many months.
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Summary: Wonderful, Timeless Classic
Review: This film gives us a look into the psyche of one of the most interesting figures in history. The illegitimate son of a British Noble, T. E. Lawrence was forced to find his own path through life. This movie starts out like Gandhi, seeing his death, then his funeral, where we get some biographical information. From there we go to the beautifully filmed deserts of what was once called Arabia, where a war is raging. Lawrence will blaze his own trail, doing what he pleases with great success. The military men withhold artillery because it would "make the Arabs independent." So, he uses guerilla warfare to wage his war against the Turks, all odds, and tradition and sentiment. David Lean is one of the greatest directors of all time, and this is an amazing film.
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Summary: Sorry people, I guess I'm just too dumb to get it.
Review: I have been viewing this film every few years since it first came out. I figured my initial boredom with the interminal sand scenes was my due to my youth and inexperience; but I can now honestly say: I don't like this movie. It just dra-a-a-ags. And I have quite a tolerance for slowly-paced movies. I like Peter O'Toole and really like Omar Sharif. So there you go. I honestly don't understand what the big "thang" is about this movie. I heard that this movie took forever to film and that Peter O'Toole went through all kinds of identity problems while filming it. Those facts are more captivating to me than this long piece of work. I guess I just don't get it.
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Summary: The best movie of all time?
Review: It clearly would have been the movie to end all movies were it not for its lack of any female character. It is probably not well known today simply because it puts everything else to shame. Especially embarrassing to today's filmmakers is it visceral superiority, the images, the light and in fact the resolution (due to it being shot in the 3.5 times larger per frame 70mm format that Hollywood has since deemed us viewers too undiscerning for). As astoundingly IMAX like as its sweeping desert Vistas are, it is the cerebral that makes this movie the masterpiece it is. Based on an entirely true story (well as much as we can believe Lawrence himself) it depicts many cultural as well as psychological issues. In particular that of the genius Lawrence and his inability to cope with his new-found power and the fake morality or the English juxtaposed with the simpler yet ultimately more moral Bedouin. Take your time to watch this movie, it is of a different pace than the modern action thriller.
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Summary: desert star
Review: I love trains. After "Lawrence of Arabia," I realized why I had so much passion about trains storied away, especial a David Lean train, those long winding black serpents that cross the desert like hells messenger. I love trains, because they carry me off to another place, another time. "Lawrence of Arabia" is no different from the trolley I wrap around the Christmas tree. The movie is its own personality. The personality of "Lawrence" is locked inside the cinematography, acting, and directing which is neatly sealed in the DVD. The personality of the movie parallels T.E. Lawrence's ego. A man who elevates himself to a God like status by crossing and rampaging the desert. The movie builds up as well, from the first minute to the last it transforms to one of the greatest films ever. What we learn for Lawrence is not about a man at that stage in his life but more on how he went so far in his short time. Peter O'Toole has the blue eyes of man gazing at his destiny; he takes a long look into the future, his death, and the journey he has embarked upon. Those blue eyes that always seem to be burning like the desert and the imaginative camera work creates a sort of archeology out of the movie. It teaches us so much about the hard times of World War I and as I stated before, T.E.'s rise to near perfection. One of the most interesting things is that T.E. Lawrence blows part of the famous train away. He does this so that he can raid the train. It is certainly one of Hollywood's most memorable moments. If the train represents a certain fragrance of freedom to me, I tend to think that Lawrence might have been on the same train in that thought. Whereas I expand on the dream of freedom and, Lawrence choose to take down the train for personal gain so that he could walk towards the Sun for a brief moment. That is what we must understand in the end. It is better to travel on the train, watch the train as cuts across the desert ... or place it in a particular spot for decoration. This is so much better than tearing the train apart for personal gain. Make a great gain by purchasing this wonderful film.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: You can read the story of the movie from just about any other review on these pages. I simply want to add my vote to the growing collection of right-thinking people who believe and know that this a truly stupendous, awe-inspiring movie, plotwise and filmingwise and musicwise. And please, God forbid, if you can't get a wide-screen edition, don't bother to watch the film! This is one of the few wide-screen movies that have been made that really, absolutely have to have widescreen - the width of the film is actually part of the story-telling, and cutting the sides off and giving yourself a smaller picture is just as bad to the storytelling as if you cut out the volume. This is in my top 10 favorite movies (right up there with Citizen Kane, The Thing, 2001, Clockwork Orange...), as it should be on yours. It's just plain brilliant. And it has Alec Guinness, and that's worth the price of a ticket right there.
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