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Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)

Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Learn about matted Super 35
Review: I was reading through the reviews and felt compelled to point out some misconceptions, especially in the review by the "Viewer from Wilmington". These movies were shot in Super 35, as some directors (Cameron) perfer to do. This method shoots a large, square area, with the idea that it will be matted when shown at a theatre. The director frames out what is SUPPOSED to be shown in each shot, whether it be 1.85:1 or 2:35.1. The point of widescreen is not to have more image shown, but to present the movie as it was shown at the theatre. The error for parts 2 and 3 is not that they are presenting a fake and deceptive letterbox image, but that when the engineer was matting a few scenes, the matted image was placed too high in the picture, therefore ommitting important information at the bottom.

So to sum up, the full frame version is all the actual visual information shot by the camera, while the widescreen version is the matted information that was intended by the director as all you should be seeing and is what was shown originally at the theatre. You can certainly prefer and buy whichever version you want, but you should at least have a correct understanding of what the choices are.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: back to the fun
Review: great movie, great acting, great script, great special effects (for the time it was filmed), overall great, i give this movie a 5+++ = very good

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: people, please pay close attention.
Review: Alot of people try to look for problems with these movies. In part three, people who think Marty could have gone back to 1985 because he had Mr. Fusion must not have been listening. Mr. Fusion only powers the flux capaciter, not the engine. Also the reason Doc didn't use the time machine he put in the cave in part three to get marty back to 1985 was because he didn't wan't to risk damaging the time machine and creating a paradox. IT IS EXPLAINED IN THE FAQ'S on part three. People should really stop trying to find problems with these movies because the film makers intended to make movies, not documentaries. These three films are the most origional and entertaining films I know of and people who want to mock them should watch all the movies without interuption and they will see that pretty much everything that happens in the movies is explained in the movies, and things that aren't are explained in the extras on the DVD's! These movies will keep anyone up nights thinking about all the possibilities which I think is what makes these movies so great. If you haven't seen these movies on DVD you should because it clears up most of the misunderstandings you may have.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just as much fun as when it original was released.
Review: I first saw these movies when I was a kid and they're still just as much fun to watch now. Even though special effects have come along way since these movies were made, the effects in Back to the Future look just as good as the effects of today.

Loads of laugh, and tons of neat extras. This is a definite must have for everyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BACK TO THE FUTURE... IS BACK TO THE PLASURE !
Review: This movie declined in three DVD (complete trilogy) is a colossal work with very much goods actors which are funny, amusing and however we can reflect to the consequences with a temporals times voyages suggested ! Cristopher LLOYD is entertaining ant Samuel J Fox complementary for this huge and good adventure ! It's needfull to possess these 3 DVD for look at any time still and again this marvellous FILM that i've seen in VHS Support and after with better quality in DVD support !
Mister Steven SPIELBERG is a genious of the cinematography after the first worrisome movie " DUEL " in 1978 ( 25 years ago ) I've a high respect for this humble man with many creativeness !

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Hopeless, part III of "Widescreen, we e are cheated "
Review: This is the third review I wrote about this set. At the end of April 2003, even the war in Iraq is already over, there's no sign that Universal is going to correct it's mistake over the widescreen edition of this set. My first review dated back to 25 Sept., 2002, I warned BTTF fans to beware of the widescreen edition of this set and advised them to have the full screen edition instead, still many of them ignored me and wrote many opposite reviews without even seeing the DVD (this set was released in Asia in Sept, 3 months ahead of the US release). Up to now I still see many reviews praising this set, I doubt whether you people knew what is the right of consumer, you can tolerate being cheated and still said it's the best set ever, all I can say is, uh HOPEEEELESSS to you all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Must Have
Review: If you don't like these movies you are crazy. This is the best DVD set out there. The movies are all great and the special features are great too. There are so many special features. You learn all this great stuff about the movies too. YOU NEED TO BUY THESE MOVIES!!!! They are worth every penny and you will not regret it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Get The Fullscreen Version!
Review: This review is not for these three great movies, or the awesome fullscreen dvd set, but for the supposed "widescreen" version. I read many reviews complaining about this problem, so I decided to wait until March to purchase the set because Universal was supposed to correct it in February. Well, I don't know if they ever did, but my copy was STILL defective. I immediately returned it for the fullscreen version. Also, regardless of what many of these reviews say, ALL 3 movies have been formatted incorrectly, not just 2 and 3. I compared them to the old vhs tapes, and the sides are exactly the same, and black bars have been placed over the picture to make you think it is widescreen. You actually see much less picture than you do in the fullscreen version, and isn't the entire point of widescreen to see MORE of the picture? I can't understand why Universal did this, if for some reason they couldn't release the films in a real widescreen format they could have just released them in fullscreen. They had to have known that creating a "fake" widescreen version would just enrage millions of fans. Otherwise, the extras are all great, and the fullscreen edition is definitely worth the price.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Adding to the current reviews
Review: My only addition is that I thought the DVD extras could have been better.

The movies get 5 stars
The Extras get 3 stars

Overall package is 4 stars -

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Classic
Review: These films are still tremendously enjoyable, although I've seen the first one more than 20 times since it premiered way back in 1985 (and I've seen II and III several times too). It's rare that science fiction and humor are blended so deftly, so that this story works both as suspense and as satire.

As for the DVD, be sure to check the label for a small "V2". There was a major mix-up with the matting of II and III; replacement discs are being shipped as of April 2003. The V2, with the correct transfers of II and III, should be on the barcoding on the package, and also on the discs themselves. If you bought the original version and want the corrected dics, MCA has a toll free number you can call (see the official Back to the Future web site for details).


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