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Summary: When Will it Ever End?
Review: More fiction and plagiarism designed to demonise the South, divide the races, fill the coffers of Jessee Jackson and politicians who claim to have the answers, encourage liberal whites to wallow in guilt and shame, insult blacks with paternalism at its very worst: Treat them like children; they can't handle the truth. To quote STANLEY CROUCH, a black columnist for the New York Daily News; "The book remains an opportunistic insult to black people, and no amount of excuses will change that harsh fact."
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Summary: Some playback hiccups - but great DVD transfer
Review: The transfer to DVD is about as perfect as it gets. Crisp, clear and detailed. One of the best yet. It may be my player, but the disc has problems in playback that appear related to the commentary feature. When enabled, the show image is reduced and the actor makes his/her comment. When the feature is not enabled the commentary pops up for a second, then back to regular playback. Because of this, there's no way to watch the disc without transitory visual interruptions at each point where commentary inserts exist. Otherwise 5 stars.
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Summary: Simply put: breathtaking (and sol'n to Subtitle-gate)
Review: This really is an amazing film experience. Lavar Burton gives the performance of a lifetime (his or, frankly, anyone else's). Stop reading and go pick this up...unless you already have it, in which case--here's what I did to make the subtitles go away: chooses French (or Spanish) subtitles, turn them on, now turn them off. This should do it. Occasionally the subtitles would pop up again and I would simply repeat the process. Also: this doesn't seem to happen if you use a Playstation 2.
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Summary: Subititles Are Broken
Review: Regardless of whether or not you turn subtitles off
in the menus, subtitles will come back on within seconds
of returning to the movie.The DVD's have totally flawed menus. The production of the movie itself is awesome, but the schmuck that designed the menu wrappers should be unemeployed. It makes the DVD set unuseable. Save your money, or buy the VHS, because the DVD is broken.
What a shame.
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Summary: Must own
Review: I hope the fact that I believe that roots is the best thing to ever air on television doesn't make my review bias, but oh well. No one who owns a Dvd player should be without this series. No matter what race you are you should be able to identify with something that is going on in this series, because it is our nations history even if we like it or not. Just by seeing the struggle taken place in this movie, I believe that I'm a better person. The dvd's quality is great. Considering when this was made, the quality is astounding. I just can't say enough about this dvd. And for this price why shouldn't you buy it. I mean it's almost 10 hours of dvd, for the less than the price of two average dvds. You just can't beat that.
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Summary: roots
Review: I had been anxiously waiting for the DVD release of this wonderful Television Miniseries since I started collecting DVDs.
Well, it finally happened and looked forward to seeing once again after 25 years one of the top made for television films made.
As I started to watch Disc 1, I noticed that the English subtitles would randomly appear and disappear as the movie progressed. Needless to say, this put a dent on my viewing so I decided to restart the movie again, as I could NOT get rid of the subtitles, either through the remote control or DVD "set-up" menu settings. I repeated this several times but the subtitles kept popping up. At this point my desire to keep watching rapidly declined. I tried it on another player, and yes, same problem, with the subtitles appearing and disappearing at the same points on both machines. I own over 100 DVDs and had never seen this problem before, so I decided to exchange it for another one.
Well, guess what? Same exact problem with the replacement disc! I don't know the technical reason why it happens, and I know it's not the players' problem, so at this point I will be returning the DVD for a refund as this is obviously a pressing problem. Warner Video needs to look into it, and rectify the situation.
Other than that, I look forward to one day actually watching "Roots" in it's entirety, at which time I will be happy to let you know my overall opinion of the DVD.
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Summary: Roots
Review: As part of their National History Day project, I was proud that my daughter and her classmates chose the Underground Railroad as their topic. What a wonderful opportunity, 25 years after its original release, for these teens to be able to view "Roots" and feel the circumstances that caused so many slaves and abolishionists to risk their lives on escape routes so many years ago. I know they will cry and be forever touched by the suffering and inhumanity, just as I was a quarter century ago.
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Summary: 5 stars for Roots, Zero Stars for the DVD
Review: OK, the DVD is great, nice extras, and Roots is one of my all-time favorite pieces of television. But for some reason, the DVDs turn the subtitles on automatically! I saw at least one person below is having the same problem. It's madness! Even when you turn them off from the DVD's menu, THEN turn them off AGAIN from your DVD player's subtitle function, they STILL return. AAAAHHHHHRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!! BWWAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!! This is a major distraction. I have a Toshiba SD-1600, which is a pretty decent little DVD player. I've never had any problem like this before. If anybody has a solution (short of putting electrical tape over the bottom third of my TV screen) I'd love to hear it. Otherwise, Roots is goin' back.
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Summary: Plagarism?
Review: This is an outstanding story of Human triumph! A drama that inspires and by showing the triumph over mans inhumanity to man. Forget the charges of plagarism and historical inaccuracy and focus on the story, drama and life lessons.
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Summary: Don't sell Roots with MASH,
Review: I intend to buy th DVD, but i was kind of disturbed to see it on sale with MASH. They are two totally different genre. It cheapens the story in ROOTs. Although recent facts say that a part of the story was fabricated, it still remains a monumental television event. MASH is a great movie and television series, but it just not belong in a category with ROOTs. If you have watched the whole thing, do so and I think you will agree.
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