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Summary: Latest Warner Bros Travesty
Review: Some of the best films of all-time have been ruined by the brass at WarnerBros.Unfortunately, this is not a joke. This box needs to be pulled off the shelves (websites) before anyone else gets ripped off!!!
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Summary: Some movies lack full-frame and few extras
Review: I highly doubt Kubrick would allow his DVDs to be produced in standard format. There are almost no extras. This collection is insulting to the master. Avoid until Warner Bros. does the director justice.
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Summary: ARGH! Great Films - Poor Quality!
Review: Five Stars for Kubrick - No Stars for Warner Bros. How frustrating! After waiting months for this set to be released and all we get is poor quality transfers and little-to-no supplemental material. I agree with an eariler review - this is a BUDGET package. Wait a few months and you should be able to pick it up for $50 or less! WORST DEFECT: The Making of The Shining While the content is fascinating, the video transfer is wretched. They should have made it a two sided disc! The video quality of The Shining itself leaves much to be desired as well. Oh, well, we should have known it was all just an effort to cash in on Eyes Wide Shut and Kubrick's passing. SHAME ON YOU, Warner Bros.!!! I will never order a DVD in advance - I'll wait for the reviews.
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Summary: Aspect Ratios
Review: I agree with the rest of your reviews, with one exception. Both full Metal Jacket and The Shining were shot in the full frame aspect ratio. It is irritating, but that is how they are supposed to look.
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Summary: Thanks for the Warning
Review: Thanks guys for the warning! I was about to purchase the Kubrick collection and I read the reviews... Money well spent is sometimes not spent at all
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Summary: Kubrick is great...this DVD set isn't
Review: I rented a few of this set this week and I must say it's disgraceful! I just got a DVD player and watched films like Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Das Boot, which were in pristine condition. This DVD set sucks! Believe me, you guys musn't buy it...thank god I didn't.
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Summary: Kubirck is a master, but WB gave him the shaft with this set
Review: Of course, Kubrick is a pure genius of filmaking, and his death rings sorrow for those of us who like good, intelligent moviemaking, but he allowed a great unjustice, both to himself and to his fans, by allowing such shoddy releases of his 7 "master" films. All of the films in the set, which spans from Lolita to Full Metal Jacket, are 5-star wonders of cinematic scope, but to view them on DVD, in thsi supposedly "remarkable" set, is a let down. First off, the Dr. Strangelove and 2001 DVD's are the same exact DVD's that have been being sold previously before the set was released, down to the design of the disc itself. All of the other DVD's in the set have the basic design and menu layout, but these two, especially Dr. Strangelove, throw off the entre set feel. Secondly, for a transfer that was supposed to be approved by Mr. Kubrick, some of the DVD's, especially A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Barry Lyndon, are horribly grainy, with knicks and spots in the original film somehow passing through the ever watching eye of perfectionist Kubrick to the newly restored DVD. And for such a buff of technology, and an inventor of many movie devices, I find it hard to believe he's let out these DVD's in MONO SOUND!! It's was a tremendous disappointment when I put in Barry Lyndon and sound only came out of 3 of my speakers! The only one that is in Dolby Digital 5.1 is 2001, because it's the same DVd that was released before, just in a different package. Finally, the lack of extras really puts me off. I knew ahead of time what was packaged with these, but it's still hard to believe that the only real "extra" is the behind the scenes of the Shining. It's great, but it's the only thing, aside from the original movie trailers, that is put on these DVD's. Anything could have been done, news stories, BBC interivews, actor's comments. The lack of care put toward this set is really staggering. For a master of cinema, Kubrick really got the shaft from Warner Bros. Is there an e-mail address or regular mailing address where normal people can comment to Warner Bros. about their lack of effort to make these DVDs better? It is probably the most disapointing moment for me since i've had my DVD player.
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Summary: Not widescreen - some are cut for screen
Review: These are great movies. We wouldn't be reading this if we didn't believe that. However, despite the description above, two of these disks are "Standard Version" - "modified to fit your screen" A collection like this doesn't deserve that deception in its sales pitch.
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Summary: What happened to proper aspect ratio?
Review: This is a fine collection of films but what do I find when I rip the pastic away? Three of the films have been 'formatted' to fit the screen. This is horrible. I feel really let down. What is the point of putting together a set of films by one of the best directers that ever lived if you're not going to show the entire footage? Stanley is turning in his grave!
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Summary: Kubrick's Genius, and A Mediocre DVD Set
Review: How to review a collection of the great Stanley Kubrick. First, a review of the movies. Absolutely brilliant. From the black comedy of Dr. Strangelove, to the visual beauty of Barry Lyndon, to the amazing effects of 2001, this reminds us how sorely missed Kubrick will be. The DVDs themselves are just a bit disappointing. First, the 2001 DVD is the best one in the set. Tons of extras, an interview with Arthur C. Clarke, and trailers for this and its sequel. Full Metal Jacket, comes with trailer, and subtitles, other than that I felt it was lacking. The Shining with the bonus documentary by Kubrick's daughter, is somewhat better. The rest of the DVDs fail to the same fait as the Full Metal Jacket. I felt that what we really needed was Kubrick's Commentary on an entirely seperate DVD. To look at and listen to a great master. I would rather have payed $200, gotten just the movies and Kubrick's Commentary, and I would've been happy. Thats all I wanted, I feel you agree.
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