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Summary: A Lot of Whining as usual from the DVD group
Review: I finally bought this collection after some wariness from reading all these posts. Then I did some research about the films on the IMDB. The films that people are complaining about as being Pan & Scan are nothing of the sort. The original negative ratio of the films is 1.37:1 which is APPROXIMATELY the same as the aspect ratio of your TV set. The films were matted on the top and bottom slightly to give a theatrical ratio of 1.66:1 . For home release these films were left open matted which may be full screen but it is hardly pan & scan. I think these films look rather good, a couple of specks here and there through the Shining but hardly anything distracting...no problem with the sound being mono...that's how they were filmed, that's how kubrick wanted them. It's interesting how viewers who want to see the movie the way the director intended it are always so eager to modify that vision when it suits them.All in all a great set for a tremendous kubrick fan. Some more extras would have been nice but for $69.00 shipped, I'm hardly complaining;)
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Summary: set preserves kubrick's intentions
Review: Clockwork Orange was shot in the 1.66 (i.e "barely matted") aspect ratio, not the standard 1.85 American widescreen or the 2.35 Cinemascope ratio. And the sound was recorded in mono, which Kubrick chose over stereo, given the technology of the day. Additionally, Kubrick shot Full Metal Jacket and the Shining with regard for both widescreen and full-frame compositions, knowing that they would go to video. It was his intention to release the films only in full-frame.
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Summary: Art more important than 'home cinema'
Review: I have to agree with the comments of another reviewer here. These are great films and appear in this format exactly as the director specified, and that is all that matters to me. I'm honestly amazed at all of these 'home cinema' and audiophile people who shell out huge sums of money just so they can watch 'Armegeddon' and listen to Celine Dion. Its like flying to Paris on the Concorde just so you can go to EuroDisney. Do they ever watch a movie for the movie or just spend the whole time wondering if your $5,000 speakers are accuratly reproducing the soundstage? Sorry to sound so harsh, but I'm astonished that so many wannabe snobs are giving perhaps the greatest body of work from any director ever two stars because they don't like the fact that it was released in full screen vs. wide screen. This is just a knee-jerk bias folks, grow up. Yes, I'd be dissapointed if 2001 hadn't been released in letterbox, but for the others the compromises involved in pan and scan are more than appropriate, esp. for those of us who don't have 50-inch 16:9 TVs.
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Summary: 2 movies are the formated version not widescreen
Review: I just got the Stanley Kubrick Collection. Then I found out that two of the movies (The Shining and Full Metal Jacket) come in the formatted to fit your screen version - not widescreen. You typically come to expect a high level of quality in collections such as these. So I suppose it is just Warner Bros screwing up somthing very simple.
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Summary: A terrific collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I had waited a long time to buy the complete works of Kubrick. It was worth waiting for.Here you can find maybe the best horror thriller ever filmed, a landmark science fiction film, a very beautiful historical film, a black comedy gem and an excellent adaptation of Nabokov's masterpiece. On the other hand, A clockwork Orange is still as shocking as it was in th 70's. Two thumbs up and a roaring applause.
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Summary: Beware...Pan-n-scan!
Review: True fans of Kubrick will be shocked and horrified by this "collection" which includes pan-and-scan versions of three of the films (Strangelove, Shining, and Full Metal Jacket). Since Warner Bros. chose to include only 60% of Kubrick's incredible images, I plan to ask for 40% of my money back.
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Summary: What are you lot complaining about?
Review: I can't see what most of you are complaining about. Sure the picture is sometimes slightly pixled, and some times the voices are slightly out of sync with the picture, but when you have 7 of the greatest films ever made I feel you have no course for complaint. Kubrick supervised these, and I know it's how he wanted it to be. And for those people complaining about the lack of extras, just look on some site, there's copious amounts of downloads to satisfy you. The sound isn't half as bad as most of you say it is, if it's not loud enough for you just turn up the volume. I truly believe this is the best way to commemorate Stanley's death, and just serves to show what the world is now missing.
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Summary: Kubrick is a God!!
Review: I can not beleive some of the reviews that this box set is getting from most people. First of all the only reason that A Clockwork Orange is hardly in widescreen and a very small print instead is cause all that it is available is that very small format. It seems that all your concerned about is every thing except the important and that you expect him to deliver heavan like some "Bog or God" (A Clockwork Orange, the novel) which he does without question except to those greedy people whom wich want blood and decide that they don't like the movie because of the format before it's even over!!! When you evaluate the format you evaluate the movie which retroactively evalutes kubrick. The only thing that I regret about anything that has anything to do with Kubrick is that he didn't get a chance to even half complete the latest project AI (artificial intelligence) before he went to visit "Bog or God".
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Summary: WHAT WERE THOSE MORONS AT WARNER BROS. THINKING???!!!
Review: First they give us a Kubrick boxed set that has mono sound for everything except 2001, and pan-and-scan formats for FMJ and the Shining, then we discover that they lied in the packaging about Dr. Strangelove and actually gave us pan-and-scan, not widescreen, then, the final insult: we discover A Clockwork Orange is not actually widescreen, but a fake "matted" version (with slivers of the top and bottom of the pan-and-scan version chopped off) which is supposed to LOOK like widscreen! Do they think consumers (and especially diehard Kubrick fans, for whom this is a dagger in the heart) are idiots???!!!??? DEATH TO WB!!!
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Summary: A pity
Review: While its obvious that Kunbrick was one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, he never quite understood the concept of Home Cinema. We want the films that we watch at the movies to look and sound as good in our homes. Full screen and mono sound is NOT home cinema. So you have to ask why go to the bother of making them all dual layer disks,therfore improving the picture quality, and then not utilise the other features of DVD?
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