Gone With the Wind

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Summary: 5 star Movie with 1 star DVD
Review: Love the movie, hated the special features. For a great movie and all you would think Warner Brothers could afford to throw in another disk, BUT NO! They had to be ignorant and make one bad package. But then again the DVD is only $14.95. But I would rather throw in $5 or $10 for some half good features.
I will finish my thoughts by saying this: Don't I don't like the movie because frankly I love it. It's the special features that ruin the disc. Still, my final review for the film is 5 stars and my final review for the features is 1 star. But altogether I give it 4 stars because we still buy movies for the film and not the features anyway.

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Summary: Racist drivel
Review: Why anyone would call this racist drivel a great film is beyond me. I could barely sit through it. Scarlett O'Hara is so self absorbed as to be totally uninteresting - why should we care about this womanwho undergoes zero character development? That's not the real problem with the movie though. The suggestion, throughout the movie, that slavery was not that bad and the the slaves would really have preferred their masters to those mean old Yankees is the most offensive part of the movie. Creepy. Cringe worthy.

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Summary: As God Is My Witness, I Have Never Eyed A Better Masterpiece
Review: For a story that was a rocky film-in-the-making from the start, the rewards are endless and breathtaking. Never has a novel and a film caused such a stir in people's hearts and minds for such a long period of time. 1939 was "Gone With The Wind's Year", but I feel it was mine too. I mean, I own a part of that history, and many others in the world of Scarlett and Rhett's ring of restless desires. What charcaters! What a part of cinema to own! "Gone With The Wind" can stir a hopeless romantic's heart, a bubbling broot of a man, or a lover of war history, and superb film scores. I even own the soundtrack. And I am not out of high school yet. Very few films can grab credit for embracing a novel with accomplishment, 10 academy awards, and the trademark of a classic. If you are a film lover, or just beginning, nothing could thrill you or educate you more on the shelves of the silver screen classics than MGM's masterpiece of GONE WITH THE WIND>>>>>>>

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Summary: A classic
Review:

I watched Gone With The Wind again last night for the severalith time, and as usual was greatly entertained. Is there anyone who has not seen it?

One forgets how great Gable was. He played his part with his usual verve, and seemed very well cast as somewhat of a rake. Vivien Leigh was exquisite as a self-centered Southern Belle, and the supporting caste did their job flawlessly.

This was, deservedly, called a great movie, even if Gable did a "no-no" and said "damn" right out loud, shocking all of the old ladies in Boston.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

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Summary: GET READY TO TOSS THIS ONE INTO THE WIND
Review: "Gone With The Wind" plays like an old friend with its cliches of southern pageantry, its noble dipiction of the slave and lurid burning of Atlanta. David O. Selznick's masterfully told civil war melodrama is based on Margaret Mitchell's best selling novel. Mitchell, it seems, only wrote the book to keep her mind nimble while recovering from a horse riding accident. She never intended that it should be published.
By now spoiled southern belle - Scarlett O'Hara - has become a lionized icon in the canons of American cinema. It seems odd that Vivien Leigh was not the obvious choice from the start but Selznick spent nearly two years of preproduction in a nation wide search for the greatest female lead in any motion picture, any time, anywhere. There really isn't much to say that hasn't already been said of this perennial classic. Perhaps the greatest kudos came from a film critic in the 1960s who claimed, "There have only been two motion pictures in the history of American film; Gone With The Wind and everything else!"
THE TRANSFER: This is a flipper disc minted from the 1996 general release print that hit theaters for the film's anniversary. The DVD's color palette seems subdued to say the least, with muddy colors that at times betray the richness and lush lurid feel of the original three strip Technicolor. Though fine details can be seen even during the darkest scenes, intermitten edge enhancement, shimmering of fine details and aliasing throughout both sides of this disc distract from the general viewing. The audio has been remixed to 5.1 and although dated (big surprise) exhibits a richness in music tracks not present in the original mono recording.
EXTRAS: NOT A SINGLE ONE!!! This is a disc screaming for a remastering effort with extras that MUST include Turner's "The Making of A Legend" documentary and at least one audio commentary track - plus a host of outtakes, test footage and theatrical trailers. So where are they? Probably in Warner's vaults. A shame! They belong here.
BOTTOM LINE: Rumor is that "Gone With The Wind" is getting a new gussied up high def' remaster and should resurface in a deluxe edition sometime this year. I can't think of a better reason to start giving a damn!

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Summary: No Frills Edition of All Time Greatest!
Review: Arguably the greatest motion picture of the 20th Century, GONE WITH THE WIND continues to enchant and captivate viewers of all ages. This is a particularly beautiful copy of the film and is a feast for the eyes. Sound quality excellent, too.

Sadly, there are no noteworthy Bonus Features which is a real disappointment for the legions of GWTW fans or even to provide an insight to introduce new, younger viewers to its magic.

Nonetheless, it is an essential for your DVD collection.

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Summary: Great film - no widescreen in 1939!
Review: I'm ordering this masterpiece today on DVD, but to answer the reviewers wishing for a widescreen version: widescreen didn't come about until the 50's to counter the then new "TV" phenomenon.
And I'm also glad I don't have to pay for an additional disc featuring a "making of" - I've already got that on tape from TV anyway. So I appreciate the 1-disc package and (hopefully) digitally restored film/soundtrack.

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Summary: gone with the wind
Review: I cannot imagine what dificulties kept the producers of this dvd from creating a widescreen/letterbox edition. The first time I saw this film was at a drive-in in Wichita Falls, Texas. Nothing replaces that w-i-d-e-s-c-r-e-e-e-n!!!

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Summary: One of the Best Movies Ever!!!!
Review: This movie is storytelling at it's best and Hollywood at it's best.

That being said. The quality of the picture is excellent and the sound is fine. The problem I have with this DVD is that it's bare bones. Here we have one the greatest movies ever made and all MGM could give us is a trailer. Shame on MGM. Surely they can dig up some old interviews or something.

Technically the DVD should rate lower but since this movie is so awesome, I couldn't give it anything less that 5 stars. Pick it up if you love the movie or wait for a more appropriate release from MGM. Let's hope that happens.

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Summary: Widescreen?
Review: This film must surely be in widescreen somewhere because they had to re-film every frame to make it suitable for TV the first time it was ever transmitted!..Anyone know anything?