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Summary: Great Movie -- Junk DVD
Review: Nothing is more irritating than seeing the message: "this movie has been altered from its orignal theatrical presentation. It has been reformatted to fit your screen" when your watching it on a WIDESCREEN TV and you END UP WITH BLACK BARS ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT! How arrogent of them to assume that "your screen" will always be an old-fashioned 4:3 format TV!!This may be the only DVD I can think of that isn't available in widescreen. Save your money and spend it on a product produced by people with more regard for their customers.
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Summary: Makes you drool, just-a like-a pasta fazool
Review: Quit bellyachin' about the pan-and-scan format, stick to the story. If anybody exists who can watch this movie and not fall in love with it, I hope I never meet them. Cher is absolutely marvelous in this timeless comedy about a frumpy widow who is about to re-marry for convenience instead of love; her intended is an overgrown mama's boy who looks like he just swallowed a dose of cyanide when he proposes to her. Off he runs to Italy to visit his mother on her deathbed; while he's away, Cher meets his estranged brother who literally and figuratively sweeps her off her feet. Meanwhile, her dad is going through a delayed midlife crisis and is cheating on her mother. (There's a priceless scene when Cher and her future brother-in-law run into her dad and his mistress at the opera, it's hard to tell who's the more outraged, Cher or Dad. Dad: "You're engaged!" Cher: "and you're married!") Both messes get sorted out satisfactorily; Cher's intended decides he can't marry her after all, leaving her free to marry his brother, for love; and dad drops his mistress and returns to mom. It's a delightful romp of a movie and everybody seems to have a ball acting in it. Bookending the whole film is Dean Martin's rendition of "That's Amore", making me wonder for the umpteemth time... what the heck IS pasta fazool?
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Summary: It Keeps Getting Better
Review: I didn't discover Moonstruck until 1998. This is one of the best romantic movies ever made. It is funny, touching, and very rich. With every viewing, something else to like jumps out at me. So for all of us non-italian-americans, boil some pasta, open a jar of Ragu, poor a glass of merlot and pop Moonstruck into your DVD; let yourself be carried away.
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Summary: Cher Will Take Your Breath Away!
Review: This movie can be described in three words, and those are: Charming, Funny, and Teary. In this Comedy-Romantic movie, Cher who plays a Widowed Italian woman, proves just how romantic this movie is. You'll be touched, in awe, and much more when you see this movie. I give it a five star rating for this movie, because it always remains a favorite of mine! ;)
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Summary: Top 5 Best Romantic/Comedy Movies - EVER
Review: A great flick. Five stars is not enough. Cher & Cage are awesome together. Gardenia & Dukakis (as Cher's parents) are almost as brilliant. Some great & memorable scenes... 1. Cher meeting Cage for the first time in the bakery basement, 2. Cage expressing his love for her the morning after, 3. Dukakis & Mahoney having dinner together & walking home, 4. Cher & Cage, (and her father and his "date") at the opera, and 5. The family sitting around the kitchen table when husband to-be Aiello shows up. Six Oscar nominations - and three awards. Cher & Dukakis were very deserving and this was easily the best screenplay of the year. Essential in any movie collector's library.
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Summary: I have to admit...
Review: I've watched so many widescreen DVDs now that getting a full screen DVD is disconcerting, to say the least. I'm sure somebody somewhere had their reason for not publishing a widescreen version. One way or another, this alone gives this particular purchase one less star. The movie itself, however, is awesome. At some point, you forget that you're watching a full screen DVD because you can end up getting wrapped up in this modern day New York Italian love story. If you've not seen this movie, don't expect your ordinary Romeo and Juliet romance. This is not R&J. It's just an outrageous love story that happens to also be a comedy.
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Summary: My favorite movie of all time
Review: This is a screwballed comedy that delivers. Everyone can empathize with some the characters dilemmas. From the widowed character Cher plays that longs for a married life and almost ends up with the wrong guy, to the Mom (Olympia Dukakis) that looks for a single answer to a big question (Why do men chase women?). Every character plays both their practical side and their romantic side. This was the heart of the movie. We all opt for the practical, but hope for the romantic (moonstruck). I've seen this movie over ten times now and I never get sick of it. Especially, the final scene at the kitchen table.
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Summary: If any movie deserves more than 5 stars, it's this one!
Review: This movie is simply wondeful. I have seen it more times than I can begin to count, and I still cannot find a single fault in it. The acting is superb from all angles - from the actors in the fore-front to extras with only three lines EVERYONE comes across perfectly and realistic. The plot is well-written and executed, and the soundtrack works seamlessly with the action. The best part is that it no matter how many times you see it, this movie will continue to be as enjoyable as the first time. In fact, I think I love it more with every viewing. It may help to be from an Italian family like I am - because only then can you see just how realistic the characters are. I could point to every one of them and give them a real-life counterpart. But even if you aren't you will appreciate it for its brilliance. This is one of my all-time favorite movies (if not the number one). I could go on, but just trust me and see this movie!
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Summary: Comments on the transfer.
Review: Despite comments by previous reviewers this video is not pan and scan, it is cropped. There is a difference although I can understand how people could confuse the two. Moonstruck was originally shot with the intention of a 1:85 aspect ratio for theatrical screenings and 1:33 for television. The tops and bottoms of the frame were cropped to give it the widescreen ratio in the theatre. When films are shot for cropping they are essentially composed by the DP for both for 1:85 and 1:33 ratios simultaneously. Full frame video versions simply remove the cropping bars and show you more than you would have seen in a theatrical presentation. Pee Wee's Big Adventure and The Shining are two other films that utilized this (relatively uncommon) process. While one would still prefer that these films be cropped so as to provide a more "theatrical" feel it is incorrect to call this pan-and-scan because there is no panning and the viewer isn't losing any of the original frame information. Pan-and-scan is when a film is shot in a widescreen format such as cinemascope, panavision or Super 16 and then transferred to video full-frame. In this case you actually are losing the material at either side of the film frame and you get that notorious back-and-forth panning as the transfer people try to focus the viewer on what they consider the "important" part of the frame. This injustice is still perpetrated for a majority of VHS releases but DVD producers for the most part have caught on that people "want widescreen". So yes, most of the time a full-frame release does indicate the pan-and-scan process but not with this film.
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Summary: Are you kidding me?
Review: Why on EARTH has this been released in pan and scan? I've watched my VHS copy countless times and was looking forward to replacing it with a nice widescreen DVD. But this? Fuggitaboudit!
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