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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: This is the absolute best video of Pride and Prejudice I have ever seen. If you love the book, you HAVE TO watch this movie.
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Summary: DVD version is UGLY
Review: This is such a wonderful show that it is with deep disappointment that I must report that the DVD version of it is HIDEOUS. My wife & I own the VHS tape set, and have watched them over & over, so I was very excited to get the DVD version in hopes that it would be even prettier & more lush than the tapes. But the lovely settings, rich costumes & etc are obliterated by the extreme over-exposed whitewash that the "digital remastering" has created. The characters all look like ghosts! We have gone back to watching the tapes.In short, the story is wonderful, the acting extraordinary, the casting, etc, etc, perfect, but this DVD version is really, really bad.
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Summary: Superb, true to Jane Austen adaption
Review: This version of Pride & Predjudice is my absolute favorite. I have owned the tapes and the original DVD. As far as the movie itself goes, the characters are all perfectly cast. From the embarassingly annoying Mrs. Bennet, the sweet oldest sister Jane, the condescending and IQ challenged Mr. Collins, to the feisty Elizabeth and the Proud Mr. Darcy, you will find yourself engrossed in every character's story. The script was written to stay true to the original novel. The scenery in breathtaking, and you will find yourself paying as much attention to the beautiful countryside as you will the drama.
As for technical details, the biographies that are included on this special version are simply printed words on the screen. Interesting information, but each bio is only one or two paragraphs long with a complete list of credits for only a few of the characters. The mini featurette is okay.
My bottom line: if you love romance, drama, and history then this is the movie for you. If you already own it on tape or have the original dvd, save your money and enjoy the version you have.
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Summary: Pride & Prejudice (Not So) Special Edition DVD
Review: This so-called Special Edition DVD was a great disappointment. The contrast is way off and the colors completely washed out. There was also a disturbing tendency for the image to wobble when the camera angle changed. A much-rented tape copy that I had seen was better in quality than this. Anyone seeking a good copy in full screen is now out of luck, since all the VHS and the previous DVD are full-screen presentations. The direction and performances are as wonderful as any you might expect to see. This is a great screen version of the story (High praise if you love the Greer Garson/Laurence Olivier version as much as I do), but not worth seeing in this re-production. One can only hope that the cinematographer never has to see what they have done to his beautiful work.
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Summary: P&P Special Edition.
Review: I own the original BBC VHS tapes - not A&E, the first DVD and now the Special Edition DVD. The BBC edition is marvelous and contains an extra shot of Darcy watching the carriage leave Netherfield with Jane and Lizzy. This is not on either of the DVDs. The first DVD is great. It does have credits breaking up the individual parts of the original series but all in all the quality is close to the original tapes. However the latest Special Edition has lost the softness gained by using film instead of tape which I think helped the original. This version is sharper with far too much contrast. It's just a generally harsher look to the whole thing which I am sure the producers would hate. I'm not returning it as I adore the series and any version is worth collecting but for those of you wanting a pristine version on DVD, try to get hold of the first edition and skip this one.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is possibly one of the best made-for-tv movies ever written. The adaptation of the book brings all of Jane Austin's characters to life, and make you believe they really might have lived once. Colin Firth is by far everything you would imagine Mr. Darcy to be.
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Summary: P&P DVD is terrible.
Review: I love Pride & Prejudice. I've watched it so many times I was afraid that I would eventually wear out my VHS tapes. I was really excited to get this Special Edition DVD: widescreen at last! Unfortunately this is a terrible transfer. The colors are really off and whitewashed. Everything looks pale and everyone looks ill. The contrast is really bad too. Dark furniture in the background has no detail, it just disappears into the shadows. Everything is murky and dark back there. It's hard to tell where shadows end and hair starts on other characters. I love this miniseries, but this poor quality really ruins my ability to enjoy it. I'm going to return the DVD and go back to my VHS tapes. Sad but true, in this case the VHS version is superior to the DVD version.
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Summary: Well worth the purchase price
Review: Straight to the point:
1. This adaptation is, by far, the best I've seen for ANY book out there. As a movie, it is extremely engrossing and entertaining. And while I can see a few die-hard Pride and Prejudice fans finding something to nit-pick about(we always do), MOST everyone else will probably end up falling in love with this story... and staying up til all hours of the morning cause Elizabeth and Darcy are much more important than sleep... :) 2. As far as the technical quality, I feel the widescreen format is a wonderful addition, and the editing/transition from 6 episodes to 2 parts comfortably fluid. I enjoy the sturdy medium of DVD, and the ability to jump to my favorite scene. (I also own this on video.) The sound is fine, as is most of the color/video. The only gripe is about certain outdoor scenes on the first disk and one or two on the second that are whitewashed, over-exposed, whatever you want to call it. It does not, in my opinion, greatly detract from the over-all presentation, as the rest of the disk is perfectably watchable. I found that I was so quickly engrossed in the story that I could rather ignore that small fault. So, I say, I am very happy I bought this movie, it is well worth the price. Plenty of excitement, drama, witty dialogue, beautiful scenery, great story, and all this under the disguise of wholesome family literature stuff by that old English chick who wrote those romance stories. NOTE: I am not giving this DVD Special Edition version 5 stars ONLY because I have to reserve that last star for total and complete artistic and technical perfection.
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Summary: Finally - This fine movie on a proper DVD!
Review: I have loved this A&E production since I first saw it on film some 5 or 6 years ago. I had been waiting most anxiously for a DVD format to be released that would give the polite viewer even more than only those many felicities that the 6-tape vhs set had so eloquently bestowed. Well, now - herein I'm sure I've found it! I could be so much more extravagant in my praise, but I shall spare you (and myself) that. I only say this - that if you love the book - and this most singularly lovely production of it - as I do, then you will be more than pleased with this DVD!
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Summary: 6 of one, half dozen of the other
Review: This review is for the quality of the new DVD edition only, NOT of the miniseries, which is awesome, or of the the perfect Jane Austen story. I have both DVD versions now and neither one satisfies completely. In the first edition, the colors are washed out flat, and the overall look is quite muddy and blah. In the second version, the colors are kind of blown out, with far too much contrast for my eyes. However, the second (newer) version at least HAS some color in it, and because of the widescreen presentation, it is my overall favorite. I'm afraid this wonderful series must have been shot with untalented lighting people using inferior film. It's the only way to explain such [cruddy] transfers...in two tries! Nevertheless, the acting and story make this well worth it, and for those reasons alone, I recommend purchase.
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