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Summary: Great
Review: The life of war profiteer Osca Schindler during WW2 is played out, with a few inaccuracies, in this now epic movie. Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley excell in their roles and Ralph Fiennes brings out his best acting skills playing a ruthless sadistical camp commandant.
People who still deny the Holocoust really need to view this film.
It is long but worth it, and surprisingly for such a dark movie, has small bits of humor just enough to get you through.
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Summary: The Greatest Film Ever Released...
Review: Schindler's List tells the story of one man's defying struggle to help the suffering Jewish during the Nazi reign of WWII. Widely considered to be Spielberg's greatest film ever, this doesn't go without a reason. Every frame of Schindler's List is breathtaking, beautiful, and sometimes horrific. But if there is a perfect film out there, this would be it. This epic features amazing performances from every cast member, and unbelievable performances from from Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. (...)
The best part of Schindler's List is how you feel as if you fit into the film. It's not just a story about Schindler, but a story that actually makes the viewer feel as if they are a part of the (...)Nazi world. You feel pity for the Jewish, feel hatred for the Germans, and feel sadness for Oskar Schindler.
Spielberg obviously took time to make every frame feel as important as the next one, and they are all terrific. From witnessing the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, to the horror of the gas chambers, every part of the film is an epic. If only every film would follow Schindler's List's lead, the world would have a perfect cinematic experience. But a movie such as Schindler's List is so rare and few between, that you shouldn't expect to feel this moved ever again. A moviemaking masterpiece!
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Summary: a disservice of sorts to schindler
Review: schindler had flaws. okay, they are somewhat presented.
but, when afer he has saved his employees ,spielberg has this big breakdown scene.' oh, this watch, shoot, i could have saved one more'. so over the top. schindler's people say that his departure was pretty much, 'well hey, gotta go' and this was more true to his nature. steven, what you built up, the complexities of this flawed hero, you tore it down in that scene. steven, you just HAD TO CATER TO THE MASSES AND THE ACADEMY VOTERS, didn't you?
good grief.
and by the way, next time, pleeeeaze don't portray nazis as caricatures. you would do us a bigger favor in showing them as human and HOW they got to this level.
and i say 'us' because i am jewish.
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Summary: Excellent DVD treatment of one of the finest films ever made
Review: I remember waiting years to see this film on a DVD transfer, and I'm disgusted with reading the complaints about the dual-sided single DVD that requires you to flip the disc half-way through the film. Is that all you people can come up with to judge one of the most coveted releases on the DVD format?Let's talk about the technical merits of the DVD presentation. The video and sound quality are superb; this is certainly the finest treatment this film has ever received and for the price of what Amazon is offering, the Collector's Gift Set cannot be beat. Because this film was so late in getting released, no doubt it has had the benefit of better restorative methods to preserve and enhance the original print. If anything, we should also thank the studios for releasing this film with the Collector's Edition the same time as the standard widescreen release, instead of trying to force the consumers to double-dip on two different versions. The price of this set at Amazon clearly beats any B&M store in the country. I haven't seen a single person criticize the video and sound quality, the CD soundtrack, the book or limited senitype, and if you are a true collector only that should matter. The plexiglass case is prone to cracking (most likely due to being dropped during shipping), but is clearly a defining piece to your DVD shelf. Regardless of what you think of this film, this is one of the finest (and cost-friendly) Collector Edition sets ever released, period.
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Summary: just mind blowing
Review: This is a remarkable movie about a remarkable man with a willingness to raise some human dignity out of rubble. The contrast between Schindler's cool and collected warmth for human life and the dark, cold times of WWll Germany in which he had to function is so engaging to me. Steven Spielberg is a genius - ok - that's just restating the obvious but usually I cannot watch movies this intense without needing a break. I could not take myself away from this one not the first time or the several times since that I've seen it.
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Summary: double sided discs are great
Review: I think double sided discs are a great idea. Prevents waste and is more portable. I do agree that having the movie in two parts suck but for that I blame the public, not the movie company. If people weren't so overhyped about DTS, there would be no useless DTS soundtrack on the disc, leaving enough space to fit a three hour movie in there. Even George Lucas does not believe in DTS and for that, I applaud him. Dolby Digital works for me, especially since it is backwards compatible and can be downmixed to normal stereo. PS. My Canadian release had a security sticker stuck to the inside of the fold out case, beneath the disc tray. They should make the trays so that it has an indent to accomodate the security sticker instead of ruining the packaging.
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Summary: Try to forget you're an 21st Century American for a minute..
Review: ..... and stop whining endlessly about the quality of your material goods. It's highly ironic that you're meant to be reviewing a film that spends 3 hours showing you that you're lucky to be alive and free, and the only thing some of you are doing is criticising the packaging of the DVD. God forbid you should have to get out of your recliner and flip the dvd over half way through. Talk about missing the point! Geez!
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Summary: Plexiglass Case Extremely Poor Design
Review: No need whatsoever to discuss the merits of the film itself, it's a masterpiece in every sense. But after purchasing and returning a dozen of these gift sets, always due to cracks in the plexiglass case (check the corners and spots where the metal dowel rods connect), I've given up on getting a perfect one...even though each one I bought was at more than twice the cost Amazon has now dropped the price to (possibly because they hope to compensate for the near-certainty that you'll receive a cracked plexi-case). I'd have expected a bit more thought to go into the engineering of a DVD collector set of this long-awaited release.
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Summary: Great Film-Appalling DVD
Review: What a huge disappointment finally getting Schindler's List on DVD has been for me. It was like going back to the late Nineties...A DVD with an added extra - an Intermission!! Marvellous - not. Why was this splendid film not given the respect it deserves and given a proper, up-to-date DVD release?? I thought flip-over discs went out in about 1999? I waited ages for Schindler's List to get a DVD release, and then this dog's breakfast. I cannot believe Mr S. would have sanctioned such a thing had he had the power to intervene. My advice is to continue to watch SL on VHS without the enforced break. Try and buy it on DVD in about 2009, when it may well have been put onto one side of one disc.
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Summary: Haphazardly thrown together.
Review: The actual movie was GREAT. The DVD was put together so fast that the sound is off, I mean really OFF, in some scenes, you can't even hear what is going on, & I had my sound ALL the way up. This should have been put on 2, but they put it on 1, back to back, side A & side B, side 1 & side 2. Where was quality control, when this was being made??????
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