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Summary: Manufacturer Error
Review: This is a wonderful movie, one of the best made, but the DVD has some problems. This first copy I bought froze up towards the end of chapter 16. I returned this copy and received another one which happens to freeze in the exact same spot. Neither copy had any surface scratches. Has anyone else noticed this problem?
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Summary: One fine movie in the crippled form
Review: An excellent and long-waited movie finally released on DVD by Universal Pictures.Movie itself - 5 stars,
disc and case - 1 star: flipper disc (probably has the historical value), crappy paper case (obviously made using the gluestick and scissors), missing title list or booklet, poor list of extras. I bought my DVD disc from Amazon.com hence there`s no need to think that I received some kind of the Estonian DVD version. Yeah, nice work Universal, putting the movie on the flipper disc. It`s really pleasant that we don`t have to buy the movie in the two separate cases released in different months. Or even years. P.S. Maybe the look of the package is intentional? I mean - to make it look like it's handmade by the survivors of the concentration camps? If so, please keep the buyers informed, just to make sure that they`ve not been cheated.
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Summary: Glad to have it, packaging or not!
Review: I am shocked to hear how everyone is reeling over the packaging
of this dvd. I have over 430 dvds and am a stickler for packaging myself. I think it looks wonderful, and I am most happy to finally have this masterpiece in the library. Oskar Schindler was an amazing man who risked alot to save these Jews.
He had a heart of gold and was a diamond in the rough being involved with the Nazis. If there was ever a good Nazi. Oskar
Schindler's compassion prevailed in the face of pure evil. I know there have to be more gentiles out there who risked life and limb to save other Jews as well that you never hear of. I would love hear their stories. If I had been alive in Europe during this atrocity, I know I would have done everything possible to do the same. Where are these unsung heroes??? Angels are everywhere. In all forms. The documentary of the survivors on the disc is wonderful. The firsthand stories of these survivors are inspirational and should be seen by everyone. To see all of the real descendents of "Schindlerjuden" at the end of the film just makes you sob your eyes out. Over 6,000 descendents from 1,100 people is a miracle in itself. God bless Oskar Schindler. What an amazing humanitarian of the finest kind.
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Summary: Low rating owing to the packaging
Review: This is truly a great film. Therefore, the fact that THIS film is on a DVD where the viewer has to stop and turn the DVD over halfway through the movie is not only unnecessary but beyond comprehension. I thought those days were long since gone! (One of the reasons I was looking forward to the DVD was so that I would not have to stop halfway through the movie and switch out VHS tapes!) And I'll agree with everyone else: the "extras" are disappointing.
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Summary: Spielberg gave E.T. better treatment than this
Review: I simply cannot fathom why Spielberg would allow his masterpiece to be given such a shallow exhibition. E.T. was enshrined compared to this. The best thing I can say for it is its physically smaller than my version on laserdisc.
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Summary: 5-star movie with 1-star packaging
Review: As others have observed, the packaging for this movie is abominable. Furthermore, the extras are nowhere near what is expected of such a monumental work of cinema. No commentary, no trailers; Finding Nemo had better extras than this DVD. I really enjoy this film, but it deserved better than this.
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Summary: Also irate over packaging
Review: Putting a five-star film in a minus five-star flipper format with inadequate packaging sends me the message that Universal has done all it can do to ensure that we scratch up this DVD enough, or that it gets dust-laden enough, that we are forced to rebuy down the road. My suspicion is that someone has some wondrous "new" format (like a sensible two-disk set in a keeper case) waiting in the wings, ready to (not) dazzle those of us who bought the film in its initial DVD release. The present format has resulted in a greatly disappointed audience, and as an earlier reviewer suggested, Universal should at least offer free keeper cases with title insert for those of us who prefer to keep our DVDs in good, clean condition so that we do NOT have to rebuy them down the road. (As a matter of note, the copy of SL that I bought was actually loaded with dust and, somehow, marked with fingerprints when I opened it! As I had been so eager for this purchase, I bought that copy at a local store, and fortunately was able to get an exchange.)
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Summary: Pathetic
Review: Steven, Money God, Spielberg should be ashamed. What a horrible way to rip off fans of this movie with this cheaply designed dvd. I lose more respect for that man with each passing moment.
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Summary: Awwww, Come On.....
Review: This movie is in black and white.
Do you know what this means?
There is less data to digitize for compression when mastering a DVD. So the whole movie would have easily fit on one side of a two layered disc, otherwise known as DVD-9. There is just no excuse. This kind of decision was deliberatly made since you just do not see this kind of mastering anymore. Every major DVD since 2000 has been Dual-layer. This is bad, but don't blame Universal. Look what they did for Rob Cohens' Daylight, Dragonheart and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Top drawer DVD's. Not only should this have been a two disc set, with commentary, trailers, photo gallery, featurettes, and dynamic menus, it should have been $3 less that what I paid for it. Splitting a movie across two discs, whether separate or in a flipping arrangment, is just insipid. This is an issue that even non-cinephiles appreciate, because it means revisiting the days of getting up to hit eject. Try again Steve...
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Summary: Disgracefull packaging
Review: Universal should be ashamed of themselves. To package one of the greatest and most important films of all time in a cheap, non-sealing cardboard folder that provides totally inadaquate protection from dust and damage to one side of the two sided disk is simply disgraceful. Like others who have expressed themselves in this forum, I feel as though I've been ripped off. There, I feel better, but I'd feel even better if Universal were offer a free replacement package that provided adequate protection for the disk. One the subject of the disk, the transfer is first rate. I don't mind that the film is split (presumably so that they could provide the image quality they did), but I would have very much preferred that it be on two separate disk. It seems to me that two-sided disks are more subject to handling damage than are one-sided ones.
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