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Summary: A Classic Destroyed
Review: I was thrilled when I heard that one of my all time favorite films,Day Of THe Triffids was to be released on DVD.My excitment turned to disgust moments after receiving the film...the DVD is presented Panned and Scanned..if that's not bad enough,the print used in the transfer is all but unwatchable.Hopefully,someday,this classic film will get the treatment it desrves and will be released in it's CinemaScope glory..but untill then...DO NOT BUY THIS DVD!
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Summary: Awesome movie, Sh*tty DVD
Review: I would have given this movie the full 5 stars... but this DVD is of awful quality, not to mention it's pan and scan. I recommend the "Cheesey Flicks" DVD over this P.O.S. since it's in widescreen and is a better presentation of the movie.
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Summary: Awesome movie, Sh*tty DVD
Review: I would have given this movie the full 5 stars... but this DVD is of awful quality, not to mention it's pan and scan. I recommend the "Cheesey Flicks" DVD over this P.O.S. since it's in widescreen and is a better presentation of the movie.
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Summary: Awesome movie, Sh*tty DVD
Review: I would have given this movie the full 5 stars... but this DVD is of awful quality, not to mention it's pan and scan. I recommend the "Cheesey Flicks" DVD over this P.O.S. since it's in widescreen and is a better presentation of the movie.
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Summary: Day of the Triffids Marketing A Bad Copy
Review: I've bought two dvd's of Day of the Triffids (wonderful movie and follows original story reasonably close) and both have flakey video. My vhs copy bought 20 years ago is better than the one advertised above. This is a great film but needs to be remastered. I also have the pal version which is better than the one above. Just saw a new version on e-bay and I am wondering if I will get hammered again if I buy it. If these companies are going to reissue a great film how about a first generation copy taken from the master and not from an old vhs copy. Artisian and Criterdon remaster great oldies. I wish they would pick this one up too. So, I'll give this copy a D+ at best. Wonderful film. Too bad its a bad copy.
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Summary: Day of the Triffids Marketing A Bad Copy
Review: I've bought two dvd's of Day of the Triffids (wonderful movie and follows original story reasonably close) and both have flakey video. My vhs copy bought 20 years ago is better than the one advertised above. This is a great film but needs to be remastered. I also have the pal version which is better than the one above. Just saw a new version on e-bay and I am wondering if I will get hammered again if I buy it. If these companies are going to reissue a great film how about a first generation copy taken from the master and not from an old vhs copy. Artisian and Criterdon remaster great oldies. I wish they would pick this one up too. So, I'll give this copy a D+ at best. Wonderful film. Too bad its a bad copy.
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Summary: NOT THE VERSION YOU WANT
Review: If you want to add "The Day of The Triffids" to your collection, this is not the release you want! A digitally mastered, widescreen release is available; I found it on eBay, from a "Cheezy" seller...check it out!
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Summary: In The Land of the Blind...The One-Eyed Man is Not King
Review: It is easy to put down DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS because of the patently phony look of the walking carnivorous plants called Triffids. Yet, there have been plenty of other science fiction movies that also boasted fake monsters and still are considered pretty good--WORLD WITHOUT END with its rubber spiders comes to mind. What makes DOTT memorable is the ability of directors Steve Sekely and Freddie Francis to take a twin set of world wide catastrophes and slim them down so that the audience can see them through the eyes of the hero, played by Howard Keel. Keel has just had a delicate eye surgery which causes him to miss the once in a lifetime opportunity of viewing the spectacular celestial fireworks caused by a meteor shower hitting the earth's atmosphere. He awakens in a deserted hospital and has to cut off his own bandages only to find that nearly 99% of the earth's population has had their retinas scorched to blindness. The film wisely does not attempt to portray a society in which the few sighted individuals rule their blinded neighbors although there are several scenes that hint at both the sexual fantasy of male to female predation and the probably much more common breakdown of a society that depends on its sight to maintain order and law. Keel plays a seaman who has to survive in a London which is full of hardy survivors who insist on going through the motions of basic humanity despite their blindness. Keel witnesses a city that slowly crumbles into anarchy despite the 'stiff upper lip' attitude of its inhabitants. To make matters worse, the lights from the meteors have caused a mutated walking carnivorous plant to germinate ubiquitously. Keel strikes up a father-daughter relation with 12 year old Janette Scott and a more conventional romantic one with Nicole Maury. As this trio moves from one country to another, they see a world that is under the onslaught of these Triffids. In a parallel subplot, two scientists, one male and one female, are trapped in a lighthouse by the triffids and must find a way to defeat them. DOTT unfortunately panders to gross sensationalism as it shows an orgy scene in which an escaped bunch of sighted convicts descends on a group of blinded women in a house for a dance and drink prelude to mass rape, an event which is avoided by the entrance of the Triffids. As I watched this scene and others involving Triffids I was reminded of similar such scenes from George Romero's later NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in which zombies poured through smashed doors and windows to devour the living. I was not deterred from enjoying this movie either by the fake plants or the fake convicts. What held my attention was the view of a world under fire as seen through a trio of witnesses, all of whom emerge as individuals I would be proud of and thankful for their company should the lights go out all over the world.
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Summary: Fine Film Falls Victim to Poor DVD Presentation
Review: Let me say at the outset that 1962's "Day of the Triffids" (in its original form) is one of my favorite Sci-Fi Films, but this DVD presentation doesn't do it justice, and that's putting it kindly. Although the cover claims that this version is "Digitally Mastered", the color is in fact terrible, and the movie (originally shot in Cinemascope) isn't even presented letterboxed! A real disappointment!!
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Summary: Yes, Seawater....Covering 75% of the Earth's surface
Review: Oh How I want this movie on DVD. My VHS tape is completely worn out.
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