The Sound of Music (Five Star Collection)

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Summary: Only buy if fan of musicals are old movies
Review: Unfortunately this movie did not age well it had a great story and brilliant acting but there is no action almost at all.
Story 10 Acting 10 Direction 10 Action 4 Entertainment 1
Overall=35/50 wich is good enough for 3 stars

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Summary: Reminder of the age of innocence
Review: The Sound of Music is a wonderful, romantic, family values, jam-packed musical set in Austria in the late 1930's. It tells of the nun, Maria, who comes to be the governess for seven cute kids, the children of Baron Von Trapp, a widower and former Admiral.

Despite some initial opposition from disciplinarian Von Trapp, she injects life and fun into the household. Plenty of fabulous songs, which will survive forever. It is set when the Nazi forces extend their malignant web into Austria, showing how beauty and innocence can be threatened by malignant ideologies like Nazism, Communism, Bolshevism and Palestinianism.

The Sound of Music is a classic, certainly a valuable reminder of innocence, beauty and family values to hold onto in the rather dark days of terrorism and loss of values we seem to have entered- perhaps the darkest since the days of Hitler.

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Summary: Look for details you may have missed...
Review: I don't have to recap the story on this movie, as everyone has seen it a thousand times on broadcast TV. Next time you see it, look for the small details and prepare to be amazed. Robert Wise was a master filmmaker. Watch how carefully and beautifully constructed and lit every shot is. Look at the sets and location shots, who since Robert Wise in 1965 has done created this kind of aching, beautiful detail?? Drop any tendency to be hip while watching this film and allow yourself to be utterly carried away by one of the last opf the master-crafted films to come out of Hollywood, right on the threshold of Hollywood's decline into self-important, sneering mediocrity. Julie Andrews is often castigated for her perennial goody-goody image, but watch carefully one the most stunningly lovely and frighteningly talented performers of the 20th century. This is a historically fine performance caught on film that people in the 22nd century will still marvel at. Eleanor Parker is no slouch either.

Little known trivia - this movie literally saved 20th Century Fox Studiod from bankruptcy after the diastrous 21-million dollar flop Cleopatra(that's 1965 dollars).

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Summary: A Big Defect for spanish people
Review: No doubt this is an All Time classical picture that deserve a 5 star rating. Why I rated it 3 stars? You see, I live in Mexico City and bought the DVD version to show it to the family and friends thru a home theater system to enhance the music and enjoy the 4.1 surround system. Before ordering the DVD I checked that it included subtitles in spanish so that all people that saw the picture could understand it completely. Oh big dissapointing I had. The beautiful Hammerstein's lyrics did not came translated and no spanish subtitles appeared when the songs are performed. Only two or three songs appeared translated to spanish in the subtitles. I wonder what type of genius in Fox Pictures decided not to show the spanish subtitles in most of the songs. I have the video version in english language and of course all the songs are shown translated in the subtitles so we can appreciate the great lyrics that remain great in spanish. I also bought the South Pacific DVD version and it have all the songs translated to spanish thru the subtitles. Someone know if it exists a widescreen, single disc version that include spanish subtitles with all songs translated to spanish? I would appreciate any answer.
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Summary: A Wonderful, Charming Movie!
Review: The Sound of Music is one of my favorite movies. I was a baby when this movie first was in the movie theaters and I grew up watching it on TV in the 70's when it was shown on TV every year until they stopped showing it and it was only a couple of years ago that it has started to be shown every year on TV again. This is a delightful and charming movie, the acting is top notch, especaiily Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer who had great chemistry and the other actors are very good too including the child actors who played the Von Trapp kids and the music is also very good and also very catchy! Even though this movie is shown on TV a lot I still would rather have my own copy and I'm planning on giving my old two video boxset to a friend and then buy the widescreen DVD for my collection and I very greatly recommend this charming movie!

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Summary: best one
Review: this movie is one of my favotie movies for the whole family

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Summary: Music at its Best!
Review: The first time i saw this film, I was delighted by the music and it's haunting lyrics escpecially of 'The Sound of Music'. It was my eldest sister who introduced me to this magically made movie and perhaps one of the best musical movie genres ever made. I recommend for those people who wanted to see this movie in DVD version because of the superb sound quality of orchestration and wonderful scenery of the film. One could easily fall in love with the music and lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein! and easily to get into your mind all the songs and become an instant favorite!

It was indeed, Julie Andrew's trademark as Maria and she could truly be remembered as wonderful Froilan Maria (aside from her role as Mary Poppins) for seven children of the Baron Von Trapp. Christopher Plummer is dashing and handsome in this film and possessed a cool and calm voice.

This is a must-have entertainment collection for the whole family for a truly 100% family entertainment. I recommend this to everyone!

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Summary: One of the Best Musicals Ever, But With One Problem
Review: This is one of the best musicals ever, and is perhaps Rodger's and Hammerstein's greatest film adaptation. The performances are magnificent, and all the voices are real, and really excellent, too.

But here's one minor problem with the DVD's. I keep seeing copyrighting tools scattered across the different DvDs (big purple flashing dots).

This is the first edition that is (as far as I can tell) devoid of them.

Buy it as soon as possible.

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Summary: Great film, average DVD transfer
Review: Who could argue that SOM is the most enjoyed film of all time by so many people? It has everything: charm, music and an engaging storyline. SOM has received so many re-runs in cinemas and it's understandable. Generation after generation can relate to it, and the soundtrack is so special that you will be singing along in no time. Overall, a must see for anyone who hasn't seen it.

DVD SUMMARY: While it is wonderful to have this film in all its widescreen glory on DVD, the transfer is not fantastic. It is still better than having it on video, but the restoration work is somewhat disappointing. A film of this age is bound to be a problem when restoring, but the work they've done is quite noticeable in scenes. For example, considerable colourisation has been done to a number of scenes because the film has faded over the years. This colourisation seems to be really bright one minute, then dull the next. It therefores adds an unnatural aspect to it all. Despite these issues, the DVD is still a must-purchase just to have the film in all its widescreen glory - afterall, who wants to see the pan and scan cropped video version now? The special features on the DVD also make it a must own. The DVD will eventually be remastered again, if anything to redo the 4.1 surrounded mix which currently does not take full advantage of the original 6 channel mix. Until then, the current DVD which is still worthy of a place in your collection (throw out that awful video copy).

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Summary: One of my Favorite Things
Review: I was introduced to The Sound of Music by my dad when i was a young girl and loved it from the very beginning. Now that i'm older, however, i appreciate the movie even more and thankful that my dad introduced me to this great classic musical. The plot is amazing, the music is timeless, and the actors are superb. It also helps that the visuals in the movie are breathtaking. I love the plot also. The sound of music is easily one of my favorite things!