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78 of 83 people found the following review helpful
A Classic is Butchered
21 Mar 2009
Format:Blu-ray
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS has been butchered by a combination of cropping and geometric distortion to fill (or almost fill) a wide screen TV. The fact is that Hollywood movies made prior to 1953 were virtually all shot and framed for a 1.37x1 aspect ratio (all but identical to standard def TVs). For years movie fans have been hounding television stations and video distributors to show films made after 1953 in their proper wide screen ratios. Now that we have wide screen TVs the opposite situation exists, and it's the films made before 1953 that will suffer. I urge people not to support this practice. This is not a product that anyone who has an interest in movies should purchase.
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Terrible Video Quality - Cropped Presentation
28 Mar 2009
Format:Blu-ray
I had the chance to view this disc and it's a definite no sale for me. The video quality is poor and the original academy aspect ratio 1.37:1 (roughly 4:3) has been cropped and stretched to 16:9. This is not the way it was meant to be seen.
It's very disappointing considering this is a classic that could really stand a decent transfer. Unfortunately, this is not it.
I don't often write reviews, but I felt the need to serve as a warning to others on this one.
Don't buy this edition or you'll be disappointed.
It's very disappointing considering this is a classic that could really stand a decent transfer. Unfortunately, this is not it.
I don't often write reviews, but I felt the need to serve as a warning to others on this one.
Don't buy this edition or you'll be disappointed.
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Great Movie, terrible Blue Ray
28 Mar 2009
Format:Blu-ray
I'm new to Blue Ray so after the few that I've purchased thus far with the fantastic picture quality that only BR can give you I had high hopes for seeing Gulliver's Travels as I've never seen it before. Sadly, this was a great disappointment. The video quality is on par with VHS. Although the colors are quite vibrant, the picture is a horrible. Comparing this to the recent BR of Pinochio and Pixar's beautiful WALL-E discs, this is a version of Max and Dave Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels is a bad April Fool's Day joke perpetrated a month early. Avoid at all costs and demand a proper restoration of this classic film.
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