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- ASIN: B000LW7N7U
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Peter Henson
Format:DVD
I totally agree with the above review. The film really grows on you, the characters really matter. The film handles many human themes and explores the human condition! The film is breathtakingly shot, and as mentioned above there is only one bad piece of back projection which should have been removed.
If only more films were made like this.
The film is presented in a widescreen 2:35 ratio.
If only more films were made like this.
The film is presented in a widescreen 2:35 ratio.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Mrgvase
Format:DVD
this starts off with you wishing you had not bothered watching,within 15 mins you have changed your mind.Top story with a great cast,may be david hemmings best,whats good about this film is its human story and wonderful locations,then topped of with some good action in last half.a gem of a movie experience,a very nice change,needs tobe seen by everyone,go buy today,best on dvd,do not buy a vhs copy
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Islands in the Stream, Hemingway's posthumously published exercise in romanticised self-loathing about an ageing artist in self-imposed exile in the Bahamas in WW2 coming to terms with his failure as a husband and father and trying to make amends, reunited many of the key talents from Patton - director Franklin J. Schaffner, composer Jerry Goldsmith, cinematographer Fred Koenekamp and star George C. Scott - to almost universal audience indifference, but it's a surprisingly solid and engrossing film that gradually works its way under your skin. The kind of personal project that somehow usually heralds the end of a director's major works and the beginning of his descent into lucrative journeyman work when it fails to find an audience, it does build up a surprising degree of emotional power in the last third. Scott reins it in to good effect here: the scene where he realises the true reason for his ex-wife's visit overcomes the atrocious writing to deliver real suppressed emotional power, while his scene on the beach with Julius Harris where he knows he needs to move on but cannot bring himself to do it is genuinely touching. Aided by a well-cast David Hemmings as his rummy mate and a superb score by Jerry Goldsmith (the composer's favorite) that builds on the sea theme from Papillon and works much better on screen than on CD, it's well worth checking out, although be warned that in the marlin fishing sequence there is one bit of back projection so staggeringly bad you cannot understand why it was allowed to remain in the picture!
Paramount's DVD offers a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer but no extras.
Paramount's DVD offers a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer but no extras.
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