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Actor: Patrick StewartDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Korean (Original Language)
Format: Color, Full Screen, Import, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 184 minutes
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DVD Review: Moby Dick
Summary: 4 Stars
Movie was great but the sub-titles were "off" and distracting (but hilarious at times!) Just finished reading the book, and the movie was pretty acurate. Anything with Patrick Stewart is "quality" in my book and I wasn't disappointed here. It was great to include Gregory Peck, also, and liked the special features with him after the movie.DVD Review: Slightly Disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I was really disappointed with the movie. I read the book which had its boring parts, but it also had its exciting parts. I felt that the movie just dragged along very slowly. Most of the visuals of the whales are nothing more than a tail or fin. There are some computer generated whales that are shown, but they are far and few between. In one of the final seens where Moby Dick attacks the rest of the crew, you see one of the most ridiculous part of the movie. Moby Dick's tail slams down on each of the boats a few times and you are left to assume that all the crews are dead. It was very repetitive for that scene. I also thought that the movie made Starbuck appear as though he was going mad too, where as, he seemed a little more cool, calm, and collected in the book. Flask was way over acted as well. I think the portrayal of Stubb and Ishmael was very good though. I don't know, you probably can't make this book into a good movie without changing the script a little bit and "Hollywoodizing" it. But honestly the book on tape version would probably be more entertaining than this movie.DVD Review: She Blows!
Summary: 1 Stars
Although Patrick Stewart turns in a riveting and heart-felt performance as the revenge-driven Ahab, there is no denying that this movie stinks as bad as yesterday's blubber.
It's too bad that a project this ambitious could not have been turned over to an old sea salt like James Cameron. Although, truth be told, Cameron probably would have quintupled the budget with his salary alone. The world deserves a modern big screen treatment of this classic tale. Too bad this is what we got.
There is nothing wrong with the acting. Henry Thomas (yes, E.T.'s Henry Thomas) gives a noble performance as Ishmael. Gregory Peck makes a more than worthwhile cameo as the fire and brimstone-spouting Father Mapple. But once the Pequod sets sail, it's time to look for a lifeboat.
For a film that obviously spent a lot of time and money shooting in worldwide locales with first-rate actors on a gorgeous - if not overly decorated - period ship, somebody severely dropped the ball in the post-production department. Dropped the ball, stuck a harpoon in it and then dumped it overboard.
Underwater shots are laughable, computerized sperm whales breach like marlins and the only real special effects prop used (a high school-project whale tail) is about as convincing as a cardboard light-sabre.
The film is hacked together for television commercial inserts and has all the artistic pacing of a spooked horse. The anticlimactic ending turns Ahab's most powerful speech ("From Hell's heart, I stab at thee...") into an uncomfortable afterthought. And the seventeen dollars that appeared to be left for the special effects make for the most cringe-worthy ship sinking ever put to film.
Call me Ishmael. Call me whatever you want. Just call me when it's over.
DVD Review: I liked it!
Summary: 4 Stars
The other fellow said Patrick Stewart hammed it up too much, but I actually liked him in this part. I read to book too, and it is mostly "everything you ever wanted to know about mid 19th century's understanding of whales... and more." Limited action in the book. But I thought they did a pretty good job of creating the movie around the action in the book, and followed the story well. I have not seen Gregory Peck's version of Ahab, but I thought Patrick Stewart made a good madman. DVD Review: Exceptional Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Just like any movie produced from a book, if you compare it to the book, it will most certainly fall short. If you take the movie in the context that its a dramatic movie made to enthrall you for a couple of hours, than you'll find this movie exceptional. I watch it about twice a year and find it one of the better movies in my personal collection.
Description of Moby Dick (Import All Regions)
Patrick Stewart makes his entrance late into this telefilm, stringy hair hanging from under his three-cornered hat, his peg leg tapping out his arrival on deck. This Captain Ahab is a hard, driven man--you can see it in his burning eyes--and there's no question he has the resolve and the mad devotion to complete his quest at all costs: kill the white whale that took his leg. Franc Roddam's mini-series adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel (filmed previously by John Huston in 1956) manages its budget wisely: a judicious use of digital effects creates a terrifying vision of the great white whale, and Roddam's eye captures a near-epic quality. Henry Thomas's earnest performance as the young seaman Ishmael can't compete with Stewart's intensity, and Gregory Peck's cameo as Father Mapple is a hollow echo of his passionate Ahab from Huston's masterpiece. But the rest of the cast excels, and Roddam's haunting imagery and horrific climax make this a compelling dramatic adventure. --Sean Axmaker *** IMPORTED FROM SOUTH KOREA *** ORIGINAL ENGLISH SOUNDTRACK *** OPTIONAL ENGLISH AND KOREAN SUBTITLES ***Miniseries DVDs
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