The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Blu-ray]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Blu-ray]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Antonio Casas, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 161 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Best version released yet of this movie
Summary: 5 Stars

When I first threw this blu ray into the player I didn't notice any obvious difference in picture quality(or so I thought) and was almost upset by it...UNTIL I put in the most recent DVD version of the movie and did back to back comparisons. After doing that it became such a shock as to how much more crisp and clear the blu ray version was. The colors are just a touch deeper, but the clarity and details are so much more amazing. I could go on and on with sentences filled with impressive adjectives to describe this blu ray version and it's superior presentation, but it's just as effective to simply say this: If you are a fan of this movie at all, and you have the capability of playing a blu ray disc, then get this and watch it. I'm very glad I did.

DVD Review: Great movie, 5 stars
Summary: 5 Stars

I absolutely love this movie. It shows in full HD 1080P and the movie is stunning.

DVD Review: Spaghetti never tasted so good!
Summary: 5 Stars

Crisp transfer to blu-ray, a clear improvement over the DVD. Nice features and 'new' scenes, although hearing an old Eli and Clint read lines for the latter was a minor (and very brief) distraction.

DVD Review: Great movie - terrible Blu-ray
Summary: 3 Stars

For the past year I've been Netflixing and purchasing Blu-rays nonstop and I've seen atleast a hundred discs so far. Generally I've always been able to tell people that most Blu-rays look great, at the worst still better than the DVD release - that I've yet to see a truely bad release. This is all largely assisted by high bitrates. However, for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly the mastering studio really dropped the ball.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of the few releases (other than some asian Kung Fu releases I've seen) that I'd say the video quality is so bad that you may as well not waste the money upgrading your DVD. They DNRed the film so much that it sort of looks like an oil painting.

It's a shame because the movie is so great, and definitely a classic. :/ So much detail lost.

DVD Review: Bravo and hooray and THANK YOU for a most wanted restoration
Summary: 5 Stars

THE MEANING OF SERGIO LEONE'S WORK

Spaghetti Westerns were the first significant movies I watched as a little boy growing up in some East European backwater, back in the late sixties. And Sergio Leone was the Spaghetti king. What could be more subversive in a world aiming at total or totalitarian state-enforced collectivism than watching these rugged individualists, Italian-speaking 'cowboys' answering to American names, relentlessly and usually violently pursuing their own greedy goals while the world around was cracking and collapsing with a so-called 'civil' war raging? Add to that those wide shots of small men under immense, blue, cloudless dessert skies and Clint Eastwood's cigars and the effects of all those years of constant and persistent indoctrination were irreversibly blown away by 3 hours of movie viewing.

It's hard to quantify the role Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood played in the collapse of communism - after all, what followed isn't exactly the happy-go-lucky Wild West - but almost certainly we wouldn't have the Tarantino some of us love and the massive Stephen King's Dark Tower saga might not exist at all - and this is just scratching the surface. Maybe Sergio Leone is not the sole mother of all contemporary creative artistic expressions but he's clearly one of their more prominent godfathers.

THE RESTORATION

These being said, the restoration and actual reconstruction of his work was something that HAD to be done because we can't afford having these masterpieces degrade any further. What came out is certainly not 'perfect' but it's great work for sure and, as a digital product, it can't degrade any more.

The restorers succeeded in giving us, Americans, what Europeans always had - the 'full' movie, not the butchered American version, 15 or 20 minutes shorter, made so to meet the business demands of theater operators. It was hard to find film of an acceptable quality for all the chapters and, at least in one instance, what was found was too damaged to be included in the film but, whenever possible, the lost content was added and the restorers even brought back Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach to do their voices over the Italian-speaking cuts. The picture was cleaned up and the restorers even managed to turn the mono sound track into a 5.1 surround, adding a few sound effects when needed - yes, it's not 100% the original sound track but I'm not complaining.

THE BLU EDITON

This edition is the 2003 restored movie. As I noted above, it gets a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound track and it's 2 minutes shy of 3 hours long. For a 1966 movie done on the cheap back then - it cost only a little over $1 million to make it - the restoration quality is above expectations. Not everything is perfect. Sometimes we even get to see the proverbial 'hair' at the bottom of the screen and not a lot of time was invested in creating the 5.1 sound track but what we get is probably better than what I saw as a little boy in the movie theater.

In addition, there is a serious complement of extras. There are two separate commentary soundtracks by Richard Schickel, an Eastwood biographer and by Christopher Frayling, a noted authority when it comes to Sergio Leone. Then, there's the "Leone's West" documentary, discussing the making of the movie, another featurette on Sergio Leone himself, a short on the actual Civil War events that the movie seems to refer to, a very informative short on the restoration process and two extras on Ennio Morricone, the composer responsible for the innovative sound track.

Sadly, the packaging is not what I expected. The disk comes inside one of the cheapest Blu-ray case made so far - the kind that has holes in it to save one or two pennies worth of plastic but... I can live with that.

OVERALL

I am VERY happy with this restoration. I think it's the best we are going to get for many years to come so... enjoy it. I know that I am. It's 5 stars without hesitation.

Description of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Blu-ray]

By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold,hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape andthe hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it. Forging a vibrant and yet detached style of action that had not been seen before, and has never been matched since, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shatters the western mold in true Clint Eastwood style.

Audio: English: Mono, 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio / Spanish & French: 5.1 Dolby Digital
Language: Dubbed & Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.35:1

Clint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone is sometimes underrated as a director, but the excellent resolution on this digital video disc should enhance appreciation of his considerable photographic talent and gorgeous widescreen compositions. Ennio Morricone's jokey score is justifiably famous.

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