The American President
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List Price: $19.95
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• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 17 November, 1995
Video Release : 16 September, 1997 |
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The American President Customer Reviews
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Great Movie, Disgusting DVD of low visual quality
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| A wonderful 5 star movie, so why would I give it only one star? Please let me enlighten you before you run out and buy it on DVD. I watched this movie for years on a VHS and adored it, it's one of my favs. more on that later, first you want to hear my warning. Now that I invested in a wonderful Plasma HDTV I found I needed the higher resolution DVDs and began replacing my entire 2000 movie collection. as another person who also tells you about the lousy DVD trasnfer said, it isn't anamorphic, and basicqally it means everything when you are talking about a great picture versus a lousy one with pixels showing, making every edge of everything constantly distracting with the way they seem alive, kind of reflective and moving,,, but we dont want the edge of the desk to move. they dont move in real life, they are hard straight edges of hard wood. in an ANAMORPHIC transfer the edges are crisp and clear and everything is beautiful, even a delivery truck on a street is actually fun to look at because its so darn clear and amazing to see! the faces of the actors are made ugly, litterally. I am not exaggerating. faces are so pixelated its completely distracting! The people becomd tiny due to the overly wide format, but you cant click your zoom to get closer because that just shows the bad effect even more pronounced! it sucks! I kid you not! so, seeing this and being made so upset here's what I did; I plugged in my VCR AND my DVD player,,,, mind you I use an OPPO which i also bought here on Amazon, so you know I was getting more from the DVD than it actually has to offer,,, they optomize the resolution,,, but even with it's help the VHS actually was better to watch, more enjoyable, clearer, closer larger faces, just plain more fun to watch. I just paid $11 for a used DVD in mint condition through Amazon's used movie section and ended up watching it on my old VHS. WOW!~~! when given the choice I actually watched the entire movie from my old VHS and put the DVD BACK ON THE SHELF! I hope you are hearing me folks because its the truth. I wasted every penny I'd spent on the DVD. now just so you know i'm not just full of bad beans,,, of my 2000 movies I own, only this one DVD actually sucks like this. There are older movies that arent anamorphic either that were put out on DVD that I also bought and played and though they also arent high resolution, they werent all pixelated like this one is and they were still enjoyable and very watchable. only this one is of such a poor video transfer that I had to write all this about it, only this one!! and thats the truth!!! Do yourself a favor if you havent seen this movie yet, buy it, but not on DVD. Go buy a cheap priced VHS on ebay for $1 usually (plus shipping) its cheap because so many were sold due to its so good. but wait to buy it on DVD until they fix this awful crime. they really screwed us over with this crapola low quality DVD,,, its as if they got it directly from a VHS and stretched it to fit the larger screens without giving it the additional resolution to make it look as good. SOoooooo,,, the only way to get them to fix crimes like this, is if everyone will give it a one star rating until they fix the problem, and apologize for screwing us of our money,,, its so bad they should send a new DVD to anyone sending in an old crappy version, the one now available! I hope you take me seriously, if I could I would mail you both my DVD and my VHS so you can see for yourself. I bet you could even tell the difference if I took pics of the movie on pause at the exact same part in the movie and had you all compare them. I am so dissappointed I cant watch this great movie any more, until they undo the damage and re-make it. it just sucks I will have to buy it a third time, there should be a law against this kind of junk happening to us, arent we American citizens? dont we deserve better? a seperate agency from the movie industry should police these DVDs and give them a 1-5 rating of the DVD transfer so people could avoid ones like this, and this one is the worst one there is. Amazingly I read online where it doesnt really cost them hardly any more money to produce a movie anamorphically, its just a different setting on the equipment when they do it. really makes you wonder how ANY movie is sold if it isnt anamorphic. the highly informative story I read online compared it to the "GOOD HOUSE-KEEPING SEAL OF APPROVAL" on an apliance, the way it was in the old days, you would remember this if you are old enough. I'm 53 so I know how we used to look to see that tag on the cord before we bought the junky one that was going to spark and not work a week later. Also amazingly, I have old movie made many years ago that are anamorphic and they look fabulous! How could they ruin a great movie like this one???? and no one does anything about it??? I would think Michael Douglas and Annette Bening would be pounding on doors shouting at the people responsible and make them fix it. does anyone have Michael's phone number? ummm, maybe you better send me Annette's number instead, she is soooo dreamy, lol. I'm pretty sure I'd rather talk to her any day, you ladies can call Michael, lol. |
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