Excellent movie, excellent price.
Added 11/23/2009
Upgraded from dvd to blu. Beautiful picture and sound. Love this movie and now its even better.
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One of the best Westerns
Added 11/7/2009
When you get Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, and Morgan Freeman in one film you know you are in for a treat. This movie does not disappoint. Each of the actors does a superb job in each of his characters giving each incredible depth. Even Richard Harris' character is important even though he is only in a few scenes. Each of the characters both have their good traits and their evil ones. Eastwood and Freeman play reformed gunfighters turned farmers out to get one more bounty. The internal turmoil and conflict of going back to their old ways is played well by both. How violence has worn on each plays a central roll in the film. Hackman's character is the extreme law and order man who wants to control everything that goes on his town and will go to very violent means to make sure that he does.
Although this film is extremely violent in places, unlike a lot of other films it does an excellent job of showing the results of that violence on the perpetrators of that violence. They don't just walk away at ease with themselves.
The features on the blu-ray are pretty good but very dated. There is the behind the scenes feature, the interviews with the major actors, the voice over commentary, as well as a retrospective of Clint Eastwood's career up to that point. And that's the main drawback to the extras, they weren't updated for the blu-ray so they are about 15 years old. Not that big of deal for me, but something that someone might want to know.
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Unforgiven
Added 10/25/2009
The transfer of the movie to blu ray was not as good as I had hoped for. I do have the regular dvd, and when played on my Sony bdp-S1 it looks excellent. I just did not get the wow factor on this video or audio transfer.I think most people would be very satisfied with the regular dvd.
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A blu-ray dissapointment, but a wonderful movie
Added 10/22/2009
There are a plethora of reviews of the movie, but my review is mostly a comparison of the BD vs DVD version. I won't discuss its merits as a western, which is a classic and worthy of 5 stars. This BD disk is 3 stars for its technical quality.
The BD version is worth buying if you don't own the 2 disk special edition, which has the better DVD transfer, and cost more, even after discounts! But if you own the better DVD version and are looking to own the best version for home viewing, hold on.
While the audio is crisp and clear, there is no magic in its mastering or imaging, its just clearer sound than the DVD.
The BD transfer is generally sharp, but there are moments so dull, I thought I was running the DVD version. The high resolution of BD removes jaggies seen in diagonal lines and pixelation revealed by DVD resolution projected into a large HDTV, but this BD's colors are often washed out, and edges of objects blurred. This lack of resolution is much worse in the night scenes including the finale scene, and is 80% less during daylight shots. Some of the daylight shots do appear as blurry as the night shots. Unlike better BD out there, overall the background elements do not have more striking detail over the DVD. By comparison, a stellar transfer exists even in old movies. If you are a fan of WWII airplanes, see the 1969 'Battle of Britain' or the classic 2001: Space Odyssey.
However, if you don't own the 2 disk set, this BD disk incorporates all the extras of the 2 disk set into one disk, and a better buy than the original DVD release.
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Cllint Esatwood Favorite
Added 10/18/2009
I've seen this movie many times on cable. I was amazed to see if for $9.99 on Amazon. This was my very first Blue Ray disk that I own. A very good movie. Very good cinema-photography on some of the scenics shots. I'm not a western movie fanatic but this is a very strong story. Like "The quick and the dead".
Any movie with Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood has to be good. Very good acting.
Thanks Amazon for the great price.
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Excellent movie, excellent price.
Added 11/23/2009
Upgraded from dvd to blu. Beautiful picture and sound. Love this movie and now its even better.
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One of the best Westerns
Added 11/7/2009
When you get Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, and Morgan Freeman in one film you know you are in for a treat. This movie does not disappoint. Each of the actors does a superb job in each of his characters giving each incredible depth. Even Richard Harris' character is important even though he is only in a few scenes. Each of the characters both have their good traits and their evil ones. Eastwood and Freeman play reformed gunfighters turned farmers out to get one more bounty. The internal turmoil and conflict of going back to their old ways is played well by both. How violence has worn on each plays a central roll in the film. Hackman's character is the extreme law and order man who wants to control everything that goes on his town and will go to very violent means to make sure that he does.
Although this film is extremely violent in places, unlike a lot of other films it does an excellent job of showing the results of that violence on the perpetrators of that violence. They don't just walk away at ease with themselves.
The features on the blu-ray are pretty good but very dated. There is the behind the scenes feature, the interviews with the major actors, the voice over commentary, as well as a retrospective of Clint Eastwood's career up to that point. And that's the main drawback to the extras, they weren't updated for the blu-ray so they are about 15 years old. Not that big of deal for me, but something that someone might want to know.
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Unforgiven
Added 10/25/2009
The transfer of the movie to blu ray was not as good as I had hoped for. I do have the regular dvd, and when played on my Sony bdp-S1 it looks excellent. I just did not get the wow factor on this video or audio transfer.I think most people would be very satisfied with the regular dvd.
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