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Avoid the Polart DVD

posted 20 years ago by gregfoley
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The print or transfer is inadequate and you will be looking at a black screen most of the time. This makes it hard to follow.

[–] mbsheik 19 years ago

Criterion is scheduled to release this, along with A Generation and Ashes and Diam onds, in the spring of 2005.

[–] TheWanderingFish 19 years ago

Criterion is scheduled to release this, along with A Generation and Ashes and Diam onds, in the spring of 2005.

April 5th to be exact.

If you shop around you'll be able to get all three films for around $50.

Note: The above comments are exclusively my opinion.

---Respect---

[–] mkruk2 19 years ago

So true,

Luckilly I only rented the Polart DVD. The VHS is in surprising better quality

[–] megatosspot 18 years ago

Well, I wish I'd seen this earlier.

[–] tlay 18 years ago

Ghastly, isn't it? Only time I've ever seen a DVD transfer so bad that it made it impossible to discern lots of crucial plot points. The Criterion, fortunately, is a dramatic improvement. I know the set is expensive, but all three movies are fantastic and well worth liquidating the piggy bank for.

Tom

[–] verdant4ce 17 years ago

LOL, all this time I just thought the movie sucked.

[–] Killakai 17 years ago

me too. I couldnt figure what all the hoopla was, about watching a film where half of the screen is black and you are reading subtitles.

[–] indiansfever 16 years ago

Wow I just finished watching the Polart version five minutes ago. The sound quality was atrocious--I had my volume all the way up and it was still hard to hear. I guess this doesn't matter as much when you're reading subtitles, but still... Good movie though. I'll have to check out the Criteron version.

[–] Hairy_Lime 16 years ago

Damn I wish I'd read this. Memo to self: there is a reason we pay the extra bucks for Criterion treatments.....

Vinum regnum, rex vinorum.

[–] MontanaJones 15 years ago

does anyone know what version Netflix is distributing?