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Old 07-06-07, 05:43 PM
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DVD Talk review of 'American Psycho'

I read Daniel Hirshleifer's DVD review of American Psycho at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=26938 and...

Just got around to viewing this disc. I would agree that the picture is very murky at times and no care has been given to this film. I believe that with the picture the quality that it is, as well as Lionsgate didn't port over all of the features, that this should have a 'Recommended' rating, rather than a 'Highly Recommended'.
Old 07-06-07, 08:54 PM
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I felt the movie was important enough to garner a highly recommended rating. As has been said before, and will be said again, the actual review is far more important than the star ratings or the two word recommendation.
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The only features that weren't ported over from the old unrated release were EPK interviews with Christian Bale and others. Its hardly a major loss.
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Yeah, the extra features that wern't ported over to the new disc arn't a major loss.
Even if the video & audio was so horrible it would be considered the worst transfer ever to DVD, I would still Highly Recommend the DVD if I was a reviewer here. Based on the fact that the movie alone is easily enough for that recommendation.
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I love the movie myself, just when I am looking to justify upgrading my copy, and I turn to DVDTalk for recommendations, I tune into the two word recommendation in sorting out the good DVDs from the bad. I hope that most people take the time to read the reviews and don't base their decision on a 1-5 catagory.

I don't want this thread to turn into the many others out there debating reviewer bias. I am just expressing my view that while I love the movie, the picture and sound quality of a next-generation disc is not up to my standard of "highly recommended" on a sorting table.

As of this date, Daniel Hirshleifer has given two "DVD Talk Collector's Series" ratings, ten "Highly Recommended", four "Recommended", nine "Rent It", and one "Skip It" for Blu-Ray. It seems through reading these reviews, that if the film itself is "good", then it generally receives the "highly recommended" rating, thus I can understand the reasoning and justification of why the two word recommendation was given.

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