Review wanted: The King of Comedy
 

With this title coming out this week, have any DVDTalkers had a chance to take a look at this DVD yet?

Though I haven't seen it, I thought these links were appropriate to this thread:

http://www.upcomingdiscs.com/dvd_rev...e_posted.shtml

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...hreadid=110931

http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/revie...&reviewid=1397

I watched it this morning & the transfer was pretty nice. The stereo sounded mono, but adequate. The 2 deleted scenes were funny (one is just Jerry Lewis' whole monologue) & the movie itself is still very good. It's a shame it didn't help Lewis the way Pulp Fiction did Travolta.

Wasn't this originally announced with a Scorsese commentary? Did that fall through or did I just imagine it in a dream?

Commentary didn't happen. Scorsese was too busy tweaking Gangs of New York.

I finally got around to watching this DVD last night and was rather surprised to see that there is a disclaimer for the commentary that appears as the DVD loads up... shame there was nothing to disclaim :)

I had forgotten why I liked this film so much... definitely one of the best of the De Niro/Scorcese collaborations. I was particularly amused by the scene where...



I had not noticed that in past viewings.

regards, Tim...