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Sense and Sensibility plus extra features = great item

Advantages: What extras there are complement the film well
Disadvantages: Might only appeal to a specific audience, few extra features

I can't fault the technical quality of this DVD - the menus are straightforward and easy to operate, although the one confusion I always have is whether the audio commentary option is switched on or switched off. The menus look elegant and in keeping with the marketing material used by the film, but things like this could be clearer, in my opinion. The sound and picture quality is excellent - sometimes there is a mismatch (even on TV) between the ...
...that the volume level you thought you needed is suddenly deafening, but in this case that problem doesn't apply - and in spite of the five year gap between film production and DVD, the picture never looks washed-out (as is sometimes the case). I have rated the special effects in this case as average - although I have picked up from background research that some scenes required a rain machine, because it is a period film, there is little need for ...

KateHurst 20.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sense And Sensibility (DVD)

Titanic - An Extraordinary Movie!!

Advantages: Action, Romance, Eloborative Sets, Music
Disadvantages: Nudity unfit for children

Since the time I was in my eighth grade I had a fascination to gather as much information as possible regarding the ship Titanic. This was because; we had a lesson by the name 'Loss of Titanic' in our English course curriculum. I still remember the picture given in the text book 'The Radiant Reader' where the ship was shown sinking with lot of smoke emanating from the Chimney! It is really difficult to say why I got attracted to this giant ship Titanic ...
...the skill of the author or the skill of our English teacher or/and the combination of the both ! There after with the age I have started gathering information about this ship from various sources including the Encyclopedia. Collecting the information about the Titanic and discussing about it has become a hobby for me! I used to feel great when people used to appreciate my know-how about the Titanic. So one can understand how I must have felt to come ...

Sixstars 17.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Titanic (DVD)

Sensible Viewing

Advantages: great film piece
Disadvantages: quite long winded

...the characters. I feel that Sense and Sensibility presents all these things to the audience. There is love, heartbreak, humour and great music. (my applause to Kate Winslet for her unforgettable versions of "Weep You No More Sad Fountains" and "The Dream" ...so beautiful.) If you have not seen this movie, please go RIGHT now to rent it...or even ADD it to your video library! I must say it is well worth it! And if you have seen it. ....you know what ...

Goldfish100 09.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sense And Sensibility (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

'The Holiday' DVD

Advantages: Jack Black, very good scenes showing the chemistry between characters, excellent soundtrack
Disadvantages: Cameron Diaz can be quite irritating but not enough to put me off

...though I admit that often the character played by Cameron Diaz was irritating - she plays a very high-maintenance workaholic who seems to fail at relationships. The story is about both Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz's struggles with love and results in them agreeing to participate in a home exchange in order to escape their current lives. The film also has an excellent music score primarily by Hans Zimmer, also featuring the likes of Imogen Heap and ...
...Alfred are also crucial to the film and help evoke emotion in the viewer. Overall, well worth watching - I watched it two days in a row and have already downloaded most of the soundtrack! I had already seen it about a year previously when it first came out but enjoyed it much more this time around. Also, as it is older it is much cheaper to buy now. ...

mairig1 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

Quills - re-writings of a masters work

Advantages: Great historical insight, good characters and depth
Disadvantages: Dark descriptive and indepth

*--*--*--*QUILLS*--*--*--* Nominated for 2 Academy Awards ''Winslet and Phoenix create real fire'' Rolling Stone ''Stunning devastating…. Dark'' Film Review -*-*-*-*-Historic Information and Plot-*-*-*-*- Paris, 1794. Begins with a story of a prisoner during execution following to a brief introduction to the situation/location of the Marquis de Sade. Historically the Marquis was known as Donatien Alphonse François (1740-1814), whose ...
.... The story brings the audience to the lavishly decorated prison cell of the Marquis in the Mental Asylum of 'Charenton' in France where he worked on an array of books and volumes, many which he didn't complete and many which have never been published or produced. However, this film depicts the Marquis in the final 20 years of his life where he finds ways and means to get his writings into the public eye and out of the prison. After publications ...

woof45 08.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Quills (DVD)