Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
People are way too picky.
I read many reviews before seeing the Blu-ray release and was not sure what to expect. How a lot of reviewers saw this before it was released, I'd like to know. I would, because that's a nice connection! I took advantage of Bestbuy's deal for Gladiator and Braveheart, but before I opened my copy, I rented it, just to be safe. After all the negative reviews, I was looking for every flaw mentioned, and I did not really see what other reviewers saw. If anything, the better technology is, the more it exposes flaws. You can really see how made-up some of these stars are. Maybe a lot of what people are complaining about just was not apparent until you see it on Blu-ray. Could they have done better? Always possible. There was definately nothing to complain about here. Only a few scenes in the movie were really a couple of minutes long, and maybe then could I tell a slight difference. I was also looking for things because of all the negative reviews, which kind of isn't fair. I gave this movie 4 insted of 5 stars because sometime the faces did look a tad artificial, but with the constant back-and-forth between light and dark, who's really to say except Ridely Scott, what it should look like. Definate step up from the dvd, although the DTS es audio was actually louder at a lower volume. The picture was definately not as sharp on the dvd. If they can make this picture better, I'd sure like to see it. As always, see it with your own eyes and decide for yourself.