Product: Moonstruck (1987)
Rating: 5.0
Moonstruck shines on Blu-Ray though disc package could've been better.
Great movie and one of my all time favorites finally gets a High Def. release onto Blu-Ray. The 5 star rating is for the movie as for the picture quality I give it a nice 4 out of 5 rating. This is a nice upgrade from all previous releases on DVD. The colors, black levels and sharpness really pop on this Blu-Ray. There is more detail than every before and really looks like film quality, this looks exactly as it was seen theatrically back when it was release in 1987. It's a very warm and beautiful 16x9 Widescreen presentation. Though there is some minor room for improvement as there is very slight dirt specks to be seen, but really not in anyway distracting from what is a very nice picture quality presented for home viewing. You really have to be looking for imperfections to notice. The sound quality is fantastic and really sores in high quality, DTS master track is sharp, crisp and just a big surprise in my opinion. Moonstruck never looked or sounded this good before.All the extras from the previous DVD of a few years back are ported over. I am a tad disappointed that nothing new were added here, like deleted footage and maybe some newer interviews with the cast.Now the very odd issue I had with this release was the fact that Fox who is distributing his disc for MGM didn't bother on producing a main menu. Once you put your disc into your player the movie starts immediately and when the movie ends instead of going to a menu it just restarts the film all over again. I have no problem with the auto playing of the film, I have a problem when It comes to selecting it's extras, which may not be a big deal. You can only access the extras buy hitting the "Pop up menu" button on your remote as the film is running, though once you start a feature you can't select a different extra until the current one ends, otherwise you would have to reset the whole disc. It to me is a little irritating and looks sloppy of Fox not to include a simple menu. It seems strange to me that they wouldn't include one as they from what I've seen from them, always included a menu. Though it would have upped the price would had liked this released in a digibook likeAll About Eve [Blu-ray Book].. but that's no big deal. This movie should had been presented (package wise) with more respect than it is here.. A menu!! isn't too hard to include! and wouldn't had cost extra to do.In the end with that irritant aside, this disc is definitely worth the upgrade from the DVD. All fans of the film will be very happy with it's presentation on HD for it's low price. Buy this!