Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Blu-Ray review: Sapphire Series, really??
This edition of Gladiator on Blu-Ray is a joke. I'm a huge fan of the film, and was really looking forward to this movie getting a picture quality overhaul. Instead, we are treated to an old transfer of the film, with a bunch of image processing slapped on. They tinkered with the picture so much that some of the scenes are actually missing details seen on the original DVD!!!!! Some of the flaming arrows are missing from the battle scene, every close-up shot of a character has a halo around the actor (due to a process they applied call Edge Enhancement). These studios need to wake up, we don't want the film altered! We just want the cleanest conversion of a movie possible, even if that includes film grain!This is just really disappointing as one of the first Blu-Rays to be dubbed "Sapphire Series". They need to fix this, or Sapphire will just become a joke.