Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Truly an Oscar Winner
As I've watched and rewatched this movie, I find myself more convinced that this movie was chosen correctly. The acting was superb, by the leading actor and actress and also the supporting actors. This type of movie has not been done in a great while, so it was great to see it's kind, once again, brought to life on the movie screen. "A general who became a slave; a slave who became a gladiator; a gladiator who defied an emperor" As the plot can be summed up into a simple phrase such as that, the story told at hand was far from simple. This was a movie which I consider epic. The battle scenes were gruesome, yet not just thrown in there for the sheer meaning of violence. The conversing between characters truly draws you into the movie's tale. And the ending, while it was not extravagant, was well done and complimented this movie perfectly. To reitterate, Truly an Oscar winner.As for this DVD itself- well done. The video transfer was beautiful as I saw no types of transfer flaws, specs, or grains. The musical score along with the rest of the audio department of this dvd was very, very satisfying. DTS ES track really added to this DVD. While hearing both of the tracks (DD and DTS), they were both stunning to say the least. The DTS, however, had more of a spatial sound to it, more crisp, and more well-defined and deeper low frequencies.The Supplemental DVD is wonderful. A lot of deleted scenes and a compilation of other deleted scenes compiled into a short music video.Buy this DVD, or even just rent it. Eitherway you can't go wrong and will NOT be disappointed when you do.