Product: Moonstruck (1987)
Rating: 1.0
Great Movie But The DVD Stinks!
Moonstruck is a fantastic movie! I loved it when I first saw it and I still love it and think Cher, Nicholas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, John Mahoney, Vincent Gardenia, etc, all gave excellent performances and the plot was also outstanding but what I don't like is that the DVD presents the movie in fullscreen and not widescreen. Okay, I know that the movie was presented in theaters in a matted widescreen format and that matted widescreen is really not all that different from fullscreen verses regular widescreen but I still would like a widescreen DVD. Or why not a DVD that has both fullscreen and widescreen? I for one would be okay with that so until then I will keep the letterbox widescreen version I taped when it was shown on TCM! BTW: This is a 5 star movie but I give the DVD 1 star and it's only the DVD that I'm unhappy about and not the movie or the actors and I think in cases where the movie was shown in theaters in a matted widescreen presentation then they should have the movie shown in both fullscreen and the matted theatrical widescreen that was shown in theaters so that viewers can decide for themselves which they prefer! I have read and also herad that when they take a movie taht was filmed in fullscreen and matted into widescrren for the movies and then put in fullscreen for tthe DVD that you are actually seeing stuff you were never intended to see like sometimes it can be the booms and other overhead microphones, camers, etc! The Movie gets an A+ But the DVD gets an F!