MOVIE |
Seth (Nicolas Cage) is an
angel who comes to retrieve the spirit of newly
departed humans.
Maggie (Meg Ryan) is a heart surgeon
in a Los Angeles Hospital.
Maggie is doing a bypass on one of her
patients when the patient dies. Seth comes to retrieve her patient, she sees Seth and he falls instantly in
love with her.
What follows is a strange romance between the two, but Seth knows he can
never be truly be with her so Seth makes the decision to give up everything he has to
become a mortal and be with her.
I can't get more cut & dried than that. It's a good
romance to watch with your better half but the ending is so predictable.
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VIDEO |
City of Angels is a standard Warner transfer, on the whole it is of high
quality. There were a few MPEG artifacts present in the first 15 minutes of the film but
things begin to settle down after that. The colors seemed spot on and the blacks were very
deep blacks.
City of Angels is framed at 2:35:1 and is 16:9 enhanced.
This is a Dual Sided, Single Layer
disc. Movie on one side, extras on the other.
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AUDIO |
A return to form by Warner Bros. The audio on this disc is in Dolby Digital 5.1
and is of generally high quality. The surrounds are used quite effectively for the ambient
city sounds and music and it pulls it off quite well. The .1 channel is used mainly to
underscore the music. There really isn't any WOW sounding scenes in this one.
The dialog was easy to listen to and wasn't interrupted
by and ambient sounds.
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EXTRAS |
There are a few extras on side B of this
disc. Firstly, the main extra is a making of documentary called
Wrestling Angels which is quite an informative doco that sheds a little
insight into the movie. Also on the disc is a short VH1 clip interview
with Peter Gabriel and one with Alanis Morissette, these interviews are
separate and are started a little like the Village Roadshow interviews but
at least they don't stop every 2 seconds. Also there are some deleted
scenes that you can play with or without commentary, although a full
director's commentary would have been preferred.
Subtitles in English, French, Italian,
Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Closed Captions.
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FINAL THOUGHTS |
A bit of a tearjerker. Get some tissues for this one. Recommended. |
REVIEW
EQUIPMENT
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Display:
48" Sony RPTV.
DVD Player: Panasonic A350 Player using S-Video Cables.
Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D508 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
Speakers: Accusound speaker
system. |
Copyright © 2000 by [Roger
Ward].
Revised: 25 May 2000 00:04:06 +1100
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Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
No of
Discs: |
1 |
OFLC Rating |
M15+ |
Running
Time: |
110
minutes |
Case
Type: |
Snapper
Case |
Release
Date: |
25/4/1999 |
Catalog
Number: |
16320 |
List
Price: |
$29.95 |
Distributor: |
Warner
Bros. |
Disc
Format: |
PAL |
Disc
Type: |
No
Label |
Disc
Format: |
DS-SL |
Chapters: |
40 |
Macrovision: |
Yes |
Manufacturer: |
WAMO |
Aspect
Ratio:
|
2:35:1 |
Anamorphic: |
Yes |
Film
Format: |
35mm |
Dolby
Digital:
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5.1 Surround |
DTS: |
None |
PCM
Stereo: |
None |
Other: |
None |
Languages:
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English
French
Italian |
Subtitles: |
Yes |
Audio
Commentary: |
Yes |
Theatrical
Trailer: |
None |
Teaser
Trailer: |
None |
TV
Spots: |
None |
Dolby
Trailer: |
None |
Documentary: |
Yes |
Cast
& Crew Bios: |
Yes |
Deleted
Scenes: |
Yes |
Music
Videos: |
None |
DVD Rom
Content: |
None |
Collectable
Booklet: |
None |
Scene
Access: |
Yes |
Animated
Menus: |
None |
Production
Notes: |
Yes |
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