| MOVIE |
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Here is another one of Barry
Sonnenfeld's great movies before he became yet another
"Hollywood director" and made movies like Wild Wild West.
Get Shorty is the story of Chilli
Palmer (John Travolta) in yet another cool role. Chilli is a loan
shark who also has problems with another lowlife mobster Ray
"Bones" Barboni (Dennis Farina) but while Chilli's boss in
New York is alive Ray can't do a thing to Chilli.
Next day Chilli finds out that his
boss is dead, now Ray runs the business and sends Chilli off to find
a sucker that is late on a payment. Chilli finds out that the guy
faked a his death in a plane accident and went out to Las Vegas.
While there he also gets another
job to hunt down a low life director that owes money also, this is
the beginning of Chilli's new career in the movie business and the
pitfalls it entails.
Chilli finds that Hollywood is a
place of thieves and lowlifes and that the movie business is more
tough and dangerous than the mob business.
This is a very funny movie and
takes more than a few stabs at the movie business, I enjoyed this
movie a lot. Recommended.
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| VIDEO |
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This is a very good
transfer, not reference quality mind you, but still very good. The
transfer is very sharp with rich colors throughout. Shadow detail
is excellent and there were no MPEG artifacts. There were a few
problems with the original film, specks, marks and lines etc,
these are few and far between though.
Get Shorty is framed at 1:85:1 and is
16:9 enhanced.
This is a single-sided, dual layer disc.
The layer change hits at 62:34
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| AUDIO |
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2 Audio formats live on this
disc. A Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack in English, French, German &
Italian plus a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack in Spanish. I
listened to the English 5.1 track and for most of the movie the sound
stage is centered at the front with very little surround use at all, as
this is a dialog driven movie it is acceptable and achieves what it is
meant to but I still would have preferred a more enveloping soundtrack.
The .1 channel was barely used also.
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| EXTRAS |
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A very modest set of extras
are on this disc.
Theatrical Trailer:
1:85:1, Dolby
Digital 2.0. A nice mono trailer that is very laid back but sells the
movie quite well.
Booklet: Just your
standard booklet MGM booklet.
Subtitles in English,
German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian,
Finnish, Polish.
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| FINAL THOUGHTS |
| Good movie on a good
disc. |
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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 14:38:08 +1100
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| Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
| No of
Discs: |
1 |
| OFLC Rating |
MA15+ |
| Running
Time: |
105
minutes |
| Case
Type: |
Black
Amaray |
| Release
Date: |
19/4/2000 |
| Catalog
Number: |
56036 |
| List
Price: |
$34.95 |
| Distributor: |
20th
Century Fox |
| Disc
Format: |
PAL |
| Disc
Type: |
Picture
Disc |
| Disc
Format: |
SS-RSDL |
| Chapters: |
36 |
| Macrovision: |
Yes |
| Manufacturer: |
WAMO |
| Aspect
Ratio:
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1:85:1 |
| Anamorphic: |
Yes |
| Film
Format: |
35mm |
Dolby
Digital:
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5.1
Surround
2.0 Surround |
| DTS: |
None |
| PCM
Stereo: |
None |
| Other: |
None |
Languages:
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English
French
German
Italian
Spanish |
| Subtitles: |
Yes |
| Audio
Commentary: |
None |
| Theatrical
Trailer: |
Yes |
| Teaser
Trailer: |
None |
| TV
Spots: |
None |
| Dolby
Trailer: |
None |
| Documentary: |
None |
| Cast
& Crew Bios: |
None |
| Deleted
Scenes: |
None |
| Music
Videos: |
None |
| DVD Rom
Content: |
None |
| Collectable
Booklet: |
Yes |
| Scene
Access: |
Yes |
| Animated
Menus: |
None |
| Production
Notes: |
None |
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