You've Never Seen Lonesome Dove Like This!

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	• Lonesome Dove Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones Lions Gate, 2002 average customer review:based on 348 reviews view larger image
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BRILLIANT REMASTERED PICTURE AND SOUND

No matter how many times you've seen Lonesome Dove, it's NEVER looked or sounded this good. The old DVD was fuzzy and soft, the sound muted, this new 2 disc set has crystal clear images and fabulous stereo sound. Friday night we started watching LD again, Part One on the old fuzzy DVD that's been around for years...I bought this new edition and WOW...it's stunning, the clarity, the landscapes, sunsets, it's well worth buying this again for this MAJOR upgrade in picture and sound.

You've Never Seen Lonesome Dove Like This!

I pre-ordered this Blu-ray disc when I saw that it was going to be available. I was sceptical as to how much better it would actually be than the DVD version that I already owned. Let me tell you, it is COMPLETELY different. Seriously, the clarity, film quality and Dolby 5.1 surround make this Blu-ray a MUST HAVE for any fan of this Western epic! It is in widescreen for the first time, and honestly, it makes the movie so much crisper and perfect that you seriously just have to see it for yourself to believe it! The extra content on the discs are incredible too. There are interviews, on-set, with the actors talking about the movie, and there are interviews with the author of the book and with the director of the film. They are all so insightful, and you will learn things about this film that you never knew before. But the picture and sound quality are beyond a doubt the best part of this. Just buy it and you'll see for yourself! Definitely get this movie on Blu-ray if you love this movie, because you'ver never seen Lonesome Dove like this!

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Not a cropped 4:3 image...

People who are complaining about a cropped 4:3 image are wrong, at least according to the director. Simon Wincer says in the new bonus features that Lonesome Dove was orginally shot on film in widescreen and was actually previewed to the media and VIPs in that format. It is that widescreen film master that was used to produce the new DVD and Blu-Ray releases.

Only one flaw

It looks much better and sounds great and it is one of the very best stories, big screen or small, ever made, but the only reason it is widescreen (as someone here already mentioned) is because they cropped the full screen version, giving the illusion of widescreen, when we are actually losing part of the visuals from the original.
Other films have done the same thing for the enhanced tv's and I understand why but I still wish they had kept the overall aspect the same.
Still, I think it is a masterpiece, the extras are better, but not by a whole lot and it simply looks so much better than the prior dvd release.

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WHY DID THEY CROP THE IMAGE?

Apparently this was shot 4:3, but has been cropped to 1.78:1 for widescreen TV's. I haven't seen the transfer, and to be fair, reviewers here and at other sites don't seem to be bothered by it, but I wonder why they didn't put it out in the original aspect ratio and let non-purists zoom or (God forbid) stretch the image.

When I saw that the new DVD was in WS, I had hoped that it had been shot wide (perhaps for a possible European theatrical release) and then cropped to it's intended TV ratio, but alas...

Cropping the top and bottom of a 4:3 image is just as disrespectful to the original creator's intent as is cropping the sides of a wide image. I hope that as widescreen TV's proliferate this doesn't become a trend.

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