\n| \n MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Director: <\/strong>Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black<\/em>), Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon<\/em>)
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Ron Osborn & Jeff Reno and Kevin Wade and Bo Goldman (screenplay) (Meet Joe Black<\/em>); Adam Brooks and Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin (written by) (Wimbledon<\/em>)
\nCast (Meet Joe Black<\/em>): <\/strong>Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden
\nCast (Wimbledon<\/em>): <\/strong>Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill, James McAvoy<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDISC INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Features: <\/strong>None
\nSlip Cover: <\/strong>No
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAudio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>47.53 GB
\nTotal Bitrate: <\/strong>22.65 Mbps (Meet Joe Black<\/em>); 22.90 Mbps (Wimbledon<\/em>)
\nCodecs: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nMill Creek Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this Blog Post.
\nThe opinions I share are my own.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" "\\"*\\"") <\/p>\n
\n\n\n\nTHE MOVIES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| \n MEET JOE BLACK<\/em><\/strong> (1998)<\/strong> \u2014 Bill Parrish (ANTHONY HOPKINS), businessman and devoted family man, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. However, before he reaches that landmark, he is visited by Death (BRAD PITT), who has taken human form as Joe Black, a young man who recently died. Joe and Bill make a deal: Bill will be given a few extra days of his life, and Joe will spend the same time getting to know what it’s like to be human. It seems like a perfect arrangement, until Joe falls in love \u2014 with Bill’s daughter (CLAIRE FORLANI).<\/p>\nQuick Hit Review: <\/strong>Okay romantic-drama features some solid enough performances from both Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins but at three hours it is quite long for the kind of movie this is. The romantic aspects between Pitt and Forlani don\u2019t always work however his heartfelt scenes with Hopkins were quite good. 2.5\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWIMBLEDON<\/em><\/strong> (2004)<\/strong> \u2014 Frustrated at his own failures and disillusioned with professional sports, tennis player Peter Colt (PAUL BETTANY) resolves to retire from competition and become an instructor at an exclusive private club. But when Colt receives a surprise wild-card berth in Wimbledon, he can’t help but enter the tournament. Soon, Colt meets Lizzie Bradbury (KIRSTEN DUNST), a beautiful American tennis player with an upcoming match of her own, and finds the inspiration he hopes will turn his luck around.<\/p>\nQuick Hit Review: <\/strong>Nice enough romantic-comedy, with a sports angle, makes for a fluffy time-waster thanks to the chemistry between Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst. It\u2019s nothing terribly new for the genre however worth checking out if you like the cast (with supporting actors that includes Sam Neill and Jon Favreau). 3.25\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\n\n\nSPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| \n Unfortunately despite both movies having bonus features on their individual releases, there are none on this release.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\n\n\nVIDEO \u2013 3\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| With both Meet Joe Black<\/em><\/strong> and Wimbledon<\/em><\/strong> being on the same disc, and one of those films being 3 hours long, I was concerned how this would look… and there does appear to be some compression issues as neither transfer were especially smooth and some shots looked rough around the edges. Skin tones at least were okay and there didn\u2019t seem to be any significant film damage, though that\u2019s probably not a big surprise given their respective ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n \n\n\n\nAUDIO \u2013 3\u00bd\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| Both films come with adequate and satisfactory DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 tracks. These aren\u2019t films that require lossless tracks or anything but they do at least output crisp and clean dialogue and some decent enough depth for any ambient noises coming through the front and rear channels.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\n\n\nOVERALL \u2013 2\u00bd\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| \n This is an odd-pairing, even under the \u201cGirls Night In Double Feature\u201d edition as one is a romance-drama with fantasy while the other is just a typical romance-comedy, but even so both films are alright and at a cheap price worth picking up, just know while both did have bonus features, this one is boneless and the video quality is questionable.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an odd-pairing, even under the \u201cGirls Night In Double Feature\u201d edition as one is a romance-drama with fantasy while the other is just a typical romance-comedy, but even so both films are alright and at a cheap price worth picking up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[835,1820,418,882,5615,195,1156,215,2030,4325,288,1146],"class_list":["post-27140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-anthony-hopkins","tag-bernard-hill","tag-brad-pitt","tag-claire-forlani","tag-jake-weber","tag-james-mcavoy","tag-jon-favreau","tag-kirsten-dunst","tag-marcia-gay-harden","tag-mill-creek","tag-paul-bettany","tag-sam-neill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27142,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140\/revisions\/27142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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