Merchant of Venice - DVD

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:02 pm

A merchant makes a deal with a Jewish money lender for the oddest of terms so he can provide his best friend the capitol necessary to be a suitor of the most beautiful Portia. Clocking in at 130 minutes we both found the first 70 minutes to be somewhat dragging yet those 70 minutes are necessary to set up the final 60 minutes consisting of 2 major climaxes in the plot that had us going WOW!

Personally I wish Pacino had more influence on this project as we were thoroughly impressed with his production of Looking for Richard that makes Shakespear clearly understood and completely entertaining for modern society. That may have made the first 70 minutes far more palatable...

The images though are not that great. Much of the production carries an overall green tinge and many scenes simply have the wrong colors creating a very odd presentation. Whether by design or by error I do not know. I do know that I popped a calibration disc in the player for confirmation as things looked broken...

Either way, recommended!

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Richard · Post by **Richard** » Wed May 25, 2005 10:21 am

The images though are not that great. Much of the production carries an overall green tinge and many scenes simply have the wrong colors

I may be mistaken in this and would like to hear some feedback if you watched it.

Thanks

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:06 am

The color is wrong. It is the movie, not your display or system.