Sep 11 2010
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Amazon has combined the reviews for the Blu-ray and standard DVD versions of this area, which aren’t exactly the same in their features. This review is for the Blu-ray version. My review of the standard DVD version is here too, so be clear you’re reading the one you’re keen in.
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The movie is agreeable, a Christmas classic (look below) . Should you upgrade to the novel Ultimate edition if you already have the 2006 Blu-ray edition? That depends on how considerable you like memorabilia. The recent edition is a repackaging of the 2006 edition, with a couple current non-DVD extras:
- a collectible retro Christmas cookie tin (the container for the station)
- a strand of leg-lamp Christmas lights (Blu-ray curious)
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Those watch like fun, if you’re into that kind of stuff. Amazon has a photo of the tin and a second photo that shows the tin and the leg-lamp lights. (The announcement for this position said that the items from the standard DVD site (here) would be included in this one, but that isn’t fair.)
The Blu-ray DVD won’t be remastered from the previous one. The video quality of the 2006 release was only magnificent for hi-def, soft with fairly reliable color, with sparkling mono sound.
The 2006 Blu-ray didn’t include everything that was on the HD or the 2-disc SD area. Here’s what’s actually included:
- audio commentary by director/co-writer Bob Clark and star Peter Billingsley (Ralphie)
- Another Christmas Legend featurette, includes interviews with Clark and a few members of the cast
- Bag a Leg Up featurette, about the making and ongoing sale of the (in) distinguished leg lamp
- A History of the Daisy Red Ryder featurette, on the object of astronomical desire’s valid history
- current theatrical trailer
The features from earlier editions that aren’t included are trivia and decoder games, readings (audio only) from Jean Shepherd, and an ad for the dependable leg lamp.
Now, about the really suited stuff, the movie. A Christmas Sage is that weird film that appeals to a cross-section of viewers who often can’t agree on what to seek. Fans of sweet Christmas cheer are happily joined by people with a more jaundiced view to the holiday. To be certain, the movie leans more to the sweet than the sour, but it has enough edge and good-natured twistedness to please some of our darker Christmas angels too. It conveys a genuinely warm nostalgia and some exciting, sometimes pretense-deflating observations about human nature.
The account is situation at some indefinite time around 1940 in an Indiana town approaching the holidays. Young Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants only one thing for Christmas, the Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Lightning Loader Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the stock. (That is, a BB gun, a very particular one.) He plans carefully well in reach how to lay the groundwork for this while avoiding the dreaded rebuff, but almost everyone says it anyway: “You’ll set aside your peruse out!” The relentless struggle for the one fair gift develops alongside several other puny stories and comical details, a tongue-on-frozen-pole triple-dog dare, facing the local bully, the renowned leg lamp, the Santa trudge, Peking Duck for Christmas, and several others, each memorable in itself.
The actors aren’t very well known, but they’re all unprejudiced accurate. There is narration throughout, representing an older Ralphie, done by the originator of the myth, Jean Shepard, also honest upright.
This movie, made in 1983, has gradually become a current Christmas classic, now shown in an annual 24-hour Christmas marathon on cable, which attracts a expansive number of viewers. If you’ve never seen it, give it a try, even if you have a dinky Scrooge in you, and you’ll probably like it.
Don’t gather me infamous - I like “A Christmas Epic,” and I would give the film a 5-star review. The squawk here is that the 2008 DVD release is EXACTLY the same as the 2003 version (aside from some slightly different artwork on the slipcover and case) . There are no original special features, and the print quality is the same as before. There is absolutely no need for the studio to release this needless double dip DVD. If you don’t already absorb the 2003 version, then this is a must have DVD; if you do, there’s no need to retract the fresh version, unless you go for the Ultimate Collector’s Edition, which has some clean extras (which admittedly aren’t worth the effect if you already enjoy the film on DVD) . Check out the Blue-ray version if you’re looking for slightly improved describe quality.
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