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Title: A great movie, but "just okay" DVD
Review: I won't comment about the content of this movie, which is one of my favorite films of the eighties. However, I must point out that the letterbox transfer does not look as good as it could be: the image is soft, and the bottom of the screen is cropped a little too much, making the image look cramped. As an example, on the full screen laserdisc, you can see the wad of money which Martin Sheen is holding when Charlie repays his loans while they are in the garage. On the DVD, all that picture information is cropped. Only a sliver of picture information is added to the sides from the widescreen version. I think that the movie deserved better treatment.
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