Sullivan entertinment are liars
1st let me say the 1st movies them selves are fantastic, but not on this horrible set where sullivan entertainment has lied to us all, they say this is widescreen from the original 35mm, BS, all they did was take the original 4x3 from the 1st 2 movies zoomed up and cropped the top and bottom, I have the remastered set from 2008 and its soooo much better, this one is soft, bad color and your missing a good 25% of the viewing as they cropped it off, how do I know this a scene with matthew has him reading the farmers almanac where you can actually read the name in the 4x3 original version same scene in this so called remastered version that book is cut off, if this was really shot in 16x9 35mm widescreen not only would you see all the picture from the original 4x3 but also an extra 25% on each side where if originally shot in 16x9 then pan and scan for 4x3 TV would have cut off the side, but no back in 1986 and 1988 when this was shot he had no idea of going beyond TV so it was shot like...
A Review of the new Widescreen Anne DVD set
I love the first two Anne of Green Gables films. I first viewed them on PBS and had the original VHS tapes released by Disney. The first few DVD releases by Sullivan were of very poor audio and visual quality. This new - expensive - set gathers the four films together, all in 16x9 widescreen. I do not like the other two films, so I will comment only on the first two.
These were originally filmed in 4x3 format, with television in mind (I read that they may have played theatrically overseas). I'm not an expert, but these new widescreen formats do look cropped. So, information is lost with these new transfers. Is that so bad? Yes, because I feel the original aspect ratios of these films should be 4x3 (or 1.33:1) as they were originally broadcasted. Worse though, the image quality seems to be so digitally scrubbed that a lot of detail that was originally visible is no longer visible. The audio seems OK; the default is the original 2.0 stereo mix. Annoyingly, the closed...
Loved the original Anne of GG and Anne of Avonlea (the sequel) but skip the rest - horrible
The classics written by L. Montgomery are wonderful and at that time the director, Kevin Sullivan seemed to understand the characters and it translated in the films BUT I GIVE HIM A HUGE 'F' FOR THE FOLLOW ON MOVIES/SCRIPTS THAT HE WROTE. The choices he has Anne and Gilbert make are COMPLETELY out of character for them...I mean come on, they wanted to both be in Avonlea and he had them sell the house, let it go to a pigsty with trashy tenants, and they moved to NY where they did nothing even remotely similar to their character's foundation and beliefs. Just horrible. Don't buy this full set, but the first two by L. Montgomery only. So disappointing.
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