'Gangs of New York (French Import)' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Josh's review of the 'Gangs of New York' French Import is up. The film remains a notable, but flawed footnote in Martin Scorsese's career. This French Blu-ray is only marginally better than its American counterpart -- it still doesn't look very good. For die-hard fans only.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1649...ewyork_fr.html

[Eternal Now]

Originally Posted by Attebery

Josh's review of the 'Gangs of New York' French Import is up. The film remains a notable, but flawed footnote in Martin Scorsese's career. This French Blu-ray is only marginally better than its American counterpart -- it still doesn't look very good. For die-hard fans only.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1649...ewyork_fr.html

Ugh, it sounds just as bad....such a great film too.

[Arkadin]

hmmmmmmmm.................
well it seems that only a full restoration/remaster will help this particular title. Still, looks like it's the French version for me because even with the small improvement, I'll take it.

[TomSelleck]

French menu? Sounds annoying.

[weaponX]

screw it...... I guess I'll just keep my crappy US version with hopes of a re-release. This is most dissapointing. Thanks Josh for the review, you just saved me some coin.

[bfellow]

slightly look less like garbage

ROFL. Nice review

[nelll]

Superb review by Josh. He always provides details for us to compare. thanks Josh.

[haroonlone]

Hi,

Just registered, first time posting..very nervous....

The UK version was released in 2007 by a company called 'Entertainment in Video'. Maybe it's worth importing that and doing a comparative review.

[Josh Z]

Originally Posted by haroonlone

The UK version was released in 2007 by a company called 'Entertainment in Video'. Maybe it's worth importing that and doing a comparative review.

Unfortunately, EiV merely licensed the master from Disney. From all reports, there is little to no discernable difference between their disc and the American Blu-ray.

[ahsoka]

A comparison between the French and US edition BDs by Ecran Large (in French).

http://www.ecranlarge.com/article-details-9230.php

[Matt865]

It's a shame the video on all the BD's is so poor. I was hoping to replace my UK copy, because it really is awful. Hopefully something will be done about it in the future.

[robertc88]

Lots of hype on the French version then from what I remember reading on other forums.

[Dave Mack]

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Taken from comparison site and simply cropped by me for Closeup.

[daybona]

Hmm, those screen shots dont look too bad to me, I guess the faults are more evident while the film is in motion.

For 30 bucks, I expect great things, especially for a film released as recently as GONY. Any petition floating around to get disney to fix this release?

[Dave Mack]

The halos are still pretty bad. Look around the hats.