The Dirty Dozen - High-Def Digest

[MrChaos]

Peter Bracke on The Dirty Dozen:

'The Dirty Dozen' is still considered a landmark war film, one that was hard-hitting in its day but now plays even better as oddly endearing, almost goofy entertainment. Warner has produced an HD DVD package that, overall, delivers the goods. Though the transfer suffers from shopworn source material and audio can only do so much with forty-year-old elements, the extras are packed to the gills with goodies. Despite a few faults, it's hard not to argue value for money when you get so much for only $28.99.

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/dirtydozen.html

[Len]

This is one I couldn't recommend to anyone I invited over to watch HD DVD. Again, that is solely the problem with the source and not the transfer, nevertheless if I'm going to show what can be done with old movies it would be Grand Prix, Robin Hood, The Searchers.

The dirt and grain particularly in the opening scenes doesn't get it off to a good start. And the scenes will often go in and out of focus...I would say that the last 1/4 of the movies is better when they're at the castle. There the night scenes hold up quite well.

[Simón Bolívar]

"Dye and his harping on the military inaccuracies in the film (who cares?)"

another example of why non military type should have some help reviewing Military Films...