'School for Scoundrels' - High-Def Digest Review

[jed]

Peter's review of 'School for Scoundrels' is up. He felt the marketing was a bit misleading for this one, promising a crass over-the-top comedy, when in fact it ended up being a kind of lame syrupy sweet love story. But on the bright side, this is a fine HD DVD effort from the Weinstein Co, with a nice transfer, soundtrack and supplemental package.

Full review here:
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/schoolforscoundrels.html

[Iggytx]

About what I expected, that's why it's on Netflix and not on Pre-Order.

[divian]

The reviewers fron this site are working hard lately.
They deserve the recognitions since we all know that a lot of people visit this site to read the reviews.

Good Job.

By the way...

What about this movie?

I heard is a great comedy.

I would like to lread some comments.

[bembol]

Jacinda Barrett Blind Buy. LOL

Last time I Blind Buy a Billy Bob Thornton movie, LMAO I almost pissed my pants...Bad Santa!

[AndyMT]

why are there so many reports of EE lately ? is this going to be something we're going to see more of ?

[Jared]

Originally Posted by bembol

Jacinda Barrett Blind Buy. LOL

Last time I Blind Buy a Billy Bob Thornton movie, LMAO I almost pissed my pants...Bad Santa!

Did you see The Human Stain? Now that would be a Jacinda Barrett blind buy. Of course, it's not on hi-def though.

[Blu-News.com]

I might pick this up. I thought it was pretty good.

[irascian]

Surprised Peter didn't mark the video down more for the poor quality of the print in places. Try watching it about an hour in and every few seconds there's a new bit of dirt, a speckle, a hair or some other grunge that appears.

For a film this recent it's pretty scandalous the master they used for the transfer has so much visible damage.

I usually agree completely with Peter's marks for the video quality, but I think he over-rated this one. Four marks is too high when they haven't bothered to clean the print up a bit and get rid of the grunge.

[Cider X]

Has anyone tried this on the 360 addon yet ? On my 360 the main movie plays fine but it freezes during the making of featurette...

[Cider X]

Oh and another glitch: When the movie finished I decided to listen to the commentray track, so I tried to start the movie again with no luck. When I select "PLAY MOVIE" in the main menu, the screen goes black for a few seconds, then goes back to the main menu. BOOOOH!

[Mark_H]

A dissapointing transfer. As Peter notes, digital enhancement is frequently used giving an artificial look to the film in many scenes. Banding is noticed in a couple of the fade-ins. A mediocre MPEG4 transfer.

Mark

[totalz]

Is this a joke? Unrated?? Unrated ver. is 108min, not 100min!!

So who makes a mistake here?

[Klopek]

Originally Posted by totalz

Is this a joke? Unrated?? Unrated ver. is 108min, not 100min!!

So who makes a mistake here?

I have the unrated HD DVD and the back of the box states 107 minutes.

So, the review lists the wrong runtime. Why are you so mad!?