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Release
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13th June 2001 |
| Reviewer |
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Cass Nunn |
| Audio |
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English, French, Italian |
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English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish,
Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian |
| Region
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2/4 |
| Chapters |
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31 |
| Disc
Format |
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DVD9 |
| Running Time |
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101 minutes |
| Classification
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M15+ |
| Distributor |
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Warner |
 DVD EXTRAS |
- Theatrical
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Something to talk about is based on a very basic plot
of a two cheating husbands, and the trials and tribulations of their family as they deal
with their infidelity.
Julia Roberts plays Grace the daughter of a very successful horse breeder played by
Robert Duvall. The family appears to be a very wholesome group, but this is soon
overturned when grace discovers her husband Eddie (Dennis Quaid) has been cheating on her.
She shuts him out of the family including their daughter until she has a very interesting
chat with her grandmother who hands over a very effective recipe to make the cheating
husband quite sick. They of course end up at the hospital where she manages to let it slip
to her mother that her father has also cheated on her. Of course there is uproar in the
family with two cheating husbands in the doghouse.
Alls well in the end though of course.
I was a little disappointed in the acting from this film, which seemed to be very
haphazard. Julia Roberts was good as always but certainly wasn’t putting a lot of
effort into the character. Robert Duvall was excellent and really topped of the downfalls
of the other characters with his ease in playing the character. |
So how does this transfer hold up?
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VIDEO
The 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is a very good indication of
the quality we are now seeing from Warner. With a nice sharp transfer for the bulk of the
film with some exceptional detail at times. There are the occasional scenes where the
transfer slips into some slight grain and gives the image a little soft feeling.
Shadow detail was generally very good throughout.
The colour palette is used well to convey a warm country felling but I fell this could
have been a little more saturated. While the intended effect is good it looks drained in
some scenes.
There were no MPEG artefacts and only some very insignificant film artefacts, which
were difficult to spot.
Generally the transfer is very good with only some minor problems that you would have
to look hard for to be able to notice. |
AUDIO
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track left a lot to be desired.
The quality of the audio track was very substandard and had a hollow distant sound to it
with the dialogue being the worst affected. At no time did you fell like the person was
actually in the room talking but behind a wall or something that hindered the clarity of
the voices.
The soundtrack from Hans Zimmer was one of his more
understated efforts that really didn’t stick in my mind at all. Most of the time it
was just a subtle background felling rather than a soundtrack that added emotion to the
onscreen action.
The surround channels were used minimally and the same can be said for the LFE channel,
which was rarely put to use.
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EXTRAS
OVERALL
This is a nice film with a rather bland plot, the kind of flick to put you to sleep by the
end of it. |
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| DVD Ratings |
PICTURE_QUALITY |
8.5/10 very
good |
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SOUND_Quality |
6/10 needs big
improvement |
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5.1_WOW_Factor |
4/10 not enough to
speak of |
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| EXTRAS |
1/10 1 meagre
trailers |
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| OVERALL |
8/10 a Sunday
afternoon snoozer |
REVIEW_DATE
15th February 2002 |
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Review Equipment |
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GE 68cm (16:9
selectable) |
Speakers |
Mains: B&W 602 |
| Amplifier |
Yamaha RX-V595a |
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Centre: Venturi |
| DVD_Player |
Pioneer DV737 |
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Surrounds: Wharfedale Diamond R6 |
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Subby: M&K v75 |
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