yukichigai
Mar 2005
 Video Tech Geek
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Meh, okay
Certainly could be worse, but not too horrible.
Video: 6
It's not unwatchable, not by any means, but whoever had the camera didn't know how to prevent it from auto-adjusting contrast between scenes. The best example is the credits right at the beginning; I was only able to read them as they faded out, for a span of about a half-second. It also makes the film seem a little blurrier. The cropping on it is mostly unnoticable, though there's minor screen distortions at the top corners; the camera position must have been towards the front of the theater. Motion blur -- that lovely symptom of recording a 23.976fps film with a 25fps cam -- is a bit worse than most releases due to the contrast issue.
Audio: 5
My rating is based on the assumption that it's a true TS, though the audience sounds seem to indicate that it isn't. There's a constant hum sound throughout parts of the film, particularly towards the end. The sound comes out tinny with very little bass, though this is to be expected from Cam audio. A few times I had trouble understanding the quieter lines, but this was very rare. 95% of the time the audio was perfectly audible and understandable, if tinny.
Movie: 7
I didn't really hate it, but I didn't really like it either. There were a lot of funny bits in the film -- easy to do with Will Ferrel in the flick -- but the plot was really badly executed. The basic premise was pretty good, but there was far too much time spent on little side-jaunts and setting up later events that the really good part of the film was only in the last 20 minutes of it. If there'd been less time concentrating on wacky setups -- oh, and some freakin' explanations of what the hell was going on with Aunt Clara and "rewind" and all that -- and more wacky witchery then I think the film would have turned out much better. It certainly wasn't a performance problem; everyone carried off their roles great. Just in a "this is a badly-written script" way.
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