Toy Story 3 is the third installment of the Toy Story series and Disney and PIXAR have done it again. This movie more so then the second one, is about children growing up and not wanting to play with their toys anymore, and what that is like for a toy. This movie is wonderful, until the end when it becomes extremely sad, to the point where you want or can’t help but cry. This part of the movie is also the most beautiful. Though we grow older and we move on to new things, it’s what we’ve been through that makes us who we are, so we can’t forget any of it, the good or the bad, especially our childhood, for that is where it all began and as life marches on that is where it begins again.
This movie contains the shot of Elizabeth Taylor that remains one of the defining images in cinema: beautiful and defiant, the star is oblivious to the beach around her and stares directly into the camera. One of the strangest cinematic trips of the 1950s, the big-screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' wonderfully overwrought Suddenly, Last Summer receives fine treatment from Columbia TriStar on this DVD. The widescreen anamorphic transfer is excellent and though the source print obviously hasn't been restored, it is relatively free of scratches and other blemishes. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono audio track lives up to the integrity of the original theatrical release and is well balanced. It would have been interesting for Columbia to use the DVD as an opportunity to contrast the film with Williams' racier, even darker play (which was filmed by PBS as recently as 1992) or to discuss in depth how cleverly the filmmakers skirted the censorship constraints of the day -- the famous, surreal ending beautifully handles such shocking themes as homosexuality, pedophilia, and cannibalism. However, there are a number of lesser extras such as production notes, a photo montage, a vintage advertising gallery, and trailers. The most important aspect of this DVD is that it restores Jack Hildyard's baroque widescreen black-and-white camera work. This edition of Suddenly, Last Summer looks great in comparison to the video release of the movie.
Customer Rating
5
Classic Movie
on January 21, 2011
Posted by: dean3155
from Colorado
A great example of what a good movie is, good acting, good story, good directing.