Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Posted by admin | Posted in Movies | Posted on 07-10-2010
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Product Description
Streetwise charmer Eddie (Nick Moran) enters the biggest card game of his life with the savings of his three best friends: Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). But he leaves the table owing his underworld boss Hatchet Harry half a million and has a week to come up with the money. Now Eddie and his friends must outsmart and outgun all types of lowlifes on their way to pay off Harry before time runs out…. More >>
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
I have both the SD version of Lock Stock and Snatch, I rank this movie in my top 10 all time list. It’s just a brilliant movie!!
HOWEVER, the Blu-ray version is VERY poor quality, the SD DVD version actually looks better. There is A LOT of graining in the Blu-Ray version, it’s as if they got the compression all wrong. I’m running this from some high end audio/video equipment on a 63″ Mitsubishi DLP and Sony BD player thru Harmon Kardon (all have the most recent firmware updates) — this is the ONLY BD I’ve purchased that has this terrible graining. Even tested it on my MacPro using my LG BD player and noticed the same graining problem.
I came up with a 3 rating because the film content is excellent worth a 5 star, however, the BD image quality get a 1 star, hence the resulting 3 stars. Unfortunate mess up, but I have to say go with the standard SD DVD version.
Rating: 3 / 5
The movie itself is brilliant, original, funny, perfectly cast and on my top-10 list. However, if you have the original don’t waste your $$ on the Blue-ray. On the Blue-ray special features is a discussion about budget compromises Ritchie and the photographer were forced to make like shooting on 16mm. On the original DVD it blends with the movie and works. On Blue-ray its distracting and jarring. On balance and in my opinion, the Blue-ray is inferior to the original.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a Terrible Quality Blu-Ray. Do Not Buy it. It is in no way Blu-Ray Quality. I wish I never traded in my standard version to Amazon’s Trade-in program. This is sickening.
Rating: 1 / 5
This was Guy Ritchie’s first film before he did Snatch and got famous. This was also one of Jason Satham’s first films as well. Great Movie.
Rating: 5 / 5
This movie is in my top ten favorite DVD’s. Great story, well told and lots of action and comedy through out.
Rating: 5 / 5