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- Robert Harris
I'm not a golfer.
Not because I don't appreciate the game.
I've tried it.
The problem is that I'm an awful golfer.
I guess it helps to have some interest in the game to watch Disney's The Greatest Game Ever Played, but it shouldn't be required.
Directed by Bill Paxton, it takes full advantage of modern editing and digital cinema techniques to move the story along at a brisk pace. Paxton's characters run the gamut from likeable to not, but many are beautifully nuanced and layered. In my humble opinion, he does a superb job in his second outing as director.
This film, like Seabiscuit, is an underdog story, and like Seabiscuit, it is a highly entertaining work that holds your attention from beginning to end. The transfer, if it is a transfer, looks fine, and is something that I'd be interested in seeing in HD in near future. What Mr. Paxton does in the photography of golf balls as they traverse the green has never been seen before. I'm caused to think of the missing sequence from Gance's Napoleon, in which the viewers becomes a projectile from a rifle as it makes it way toward an crowd of people about to be executed.
Mr. Paxton's heroic tale of the 1913 U.S. Open, comes with a healthy recommendation. Released in September of 2005, and very well reviewed, it didn't receive the public response that it should. I'm thrilled to see it on home video and hope that it finds a larger audience here. All of those involved deserve it.
RAH
Not because I don't appreciate the game.
I've tried it.
The problem is that I'm an awful golfer.
I guess it helps to have some interest in the game to watch Disney's The Greatest Game Ever Played, but it shouldn't be required.
Directed by Bill Paxton, it takes full advantage of modern editing and digital cinema techniques to move the story along at a brisk pace. Paxton's characters run the gamut from likeable to not, but many are beautifully nuanced and layered. In my humble opinion, he does a superb job in his second outing as director.
This film, like Seabiscuit, is an underdog story, and like Seabiscuit, it is a highly entertaining work that holds your attention from beginning to end. The transfer, if it is a transfer, looks fine, and is something that I'd be interested in seeing in HD in near future. What Mr. Paxton does in the photography of golf balls as they traverse the green has never been seen before. I'm caused to think of the missing sequence from Gance's Napoleon, in which the viewers becomes a projectile from a rifle as it makes it way toward an crowd of people about to be executed.
Mr. Paxton's heroic tale of the 1913 U.S. Open, comes with a healthy recommendation. Released in September of 2005, and very well reviewed, it didn't receive the public response that it should. I'm thrilled to see it on home video and hope that it finds a larger audience here. All of those involved deserve it.
RAH
