A Few Words About A few words about…™ Love Story – in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[PMF]

Yes, where is Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet?

 

[battlebeast]

I'll take it any way I can get it as along as it's the new 4K remaster!

Me too!

 

[compson]

I bought the BD and then used the code to watch the 4K from iTunes. I watched the beginning of the BD to compare, and the improved resolution of 4K is quite noticeable. I get a kick out of seeing HDR, but the disc’s colors seem more like those you would see in a theater.

I had previously seen only a TV altered version of Love Story decades ago. Romances aren’t my thing, even in movies, but I had a blast watching the first 2/3 of the movie. The movie’s big twist occurs early in the third act in a conversation that’s just preposterous, and the schmaltz then piles up in a way that feels almost like parody. But what the heck, it’s only a movie. Tommy Lee Jones, in his first screen appearance, has a small speaking part. The screenplay’s author, Erich Segal, met Jones at Harvard when Jones was a student there, and Segal based aspects of Ryan O’Neal’s character on Jones. (And yes, Al Gore was Jones’s roommate.)

 

[Wiseguy]

The only tragic love story Paramount should be expending all this time and energy on is Zefferilli’s Romeo and Juliet IMO. That’s never even had a Blu-ray release! And such a better film IMO- a classic and Oscar winner. Do they at least include Carol Burnett’s spoof of it as an extra? Now that was hilarious w Harvey Corman as Oliver.

Didn't know Harvey and Roger were related.