LeoA
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I feel kind of left out since I could never get into this one despite loving all three of the stars.
Nice to see it getting the treatment it deserves though.
Nice to see it getting the treatment it deserves though.
I never did, either, even with a close friend who LOVED it. As with It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, I plan on getting and revisiting this title to see if my opinion has changed over the three decades since I watched it. I did enjoy IAMMMMW much more, so maybe the same will happen here.LeoA said:I feel kind of left out since I could never get into this one despite loving all three of the stars.
Nice to see it getting the treatment it deserves though.
When I saw a 70mm print in 2010 in Bradford on the Cinerama screen it looked as good as a 65mm production, oneof the best blow ups I have seen.Also they had to frame the picture up to get the subtitles in when the song comes on because of the cropping of the picture in Cinerama.Years after first seeing THE GREAT RACE in Cinerama I found out that I'd been misled in assuming it was a genuine 70mm film and not a blow-up from 35mm. Nevertheless the picture quality was so good that it totally fooled me (as it did later with DOCTOR ZHIVAGO). Thoroughly enjoyed the film although, like MAD WORLD, I think this type of epic broad comedy works best with a theatre audience.
I suppose you'd bracket The Great Race with the other two epic comedies of the time, Mad World & Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines. I like Mad World (great Blu-ray), not so keen on Magnificent Men these days (didn't buy the TT release), but The Great Race has always been my favourite, it's the only one out of the three that still makes me laugh out loud these days. I went & saw it three times when it was released (the only film to beat that was Jason & The Argonauts). Warner never released the DVD in the UK, I imported it from Germany, & will import this from America (& it will probably work out cheaper than the DVD was).Years after first seeing THE GREAT RACE in Cinerama I found out that I'd been misled in assuming it was a genuine 70mm film and not a blow-up from 35mm. Nevertheless the picture quality was so good that it totally fooled me (as it did later with DOCTOR ZHIVAGO). Thoroughly enjoyed the film although, like MAD WORLD, I think this type of epic broad comedy works best with a theatre audience.
Yeah, when Tony Curtis comes up on the credits there's cheers & with Jack Lemmon it was boo's. It was correct on my German DVD, but I understand it was switched on the American DVD, but I think Warner had corrected it, so on the latter DVDs it was right.I think, on this forum, in anther thread about The Great Race, there was a discussion about an audio error during the credits on the DVD: booing (when there should be cheering, and/or vice versa. Is the expectation that the error will be fixed on the Blu-Ray?
*-Well, it was fixed in subsequent DVD copies, so I am sure it is.Dave B Ferris said:I think, on this forum, in anther thread about The Great Race, there was a discussion about an audio error during the credits on the DVD: booing (when there should be cheering, and/or vice versa.
Is the expectation that the error will be fixed on the Blu-Ray?
John Morgan said:*-Well, it was fixed in subsequent DVD copies, so I am sure it is.