Syriana (Widescreen Edition)
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak, Amr Waked
Directed By: Stephen Gaghan
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569807723
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-06-20
Running Time: 126
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-12-09
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Blu-ray quality...
Comment: You can learn enough about the movie itself from other reviews, so I will just tell you that this is not blu-ray quality. The sound is terrible. By the time I had the volume loud enough to hear, my speakers were humming, which is an incredibly annoying sound. I couldn't watch the whole movie because it is very involved and you need to pay close attention. The poor sound quality made this impossible. Furthermore, the video quality is not much better. There was an aweful rolling line constantly moving from the bottom of the screen to the top. Maybe I just got a bum copy, but I was very disappointed. I have other blu-ray movies that are really great...this is not one of them.
I'd like to give the blu-ray version of this movie zero stars because of very poor quality. Unfortunately, Amazon forces me to give it one star.
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Summary: bloody oil
Comment: So it ain't perfect and maybe it's kinda preachy, but it is a sincere attempt to look at a very serious problem and you get the impression they gave it their best shot. Trying to create an accurate depiction of the many realities and complexities of oil politics using the medium of film in which to do it is monumentous task, is it not? Basically SYRIANA's complicated plot is a take on the world's oil addiction the same way the film TRAFFIC deals with America's addiction to drugs. We see the situation multi-perspectively, all those involved shown and connections made between them. SYRIANA is successful I think in giving the sense it's a small, complicated, corrupt world filled with delusions, lies, and violence. Nobody is innocent, and for better or worse, we're all in it together.
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Summary: Avoid
Comment: I never received this product and contact with the seller has been impossible . . . Avoid purchasing products from this seller.
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Summary: Refreshing technique used in story telling
Comment: Syriana is a great movie about what goes on behind the scenes in the corporate/political world and it shows how everyone, politician, military, intelligence, royalty, blue collar worker, media...is connected somehow.
I watched this movie 4 times and the more I watched it, the more "clues" I gathered. This really isn't a movie where you can watch once and forget about it. This is NOT an action thriller.
The movie was made in a collarge way to show how the world is a complex web of simultaneous activity. Each "piece" is held together by a well-known actor: Clooney (CIA scenes), Damon (analysis & the "good" royalty), Cooper (corporate), Language (desperate workers) etc... Without them, it would be impossible to navigate through the movie.
Anyway, this movie is not for rental. Buy it, watch it 3 or 4 times and think about it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: awful, just awful
Comment: This is an overly long, preachy waste of time. Which is too bad as its based on a book that is slightly better. The choice to change the movie to better reflect the liberal politics was a poor one. I found this movie to be so awful that I was more than happy to spend the time writing the director to get my money back (I never received my money back, or a response). I try to keep an open mind but sitting through this movie was probably the worse hour and a half of my life.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Blu-ray quality...
Comment: You can learn enough about the movie itself from other reviews, so I will just tell you that this is not blu-ray quality. The sound is terrible. By the time I had the volume loud enough to hear, my speakers were humming, which is an incredibly annoying sound. I couldn't watch the whole movie because it is very involved and you need to pay close attention. The poor sound quality made this impossible. Furthermore, the video quality is not much better. There was an aweful rolling line constantly moving from the bottom of the screen to the top. Maybe I just got a bum copy, but I was very disappointed. I have other blu-ray movies that are really great...this is not one of them.
I'd like to give the blu-ray version of this movie zero stars because of very poor quality. Unfortunately, Amazon forces me to give it one star.
Customer Rating:
Summary: bloody oil
Comment: So it ain't perfect and maybe it's kinda preachy, but it is a sincere attempt to look at a very serious problem and you get the impression they gave it their best shot. Trying to create an accurate depiction of the many realities and complexities of oil politics using the medium of film in which to do it is monumentous task, is it not? Basically SYRIANA's complicated plot is a take on the world's oil addiction the same way the film TRAFFIC deals with America's addiction to drugs. We see the situation multi-perspectively, all those involved shown and connections made between them. SYRIANA is successful I think in giving the sense it's a small, complicated, corrupt world filled with delusions, lies, and violence. Nobody is innocent, and for better or worse, we're all in it together.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Avoid
Comment: I never received this product and contact with the seller has been impossible . . . Avoid purchasing products from this seller.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Refreshing technique used in story telling
Comment: Syriana is a great movie about what goes on behind the scenes in the corporate/political world and it shows how everyone, politician, military, intelligence, royalty, blue collar worker, media...is connected somehow.
I watched this movie 4 times and the more I watched it, the more "clues" I gathered. This really isn't a movie where you can watch once and forget about it. This is NOT an action thriller.
The movie was made in a collarge way to show how the world is a complex web of simultaneous activity. Each "piece" is held together by a well-known actor: Clooney (CIA scenes), Damon (analysis & the "good" royalty), Cooper (corporate), Language (desperate workers) etc... Without them, it would be impossible to navigate through the movie.
Anyway, this movie is not for rental. Buy it, watch it 3 or 4 times and think about it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: awful, just awful
Comment: This is an overly long, preachy waste of time. Which is too bad as its based on a book that is slightly better. The choice to change the movie to better reflect the liberal politics was a poor one. I found this movie to be so awful that I was more than happy to spend the time writing the director to get my money back (I never received my money back, or a response). I try to keep an open mind but sitting through this movie was probably the worse hour and a half of my life.
Big oil means big money. Very big money. And that fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Houston to Washington to the Mideast and ensnares industrialists, princes, spies, politicos, oilfield laborers and terrorists in a deadly, deceptive web of move and countermove. This lightning-paced, whip-smart action thriller grips your mind and nerves with an intensity that doesn't let go for an instant.DVD Features:
Featurette
Interviews
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