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I'm not sure who this is marketed for/to....I am not a happy owner.
First things first, I greatly admire Clint Eastwood as an actor and director ,and he's been the major film star of my baby boomer lifetime.
I just picked this set up so I am reviewing as an OWNER , not someone who has read the contents and wants to prattle on about Clints career at Warners. I was sad to find that the discs are the notorious Flippers (a movie on each side) instead of the far more stable single sided discs. Given that many of these movies are already available for under 10 bucks each This is still a cheap way to buy all of his movies for anyone that is that big a fan but who doesn't already own them.. I'm a bit confused as to who they are marketing to? I am a big fan and own many of these but thought it might be a great way to house films in a smaller package and looked forward to the documentary and the book etc..
Extras.... the documentary is only a 21 minute "teaser" for the real one due this summer and NOT 16x9 but letterboxed 4:3 wow..that's lame. They DO give you a web address and a code to get the whole documentary mailed out in the summer of 2010...but when you go to it, it says that address either doesn't yet exist or has other troubles and come back later. Who knows what that is about...have so many people bought this and tried to redeem that their server crashed...not likely, probably just more corporate stupidity and "I thought you had set that up" finger pointing.
Book...is really a big nothing..tease for the real book in stores, and the pouch with a few photos ,again nothing special.
The Films...As I said, being that these are unstable "flipper discs" I am hesitant to get rid of the DVDs of the films I have and unlike some other multi disc sets I've recently purchased these will be scratched in removing and replacing for play...in fact you can NOT remove them without putting your hands on the surfaces of the discs (never recommended).
Bottom line, This isn't really something for a true fan who would be better off it seems only buying the Clint films one wants in either DVD or Blu-Ray. There is NOTHING here for true fans but for somebody who owns virtually none of his movies and suddenly wants to spend over a hundred bucks (that seems a mutually exclusive notion) its a good value.
Were this released on Blu-Ray....I would be very happy and they would need not deal with flippers due to the storage capacity of Blu-Ray....but we see no such release in the near future.
To summarize...I'd stay away if you are a big fan, own the movies of CLints you already like and think this is some sort of "Cadillac" version..its more of a Pinto.
February 2010 · Movies and TV