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I am a big fan of this movie. I loved it when I saw it in the theater but have been disappointed ever since by the poor picture quality of its TV broadcast and VHS tape presentations. I had high hopes for the DVD, but as other reviewers have commented, it is mediocre. Still, it is the best that is available and if you are a true fan of The Rocketeer, then you will want to have it. It is a shame that Disney has so little respect for movie fans that they released a bare-bones disk like this that doesn't do the movie justice.
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I remember this film in the theater being really crisp and sharp, an excellent experience. Unfortunately this transfer is jaggy and according to a clip below from my favorite DVD review site, DVDfile.com, it isn't in the original aspect ratio. I feel people should be aware of things like this to push more studios to do a decent job with their releases rather than the cheapest possible product.
Snippet from dvdfile.com review
"I'd been looking forward to this release for quite some time. As Buena Vista Home Video stubbornly resisted new transfers for back-catalog titles and 16x9 enhanced video in general, my hopes for a superior DVD slowly evaporated. My low expectations were predictably fulfilled. This appears to be a recycled transfer, a letterboxed D2 presentation that has an odd aspect ratio. The film is rated at 2.35:1 but appears to be closer to 2.0:1 - I was too disappointed in the transfer to bother measuring it. The video suffers from all the usual composite symptoms, compounded by the jaggies of conventional 4:3 letterboxing. The color balance, blacks, and noise levels are mediocre. Visible digital artifacts and visible edge enhancement are minimal."
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I disagree with the review that this was a poor DVD transfer. I was pleasantly suprised that the disc came with dolby digital 5.1 sound and I thought the video transfer was certainly better than any vcr copy. As for the movie itself, it is certainly a guilty pleasure that is sure to offend nobody, which is rare in this day and age.
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Disney screwed up this one...big time. The clarity was okay, but the picture itself was really dark. You really had to strain to see what was going on in most scenes, and were rarely successful. I don't know where they got there print from, but Disney needs to trash it, enhance it and remaster the video and sound, just like Paramount did with Star Trek: TOS. I didn't buy a DVD to get VHS quality...and I don't even think I got that.
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This film was victimized by a poor transfer to DVD. Caveat Emptor
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