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05 January 2016
"great picture with passable sound"
The Blu ray presentation of "A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die" has a very good picture except for the opening and closing credit sequences (those are a bit grainy). This disc must be a digital transfer of an extremely clean print copy, or perhaps the original negative was restored. It could use, in a few spots, some digital restoration to remove the tiny black specks that usually show up on processed film. The film itself is good, as far as spaghetti westerns go, and this version appears to be the same cut which appears under title "Massacre at Fort Holman". It has been said that a longer version of this film exists under the name "A Reason . . ." but that it was the European release version, and has the voices of the American actors (James Coburn, Telly Savalas) over-dubbed with those of voice over actors. This was not the case regarding the cut presented on this Blu ray disc. Presented here was the same cut presented on VHS and DVD (i.e. Massacre at Fort Holman) with the voices of the American actors intact.
I personally have not seen the longer version, and I have read somewhere that a Blu ray disc of that alternate version exists. My only criticism of this presentation would be the audio, which is passable, but a somewhat dull sounding mono track. Mono is fine, but some digital re-mastering for additional clarity would have been nice. The up side is that the entire track is audible, so there's no missed dialogue. The same cannot be said for the Blu ray presentation of "A Town Called Hell" in which chunks of dialogue are simply inaudible. In short, I would definitely recommend this Blu ray to fans of this film or this sub-genre
02 January 2016
Beautifully remastered picture for a sub-standard film with bad sound
1 of 1 found this helpful This blu ray presentation of a rather obscure "spaghetti" western (actually a Spanish production) has a great picture, but poor audio. The audio is almost non-existent in many places where the actors are speaking in low voices, and there are no subtitles, so the viewer will miss important dialogue. Furthermore, although the film contains many colorful and engaging characters, the storyline suffers from continuity problems, as well as an over indulgence in bizarre, random elements, which make the story even more convoluted. There are un-necessary characters, as well as a flashback near the end of the film, which is far too long and seems totally out of place with the pacing of the rest of the movie. The script seems improvised in many places, and the cast seems unsure of what they are trying to convey, with several scenes being either over or under-acted. All this being said, there are moments where the film seems on target, and the performances (from Martin Landau and Robert Shaw in particular) are quite skillful. I would not recommend this film for fans of the more serious spaghetti westerns, but for those who can appreciate this film for its "artful" mediocrity.
20 December 2015
"Poorly produced DVD"
This is a good, and rather entertaining spaghetti western, with a decent story-line, as well as decent actors. The problem here is that the DVD quality is poor, since the source material used was absolutely horrible. It looks as though this was a digital transfer of an old VHS tape, and it may have even been recorded from a television broadcast. My reason for thinking that is because the sound quality is also poor, and in one section there was obvious sound looping done in order to cover up some mild profanity. I must say that the quality is so poor that it is even worse than an old bootleg VHS copy of the same film, that I acquired some years ago. A slightly longer cut of this film exists under the name "A Reason to live, A Reason to Die", but this is the European release, and has the voices of the American actors over-dubbed with those of voice-over actors. I have not seen this other version, but other reviewers say that the picture quality and sound quality are good. As for the over-dubbed voices, they may or may not be the downfall of this alternate version, but that remains to be seen.