Audio & Music: 4/7 Oh-oh! What happened here? While we can rightly be annoyed that there is no uncompressed audio track, the fault goes well beyond this. Except for the music, which is rendered as fully and richly as Dolby Digital permits, there are varying degrees of exaggerated upper midrange creating at times a sort of electronic swishing of varying degrees. Crowds of people walking to and from on the street, digging into the dirt, splashing water, even dialogue to some extent, are all affected. This problem persists on both DTS and Dolby Digital tracks, possibly less pronounced on the Dolby Digital. Not having the Korean DVD to compare, I cannot say what the source of the problem is – but it is bloody annoying when it intrudes.
A Tale of Legendary Libido (2008) Arabic Subtitles (Korean with English subtitles) This is raunchy American Pie-esque sex comedy done Korean style.
Operations: 4 There is no way for an English monolingualist such as I to tell how explicit the language really is, but I'm guessing that while the gist is perfectly clear, the nuance and local jokes are not – nor am I sure how they could be without a commentary audio or text track to explain. The menu, with its images of the protagonist with his finger raised in the air in a kind of victory salute, are contrary to his character and completely without precedent in the movie. Otherwise, the menu's dual language operations are clear enough, though there are only six chapter divisions. What's up with that! Extras: -1 Adding insult to injury the only extra feature is a trailer in SD for what promises to be a dreadful Thai action flic titled Mercury Man.
None of the Extra Features on the KD Media Korean 2-disc DVD are included here. They would have been without subtitles anyway, so perhaps the issue is moot.
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Bottom line: 5 I had a good time with this movie, and as I revisited it to create the screencaps I found myself enjoying it all over again. There are several scenes that have cinematic power well beyond its low comedic, ribald origins. I had not previously read YesAsia’s comparison to Austin Powers, which strikes me as decidedly wrong-headed, nor did I have reason to expect anything more explicit than I got – in fact, I found more skin than I expected.
However, I cannot in good conscience recommend this Blu-ray: the video image is only fair and the audio definitely has some tizzy issues. I will keep an eye out for the Korean DVD and, if I see one, will report.
This may turn out to be one of those rare instances where the DVD is better – or not. Leonard Norwitz February 20th, 2010. About the Reviewer: I first noticed that some movies were actually 'films' back around 1960 when I saw Seven Samurai (in the then popular truncated version), and for the first time. American classics were a later and happy discovery. My earliest teacher in Aesthetics was Alexander Sesonske, who encouraged the comparison of unlike objects.
He opened my mind to the study of art in a broader sense, rather than of technique or the gratification of instantaneous events. My take on video, or audio for that matter – about which I feel more competent – is not particularly technical. Rather it is aesthetic, perceptual, psychological and strongly influenced by temporal considerations in much the same way as music. I hope you will find my musings entertaining and informative, fun, interactive and very much a work in progress. The LensView Home Theatre.