The Sopranos: The Complete Series [DVD] [2007]
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The Sopranos: The Complete Series [DVD] [2007]
| Dimensions: | 14 x 19.5 x 15 cm; 700 Grams |
| Model: | 2724564408024 |
| Dimensions: | 14 x 19.5 x 15 cm; 700 Grams |
| Origin: | Poland |
The Sopranos: The Complete Series [DVD] [2007]
| Dimensions: | 14 x 19.5 x 15 cm; 700 Grams |
| Model: | 2724564408024 |
| Dimensions: | 14 x 19.5 x 15 cm; 700 Grams |
| Origin: | Poland |
I was hooked after the first few episodes and i was watching 3-4 episodes every night until i finished it. Such a great show. The product itself though, ehhh they could of done a better job. The discs are packed in tightly and its a hassle to change them around.
I bought this because I needed to she my other half what a great series the Sopranos is, I purchased the blu ray version for clearer viewing. The only disappointment in purchasing this product was I purchased it on the 17th December, it was dispatched on the 18th December, and it arrived on the 31st December. When I purchased it, the dates given were expected delivery 24th-31st December, this was the slowest delivery I have ever received off Amazon. It must have been delivered in the back of an asthmatic ant! It wasn’t part of the prime package but come on, it’s the 21st century, not the era of horse and cart!
Product great as expected, delivery by company who it was purchased from pathetic!
This stout card box set features a lift off lid and contains seven ‘standard’ sized DVD cases, each of which contains 4 DVDs. All six series are included [series 6 is actually in two parts] and while some have ‘extras’ these are limited to commentary voice overs on about a quarter of the episodes. There is also a neat booklet that gives a brief overview of each episode. Confusingly, episode lengths vary, especially in the first two series. Similar in many respects to ‘Weeds’ this has the lead character become something of an anti-hero.
Rated 18 this has plenty of swearing, violence, topless nudity, occasional full frontal [from season 4?] but despite this, it’s all much less than the publicity would suggest. Personally I preferred series 1-3, which centred around Tony’ impending breakdown. Series 4 introduced other relationship issues, 5 descends into drug dealing/usage and dream states while 6 [pt1] seems to go nowhere and 6 [pt2] returns to the original. I actually liked the ending, you need to listen to the lyrics and note the subtle volume changes and if you’d paid attention to the psychiatric meetings you should be able to ‘get it’.
Having read some of the negative reviews (some totally stupid) I can say they are completely wrong about this show…it’s brilliant…even after all this time…The other negatives complained about certain discs not playing…and or missing…then before they wrote a review about this collection and giving it One star…perhaps they should have resolved their issues first.
We all know about the show….well we should by now…so I’m not going into what it’s about or story line…My review is simply about the discs themselves run on a sound surround system…
Firstly….it’s made by HBO…yet another great collection from them ( I also have Nikita…Wow)..they seem to put together the discs well and the cuts made so you don’t see any ads was spot on.
Secondly…the sound quality was great…speech was locked in to the centre and moved around the speakers where necessary…There’s not actually that much steering involved but where it’s needed it’s there.
Thirdly…The picture quality itself was superb…and typically as the shows progressed in time it got better and better…due to better cameras I suspect and technology moving forward…For instance.The first 2 series ran at 20/23 Mbps,,,,but towards the latter discs it improved to 30/35 Mbps…and it showed in the detailing,contrast, and movement.
Anyway…like most on here that loved this …it’s a great show from start to finish…get it while you can, and you won’t regret it…Cheers.
I’m (maybe temporarily) rating this One Star in the hope it will get people reading it and someone answering my query.
IT DID. AND THANKS TO THOSE WHO GAVE INPUT. I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE YET – BUT I’VE ELIMINATED THE DISC AS THE PROBLEM AFTER TRYING IT ON ANOTHER BDP-TV COMBO. (IT MAY STILL BE A STRANGE INTERACTION OF H/W & S/W WITH PART OF THE FAULT LYING ON THE DISC – BUT I’VE NO EVIDENCE FOR THAT AND IT SHOULDN’T DETER YOU BUYING THIS GREAT BUT PRICEY PACKAGE)
I’M THEREFORE RE-RATING BASED ON THE LAST SENTENCE IN THIS ‘REVIEW’.
I originally bought the DVD box set and had only watched Series 1 & 2 and Episodes 1 & 2 of Series 3 before buying the BluRay set (DVD set now sold via Amazon..).
I sat down in great anticipation to take up where I left off and watched Episode 3 of Series 3. A disaster. The lip sync was SO far out I couldn’t anywhere near correct it via either/both the TV or the (Oppo 95EU) BluRay player settings.
When I tried the next Episode (4 of Series 3) and a random few of Series 1 & 2 – NO lip sync problems… None.
This would tend to point the finger at the transfer rather than any of my kit.
It follows that I’m nervous other later Episodes are also duff but I won’t find out until too late to return.
Any experiences, observations or thoughts out there – very gratefully received.
P.S. The picture quality everywhere I’ve looked kicks DVD a long way into touch.
Well, in my opinion, it is. Most definitely.
The picture quality is fabulous. A few scenes throughout the first season look slightly off (yellowed skin tones/questionable black levels) but that really is being nit-picky. It’s a huge step up from the DVD release.
So far, after having it for three days now, I’m up to the end of season two and the picture quality is basically flawless. Consistently beautiful and the novelty is yet to wear off.
The programme itself needs little introduction. Although the first season has a few goofy bits (the car chase through the grounds in the pilot episode & AJ’s school fight in particular) it’s still compelling viewing from the off.
I’m seriously enjoying the journey again, and from now until the last frame of that glorious ending, no doubt that the finesse of this fabulous blu ray release will continue to heighten my enjoyment of it all.
Great packaging, epic quality transfer and, as always, really top notch delivery time/packaging etc.
Great job HBO. ‘All good things..’
I report this as, IMHO, the pilot and earlier episodes of Season 1 in DVD format were at times a touch grainy and ‘flat’ – more like ‘video’ quality in some scenes – a factor exacerbated by the way in which ‘we’ are now viewing TV shows on far higher quality flat-screen TVs that reveal imperfections. Moreover, at times were some issues with the sound in terms of vocal synchronisation on DVD.
However, all of this has thankfully and gloriously been repaired and re-mastered to a level of absolute cinematic perfection.
From the iconic title scene, the picture is truly stunning and the pulsating music rich and exciting, with the anamorphic depth and colour palate of episode1, like a series of Caravaggio paintings!
This is one of the most satisfying and gorgeous transfers and Blu-ray releases I have ever had the pleasure to watch and, with it arriving yesterday, I am so besotted that I stayed in last evening and am already nearly on to S2!
A must-have IMHO for any fans of these truly brilliant series. 10/10
I am a big fan of the gangster film genre, but somehow I’ve overlooked this series completely. At James Gandolphini’s passing I made a pact with myself to get these shows watched (for fear of being whacked…). I’ve only watched the first two episodes of series 1 but things look very good. Typical of any good gangster film there’s great characterization, snappy dialogue and good musical scoring too.
A lot of people rate this as some of the best TV of all time; I’ve given it four stars for now, I’d love to think that will be five come the end of the series.
PS. I’ve read previous customers had issues over the box set itself. The `new packaging` is very good, the box is smart and robust, as are the cases, The DVDs are securely stored inside the cases with no risk of damage.
The Sopranos is a masterpiece, one of the few television series that unfolds like a great novel, with compelling writing and characters. The series is groundbreaking, with particular relevance to Western culture due to its focus on the mental health problems that plague our society, such as depression and anxiety. The premise is relatively simple: Tony Soprano, the protagonist, is a Mafia boss in New Jersey who struggles to balance his work and home life, and consequently seeks the advice of a psychiatrist. The two families of Tony Soprano cause him considerable stress and he suffers from panic attacks as a result.
The Sopranos comprises hundreds of characters, and watching the series for a second or third time is therefore more rewarding and enhances the audience’s understanding. The series tackles difficult issues such as family, gender roles, sex and the climate of rage buried within the American psyche. Despite criticism of the show due to its casual violence, I believe the bloodshed serves a purpose and is never gratuitous. The sixth season is the best in my opinion, but all seasons have something to offer. There is never a weak episode, but unfortunately some episodes are much better than others. This is not the case with The Wire, where all episodes are consistently good.
I would strongly recommend The Sopranos to all lovers of television. I would rate it just behind The Wire in terms of overall quality, but above Breaking Bad.
I snapped this up at 40 as a birthday present (for me!) and it’s one helluva bargain. I see the price has gone back up to 50 as I write this, but really don’t let that put you off – a whole 80+ episodes of a brilliant piece of TV history is worth so much more.
My wife and I caught a few episodes when it originally aired on UK telly, but it was the re-run on Sky Atlantic that did for us. We found the one week wait for the next episode was agonizing, so had to get the box set. We are totally addicted and can watch three episodes on the trot if left to our own devices. We’re going to be gutted when we’ve finished watching it all (which won’t be long now as we’re well in to series 5)
With regard to the actual box set – I was worried that I should wait for the release on Blu Ray, but my Sony Blu Ray player does a good job upscaling the DVD content, and the end result is very watchable (half way between off-air SD and HD quality).
I was also concerned by reviews talking about judder during camera pans. And indeed this was noticeable during the Series 1 episodes. I’m glad to say the problem seems to be restricted to that series, and a couple of moments in Series 5 (strangely).
We’ve not watched any of the ‘extras’ yet, so I can’t comment on those.
All in all, a brilliant set. The greatest piece of TV I’ve seen (apart from *maybe* The Wire)
I bought The Sopranos after reading just how good it was.
The only problem is that I also bought the box set of 24 at the same time and I’m going to have to make a major adjustment to the change of pace before I can get around to actually watching it!
Managed only one episode so far, and I need an episode of The Mentalist or 30 Rock (both of which I bought at the same time) to ‘recover’ from bingeing on 24!
After having watched the series…
Tony Soprana is a brutal sociopath who heads a crew rather than a Family, and makes his money in a seedy, rundown part of Jersey.
‘Cuddly’ he is not.
His wife is a total hypocrite, more concerned with his infidelities than the violent and murderous way he makes his money.
Chase also shows the day-to-day tedium (bordering on banality) of Soprano’s life, which although accurate makes for even more tedious viewing in many Episodes leaving you to decide whether to ‘skip’ them or do something else until they play out.
So, how to rate The Sopranos?
You have unsympathetic characters (and a few almost laughable caricatures) indulging in casual violence and murder, intermixed with boredom.
On the basis that it is more believable than the ‘suspend ALL belief before watching’ 24 (5 stars), I might as well give it the same even if only for the acting and ‘understated’ climax to the series.
Not hesitating to kill viciously in cold blood, he nonetheless cannot quieten his conscience. He tries to love his hard-faced mother and because of all this he suffers from depression and he seeks advice from a Psychiatrist who comes to fear him, but who cannot quite stop seeing him. Tony’s beautifully played character (just watch his face when he is really up against it, absolutely expressionless and dead!) is just one important part of this many faceted story: love. lust, family loyalty, infidelity, faithfulness, religion, violence, tenderness all pulled together by an excellent cast. There are surprises in the story along the way which, although shocking, make you gasp and then fall about laughing.
We are now in the middle of series three, watching, self-indulgently, sometimes two or three instalments on the trot. But we try to be sparing – like I said, I am going to be sooo sorry when it comes to an end – it’s brilliant.
Nothing short of brilliant, The Sopranos made a splash at TV dramas, with one of the ultimate anti-heroes. Not only Tony Soprano is one the most compeling characters in the history of television, the problems that make his life so difficult are not so different from the others that do the same to our life as well: mother, wife, daughter, “job associates”.
Eventhough Tony Soprano is the “capo” of the Jersy mob, the show goes way beyond the tradicional mob movies: of course he is one tradicional mobster, other than the fact that he has a shrink to make him deal with the problems of his life that, most of the time, have nothing to do with what he does for a living…
In the most extreme circumnstances, we find Tony making some human decisions that level with some of absolute rage and anger, but, at the end of the day, if there had to be an ultimate mob boss, I’de like that to be Tony Soprano, because he is such a nice guy, a goodfella…
Noteworth is the fact that Nancy Marchand had health issues that held the part of Livia Soprano from being one of the most manupulative “villans” in the history of TV, and she was just another mother, another wife…
In the end, I’ve seen this show on TV as it went along, I’ve seen it on divx twice and I now bought it in DVD, so I’m just about ready to take another peak at it and I know it’s pretty much going to be just like my first time…
About the box set, there should be more subtitles available: I’m yet to know what’s the extra expense to put the subtitles for all of the Western Europe…
The information on the cases in this version/box ARE FALSE! it says it does have some langugages/subtitles which doesn’t exist!!!!
I have just gone through all seasons (sometimes several discs in one season) to look which language/subtitle do exist in each seson.
here is what I found out:
Season 1:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Danish/Finnish(Suomi)/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian/Norwegian/Polish(Polski)/Swedish/Italiano per non udenti
Season 2:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Danish/Finnish(Suomi)/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian/Norwegian/Polish(Polski)/Swedish/Italiano per non udenti
Season 3:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Danish/Finnish(Suomi)/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian/Norwegian/Polish(Polski)/Swedish/Italiano per non udenti
Season 4:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian/Italiano per non udenti
Season 5:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Danish/Finnish(Suomi)/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian/Norwegian/Polish(Polski)/Swedish/Italiano per non udenti
Season 6 part 1:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Hungarian/Rumanian(Romn)/Italiano per non udenti
Season 6 the final episodes:
Season 6 part 1:
Language: English/Hungarian(Magyar)/Italian(Italiano)
Subtitles: English/Hungarian/Rumanian(Romn)/Italiano per non udenti
TAKE NOTE!
So no season has neither French Language nor French subtitles in them. It also doesn’t include Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew or Icelandic subtitles at all! So if you heard someone say that this box does include these subtitles they are wrong, or more to the point: the cases in the box are lying!!!
Hope this helped someone 🙂