Customer Reviews

Ocean's Thirteen [Blu-ray]

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Movie's good! But DVD sucks big time!!! I've got VHS cassettes in better quality than that DVD. At the beginning, I thought my Sony Home Theatre System(DAV HDX500) & Sony Bravia TV got totally messed up. Turned out, there's nothing wrong with the equipment - thank God! DVD's a problem!
Sound (Only 2.1) & Picture Quality (Very grainy, lack of focus etc.) make that movie "unpleasant" to watch. Even if you have decent TV & HTS. Kind of a bad copy of a very used VHS cassette. Shame on Warner Bros. or those guys who release such poor quality DVDs. I decided to buy/rent a couple more copies and compare the quality. If they're any better, than Amazon.com should reconsider their partnership with the distributor or whoever they are, 'cause it's definitely not the product I've expected!

Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his gang are back, this time to get revenge against Willie Bank (Pacino). Bank has screwed over Reuben Tishkoff (Gould), and taken his land and money to build a new casino, causing Reuben to have a heart attack. The gang, led by Ocean, Rusty Ryan (Pitt), and Linus Caldwell (Damon), decide to put the new casino deep into the red and steal Bank's diamonds.

"Ocean's 13" is a vast improvement over "12" and on par with "11", if not a little better. The cast know their characters so well by this point and have a great chemistry. You know that they had fun making this movie, and it shows. The action is minimum, but interest is sustained through following their plan as it comes to fruition. There are some twists, but nothing earth-shattering. Mostly, this is a chance to see good actors doing their thing. Fans of this series will not be disappointed, and although director Steven Soderbergh says this is the last one, I can't help but hope that he changes his mind.

The movie was ok.

The picture quality on the DVD sucks. I'm taking it back to the store where I purchased it.

Warner Bros seems to be trying to populate their Blu-ray portfolio on the cheap. The sound is just Dolby 5.1, the same as a cheap DVD would have (some DVD have better) and the picture... it might have been some artistic selection to make it so but, I am not kidding, I spent 15-20 minutes while watching this movie trying to adjust my TV, thinking that maybe it was something wrong with it.

I will not recommend buying this. News to Warner Bros: Blu-ray allows you to include nice things such as 'uncompressed' audio and I can't think of any excuse for not having it on a relatively recent movie.

I have a new Samsung 1080p HDTV and an Onkyo A/V receiver which upconverts video to near HD quality using the Faroudja processing chip. Every other Standard Definition DVD I have watched on this system looks fantastic. However, Oceans 13 looked awful. The picture was very grainy and the colors were distorted. The actors all had orange skin which made them look like they slathered themselves with some cheap tanning lotion. I could only stand to watch about 45 minutes of this DVD.

I did some research online and found that a few DVDs don't look good when processed by an upconverting DVD player or receiver. Oceans 13 was specifically mentioned on one A/V forum as a DVD which looks awful when upconverted. Very disappointing to say the least. If you have an upconverting DVD player or receiver, don't waste your money on this movie.

All I can say is that I am extremely disappointed in the video quality for a high definition disc. Sure, the picture sharpness is way better then DVD, but there is SO much noise and grain in the video, it is almost unwatchable. A friend got the DVD and even though it is not as crisp, the grain and noise is so much less. I am completely disappointed in this Bluray version. So much in fact that I am trying to exchange for the DVD version it is so bad. It is as if the disc is defective, but from reading other reviews, that is just how bad this version is. Stay away.

Definitely have to pay attention in the beginning to appreciate the complexity of their scheme/ scam (I have a habit of doing busy things/ watching tv at same time :-) But this one definitely beat out Ocean's 12 by far! Clooney & Pitt still lookin' good too!

RE: other prev comments on Unbox . . . Amazon is obviously still working out a few kinks, but stands by their product w/ outstanding customer service! In the beginning, I had a few probs w/ movies not downloading properly to my Tivo. All anyone has to do is just send them a quick email about what's going on & they'll make it right in no time. You will definitley get what you paid for (and not pay for it twice). I've rented several movies since & now, NEVER have any problems ordering/paying straight from my Tivo.

I think Unbox rocks (and of course, my Tivo!). . . it saves me from the huge hassle of having to go through the motions of turning the computer on, etc., especially since being disabled

I loved Ocean's 11 and I liked Ocean's 12. Ocean's 13 was not that great. First off the premise itself was a little over the top - it is one thing planning a heist, another to plan a heist with every table, every slot winning and the house losing (no, I am not giving out any secrets here). This is an ambitious attempt (daring?), but then everything seems to fall in place so easy. And it just doesn't have the same feel of thrill, suspense, excitement whatever. Good for a watch, but not much more.

The color balance on this was so bad I returned the disc, thinking that it was defective. The characters have orange skin, the contrast loses all the shadow details, and the color is so saturated that it's almost unwatchable. It was NOT this bad in the theater.

I finally turned down the color on my TV by 50% to make it through the movie. This disc has the same problem on two different DVD players and two different TVs - it's the encoding, not the hardware.

Skip this unless you're on a B&W set!

This HD dvd disk has a very poor picture and sound quality. This is one disk to avoid.