The Movie: This movie is celebrated for winning an academy award for best adapted screenplay. Unfortunately, at least to me, this movie was pretty boring. I actually stopped it half way through to go cower in pain from the problem with my joints. A few hours later I came back to it and made myself watch it some more. I don't know why. This movie is a somewhat fictionalized, yet based-on-a-true story account of the end of James Whale's life. He's the guy that directed the Frankenstein movie, and is played by Ian McKellen. Anyway. Like I said, I thought the movie was boring.

The DVD: The film is presented in 2.35:1 widescreen anamorphic format, and the transfer looks really great. Very clean and sharp, with great, fully saturated color. There's also a documentary about the film and James Whale but it was pretty boring too and I stopped watching it after 3 minutes. This is just one of those DVD's where they were reaching pretty far to fill out the special features quota. Of course, there are probably some true James Whale fans out there that are screaming bloody murder about me saying this! Haha.