Horribly underrated

I totally agree. And I also think that Harrison Ford should come over to (good) european directors more often when his carreer is going in every possible crazy direction... I think he could do something nice teaming with Verhoeven maybe?... Or Michael Winterbottom? Or maybe I'm just daydreaming and great American actors don't really care about small European countries...

When I first saw Polanski's movies in the 1960's he was an actor (and writer) in some very strange Polish films that had the surreal psychological air of Ingmar Bergman. When he put out Repulsion and Cul-de-sac, those were two of the strangest movies ever made, right at the start of the British monopoly on culture due to the Beatles, a time everyone knew was in for a huge change. This guy Polanski was so innovative he had to take on a badboy image and a guarded strangeness of a Phil Spector. He has none of the American characteristics that make for the popularity of a Clint Eastwood acor/director/writer. His sexual promiscuity made him even less likeable than Charlie Chaplin, whose sexual escapades with underage nymphettes ruined his popularity he had so successfully achieved. And watching him slice up Jack Nicholson's nose in Chinatown did nothing to endear him to the American public. The truth is, he's up there with Stanley Kubrick and even Hitchcock in his artistic prowess. This is the cinematic artist Americans love to hate, but proudly stands defiant and continues to make challenging films, he being at the pinnacle of his art.

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This movie is one of my top10 of all times. Best characterization of the 80's.

oh totally true I really like The Fugitive and this was just like it. Roman Polanski directing and Ennio Morricone with the music, great piece of filmmaking

I completely agree, and the way the film has been treated by the studio by allowing it to be callously crammed onto a DVD, unremastered and in Pan&Scan of all things, is nothing less than negligence. It's an insult to the actors, the film makers, and the people who loved the movie enough to purchase it.

I was appalled by how terrible the transfer was, and Letterbox should be standard on all DVDs. Why in the world have we all purchased these Wide-screen TV's if they're going to keep making Pan&Scan DVDs?