The Sting [Blu-ray]

Love this movie. Needed a replacement and purchased this one.

Redford and Newman always enjoyable, played their characters well.

Can watch it over & over again. Can't get the piano out of your head.

Love, love, love this movie. Great cast. Get your snacks and pop corn ready!

I have seen this movie several times over the years and have it on DVD. This is a great classic with a great cast and acting. 5 stars! What was disappointing was the quality of the transfer to Blu-ray. Not Blu-ray quality by any means. No better quality than the DVD that I already own. The package states "Digitally remastered". Perhaps the original film print was not very good (ok, it was produced in 1973). Still, I expected better quality in a Blu-ray. Although the Amazon page says it was released in May of 2019, the dates of the files on the disc are all April, 2012. Perhaps it was remastered from the DVD cut and not from the original print, though the package states that it was digitally remastered from " ... High Resolution 35MM Original Film Elements". So I will assume the film print was so so quality, but it appears that it was a straight transfer from the DVD cut. Additionally, no improvement of sound quality over the DD 5.1 on DVD. Universal did not do justice to this great classic.

This is an old movie with two great actors Newman and Redford.. I saw it years ago and liked it. When I viewed it again I was disappointed as I remembered it much better and funnier. Some movies age better than others. Want to see a great old movie? Get You Can't take it with you.

The director is George Roy Hill, and the superstars are those 2 excellent old buddies Paul Newman and Robert Redford. This time, they play con men that methodically and with excellent resourcefulness fleece a rich mark (Robert Shaw). Their approaches are surprisingly complex (it would take every one of today's space to try to clarify them.) A lot of the enjoyable in the motion picture is checking out Hillside and his screenwriter, David S. Ward, keep the plot directly.The flick is arrived Chicago of the 1930s, and several of the exterior situations were filmed to this site (featuring an efficient system chance at Union Terminal). We see a huge, confused, lusty, brawling city where the big guys with the muscle are in some way constantly getting rid of to the people with the self-confidence angles. Robert Shaw never ever determines which struck god. Shaw is a high-stakes gambler that initially acquires hooked throughout a casino poker game in between New york city and Chicago on the 20th Century Limited. Newman and Redford area god, mark god and begin to manipulate your man. He never ever determines they even understand each various other, and that's part of the charm: They have to play a great deal of scenarios for your man as full strangers, as Redford casually allows drop that he understands the location of the greatest cable area in Chicago.The concept, Redford describes, is to enable Shaw to win big on a set equine race in order to ... however I had not been kidding when I pointed out the scheme is complexed. Paul Newman runs the cable area. Or must we claim it appears to be operated by Newman. Or, much more accurately, it seems a cable room, because the entire operation is merely a theatrical set, and everybody in the room is a star, and the "programs" from the track really are being composed by a reporter in the back space.The film has a good, light-fingered design to it. Hillside delicately children the 1930s with his small overestimations of styles and designs. He informs his story episodically, damaging the motion picture down in to the numerous stage of the con game. And he's extremely proficient at preserving a type of off-balance pacing; we can never rather pin Newman and Redford down. They're constantly kind of angling into scenes, making enigmatic declarations under their breath and working from the very least a step ahead of us. Hillside's visual style is oblique; rather than posting his stars in the frame and tape-recording the activity, he appears to sneak up on it. Newman and Redford virtually appear on their way to yet another motion picture. If that seems like an objection, it's not suggested as one: The style listed here is so seductive and brilliant it's hard to locate. It resembles absolutely nothing else I have actually seen by Hillside, and at times, it nearly reminds me of Jacques Tati crossed with Robert Altman. It's good to obtain a criminal activity flick a lot more concerned with humor and personality compared to with blood and gore; listed here's one, as we claim, for the entire family members.

At the time of its release in 1973, THE STING was considered the inferior of the two Newman/Redford buddy pictures (the other being BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID released in 1969), but that general consensus has reversed today.THE STING is one of those movies that if you haven't seen yet, you should experience on your own without reading a single review. There is a reason why this movie won the Oscar for best screenplay and it would spoil the fun to have the plot synopsis in your head before you actually experience the film on your own.So, what to review here? The DVD itself and the film has been lovely restored. The picture is quite sharp and the colors have never looked better as can be seen when compared to the theatrical trailer included in this set. As another reviewer noted, there is a slight frame jump just after the opening credits end, but that's about it. Having just the film on disc 1 shows the care with which Universal did the transfer, there are no compression tricks needed to put just a single 2hr 10 min movie on a dual-layer disc. Moreover the sound quality is excellent with even the gunfire showing the subtle dynamics of recoil and not the typical flat "bang" (again, compare with the trailer). The framing is 1.85:1, the same as in the release shown in theaters.The "extras" on this set are a bit paltry and this is where it missed a 5-star review. The second disc contains a trailer (which unfortunately is from the re-release, where is the original?), some production notes, and a 1 hour "making of" feature. This feature includes interviews with Newman and Redford, as well as Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Dimitra Arliss (who plays the minor character Loretta), and Ray Walston (who died in 2001). The supporting actors recollections are just as, if not more, insightful than the leads. The writer, David Ward, and the music adapter, Marvin Hamlisch, also are included. Hamlisch doesn't offer much more than the usual comments about the ragtime music not being from the period of the film, but it is fascinating to hear that it was George Roy Hill's (the director) idea to go in this direction. Ward wanted the music to be bluesy!While the recollections are nice, it's a shame that David Ward did not do an audio commentary to the film. His screenplay drives everything and so, despite not having George Roy Hill around for a commentary track (he died in 2002), it would have been fascinating to hear Ward's thoughts on every plot point. Some of these topics are raised in his interview but I would have liked even more.As a two-disc set, this is a bit pricey, but with a fantastic transfer worth it. Just don't expect much from the second disc. Finally, if you enjoyed this picture, you might want to consider checking out HOUSE OF GAMES, which is also about conmen but with a far more brooding tone.

The film is wonderful, why bother replacing blu ray with 4k if it wasn't?Quality is rather variable - scenes outside, particularly when it's sunny, are clearly a noticeable step up. Scenes indoors a little less so, and scenes at night don't look better than blu ray to me. Not sure if it's HDR or Dolby Video, but dynamic range is better so things that should be bright are definitely brighter.I think it's worth it, but don't expect it to look like a modern 4k film.

I expected to much from this 4k bluray.Sadly the PQ is dire.What's wrong with it?PQ varies massively from scene to scene. There's also a problem with picture focus.This 4k bluray is very difficult to watch as the picture quality varies from scene to scene. The PQ is never stable for more than a few seconds which is most disconcerting.I've never seen a 4k bluray (or blu ray) before where the PQ varies so frequently.The sting on 4k bluray is one the most disappointing releases I have.The movie itself is absolutely brilliant.This is a 5 star film with a zero star picture quality.

Some people would have you believe that The Sting did not deserve it's 1973 best picture Oscar, that maybe it should've gone to the Exorcist. They are wrong The Sting is a brilliantly made and performed movie, it is a delightful film led by it's 2 lead stars at the height of their fame who spark off each other wonderfully just as they did in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. But it is not only the stars who recommend the film the supporting cast is very strong with lots of familiar character actors such as Charles Durning in excellent supporting roles. Also Robert Shaw provides a suitably roguish villain and director George Roy Hill evokes the style of old films with cards appearing on screen to announce the next stage of the film aping silent movies, then there is the use of editing wipe cuts that again evoke an earlier type of film making and finally to enhance the atmosphere of an earlier age there is Marvin Hamlish's arrangements of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.The film is a tale of revenge, how some con men take revenge on a gangster who has killed one of their friends and the story is about how they achieve that revenge, the script creates an intricate and satisfying plot and the performances of Robert Redford and Paul Newman are the epitome of a star performance, very charismatic and enjoyable. So the film is a brilliantly constructed piece of entertainment that was well worth it's best picture Oscar and is a movie that is well worth seeing.

This is a pleasant enough film, the main attractions of which are the character actors and the nicely done period touches.On the other hand, the plot is somewhat too contrived to really convince and the ending is rather a damp squib.Some people have said that the ragtime arrangements that form much of the background to this film are intrusive, but this probably comes down to whether you like this style of music or not. A more substantial criticism is probably that it is a little too much studio bound, with the train scenes looking rather cardboardy.It's probably not a bad film to keep, but the more you play it, the more evident are the holes in the plot. And after a few re-runs, these do get a bit annoying. I don't think my DVD has been played since about 2011 and it's probably about time it went in the charity bag.

This is a near-perfect movie, which remains one of my all-time favourites. First and foremost it has some terrific acting performances notably from Paul Newman and Robert Shaw, both of whom are in scene stealing form. The poker game on the train is the undoubted highlight for me. Newman's pretend drunk is one of the best I've ever seen and Robert Shaw's unspoken fury is brilliant. Thanks to the script, the film, which is over over two hours long doesn't have a wasted frame.The bluray is good and for a 40+ year old film it looks as good as I've ever seen it. There were a few places where I thought they maybe could have made a bit more effort, but overall its well worth having over the DVD. Extras are not exceptional, there are some interesting interviews, but the main reason to buy this is the film itself.