Hi, I just recently watched Godfather part 2 and I noticed something with the dvd movie. At the beggining of the movie when Connie is talking to her mother at Anthony's party, the image seems to bounce up and down. Also, when a bodyguard is sitting on top of the house, the image bounces a little bit. It doesn't shake up a lot but is quite noticable when you seriously view them up close. As if the cameraman was nervous or something. There are some other shaky scenes in the movie but I forget.

Does everybody has this same problem with their dvd movie? Is this a flaw from my dvd movie or was this filmed like that? Thank you.

Never noticed it before. I'll have to watch this weekend and look for it.

It must be your DVD, sad to say . Before I got my glasses my eyesight was so bad i used to sit up close to the TV and I never noticed this. Plus FFC isn't reall known for shooting stuff free hand. I can't remember one scene at all from any of his films where he shoots without putting the camera on a stand. I'm sure theres some but very little.

You think is my dvd movie? I have also noticed this bouncy problem with 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' movie. Nearly at the end of the movie where the stand-off scene takes place, it bounces quite bit. I returned the dvd movie 3 times to the store and all of them had this bouncy problem. I think it was filmed that way but I dunno.

I remember the scene with the bodyguard on the roof bouncing quite a bit, so I dont think its your DVDs. Especially if you've returned it before and they all have it.

Riley

Thank you. I thought I had a defect for sure.

So, did you noticed the bouncy thingy over the weekend?

my copies of goodfellas was doing that but it was the wires in the back werent in too tight and now its fine

I watched the director comentaries on Part 2 last night and I did notice the bodyguard on the house's image bounced a little.Connie's scene might have just been because they were walking.Good eye though.

Maybe it's your DVD player.

I work for a film studio, where I oversee all the DVD manufacturing and authoring.
Since the picture is digitalized, or "encoded" it
would be almost impossible to bounce, as a VHS with bad tracking would. I say it's your player- try it on another machine. Good luck.

I also saw it. Not like bad tracking, but like the camera man moves the camera a fraction of an inch while shooting.

ive never noticed that.

Ive definetly never noticed that

was it 5 different players at different houses or did you take them to your house on your connections?

I'm not saying you are wrong about the way it may have been filmed I'm just saying that those stupid connections and wires can cause things as well.

It is very subtle perhaps even overly-picky but the slight shudders that Smilees has pinpointed at those points are DEFINITELY there.
Of course they are!
Not a problem with the DVD or the player...it looks to me that it was on the print used for the transfer.

This doesn't bother me.
In fact, I've only just got the thing home so I haven't watched them from the beginning yet.
Though I did just chuck Godfather One to take a peek.
Instead of a perfectly black screen for several seconds while the title logo appears in white, I noticed brief spots of white appear at bottom at left then later at right.

Personally, though I think the print looks good from what I've seen there are flaws.

But hey, I can live with 99.99999% perfect until the next format comes along (which will no doubt knock DVD for six!).

It is very subtle perhaps even overly-picky but the slight shudders that Smilees has pinpointed at those points are DEFINITELY there.
Of course they are!
Not a problem with the DVD or the player...it looks to me that it was on the print used for the transfer.

This doesn't bother me.
In fact, I've only just got the thing home so I haven't watched them from the beginning yet.
Though I did just chuck Godfather One to take a peek.
Instead of a perfectly black screen for several seconds while the title logo appears in white, I noticed brief spots of white appear at bottom at left then later at right.

Personally, though I think the print looks good from what I've seen there are flaws.

But hey, I can live with 99.99999% perfect until the next format comes along (which will no doubt knock DVD for six!).

Question for Madewoman...or anyone else who might know: I have the DVD box set, and recently purchased an HDTV. I'm somewhat dissapointed with the picture quality of my GF DVDs, are they not encoded for HDTV? Is there possibly another version with better picture quality? The picture is just rather grainy, not as clear as other DVDs I have rented or own.