Customer Ratings & Reviews

Amazing collection at a very good price. Arrived 3 days early as well!

Great set! Beautiful set! Highly recommend! You won’t regret it.

great 4k collection taxi Driver/Stripes/Oliver/Social Network

Good collection, Taxi Driver 4K transfer is reference quality

An amazing set. Taxi driver I had to own. Beautiful box set.

This is an absolute must have for any lover of film!

Love the set… wish they would reprint set 1. I was too new to 4K and missed it

So I'm satisfied with the product, but I have a few gripes. The corners are scuffed and worn down s bit, but that's not a big deal. 3 discs arrived loose, but there were no scratches. But I liked it all other than that.

As an owner of the first edition of the Columbia Classics that includes the stellar Lawrence of Arabia 4k and an additional 60+ 4k UHDs (including such fantastic legacy transfers of Apocalypse Now, The Matrix, Blade Runner, etc.) and over 600 blu-rays that I watch through my Oppo 203 and Sony 85" X900F I consider myself well positioned to offer an opinion on the purported audio and visual quality of 4k releases. I own this set and have watched two titles so far...both of which I consider underwhelming to say the least and believe there is significant undeserved hype for this set. To cut to the chase, I first picked the legendary Taxi Driver for my foray into this set's AV quality. What I saw is diametrically opposed to the prevailing descriptors of "stellar," "outstanding," and other superlatives I have read pertaining to this catalog release on 4k. Clearly expectations were low or there is an air of esotericism in the reviews being posted. To wit, how can any observer get past the swarmfest of grain in this movie? True to the original? Organic? Filmic? RUBBISH! Maybe people are watching this on a laptop and don't see the washout of detail from the thick grain that renders sharpness utterly moot. Time and time and time again I kept waiting for the pop of a UHD OR enhanced detail of set pieces, facial expressions, uniform detail like patches on Travis's jacket. Zero zip nada. Film grain overwhelms any opportunities for details to shine. In fact the grain is so bad, I was watching it for second time with a friend who is the opposite of a film expert, like most humans, and I paused the picture and without any specific prompting from me I asked "so what do you think of the picture?" and her response was: "grainy." Not "nice but grainy" but just plain grainy. It's overwhelming. You would NEVER pull this out as an example of 4K's ability to make film shine. Now the traditionalists will dismiss this criticism with such absurdities like "well what's the option scrub it with DNR?" or it's true to the film's original source /director's intent." Rubbish. Rubbish is rubbish. Several other blu-rays suffer from this same swarmfest like Donnie Darko or American Werewolf in London to name a couple. I get film grain and love it when it's filmic, now when it overwhelms the image. See the titles I listed above for great filmic presentations with complementary grain instead of preponderant grain. To me, any upgrade in shadow detail, purported resolution gains, contrast upticks, etc., are overwhelmed by the pervasive grain in this film. Unfortunately, the same issue plagues the second title I chose to review, Stripes. I won't regurgitate the narrative above. But suffice to say the same issue is the bogey man of this film. It's not glorious. It's not authentic. It's a mess. Once again, in now way is Stripes a film you'd ever pop from this set and show as an example of 4ks glory. Nope. If you choose to be enthralled by the "true to source" pathetic film "quality" of these releases then by all means go for it. But to many who've yet to pull the trigger on this expensive set, I just want to level expectations. Hoping at least one or more of the remaining titles redeems what so far looks like an overhyped cash grab for this hyperventilated hyperbolic choice of "classics."