The Stone Tape (1972 TV Movie)
6/10
Not a sound investment of time or money.
9 July 2021
The actual movie is pretty meh. The people constantly shouting at each other rather than trying to communicate got annoying as hell. I appreciate subtle and atmosphere with the best of them--enough to recognize that this isn't really it. The most annoying part is that this isn't all that bad, but it isn't really all that good either, when it easily could have been. The end result is something I'd probably not be interested in ever watching again. In that regard, I wish I'd been able to just rent this.

There is a DVD release with remarkably poor authoring--incredibly amateurish. It looks like it was converted from a video tape using share-ware digital recording. Worse, when moving from one track to the next, the video visibly jumps by about half a second. This is slightly jarring during scenes of people just walking about, but it also affects the dialog, as jumps sometimes happen in the middle of a sentence or even a (shouted) word.

All in all, not a sound investment of time or money.
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