The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection

One of the greats in silent movies.

This set is amazing beyond words. The quality is astonishing for both the physical product and the films themselves. My wife discovered Buster Keaton films and then turned me on to them as well. We consistently laugh out loud with complete delight, even on the films we've watched before. His work is a true cinematic treasure, and you won't be disappointed. (My only "complaint" for this set is that the included synopses of the films often spoil the best gags, which isn't a problem for the films I've seen already, but it's a warning I'd like to give to just hold off on reading those until after you've watched everything.)

I am a huge fan of Buster Keaton (I'll take him over Chaplin any day) and kept waiting for many months to find a discounted price on this pricey set. When one finally appeared I snapped on it and was very glad I did. There are hours upon hours of classic comedy from the master of dead pan. Kino did a fantastic job of taking ancient footage and making it look sharper than one could hope. This is one of those sets that can be viewed many times without getting old. You get your money's worth with this collection - especially if you can find it less than retail.

What can possibly be said except, "Buy this set!" If you enjoy comedy at all, then you should experience the silent films of Buster Keaton. I don't think you can find a better use for your money than purchasing this set. I've worked my way through Charles Chaplin and Harold Lloyd (both contemporaries of Keaton and equivalently great actors/directors). I had only seen one of Keaton's movies (Seven Chances) and decided to take the plunge on this set, and I do not regret it for a moment. Naturally you can purchase all of the works separately, but I can't imagine watching one film and then deciding not to watch any others. The short films alone will leave you entertaining for days or weeks depending on how often you watch them, and that's not even including the feature length films. Buster Keaton is a cinematic legend for a reason...purchase this set with the highest recommendation possible!

I just bought the ultimate Buster Keaton collection blu-ray box set and I'm pretty happy with it but it's not for everybody. First of all, I want to thank all the great people who take time to review in ellaborate detail these great movies. Because the price is pretty high, I needed some help to make up my mind about this box set. I must have taken 3 hours of reading all the great comments about each blu-ray edition of this package and I made my decision after that. Like I said before, I don't think this box set is for everybody because the improvement is not that great overall, it is very good but I could have been happy the rest of my life with my original box set The art of Buster Keaton on DVD. The thing is, I'm a little nutty about the clarity of the image so I'm a big fan of blu-ray because of it, I also have a good home theater and a lot of reviewer talked about the improvement and the multiple choices for the soundtracks of these movies, so having these classics in 5.1 DTS HD interested me quite a bit. As for the 3 discs with the earliest shorts of Buster, some of them are improved, especially Cops, The high sign, The balloonatic and The Boat because they were enhanced so they are clearer, I don't know why they chose only 4 because a lot more of them could use restoration. That was my biggest disapointment of the box set, not much effort to restore these shorts, they look a little better and that's it.But I love the fact that they were in chronological order and the little commentaries on most of them, those 2 things were fun. As for the feature lenght movies, The Saphead is interesting because you have 2 different versions of the film, but the improvement picturewise was small. Our hospitaly for the feature films is my biggest disapointment, I compare with my DVD and there's not much improvement. A thing that bugged me also was they kept the old title cards, a little restoration could have been interesting for a clearer reading of the cards. Sherlock Jr. also not a great difference with the old DVD but there's 3 soundtracks to choose from so that's interesting. The 3 ages also not a great improvement picturewise. After that, it starts to get better, Seven chances is amazing the image is clear with a lot of detail, good improvement against the DVD. The Navigator, very good also much clearer image than the DVD on the old set. Go West and Battling Butler, the image was pretty good ans stable on DVD and now it's a little better, a little more detail and clarity. The General, amazing!! this is the masterpiece improvement and it's my favorite movie, so I was happy when I saw that. College, the print was good and now it's better, this one is a very good improvement. Steamboat Bill Jr. the movie looked good on DVD and now it's more clear so another good improvement here. Overall, the picture quality on theses features movies and shorts is better than DVD at different degrees, I learned by comparing DVD movie by blu-ray movie that Kino is not Criterion, they don't spend a lot of money on improving the quality of there titles. I know they could but restoration is expensive and I accept the fact that they're doing what they could. There is an improvement but it could have been a little better. I'm still happy because these classics never looked better and some of them looked amazing, almost every film got a 5.1 DTS ausio track, the extras are great and they gave me a few audio commentaries on my favorites Buster features so I loved that. The packaging is wonderful too, the box contains 4 discs and everything is in there. So my final words are, if you're a fan of Buster and you don't have the other box-set it's a no-brainer that this is a must buy. But if you have the old DVD box-set, you need to be a big fan of picture quality like me or be a big a fan of sound quality because the improvement is there but the old DVD set can do the job too.

His talent never gets played out! And in an era WITHOUT STUNTMEN! And I'm FUSSY about what goes into my collection.....one of the big 3.....Chaplin, Keaton & Lloyd will never disappoint!

Everything in one package.I love it almost as I love Buster! The picture quality is amazing ,the extras are informative,and of course it's Buster Keaton.Amazing.

Not only a great collection on one of the greatest comedians, also insight to pioneering days of film!

Absolutely amazing collection with so many Keaton's films including his sound flicks from thirties. Excellent picture quality. I've bought some separate discs a few years ago and finaly got all of them. From my post on facebook (excuse my poor english :-): "There are beautiful things, then very beatiful, then the most beautiful. And then there is this enterprise of edition."

Got the boxset home in a few days only. Great! Very happy with the service and of course the product itself.