Elvis [4K UHD]

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The original mono soundtrack is featured on the Blu-ray with a new six-channel Dolby TrueHD, while the 4K digital includes the slightly compressed six-channel Dolby Digital Plus. There is only 49 minutes worth of extras here, not counting the 47 minutes of musical selections, but that doesn't really count, since it's just the movie. The main cast and crew talk about the inspirations of Elvis and how the King's style was brought to the big screen. All and all, I actually love the film and that’s coming from a lifelong fan of Elvis Presley’s music and someone who has visited Graceland for that very reason.

It’s a sound mix that is larger than life, perhaps like the unique sound that “The King” provided us with before he left the building for good. resolution with the very best of modern cameras, including the Arri Alexa 65 and Lf, Director of Photography Mandy Walker then created special ‘Elvis’ lenses to be used: these lenses were designed to evoke the era, primarily the 1970s, giving an age-appropriate softness to the image and introducing more aberration into the usually pristine images captured. Of course, there are dramatic licenses taken – not being an Elvis aficionado, many passed me by, such as the fact that the Presley Family company here formed before Elvis’s career began actually wasn’t formed until after his death – but the film makes no bones about choosing to present the legend of Presley over the ‘truth’ of him and given its drug-addled remembrance wraparound, these were easily forgiven by this viewer. It is never best-in-class in terms of fine detail, but it shouldn’t be, the image still retaining an overall lovely sense of detail. Eschewing that traditional biopic approach and focussing on the real heart and soul of Presley, if the gig of playing one of popular cultures most widely recognisable figures wasn’t hard enough as it was, the film lives and dies on the strength of its two central performances.

One thing that I will point out, in no way a “spoiler” but factual inaccurate here, is that Bobby Kennedy was not assassinated during the “68 Comeback” TV special on NBC that Elvis did. Danny is an “open-hearted guy” who, during the opening sequence, steps out onto the second-floor balcony of the family apartment overlooking the French Quarter and “gets a friendly wave from one of the ladies of the night,” says Maltin. The mixing of the songs is nigh on perfect – the bass and its use of the LFE channel is tight and deep, but fast and never resorts to booming or overt spot blasts of LFE.

tagged with 4K UHD Blu-ray, Alton Mason, Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann, Dacre Montgomery, David Gannon, David Wenham, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Gary Clark Jr. Regardless of how you view it, in whichever HDR form, it looks phenomenal in 4K with an extraordinary amount of detail, most especially in facial close-ups.However, for a film this large about an artist this significant it feels like they should maybe have included more historical footage or performances by the real Elvis Presley. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. These all were important relationships, and in fairness, the people are depicted briefly off and on via the film but not for very long.

This ultimately led to his turmoil in marriage, his addiction to drugs, and lastly his untimely, sad death.In addition to movie reviews, Todd has written many articles for Home Theater Forum centering mostly on streaming as well as an occasional hardware review, and is a frequent guest on the Home Theater United podcast. Warner’s HEVC-encoded 2160p transfer includes all three flavors of high dynamic range – HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision. One thing that really sets this film apart from any other biographies about Elvis is the fact that the actor here (Austin Butler) actually performed the songs himself for the most part mixed in with some of the real-life Elvis. In 1980, he graduated to “talkies” with his award-winning short The Ape-Man, followed by the cult favorite The Adventures of Terrific Man two years later.