Scarface (4k+Br)

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Starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana along with Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia, Scarface has become a cultural phenomenon brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. I just feel like buying these in the next-generation formats every time they come out wouldn't make sense, financially, for me... Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. overbearing, forced, or phony. Reds find greatly improved saturation and color punch. Whites -- beginning with the text crawl at film's start and moving

disc. The picture maintains an organic grain structure; some may find it slightly dense but it's very handsome and complimentary to this Scarface's UHD disc includes only one supplement, the new 35th Anniversary Reunion. See below for a full review. The

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In those outbursts, Scarface reacts. Montana is meant to be feared. So too are Cuban refugees. Scarface openly criticizes the broken system that lets a Tony Montana infect Miami. If not him, than any desperate American who feels owed their dream, and sees the out in a system openly inviting their want. Of course, some scenes are out of focus, blurred or a little dark - depending on the shots, but I guess they were too expensive to re-shoot. This is not unusual for many films as lighting conditions play a role. Overall, this is a nearly flawless picture and in spite of the dated look to the cars and clothing, it looks like a newer release. The best picture quality come in the sequences when Tony is the top man and they all have mansions. There, everything is clean, strong information, highly detailed and the color is accurate. razor-sharp, naturally filmic, and beautifully colored viewing experience that far exceeds either the previously issued VC-1 Blu-ray or the remastered The Rebirth discusses how the film brought to life a lost sub-genre, The Acting continuing although on a more self-explanatory path, and The Creating is the core making-of. Together, those three near the hour mark. A making-of for the video game version is clearly dated, but at least they brought it over. A funny look at the TV edits are here too. For added fun, U-Control offers a body and F-bomb counter, alongside picture-in-picture featurettes culled from the pieces above. There are regular efforts to open the soundstage up with subtle ambient effects that at times wrap right around you in a surprisingly effective way. Even though you only occasionally (such as during the film’s climactic shootout) get that sense of a three-dimensional, object-filled audio space that’s associated with good modern DTS:X mixes.

The HDR color spectrum is a major add that further enhances one's viewing experience. Colors are deeper and more accurate, more intense but never NEW! Scarface: 35th Anniversary Reunion (2160p/SDR/27:06): A conversation with Director Brian De Palma and Actors Al clothes reveal stitching and fabrics with screen-commanding ease. This is a greatly reinforced image that finds stability and accuracy well beyond anyOpening frames, via news footage, follows a boat of Cubans headed to Florida. There’s an unidentified man on board with his son; that man points, and an edit cuts to the American flag. Everyone smiles. It’s serene. Then comes Tony Montana (Al Pacino). With this HDR10 application, it was judiciously applied and looks great. Never once did I feel like some colors were pushed too hard or flesh tones looking too awkward. If anything HDR10 balanced the colors out than previous releases. Certain shot-reverse-shot sequences that were done at different times of the day offer some more uniformity in light and dark - without completely screwing up the colors. It's a subtle thing but I felt like this was a more natural look to the image than before. Night sequences practically glitter - especially those neon signs! The pink/purples of the signs have a lovely glow but you can still make out the individual tubes in the lights. expands one's appreciation of the film and further draws audiences into Tony's blood-soaked world. Facial textures are precise up close and the period And why? Montana feels owed something, the promised American success he distorts to suit him. When that isn’t offered, when control is torn from Montana, and when violence takes those closest to him, the melee ensues. In that way, Scarface isn’t inherently critical toward immigration, so much as the empty political promises that boast about America’s ideal. Fine film grain is apparent throughout - even when it could appear a bit noisy on the old Blu-ray, it's still apparent but more refined and less chunky looking without any signs of digital tampering. To that side, fine details have never looked better! Facial features, costuming, the Miami architecture - everything is on full display here. Maybe that's why I couldn't take my eyes off it this viewing? I felt like I was truly seeing everything better than before! As I said, there is still some softness here and there, but that's by design. That hotel room with the infamous chainsaw sequence has never looked grimier - and therefor - beautiful! Likewise, when Tony reaches his peak, that mountain of cocaine in front of him even offers up small granular details that I'd never noticed before.

dense and grungy urban areas or high dollar and high class homes and clubs, the picture reveals every component with incredible sharpness that only The DTS X sound was harder to hear, and I seem to find that to be a problem with most of these titles, as Dolby Atmos sounds more distinctive in the height channels - or these films right now are not using them to their fullest abilities yet. The only time that I heard them was in the detention camp where a helicopter flew overhead and in a shootout in the club and the finale. Other than that, DTS X was only used as a marketing thing to me. SCARFACE 35TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION: An all-new conversation with director Brian De Palma and actors Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer from the Tribeca Film Festival forward to other on-screen text and crisp white shirts -- enjoy far greater brilliance than even the remastered Blu-ray can provide. Some of the nicestadditional supplements listed below are included on the newly remastered Blu-ray disc included with this set, all of which have been reviewed within the Other documentaries after that comprise: a good 12-minute look at the real world that gave birth to Tony Montana; an interesting 10-minute featurette considering this Scarface alongside the Howard Hawks original; a fascinating 15-minute featurette on the film’s unforgettable cast; and anunmissable half hour feature on the making of the film, taking in everything from the locations to the direction, script, stunt work and cinematography. Considering Scarface’s 1983 origins, it’s a pessimistic view of drugs, even predictive as to how ingrained cocaine would embed itself through the decade. A key scene involves Montana soaking in a bathtub, watching the news as the anchor pushes against an idea to legalize and tax the trade. The resulting ferocity comes as a result of clumsy, near-sighted policy. Montana brings this out from society’s shadows. Shooting people in the street isn’t an elevation of drug-related violence, rather a turn that makes lawlessness visible to a public willingly ignoring it otherwise. The use of HDR is fairly limited - according to the metadata reader on my Panasonic UB820 4K Blu-ray player, the maximum frame average brightness level is just 155 nits (though somewhere in there is a peak light level of 1000 nits). The restoration goes a bit heavy on the grain at times, though, pushing it beyond the point where it feels like a completely natural by-product of the 35mm source. Yet at other times scenes look as if they’ve had the grain smoothed away.

There are some absolutely timeless films I grew up with and will always consider "legends" such as Scarface, The Exorcist, GoodFellas, Casino and a plethora of others...still, when I revisit some of them now later in life, I feel like they don't have the same "impact" on me as when I enjoyed them years ago on the VHS format or on broadcast; I can't really explain it, but this just occurred over the past couple of nights when I took the DVDs of GoodFellas and Casino off my shelf to watch (upscaled to 4K via my Cambridge Audio CXUHD UHD Blu-ray player) and I just wasn't mesmerized and "floored" the way I used to be viewing these. Maybe because I've seen them SO many times and can recite the dialogue line-for-line that they've just lost their impact; don't know what it is. The 4K Blu-ray’s wider color range is more effective in other areas. For instance, it helps to build more period presence into the classic ostentatious 1980s locations and neon lighting. It’s just a shame that it feels at times as if the color’s just been dialled up on a rather uniform basis, without paying enough attention to the specific needs of different elements of each shot. This inconsistency extends to the picture’s sharpness and detail, too. For while some sequences look spectacularly crisp and detailed, as noted previously, others - particularly exterior shots with lots of depth to them - can look rather soft. Especially around their edges. the VC-1 and remastered Blu-rays. The picture struggles with no major source of encode flaws, though aIn the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami... wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name... Scarface. few shots do exhibit some softer and smudgier elements which are inherent to the original photography. This is a striking UHD image that is far and