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2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
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Dolby Digital Surround English\Mono German Spanish French Italian
Dolby Digital Surround
Mono
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English\Mono German Spanish French Italian
Dolby Digital Surround
Mono
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Jack Terri (Travolta) is a talented audio technician who makes his living by recording unique sounds for horror movies. But when he accidentally tapes an automobile crash that kills a presidential candidate and injures his young mistress, Sally (Nancy Allen), Jack is hurled into a mystery far more terrifying than any of this films! Soon he and Sally must fight to stay alive as they uncover an explosive political conspiracy that will send shockwaves to the highest levels of the government.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Blow out is a classic example of the cinema of Brian De Palma and features a career best perfomance from John Travolta
The film follows John Travolta film sound recordist who records a car crash that kills a presdential candidate. He becomes convinced that the car crash was no accident and starts to investigate it with help of a woman who was in the car at the time of the crash.
The film follows John Travolta film sound recordist who records a car crash that kills a presdential candidate. He becomes convinced that the car crash was no accident and starts to investigate it with help of a woman who was in the car at the time of the crash.
De Palma cleverly uses different techniques like split screens and deep focus photography to make us emphasis with Travolta's character as he despartely tries to convince people that an assaination has taken place.
The film features many classic sequences in which De Palma uses every technique in the book to create tension and suspense for the audience. Your are left on the edge of your seat to the final tragic ending.
While the DVD is thankfully in 2:35:1 widescreen format rather than the awful pan and scan version that has previously been available on video. The transfer is not as good as it might have been which is a pity as it lessens the impact of some of the shots. There are also no extras apart from a trailer on this DVD, which is a pity as it would have been interesting to hear De Palma discuss this classic film.
The DVD is still worth owning if you are a De Palma fan its just a shame that MGM could have not taken a bit more care with its presentation.
Blow Out is one of Brian De Palmas best movies. The film has a similar style with some of his other top films such as Body Double and Raising Cain. The film also stars De Palma regular Nancy Allen, reteaming her with Carrie co-star John Travolta. Both actors are great but it's John Lithgow playing the crazed killer that steals the show. Lithgow plays an Assasin who really seems to enjoy his work. The movie also reminded me of two other classics, Blow Up and The Conversation.
I found the DVD quality to be excellent. This is an amazing film, although despite being similar, not quite as much fun as De Palmas Body Double.
I found the DVD quality to be excellent. This is an amazing film, although despite being similar, not quite as much fun as De Palmas Body Double.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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While some elements of this film pleased me, generally I found its style a little too overdone, a little too intent on trying to make an impact. The director was very concerned with his visual style setting the tone which was supposed to be disturbing or slightly portentous, so he lifted a lot of techniques from Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorcese, it appeared to me, to create this unsettling atmosphere. Some of his camera shots were absolutely lovely, his use of locations, fantastic, v much in the manner of AH. The real faults were with the narrative, as he tried so hard to create this psychological atmosphere that it became a little disjointed and started to be confusing. By the end of the film I wasn't sure if I was watching a movie about a crazed serial killer with a hatred for women or a cold contract killer I presumed he was supposed to be. The direction was overdone, too focused on being sleazy and disturbing, and created the wrong atmosphere for the type of killer the screenplay had. And the casting of Lithgo to play this character helped this confusion none! So it didn't work for me as a thriller, but it was very entertaining and good to look at in places. I would have given it another star had it not been for the tasteless and false looking ending (which really should have been resisted) because there was real suspense in the film, but I felt Mr. DePalma just didn't know when to stop.
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BLOW OUT
This film was panned by the critics but it is a good film which has an un -Hollywood end and John Lithgow as a real nasty !!
Published on 1 July 2009 by D. Gough
The film has aged due to a rather trite subject
This Brian de Palma film is essential in our western cinema. It picks the theme so marvelously exploited by Hitchcock of the voyeur who sees a crime (Room with a view), a murder... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2007 by Jacques COULARDEAU
excellent
When I found out that this film had bombed on its release at the box office, I was sickened, but a part of me was glad, because some of the best movies do fail at the cinema, but... Read more
Published on 8 July 2007 by T. Charnley
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