Menace II Society (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Bill Duke, Christopher M. Brown, Julian Roy Doster, Khandi Alexander, Marilyn ColemanBrand: NLV
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Director's Cut, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-09-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- The place is Watts, but it could be any urban area blighted by guns and poverty. The person is 18-year-old Caine, but he could be any young man in the hood. The movie could only be Menace II Society, the bravura, uncompromising look at Caine s spiral from missed opportunities to inescapable missteps into the inner-city cycle of hate and death. The filmmaking duo The Hughes Brothers (Dead President
Blu-ray Reviews of Menace II Society (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Decent film, fair Blu Ray.
Summary: 4 Stars
Man, 1993 passed by so fast. It's almost 20 years ago!!
Ever since Blu Ray came out, I have been fiendin for some black films (mainly from the 70's. Shaft and Superfly remastered with 5.1!) and they have taken their time! Finally Do the Right Thing came out, but I guess that does not count as 'they' see that as Spike Lee's cinamatic masterpiece. Well, now Friday, Set it Off and Menace II Society have come out. I guess this will have to do until some of those 70's films come out...
Looking at this film now, you forget that it is only a hour and a half! The picture quality looked like Friday. It had a film look, but not an exceptionally sharp look to it. It was clear with film grain, but not dirty. Detail was there, but it was no Kingdom of Heaven or The Incedible Hulk quality! In fact, it looks like Do the Right Thing on BD, but slight less detailed. So if you know how that is, then there you have it. It is good quality and somewhat 3D, but not like blockbuster films.
Now the sound, which is in Dolby TruHD and is on point! I always felt like I was in the scenes that were being shown! When they go to the prison or through a home with music playing and exit it, the music goes behind the action and is where it should be no matter the direction. Once Caine leaves the house, the music is behind him. In the prison, the people talking on the side stay on the side that they should be on regardless of orientation. This is how surround sound should be done! I was not expecting it from this film.
If you like the movie, get it. If you are expecting Sean Connery James Bond quality, then you may want to pass. It looks like film and you feel that you are at the movies. I guess that is what we want.
Update: I forgot to add that there is posterization in the film. Most natably in the New Line Cinema logo at the start, in Jada's room and on the making of HD version.
Description of Menace II Society (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Synopsis:Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 09/08/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
Tyrin Turner may not have broken out into stardom as was initially expected, but his work in Menace II Society is one of the more powerful cinematic debuts. The film, from the brother writer-director team of Allen and Albert Hughes, chronicles life in the Los Angeles 'hood. Similar territory was covered in the equally commanding Boyz N the Hood, but what makes this cautionary tale stand out is not only the Hughes brothers' forceful story, (written with their friend, Tyger Williams) and direction, but the naturalness of then-newcomer leads Turner as Caine, Larenz Tate as O-Dog, and Jada Pinkett as Ronnie. They are so credible--occasionally frighteningly so--that the repressive universe of violent ghetto life is captured effectively. Life as portrayed here--and no doubt accurately so--is both figuratively and literally narrow. As a very young boy, Caine witnesses his dad murdered over something inconsequential, and his mom OD. His is a world where respect comes from intimidation, power from violence. Despite his understanding of right and wrong (values passed on by a good friend, his kind grandparents, a caring teacher), his life and its entrapments are too much to overcome. --N.F. Mendoza
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