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directed
by Clint Eastwood
USA 2003
In Eastwood's seminal western ”Unforgiven”, William Munny
contemplates about having done his job, “It’s a hell of a thing to kill a man.
You take away all his got and all he ever gonna have.” Where many at that time
connected “Unforgiven” with “Outlaw Josie Wales” and “Pale Rider” as a trilogy
of revenge, a revision is in order after his latest film “Mystic River”, as it
has more in common with “Unforgiven” than the two other films. |
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Theatrical Release: May 23rd, 2003 - Cannes Film Festival
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Big thanks to Henrik Sylow for the DVD Screen Caps!
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Warner Home Entertainment Region 1 - NTSC |
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Runtime | 2:17:40 | 2:17:43 | 2:17:56.810 |
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2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 44,811,218,300 bytes Feature: 37,327,128,576 bytesVideo Bitrate: 25.43 Mbps Codec: VC-1 Video |
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Audio | 5.1 Dolby Digital English, 5.1 Dolby Digital French |
5.1 Dolby Digital English, 5.1 Dolby Digital French, 2.0 Dolby Digital English (Audio commentary) |
DTS-HD Master Audio English 3507 kbps 5.1 / 48
kHz / 3507 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Commentary: Dolby Digital
Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB / Dolby
Surround |
Subtitles | English, French, Spanish and None | English, French, Spanish and None | English, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish and None |
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Release Information: Studio: Warner Home Entertainment Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details:
Chapters 36 |
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Release Date: July 13, 2004 Chapters 36 |
Release Information: Studio: Warner
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 44,811,218,300 bytes Feature: 37,327,128,576 bytesVideo Bitrate: 25.43 Mbps Codec: VC-1 Video
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Blu-ray
Release Date: February 2nd, 2010 Chapters 36 |
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. ADDITION: Warner Blu-ray January 2010': While there are plenty of older titles that I'd like to see brought to 1080P resolution, Mystic River is such a great film and very much worth the excuse to revisit. I think it's a great choice by Warner to move to Blu-ray. As far as visual improvement, I hope the screen caps below, as compared to the previous NTSC DVDs, give you a good idea of how much tighter, more detailed, and sharper the image quality is. Even contrast and colors leap ahead. It's a VC-1 encode with a decent bitrate and this looks very good and occasionally even impressive with some desirable depth. Dependant on your system - the superiority is moderate to heavy over the previous SD-DVDs. The Blu-ray is slightly brighter and shows a tad more information in the frame. Continuing with good news - Warner have passed on their usual lossless TrueHD for a similarly lossless, and preferable by this reviewer, DTS-HD Master 5.1 at a healthy 3507 kbps. This sounds excellent with every nuance of the original soundtrack promoted to better separated, and more robust audio with Eastwood's own original score. It is a noticeable improvement from the DVDs - probably even more than the obvious video transfer improvement. There are no new extras - we get the same strong commentary, featurettes and interviews - none in HD. The only thing we lose is the CD offered with the 3-disc package. I'd either forgotten how impacting this film is, or the improved A/V sent that message to be even more pronounced level. Mystic River is one of the better films of the past 10 years and this Blu-ray was a real treat to revisit the film. We give it a very high recommendation!
*** ON THE DVDs: Great image, great contrast. There may be some very minimal edge enhancement but it is too negligible to be concerned about. Great audio track. Only failing in the Extras department, but there is an SE (3 disc) version which I don't know much about. After seeing the film I may consider getting it as it is quite an impacting experience (and performances!). I was reminded of the Buena Vista's "25th Hour" DVD image, but with less grain. A commentary would have been great, but I understand the idea of 'up-selling' but still for this bare bones DVD I give out ofWarning: A Single Disc Fullscreen version exists! Perhaps its me, but it seems as if there is the 3-Disc SE (and the Sandrew Metronome aswell) have a sharper and more detailed picture, yet slightly grainy. But be that as it may, this is virtually the same disc in picture quality. The 3 Disc DeLuxe Edition is a great box. The audio commentary with Robbins and Bacon arguable is better than one by Eastwood and Penn, as they comment on Eastwoods direction and Penn's acting. Its almost feels like a masterclass in acting at some points. Just great. On disc 2 there are two average featurettes and then three, as always, superb interviews by Charlie Rose. As the third disc is the soundtrack of the film. - Henrik Sylow |
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