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All the Right Moves [Blu-ray]
(Michael Chapman, 1983)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: 20th Century Fox Video: Twentieth Century Fox
Disc: Region: 'A' (as verified by the Momitsu region FREE Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:30:25.920 Disc Size: 22,939,287,888 bytes Feature Size: 22,250,256,384 bytes Video Bitrate: 26.64 Mbps Chapters: 26 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: May 3rd, 2011
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 3683 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3683 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps Dolby Digital Audio French 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps
Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish, none
Extras: • US (2:24) and Spanish Trailers (2:24)
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Description: The only way football star Stefan Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) will avoid a life in the blast furnaces of his bleak Pennsylvania hometown is by winning a college scholarship. Even his coach (Craig T. Nelson) dreams of parlaying a winning team into a college job far away from this graveyard of the American Dream. But it's not long before the two virtually ruin each other's chances for escape and their door to the future starts to close. Lea Thompson and Christopher Penn co-star.
The Film:
The movie plays this conflict against an interesting background. This
isn't another high-school movie with pompom girls and funny principals
and weirdo chem teachers. The movie gets into the dynamics of the
high-school student body and into the tender, complicated relationship
between the Cruise character and his girlfriend (Lea Thompson). After
all the junk high-school movies in which kids chop each other up, seduce
the French teacher and visit whorehouses in Mexico, it is so wonderful
to see a movie again that remembers that most teenagers are vulnerable,
unsure, sincere and fundamentally decent. The kid, his girlfriend and
all of their friends have feelings we can recognize as real.
As directed by Michael Chapman, the superb cinematographer whose credits
include ''Raging Bull'' and ''Taxi Driver,'' ''All the Right Moves'' is
by no means a bad film or a disingenuous one. Its sense of place is
distinct, its acting convincing and its sentiments feel sincere. But for
all its air of realism and grit, the film has a fairy-tale quality. It's
also full of racial and sexual stereotypes, from the black football
players who are better dancers than their white teammates to the coach's
wife whose woman-to- woman chat with Lisa is rich with feminine
intuition. Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. All the Right Moves had me scratching my head in the first few minutes as the image quality was inordinately weak but it soon settled down and appeared to continue to improve as it ran along. Fox are generally VERY competent in their transfers and this Blu-ray doesn't appear to have any manipulation and the source, aside from the opening credits, is immaculate. The image quality shows some grit and minor grain. It probably looked quite similar to this theatrically over 28 years ago (can that be?). This is only single-layered but colors seem brighter and truer than SD could relate notable in the yellow uniforms or Lea Thompson's red sweater. Contrast is likewise at a competent level for 1080P. Daylight scenes are more impressive but the darkness produces no undo noise. This Blu-ray gave me a decent presentation without much fanfare - still impressing in a few scenes hinting at depth.
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Audio :We are offered a solid uncompressed DTS-HD 5.1 at 3683 kbps. Separation and depth are not abundant but that is more about the film than any fault of the transfer. Jennifer Warnes and Chris Thompson's "All The Right Moves" main title song sounds fabulous and everything is clean and crisp. I suspect that it sounded exactly like this theatrically - or maybe even better here. There are optional subtitles and m y Momitsu has identified it as being a region FREE disc playable on Blu-ray machines worldwide.
Extras : Nothing but two trailers in 480i. This is a film without hidden subtexts or depth and there isn't much to discuss. Any superfluous 'Making of..' would ruin the film's gritty demeanor, methinks.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze April 28th, 2011
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