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This Special Edition turned out to be not so special after all. Okay, the original transfer is better looking than the previous release. But the movie itself remains the same stale version, missing a top-notch bit of the car run which, for some reason, was included in European copies but was never shown in the US.
The missing share – check it out on imdb – takes plot when Roy Scheider’s wife, rushing to the TV studio with the tape, drives into a relieve alley with patrol cars on her tail: there, she skids into a wall on two wheels, bangs the roof of her car, then resumes her crazy urge as the patrol cars slam into each other – and this is what makes Scheider wince from his chopper above.
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Apart from leaving aside a nice section of stunt work, this prick also accounts for a continuity loophole, when we observe the car drive into the TV studio parking lot with a badly battered rooftop.
Granted, this missing piece is no gigantic deal, but it certainly makes this so-called ‘Special Edition’ a bit of a disappointment.
Five stars for the movie, three for the DVD.
During the early 1980′s, Americans were treated with vehicles that sported the latest futuristic technology. For cars, there was “Knight Rider”. For motorcycles, there was “Street Hawk”. And in 1983, people were captivated by a helicopter known as “Blue Converse”.
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The film was directed by world renown director John Badham (“Saturday Night Fever” and “WarGames”) and feature a screenplay by Dan O’Banon (“Alien” films and “Total Steal”) and Don Jakoby (“Vampires” and “Death Wish 3), music by Arthur B. Rubinstein (“Double Jeopardy” and “Face Value”) and cinematography by John A. Alonzo (“Star Trek: Generations”, “The Meteor Man” and “Internal Affairs”) .
“BLUE Whisper” would star Roy Scheider (“SeaQuest DSV”, “Jaws” and “The French Connection) as LAPD helicopter pilot Officer Frank Murphy. Together with his unique rookie partner Officer Richard Lymangood (Daniel Stern), while the two were patroling Los Angeles through the air, they happen to reach across on what appeared to be a robbery attempt on city councilwoman Diane McNeely.
Unfortunately, before they arrived come the city councilwoman’s situation, the two were using their helicopter to gape a woman working out nude in her home. But also, due to previous situations, Officer Frank Murphy is due for a psychological evaluation. In fact, Murphy tends to utilize his terminate scrutinize to build definite that his mind is thinking straight (despite having nightmares of a Vietnamese soldier being thrown off a helicopter that he was piloting) .
While meeting with his suited, Captain Jack Braddock (Warren Oates), the LAPD is calling the station of the councilwoman as a theft and rape incident but Officer Murphy knows that there was no rape but his obedient doesn’t want to hear anything further from Murphy and relieves both him and Lymangood as pilots for the LAPD temporarily.
But the pleasurable news for Murphy and Lymangood is that they will be able to test out an advanced helicopter known as “Blue Scream”. Using the latest in weapons armament and stealth technology, the “Blue Affirm” can listen to any conversation as far as 200 ft., armed with machine guns, able to video/audio narrate outside incidents and also to be tied into various government and law enforcement computers and considerable more. The abominable news is that the person that is heading the operation for “Blue Protest” is US Army Colonel F.E. Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell) who is the considerable test pilot of the modern helicopter. Both Murphy and Cochrane demolish up crossing paths and because of their past history, Murphy despises him for a reason unknown.
While on the first night testing the “Blue Advise” in Los Angeles, both Murphy and Lymangood are unbiased in dread of the capabilities of the helicopter. But the two destroy up using the equipment to study on Cochrane for the fun of it but what they hear is a shocker. Because of this, Murphy and Lymangood become a target. Can Murphy and Lymangood survive long enough to halt the people slack Project THOR?
VIDEO & AUDIO:
For those who are mountainous fans of “BLUE Mumble”, you will be jubilant to know that the film is given a aesthetic transfer on Blu-ray. The film is presented in 1080p High Definition (with an aspect ratio of 2:40:1) and having seen this film and having it on VHS and DVD, I can utter you that this is the definitive version to believe.
For one thing, for a 1983 film, the film unbiased looks sizable. The film offers a stark incompatibility between the day and nighttime sequences and there is a immense spectrum of colors utilized throughout the film. I didn’t recognize any well-known artifacting, banding or source noise. I was so cheerful to gawk this film not DNR’d (digital noise reduction) and the grain of the film included but not to the point where its too distracting. There are far many 1980′s films that are too soft or too grainy and this film is impartial upright.
As for the audio, “BLUE Declare” is presented with an English and French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack. It’s well-known to emphasize that this film is a 1983 film and can’t be compared to today’s original action films. But yet, the soundtrack is utilized quite well. The helicopters rotors spinning, to the echoes of the megaphone, the many explosions and the musical gain fair coming out quite distinct (and loud) . Dialogue remains crisp and sure and overall, there is a beneficial amount of action scenes that use the explosions and thus filling the soundstage with automobile and aircraft sounds and machine guns galore. I was very impressed by the soundtrack for this 26-year-old film.
As for subtitles, the film is presented in English, English SDH and French.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“BLUE Vow” comes with the following special features (featured in standard definition) :
* Director, Editor and Motion Control Supervisor Commentary – The Blu-ray includes the 2006 DVD Special Edition commentary featuring Director John Badham, Editor Frank Moriss and motion-control supervisor Hoyt Yeatman. For those who have never heard of a Badham commentary, Badham is very concise and definitely gives you a peak through his mind of directing and is quite thorough on explaining how this film was created. It’s significant to label that these days, a lot of these scenes would be CGI’d but serve then, the fling scenes between helicopters were done without CG. So, it was a absorbing and hazardous film to state.
* “The Special”: Building Blue Thunder: Making-of the Helicopter – (8:23) Director John Badham, Sydney Z. Litwack (Art Director) and staff from the film discuss the making of the Blue Inform helicopter and how the idea was created.
* Coast With The Angels: Making Blue Vow – Multi-part Featurette – (44:41) This making of featurette discuss the Director John Badham and his involvement with the film. Badham and producers talk about the talent they worked with in the film and what they added to the film. Also, how talented Warren Oates was in the film but passed away a month after the film stopped shooting. Discussion about the storyboards, Roy Scheider talks about his excitement of riding in the aircraft and Malcolm McDowell’s panic of flying. Also, how a lot of the explosions and destructive scenes were created.
* 1983 Promotional Featurette – (8:34) The new 1983 featurette featuring clips from the film, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the talent of the film.
* BD-Live Enabled – For those with Blu-ray players that are Profile 2.0, this Blu-ray disc is BD-Live enabled.
JUDGMENT CALL:
When I was younger, I was totally enamored with this film and also the helicopter television shows (“Airwolf” and “Blue Negate”) at the time. Typically, we never really saw a helicopters as a mean, fighting machine. But “BLUE Yell” really gave us a see of original technology at that time.
It has been 26 years since this film came out in the theaters and watching it again, its easy to be frightened of how grand of this film featured proper helicopters flying through Los Angeles and of course, how the destruction of parts in Los Angeles was shown through this film. Surprising because now in Post 9/11, these type of films will never be created in this manner and nor would we search for aircraft going at it like this and if it did, it would be CGI.
But it’s honest great to know how considerable went into the filming of “Blue Jabber” without the spend of today’s fresh technology. How the talents (Scheider and McDowell) actually were in the helicopters being filmed during the air battles and also, the overall destruction of parts of Los Angeles. There is no plan we are ever going to search for this type of destruction in this manner in a film, especially how it was created.
For the most allotment, the film shows its age through the various vehicles and clothing styles of the early 80′s but the Blu-ray transfer really brings out the detail of the film. One of the problems of the Special Edition DVD is that the film looked soft and muddy but for the Blu-ray release, I was impressed by its High Definition transfer. Also, combined with the lossless audio and the fact that audio is a colossal fraction of this action film, it made the film distinguished more delightful. And where many 1980′s film are devoid of special features for their DVD or Blu-ray release, the friendly news is that this special edition of “BLUE Relate” does near with a few hours of special features.
Overall, “BLUE Mutter” is an awesome release on Blu-ray. The release is quite solid with its impressive on HD and its easy to recommend this film but also, I’m quite confident to say that this is the definitive version of “BLUE Snarl” to acquire at this recent time.
For fans of this film, this Blu-ray release is definitely recommended!
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