The Shining 4K UHD (1980)

[imsounoriginal]

Nevermind, I misunderstood the convo. Serves me right for just popping in lol

[s2mikey]

The review here at blu-ray.com is giving this 5 stars for video. Thats exciting! Love to see that they got this right. Ill happily buy it sooner than later unlike some recent 4K titles that were dodgy transfers at best. Cant wait to watch this!!!!

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

The review here at blu-ray.com is giving this 5 stars for video. Thats exciting! Love to see that they got this right.

Were it my review, I would've docked it half a point for blowing it on the aspect ratio, academic though it is. I'm tired of this Warner house policy of 1.85:1 movies transferred at 1.78:1.

[KubrickKurasawa]

Originally Posted by Kubrick0730

I just have one question how can you rate the release as a 60 if you haven’t even seen it? Have an open mind instead of trashing releases on a public forum. The people defending it have actually seen it .

By the way you’re the one attacking people calling them clowns when no one has called you any derogatory names.

Clowns make me laugh, take it as a compliment. Stay positive everyone! znow I'm taking a break, Have fun guys!

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Were it my review, I would've docked it half a point for blowing it on the aspect ratio, academic though it is. I'm tired of this Warner house policy of 1.85:1 movies transferred at 1.78:1.

I will admit to feeling at times as if the framing was a bit off.

[rroeder]

Tron in '82 accurately reflected the video game craze of the early 80's. New wave music also had become mainstream by then and was as popular as the hard rock of the late 70's. I still remember 1980/81, looking back it did still feel like the 70's

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

No, I'm with Matt89 on this one... having grown up in the 80s, it didn't really start to feel like its own decade until about '84. The early 80s did have their own look and feel with the New Wave stuff, but a lot of pop culture and styles including film and TV were a holdover from the late 70s, it was very much a transitional period as one would expect. You can't really use a movie like Raiders as a gauge anyway as it's a period piece.

Exactly. I find the first few years of every decade is more or less a transitional period.

Good points were brought up about films like Fast Times, which actually totally slipped my mind at first, but now that I really think about it, a lot of the style and music in that film is like new wave and classic rock, etc. which is still very much late '70s. There's a line in the film about students rocking the "Pat Benatar look", which actually is more '70s-looking than '80s when you really think about it.

I just think when you compare what the kids in that movie wore with a high school movie like Savage Streets or Ferris Bueller/Breakfast Club, Fast Times doesn't look as stereotypically '80s as the other films I mentioned. Even The Last American Virgin still has that 70s-ish look that Fast Times has. Hell, even the opening theme to F13 Part 3 is a disco-sounding track, and that was also '82. Poltergeist and E.T. to me feel like they could've come out of the late '70s based on their look alone, I feel like they have more in common with films like Close Encounters and Jaws than Gremlins or The Goonies.

When I think of stereotypical '80s movies I think of stuff like leg warmers, big hair, vibrant neon colours, synth pop, etc.

I dunno, but for me there seems to have been a stark tonal shift around 83/84 where the styles of Flashdance/Footloose were introduced and became a part of '80s culture that is very different than what existed in the few years that preceded it.

~Matt

[moviebuff75]

The aspect ratio is correct. The old bd took the full width of the frame, then opened up the top and bottom for 1.78. The new version presents the width as projected, with a sliver more top and bottom. The reason the old bd had more top and bottom image was because the width of that framing was too wide, so it had to be opened up more vertically.

[DJJez]

watching tonight. very excited

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by moviebuff75

The aspect ratio is correct.

It literally is not.

[moviebuff75]

Mine will be here Wednesday. I am projecting it on the big screen outside this weekend.

[moviebuff75]

Yes it is. Except for a sliver more top/bottom. I can't help you if you do not understand what I said they did.

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by format916

huh? the 80s started around 1984. just the like 90s started around 94.

Originally Posted by Matt89

Yeah I agree. I mean the ‘80s obviously began with 1980, but movies didn’t start looking really “80s” (or what we’ve now come to associate with the ‘80s) until 1983/84 with movies like Flashdance and Scarface, etc. For example, I think Friday the 13th The Final Chapter looks way more ‘80s than Part 3, which only came out 2 years prior. Movies that came out around 83/84 onwards look way more ‘80s than most movies that came out between 1980-82. Early ‘90s still looked very ‘80s as well, just as the early 2000s still looked very ‘90s. I feel like it takes a few years into a new decade before things that define that particular decade settle in.

~Matt

Not true at all. Early 90's films looked very and felt '90s. Philadelphia, Back to the Future III, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, Sister Act, Home Alone, Lethal Weapon 3, and Cool World to name a few. Same goes with the '00s. They were very much the '00s right out the gate. You may be right about the '80s, but the '90s and '00s are certainly not true.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by gooseygander2001

Looking forward to this evening's screening.....bored at work currently...picked this up on my lunch.....as they say 'all work and no play....'

I hate this! Whenever I have a new blu ray coming in the mail or one I picked up before work it just makes my work shift drag from the anticipation of watching it after my shift is over. Though the excitement is a blast.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Exactly. I find the first few years of every decade is more or less a transitional period.

Good points were brought up about films like Fast Times, which actually totally slipped my mind at first, but now that I really think about it, a lot of the style and music in that film is like new wave and classic rock, etc. which is still very much late '70s. There's a line in the film about students rocking the "Pat Benatar look", which actually is more '70s-looking than '80s when you really think about it.

I just think when you compare what the kids in that movie wore with a high school movie like Savage Streets or Ferris Bueller/Breakfast Club, Fast Times doesn't look as stereotypically '80s as the other films I mentioned. Even The Last American Virgin still has that 70s-ish look that Fast Times has. Hell, even the opening theme to F13 Part 3 is a disco-sounding track, and that was also '82. Poltergeist and E.T. to me feel like they could've come out of the late '70s based on their look alone, I feel like they have more in common with films like Close Encounters and Jaws than Gremlins or The Goonies.

When I think of stereotypical '80s movies I think of stuff like leg warmers, big hair, vibrant neon colours, synth pop, etc.

I dunno, but for me there seems to have been a stark tonal shift around 83/84 where the styles of Flashdance/Footloose were introduced and became a part of '80s culture that is very different than what existed in the few years that preceded it.

~Matt

I fully endorse this message.

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

Not true at all. Early 90's films looked very and felt '90s. Philadelphia, Back to the Future III, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, Sister Act, Home Alone, Lethal Weapon 3, and Cool World to name a few. Same goes with the '00s. They were very much the '00s right out the gate. You may be right about the '80s, but the '90s and '00s are certainly not true.

Gotta disagree with that. Philadelphia is about the AIDS epidemic that started in the '80s and continued into the early '90s and deals with issues that were very 1980s, BTTF III is a period film so that doesn't really count (and was actually shot in 1989), Home Alone was shot in the first few months of 1990 (there's no way it had a "90s" look to it) and Batman Returns is very similar stylistically to the first one, which came out in the '80s. The shoulder pads and Whoopi's big frizzy hair in Sister Act scream 1980s.

Also, Mel Gibson's hair looks '90s to you? That mullet is one of the most '80s haircuts I have ever seen.

My theory still applies.

~Matt

[brian9229]

After what I witnessed on my screen this morning, I couldn't be happier adding this release to my collection. I couldn't think of a better title to randomly arrive early either. That was nice for a change.

[ROSS.T.G.]

I had a mullet in 91. Crazy times...

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Exactly. I find the first few years of every decade is more or less a transitional period.

Good points were brought up about films like Fast Times, which actually totally slipped my mind at first, but now that I really think about it, a lot of the style and music in that film is like new wave and classic rock, etc. which is still very much late '70s. There's a line in the film about students rocking the "Pat Benatar look", which actually is more '70s-looking than '80s when you really think about it.

I just think when you compare what the kids in that movie wore with a high school movie like Savage Streets or Ferris Bueller/Breakfast Club, Fast Times doesn't look as stereotypically '80s as the other films I mentioned. Even The Last American Virgin still has that 70s-ish look that Fast Times has. Hell, even the opening theme to F13 Part 3 is a disco-sounding track, and that was also '82. Poltergeist and E.T. to me feel like they could've come out of the late '70s based on their look alone, I feel like they have more in common with films like Close Encounters and Jaws than Gremlins or The Goonies.

When I think of stereotypical '80s movies I think of stuff like leg warmers, big hair, vibrant neon colours, synth pop, etc.

I dunno, but for me there seems to have been a stark tonal shift around 83/84 where the styles of Flashdance/Footloose were introduced and became a part of '80s culture that is very different than what existed in the few years that preceded it.

~Matt

I would definitely agree with you about the '80's style and how it influenced movies very much so, but rather later than other decades. However, once the '80s ended it ended full stop. It was the only decade to do that I think. Cause once 1990 hit the changes were noted immediately. Take Singles for example. Cameron Crowe's last movie before that was Say Anything and it was totally an '80's movie. 3 years later and Singles couldn't be any more '90s if it tried. right down to the grungey soundtrack.

I think people just moved on quick from the '80s and that style/scene died quickly as well. Part of why that is I believe has to do with the music scene. just about 2-3 years earlier (from 1990) college/alternative rock was starting to actually break into the mainstream and would change the scene completely once it took over in 1991. It helped shape the look as well as the sound. By spring of '94 the grunge look was hitting fashion runways in a big way. It's funny how sometimes music can shape fashion and culture to such a degree that it has a lasting effect on the decade. Like the '60s for example. Anyway, that's my two cents.

[rroeder]

Grunge killed the 80's and even changed the culture some