Charles Bronson on Blu-ray

[easydreamer]

Originally Posted by John_Drake

It is available in Japan (Reg. A) with 4 audio options, Italian, 2 Japanese tracks, and English.

There is also a special edition that includes the soundtrack CD.

The Italian portions in the English track (the portions not dubbed in English) do not have the English subtitles, so it’s not fun to watch it in English. Also, the English track is in DD & sounds much inferior to the Italian track.

[John_Drake]

True, but it isn't that different than several Explosive Media releases of Spaghetti Westerns or Eurospy films.

[easydreamer]

Originally Posted by John_Drake

True, but it isn't that different than several Explosive Media releases of Spaghetti Westerns or Eurospy films.

Maybe so, but I just wanted to mention that because someone might be disappointed to find that, even though the disc has the English track, some portions of it are in Italian only without subs. As long as they know what they are getting, then I guess it’s fine.

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by easydreamer

The Italian portions in the English track (the portions not dubbed in English) do not have the English subtitles, so it’s not fun to watch it in English. Also, the English track is in DD & sounds much inferior to the Italian track.

The Italian Blu-ray of Violent City, has English subtitles for the Italian parts when selecting English language. The only downside to this release is that it's 1080i 50hz so sped up. It's a nice transfer though and it's LPCM mono soundtrack is probably better than DD.

[Jompa]

The video stream itself is progressive, just flagged interlaced to match the soundtrack.

[TylerDurden389]

https://www.umbrellaent.com.au/comin...ish&results=16



Synopsis
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Four times the action, four times the suspense - notorious crusader Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson, The Dirty Dozen) returns to settle old scores and make new enemies in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, from veteran action director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear)

With the tragic cocaine-induced death of his girlfriend's teenage daughter Kersey steps into the breach and faces-off against two rival drug gangs waging war in the blood-drenched inner city.

Even at the best of times the streets of LA are never safe - run by pimps and ruthless drug traffickers, they remain a melting-pot of crime and violence. But when original urban vigilante and one-man justice machine Paul Kersey reaches into his extensive arsenal of weapons to take check, it's time to run for cover.


Death Wish 5: The Face of Death

After battling on the streets in cities from coast to coast, vigilante, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson, The Magnificent Seven), has moved back to New York. But when his beautiful fiancee, Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down, Hanover Street), is killed and her daughter kidnapped by a kingpin of the underworld, Kersey finds himself back in the war.

Kersey's plan to live anonymously is shattered when he learns that his fiancee was the victim of a protection racket run by her ex-husband, criminal Tommy O'Sheay. One by one Kersey hunts down the criminals. Once again upholding the law becomes his way of life... And this time it's for good.

Death Wish 5 was one of the final films produced by 21st Century Film Corporation, a company owned by former Cannon Group boss, Menahem Golan.


Extra Features

AUDIO COMMENTARIES BY PAUL TALBOT
THEATRICAL TRAILERS
TV SPOT
TV BROADCAST PROMO
VHS PREVIEWS
IMAGE GALLERY

[Jompa]

I will never watch Death Wish 5 again. I think it's a poor film with minimal action scenes. 1-4 i will continue to watch regularly.

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by Jompa

I will never watch Death Wish 5 again. I think it's a poor film with minimal action scenes. 1-4 i will continue to watch regularly.

It does sour the run of four previous excellent movies if you watch in them in a row. It has an always great Michael Parks in it's favour. Sad it was Bronson's last theatrical flick.

[phobicsquirrel]

Originally Posted by Irongod2112

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m3_...ature=youtu.be

This one is on bluray right now.

Anyone see it?

Nope but the nattys on the left sold me.....

[Jonny Powers]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden389

https://www.umbrellaent.com.au/comin...ish&results=16



Synopsis
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Four times the action, four times the suspense - notorious crusader Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson, The Dirty Dozen) returns to settle old scores and make new enemies in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, from veteran action director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear)

With the tragic cocaine-induced death of his girlfriend's teenage daughter Kersey steps into the breach and faces-off against two rival drug gangs waging war in the blood-drenched inner city.

Even at the best of times the streets of LA are never safe - run by pimps and ruthless drug traffickers, they remain a melting-pot of crime and violence. But when original urban vigilante and one-man justice machine Paul Kersey reaches into his extensive arsenal of weapons to take check, it's time to run for cover.


Death Wish 5: The Face of Death

After battling on the streets in cities from coast to coast, vigilante, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson, The Magnificent Seven), has moved back to New York. But when his beautiful fiancee, Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down, Hanover Street), is killed and her daughter kidnapped by a kingpin of the underworld, Kersey finds himself back in the war.

Kersey's plan to live anonymously is shattered when he learns that his fiancee was the victim of a protection racket run by her ex-husband, criminal Tommy O'Sheay. One by one Kersey hunts down the criminals. Once again upholding the law becomes his way of life... And this time it's for good.

Death Wish 5 was one of the final films produced by 21st Century Film Corporation, a company owned by former Cannon Group boss, Menahem Golan.


Extra Features

AUDIO COMMENTARIES BY PAUL TALBOT
THEATRICAL TRAILERS
TV SPOT
TV BROADCAST PROMO
VHS PREVIEWS
IMAGE GALLERY

Those Paul Talbot commentaries might just sell me on this

[scandi1]

Michael Parks makes DW5 . Remember the cop in the first minutes of From Dusk Till Dawn?

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Jompa

I will never watch Death Wish 5 again. I think it's a poor film with minimal action scenes. 1-4 i will continue to watch regularly.

being a big Bronson fan, I'd buy it just to be a completest.... but your analysis is hard to argue with....

[scandi1]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

being a big Bronson fan, I'd buy it just to be a completest.... but your analysis is hard to argue with....

You are not a big Bronson-fan if you have not seen DW5 allready!

[Early Memphis]

Why is KINJITE so low-rated? You would expect enough Bronson fans to prop it up but … does it just suck? Does Bronson suck in it?

[RiFiFi1955]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

Why is KINJITE so low-rated? You would expect enough Bronson fans to prop it up but … does it just suck? Does Bronson suck in it?

Kinjite does not suck, nor does Bronson suck in it. So I will prop it up!

[drush9999]

I too enjoy Kinjite

[Somerset]

Originally Posted by drush9999

I too enjoy Kinjite

Ditto! Great, gritty cop film with a three dimensional, and complicated character for Bronson to play, which he does quite successfully.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by scandi1

You are not a big Bronson-fan if you have not seen DW5 allready!

I have seen it.... and it's dreadful!

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

Why is KINJITE so low-rated? You would expect enough Bronson fans to prop it up but … does it just suck? Does Bronson suck in it?

I'll vote for sucks. Bigtime. It's a really poor final outing for Bronson and Thompson, especially after the enjoyable Murphy's Law.



Offering a killer combo of terrible writing, terrible acting and terrible direction, it's a tossup whether Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is offensively bad or just hilariously bad. It's almost as if someone ran a competition to make the sleaziest, seediest Cannon film. As if a glance at a cast list including characters like `Lesbian Pedophile,' `Perverted Gentleman,' `Porno Actress' weren't enough, it's your only chance to see Charles Bronson's cop throw a lowlife on a bed and grab a sex toy - but don't worry, it's okay, as the offscreen screams make clear he's only torturing him for information. After all, even if he is a bit overprotective of his nice Catholic daughter, he's a nice Catholic cop who regularly brings local Catholic priest William O'Connell a packed lunch and who believes in poetic justice - or at least ensuring that the bad guys end up in the slammer with the horniest inmates maximum security can provide to give them a taste of their own medicine. But then that's what you get for telling him "Look, I think you're a little bit unstable." Still, when later offered a bribe, he may snarl "I'd like to shove this up your a**, but I don't want to get my hands dirty," he's clearly learned where to draw the line: instead, he just makes him eat a $25,000 watch and sets fire to his Cadillac.

The anal obsession even follows through to the film's title: despite the poster featuring a naked Japanese girl on a porn film set, the film's only direct example of Kinjite/forbidden subjects, as Alex Hyde White's English teacher explains to a group of Japanese businessmen, is, er talking about your bowel movements in polite society.

Bronson isn't just too old for this, as the opening fight makes only too clear, he's too old for love interest Peggy Lipton, and she looks old enough to have grown-up kids. A better actor than he ever got the credit for when given the right material, here's he's given less a properly thought out character than a series of outrageous reactionary quirks. When he's not widening the circles of suspects he's accidentally dropping them to their death off the sides of buildings. He's definitely not a P.C. copper, with a special loathing for the Japanese - as if it wasn't bad enough that they're buying up American businesses, what's worse, they double-park on a public thoroughfare! No racial minority goes unassaulted, be they black pimp or Pakistani hotel clerk, no cop cliché unrecycled, be it a boss who bangs his fist on the table or a dead meat partner (Perry Lopez and his spectacularly bad hair dye that's so prominent it deserves screen billing all its own).

The twin plot strands - Bronson's L.A. cop trying to take down Juan Hernandez's pimp who deals in underage girls and James Pax's porn-obsessed Japanese businessman - take forever to intertwine, and then in the most unlikely of ways: after copping a feel of Bronson's daughter on a bus ("Some Oriental guy touched my holy of holies!"), in the film's idea of poetic justice Pax finds his own daughter kidnapped by Hernandez. You half expect the writer to pop his head round the corner of the screen and say, "How d'ya like them apples?"

Somewhere underneath all the laziness is the germ of a good idea even if it is too muddily developed to ever be clear quite what that idea really is, but the execution is pure Rising Sun: the Archie Bunker Version, shot like out-takes from an R-rated 80s music video with an outrageous and rather lazy dockside shoot-'em-up-and-blow'em-up finale that sees a small army of machine-gunning sidekicks suddenly appear to up the gratuitous body count. The last of Bronson's collaborations with J. Lee Thompson - and sadly Thompson's last film as director - it's a poor signoff for two undervalued players who increasingly never seemed to be that discerning about what pictures they said yes to.

[AlexIlDottore]

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by Aclea

I'll vote for sucks. Bigtime. It's a really poor final outing for Bronson and Thompson, especially after the enjoyable Murphy's Law.



Offering a killer combo of terrible writing, terrible acting and terrible direction, it's a tossup whether Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is offensively bad or just hilariously bad. It's almost as if someone ran a competition to make the sleaziest, seediest Cannon film. As if a glance at a cast list including characters like `Lesbian Pedophile,' `Perverted Gentleman,' `Porno Actress' weren't enough, it's your only chance to see Charles Bronson's cop throw a lowlife on a bed and grab a sex toy - but don't worry, it's okay, as the offscreen screams make clear he's only torturing him for information. After all, even if he is a bit overprotective of his nice Catholic daughter, he's a nice Catholic cop who regularly brings local Catholic priest William O'Connell a packed lunch and who believes in poetic justice - or at least ensuring that the bad guys end up in the slammer with the horniest inmates maximum security can provide to give them a taste of their own medicine. But then that's what you get for telling him "Look, I think you're a little bit unstable." Still, when later offered a bribe, he may snarl "I'd like to shove this up your a**, but I don't want to get my hands dirty," he's clearly learned where to draw the line: instead, he just makes him eat a $25,000 watch and sets fire to his Cadillac.

The anal obsession even follows through to the film's title: despite the poster featuring a naked Japanese girl on a porn film set, the film's only direct example of Kinjite/forbidden subjects, as Alex Hyde White's English teacher explains to a group of Japanese businessmen, is, er talking about your bowel movements in polite society.

Bronson isn't just too old for this, as the opening fight makes only too clear, he's too old for love interest Peggy Lipton, and she looks old enough to have grown-up kids. A better actor than he ever got the credit for when given the right material, here's he's given less a properly thought out character than a series of outrageous reactionary quirks. When he's not widening the circles of suspects he's accidentally dropping them to their death off the sides of buildings. He's definitely not a P.C. copper, with a special loathing for the Japanese - as if it wasn't bad enough that they're buying up American businesses, what's worse, they double-park on a public thoroughfare! No racial minority goes unassaulted, be they black pimp or Pakistani hotel clerk, no cop cliché unrecycled, be it a boss who bangs his fist on the table or a dead meat partner (Perry Lopez and his spectacularly bad hair dye that's so prominent it deserves screen billing all its own).

The twin plot strands - Bronson's L.A. cop trying to take down Juan Hernandez's pimp who deals in underage girls and James Pax's porn-obsessed Japanese businessman - take forever to intertwine, and then in the most unlikely of ways: after copping a feel of Bronson's daughter on a bus ("Some Oriental guy touched my holy of holies!"), in the film's idea of poetic justice Pax finds his own daughter kidnapped by Hernandez. You half expect the writer to pop his head round the corner of the screen and say, "How d'ya like them apples?"

Somewhere underneath all the laziness is the germ of a good idea even if it is too muddily developed to ever be clear quite what that idea really is, but the execution is pure Rising Sun: the Archie Bunker Version, shot like out-takes from an R-rated 80s music video with an outrageous and rather lazy dockside shoot-'em-up-and-blow'em-up finale that sees a small army of machine-gunning sidekicks suddenly appear to up the gratuitous body count. The last of Bronson's collaborations with J. Lee Thompson - and sadly Thompson's last film as director - it's a poor signoff for two undervalued players who increasingly never seemed to be that discerning about what pictures they said yes to.

Thanks for reminding me of the numerous reasons why I like Kinjite.