Rumble Fish (The Criterion Collection)
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
All right, I absolutely love this movie. Five stars for the movie. Five stars for the transfer. But the case was broken. Now it wasn’t a big deal, but I had some work to do. As a movie collector, you have many spare Blu Ray cases lying around. But this case is different than the others. It is bigger and the cover stretches all the way across the case. I knew I wouldn’t find a case like that, but I did find one the right size in thickness. My copies of Speed and A Bronx Tale both had that feature. Since I prefer speed over A Bronx Tale, I decided to use the case for A Bronx Tale. I grabbed a smaller case for a Bronx Tale and used scissors to cut off a little piece of the side of the cover so it could fit in. When I put the slider for rumble fish, I drew a line in pencil along the top part that was sticking out (nothing important was there, so no writing was lost in cuttting it off) and cut it. It turned out looking like the picture you can see that I took. It is not exactly how it is supposed to be, but it worked out well and I still think this is a good product. If you are not a movie collector and you are lazy, it arriving broken will be a problem. But as you can see my copy looks good and I enjoy the uniqueness of it since it looks different than it should. That is what I think is one of the most fun parts of movie collecting (besides watching the movie), changing around discs and cases, adding discs, removing discs, it can be fun that way. The moral of this is, become a movie collector. Broken cases will never upset you.
– OhmesGangWillaw
This gang drama from the early 80’s may be Coppola’s finest work. As a director, he took many risks with the film, and if you want to see the teenage angst amid the backdrop of what was, at the time, cutting edge filmwork, you will appreciate this film. It closely follows the book by S.E. Hinton, varying with two characters’ storylines and a slight change to the ending, as is common in film adaptions of popular books. The film does not focus on the dysfunctional family in its midst, it just allows them to be dysfunctional as life happens to the younger brother. The R rating is due to some language, graphic sexuality (for that time), and gang violence (there is a very superior fight scene in the first half of the film that was uncommon for it’s time). Thirty years on, the imagery and language of the film are still haunting to the viewer.
– Matt Williams
This is one of those films that people who love film making will love! While it wasn’t a story that gripped me, one has to remember it ISN’T the story that is particularly gripping here. Instead, it is the visuals. While when the film ended, I was left with a feeling that the film was good, fine, and OK, it was the NEXT day (and days) that many of the images or scenes in the film stuck with me, and in a positive way, allowing the films “story” or message to rise up and be felt. The film was enjoyable on that account for sure. There is also a feeling that if watched again, there’d be new things to still see and observe, nuances worth pursuing. The story itself is the basic one of a youth encountering alienation and adolescent angst, leading to the need to belong, to become a gang leader, only to find emptiness. It is the symbolism used via the creative imagery within the film that allows the film to surpass just the story, to allow the viewer to sense possibilities for both redemption AND the possibility for hopes that troubled individuals can be led to better healthier paths and “rivers” that flow to the ocean of life.
– Tom
DVD Wholesale Main Features :
Actors: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Format: Black & White, Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: R – Restricted
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: April 25, 2017
Run Time: 95 minutes
ASIN: B01N7TG56N
