Blue Thunder (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Blue Thunder (Special Edition)
Movie Review: lame action movie,but cool helicopter
Summary: 1 Stars
at no time does this movie ever reach the point of being beliveable and even for an action movie at some point it has to do that! the helicopter is very cool,but do they really think that if it was going to be used to keep everyday people in line they would test it out in the open like this much less let a pilot that is known as aloose cannon be the one to test it?
the other problem is that they go out of their way to keep the movie lite and then add a very sick murder in for spice i guess. skip it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Movie Review: Still not the complete cut...
Summary: 3 Stars
This Special Edition turned out to be not so special after all. Okay, the new transfer is better looking than the previous release. But the movie itself remains the same old version, missing a good bit of the car chase which, for some reason, was included in European copies but was never shown in the US.
The missing part - check it out on imdb - takes place when Roy Scheider's wife, rushing to the TV studio with the tape, drives into a back 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 run as the patrol cars slam into each other - and this is what makes Scheider wince from his chopper above.
Apart from leaving aside a nice piece of stunt work, this cut also accounts for a continuity loophole, when we see the car drive into the TV studio parking lot with a badly battered rooftop.
Granted, this missing part is no big deal, but it certainly makes this so-called 'Special Edition' a bit of a disappointment.
Five stars for the movie, three for the DVD.
Movie Review: Was Hoping For More
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall, it was good to see the documentaries and how it was done (filming) back in the day but I was hoping for a more detailed view of how blue thunder was constructed and more footage of flight tests and so on. Maybe some interviews with the engineers and pilots would have helped it. It was also very annoying how the director makes the mistake of confusing the Gazelle helicopter with the inferior Aluoette. You would think the director of the best helicopter movie would know better.Movie Review: Great! A must see!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far the best complment, so far, to this timeless adventure epic tale of a "whirly-bird" Red October. This DVD release could be topped only by a two disk superbit-dts-version with a platinum case.
I have waited a long time to see this movie reproduced in the quality reminscent to that of which I first viewed it on the big screen.
People that enjoy such movies as Top Gun and Stealth, won't mind reliving this earlier version of Man, Technology, and the "Great Blue Beyond!"
Movie Review: Buyer Beware
Summary: 1 Stars
It seems that the Region 1 DVD release of "Blue Thunder" which has been available for some time includes only a "pan & scan" movie presentation. For those waiting for a Region 1 "widescreen" movie presentation, a "Widescreen Special Edition" release has been announced for April 4, 2006.