| MOVIE |
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Body Heat is a story filled with sex & murder. It revolves around a lawyer
named Ned Racine (John Hurt) who meets a sexy married woman named Matty Walker (Kathleen
Turner) and he is instantly attracted and so a steamy affair begins between them. But this
is where the movie starts to twist.
Matty puts a proposal for Ned to kill her prominent
husband and then run off together with the money. And live it up, it all sounds very
sweet, but after Ned knocks off Matty's older hubby he begins to realize he is getting in
to deep and he is being setup by Matty. Poor guy!
The movie is actually and 80s attempt at
the 40's style of movie, Film Noir and although it doesn't seem as good as those movies in
the 40's it's still a gallant attempt at the genre.
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| VIDEO |
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The movie itself was made in 1981 and
the print looks to have been restored somewhat, although there is
still a lot of noise in the picture, mainly speckles. The rest of
the movie itself seems pretty average, there is the occasional
scene where the movie did seem to be some slight variation in
picture quality. But on the whole most of the picture did hold it's
own, the darkened scenes seemed very good as well.
Body Heat is framed at 1:85:1 and is 16:9
enhanced.
This is an Single Sided, Single
Layer disc.
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| AUDIO |
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The movie has been re-mastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 sound I did play it
originally on an AC-3 receiver but I was quit disappointed in the whole 5.1 soundtrack,
Sometimes the sound seemed muffled, and if there was some ambient noise it did seem hard
to hear the dialogue. I switched over to my Dolby Pro-Logic Surround unit and while the
soundtrack was down mixed to DPL it did seem a little better and although it still was
pretty crap it sounded a little clearer than the DD5.1 version. Maybe I had a dummy disc.
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| EXTRAS |
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Not much really on this
disc, scene access, theatrical trailer and some production notes.
Pretty disappointing really.
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| FINAL THOUGHTS |
| While the movie was quite an interesting watch, I did seem a little disappointed
in the sound of the movie and the extra's it contains, although I was reasonably happy
with the visuals from movie considering it's age. But if your wanting to get another movie
to add to your DVD collection and show off it's potential I would suggest something better
like Godzilla or Contact. |
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REVIEW
EQUIPMENT
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Display:
48" Sony RPTV.
DVD Player: Panasonic A350 Player using S-Video Cables.
Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D508 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
Speakers: Accusound speaker
system. |
Copyright © 2000 by [Roger
Ward].
Revised: 24 May 2000 23:34:37 +1100
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| Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
| No of
Discs: |
1 |
| OFLC Rating |
MA15+ |
| Running
Time: |
109
minutes |
| Case
Type: |
Snapper
Case |
| Release
Date: |
7/10/1998 |
| Catalog
Number: |
20005 |
| List
Price: |
$29.95 |
| Distributor: |
Warner
Bros. |
| Disc
Format: |
PAL |
| Disc
Type: |
Label
Only |
| Disc
Format: |
SS-SL |
| Chapters: |
30 |
| Macrovision: |
Yes |
| Manufacturer: |
WAMO |
| Aspect
Ratio:
|
1:85:1 |
| Anamorphic: |
Yes |
| Film
Format: |
35mm |
| Dolby
Digital:
|
5.1 Surround |
| DTS: |
None |
| PCM
Stereo: |
None |
| Other: |
None |
| Languages:
|
English |
| Subtitles: |
Yes |
| Audio
Commentary: |
None |
| Theatrical
Trailer: |
Yes |
| Teaser
Trailer: |
None |
| TV
Spots: |
None |
| Dolby
Trailer: |
None |
| Documentary: |
None |
| Cast
& Crew Bios: |
None |
| Deleted
Scenes: |
None |
| Music
Videos: |
None |
| DVD Rom
Content: |
None |
| Collectable
Booklet: |
None |
| Scene
Access: |
Yes |
| Animated
Menus: |
Yes |
| Production
Notes: |
None |
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