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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: DEPP,JOHNNY EAN: 0794043528422 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: New Line Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: 794043528422 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 11, 2001 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Editorial Review: Product Description: Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 14-SEP-2004 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: A briskly paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the '60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian Medellín cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad's a loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and he's right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpose. We can't sympathize with Jung's meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life, and Demme isn't suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jung's story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung isn't such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find this film amazing, and there's plenty of humor mixed with the constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a fantastic supporting cast (although Penélope Cruz grows tiresome as Jung's hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being; like a wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating: - One of my favoritesThe movie is one of my favorites but in the bonus features I would have liked to hear more of George Jung's thoughts and stories. Rating:  - a glossy snow storyTHe acting on this movie is great. But as with any biography the truth often gets far behind. A large number of people around the REAL coke dealer met unfortunate ends probably at the dope dealers orders or his accomplishes. You can't be in the hard drug dealing world without deadly violence. But we don't see any of this. In fact a early character is said just to vanish. Yes. well most likely jung had him killed. When the late coke addict director of this movie ( he ... Read More Rating: - Blow - Blu-ray InfoVersion: U.S.A / Region A, B, C Aspect ratio: 2.40:1 VC-1 BD-50 Running time: 2:03:26 Movie size: 25,12 GB Disc size: 46,01 GB Average video bit rate: 22.07 Mbps Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1474 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1474kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps) Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps ... Read More Rating: - worth watching once, I supposeDrug movies tend to bore me, and this one was no exception. I wasn't too into the narrative style, and Penelope Cruz put forth one of her worst performance to date, in my book, but let me clarify by saying I adore Penelope. Johnny Depp was good for the role, but someone else might have been able to bring more to the character. Rating:  - not closed captionedI am a deaf person and I count on the Closed Captioning and subtitles to be able to enjoy a movie. Even though Blow is listed as being Closed Captioned, this copy is not. A waste of my time and money. |
