INDIANA JONES 4 MOVIE COLLECTION

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Now then, a lot of you have asked when Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which was announced yesterday by Disney and Lucasfilm for Digital release on 8/29, is coming to physical media. Our sources say the street date for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K UHD is likely to be set in late October or early November, and should be announced in the next 4-6 weeks. We’ll certainly post updates as they come in. Note that the menus here are identical to the previous Blu-ray releases. Which means this 4K disc also includes the following extras: Shanghai, 1935. Indiana Jones survives a double cross by a crime boss named Lao Che, with the unwitting help of an American nightclub singer named Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and some deft driving by his young assistant, Short Round (Ke Huy Quan). But it turns out the cargo plane they escape on is owned by Lao Che, whose pilots bail out over the Himalayas, leaving Indy and his accomplices to crash. Fast thinking and an inflatable raft saves their lives, but the trio soon finds themselves in northern India, where the locals who help them reveal that tragedy has befallen their village. A sacred stone was taken from their shrine by forces from the nearby Pankot Palace. The stone protected their village, and soon after their children were stolen too. Indy believes it might be one of the legendary Sankara stones, given to humanity by the gods long ago, so the trio sets off to Pankot to investigate. Though they’re welcomed by its young Maharaja and his prime minister, Indy soon discovers that all is not as it seems at Pankot, and that an ancient evil may have returned to spell the doom of all. For this four film, five disc UHD release of the Indiana Jones series, Paramount has included all of the legacy extras from the 2012 Blu-ray So many elements came together seamlessly to make this a landmark film. The direction is deft and efficient, with all of Spielberg’s trademark style and flair in evidence, but with little in the way of overindulgence. The pacing is brisk, but not too brisk—not modern, but definitely a new gear for action-adventure films of the period. The cast is perfect across the board, with Harrison Ford coming fully into his own here. He carries the story with an effortlessness that belays how hard he’s actually working. The stunt work is superb, the set pieces are satisfying, the costuming and period production design are pitch perfect. The script is wry, funny, and honest by turns, and always engaging. There are certainly some cultural depictions of their time, but then that’s how creative works are. Still the film has aged beautifully. And John Williams’ iconic score—arguably his best work apart from Star Wars—lends everything a certain kind of magic, gravitas, and energy... and even a bit of whimsy. This is an unquestionably great film, and one that’s withstood the test of time.

Still, forgiving all that, it's an unsurprisingly very detailed image, which laps up the lines and wrinkles on Indy's face, revelling most in his textured, lived-in feel even if there's little of the same in some of the caricature villains. Environments too - again despite looking less authentic this time around - enjoy some veritable nuance, and brief spurts of atmosphere, with softness relegated to Allen's visage and an otherwise largely crystal clear image that wields a fine layer of textured grain intentionally applied to keep this production in line with its predecessors, as far as could be achieved at least. whether old decrepit building facades, dirt terrain, baskets, and other local flavors. This leap in sharpness carries through the whole film, from the

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opening idol snatching sequence all the way to the climactic scenes with the opened Ark. The film feels absolutely brand new at this resolution, and The story perhaps ill-advisedly goes wild on false stereotypes of age-old India, going for subtle humour but missing the mark (from human sacrifice to chilled monkey brains, it should be rather obviously almost farcically hilarious, yet still it can and does offend), however most people will hopefully be able to move past that in favour of the basic evil villains kidnapping kids theme, particularly with a perhaps surprising amount of demonic possession, voodoo blood-magic, and all-round dark fantasy thrown into the mix this time around. The comedy is still great, and pretty sharp, from subtle touches like the name on the plane Indy escapes in, to the more outlandish stuff like the ludicrously over the top banquet which is just a succession of disgusting dishes served up culminating in... frozen monkey brain! And despite Kate " the trouble with her is the noise" Capshaw being a bit of a screaming diva in terms of character design, she shares some fabulous chemistry with Indy, particularly when he's trapped in a slowly-closing-with-spikes room and she has to face her own I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here moment to save him. However, for all of the above, there are traces of digital filtering across all four 4K encodes. It’s certainly not excessive and the majority of viewers probably won’t notice it at all, but tell-tale instances of frozen grain and posterisation will be sure to catch the attention of eagle-eyed home cinema-hedz. But even while these 4K encodes are not quite perfect, they come bloody close and are by far the best these movies have ever looked.

The new English Dolby Atmos mix from Ben Burtt delights yet again here. As with the earlier films, the soundstage is big and wide up front, with expansive use of the surround and height channels for immersion. Dialogue is clean, Williams’ score is offered in outstanding fidelity, and the panning is smooth and natural. The fight aboard the boat (when we first catch up with adult Indy) is an assault on the ears, with crashing waves sweeping in thunderously from seemingly every direction. Subtle cues abound—softly chirping birds during the establishing shot of Marshall College, for example, the clamor of anxious students in the surrounds when Indy skips out on his office hours, or the airy echo of conversation in the church library. The canal chase in Venice is a highlight too, as the freighter’s spinning propeller chops Indy’s boat into pieces. Gunfights, cannon fire, the Nazi rally in Berlin, motorcycle chases, air combat, the belly of the zeppelin with its distant humming propellors, the metallic rumble of the interior of the tank—there’s great spacial work in virtually every scene. This is a brilliant object-based surround mix. Additional audio options include Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital, and Japanese and Russian 2.0 Dolby Digital. Subtitles are available in English, English for the Hearing Impaired, Cantonese, Danish, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, and Thai.

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