It might not be subtle, but this potent mix suits the film’s over-ripe visuals to a tee. This disc packs a killer DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix full of hard-hitting shotgun blasts and frantic spatial effects in the surround speakers. Add in a wealth of fine detail (check out the whiskers on those close-ups of Hauer’s grizzled face) and you have a HD presentation I simply cannot fault.Īudio: To be truly authentic to its origins Hobo with a Shotgun should sound muffled and distorted. While it often threatens to burn out your eyeballs with the brightness of its colour scheme, it also holds together extremely well technically on this Blu-ray release (I fear the DVD will struggle by comparison). Shot digitally using Red cameras, the film employs a startlingly over-saturated palette in order to replicate the gaudy Technicolor film stock of the ‘70s. Picture: Even if you don't get much out of the film itself, you'll still appreciate the disc’s AVC 2.40:1 1080p encode. While the end result is about as puerile and ludicrous as you’d expect (and we mean that in a good way, sort of), it’s also feels far more genuine a piece of ‘70s exploitation cinema than anything Tarantino or Rodriguez have cooked up – and now that’s been settled, could everybody please stop with all of this fake grindhouse malarkey once and for all? Eisener’s Hobo with a Shotgun won and was swiftly optioned to be transformed into an actual feature film starring Rutger Hauer. But debut director Jason Eisener is one of them.ĭuring the development of Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse vanity project the duo ran a fake trailer content, the winner of which would join the professional fake trailers accompanying their double-bill. There are not many filmmakers who can say that they beat Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez at their own game. Yet another grindhouse homage hits BD - but is this one actually worth giving a spin?
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