Blue Manhattan [DVD]

This is the most awful thing ive ever seen and im shocked Robert De Niro was involved.. nothing about this film makes any sense and has no structure. No humour in this whats so every and the racial stuff is weird and out of place not to mention disturbing. This should be banned and removed from Amazon.. its a joke. Anyone giving it 5 stars need help.

Very Happy!! 10/10

Great

Great

Unwatchable.

Post Vietnam/Pre Watergate satire. Some very funny moments and DeNiro is terrific.

This movie was originally titled "Hi Mom" and for some unknown retitled (badly) as Blue Manhattan. What they have done is taken all the moments when the words "Hi Mom" appear on the screen and replaced them with a crude computer graphic that looks like a child has been playing with the paintbrush tool on his fathers PC.Also the film print that they used to get this DVD transfer is pretty poor (it has not been digitally remastered so it looks about as good as a ten year old VHS copy) at times the picture is a bit fuzzy and the soundtrack pops in and out, And for some reason the picture jumps from wide screen to Pan scan and back again.Some of the edits are a bit jarring too, I don't know if this film has been censored from it original release but some scenes feel like they have chunks missing.All this is a shame because Blue Manhattan is in fact a really good film, which was well a head of its time. Mixing very funny comedy with very shocking horror. At times during the black and white sequences its easy to forget your watching a work of fiction - as these moments hit right to the bone.It also has a very early performance by Robert De Niro, proving how hard he worked to become the well respected actor that he is today.Brian De Palmer gets a chance to try out a lot of his flashy camera moves and bizarre edits which would later make him famous.Sadly there is no Director or Actors commentary's on this disk. In fact there are no extras apart from the dull chapter menu and a trailer (at the very end of the film) which incidentally advertises it under its real name of: Hi Mom.So to quickly recap: Good Film, but the DVD lacks the work the movie really deserves.