{"id":5156,"date":"2012-11-04T06:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2021-05-31T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:17:08","slug":"review-bonfireofthevanities-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2012\/11\/review-bonfireofthevanities-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bonfire of the Vanities Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Bonfire of the Vanities<\/i><\/b> was a critical and financial flop when it was released back in 1990 and considering its cast with Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, it should have been better. For me, I don\u2019t think it was that bad though I\u2019ve never read the novel it was based upon so taking at face value, it\u2019s at least an average, and biting, satirical drama-comedy.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nREVIEW NAVIGATION<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Movie<\/a> | Special Features<\/a> | Video Quality<\/a> | Audio Quality<\/a> | Overall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Genre(s): <\/b>Drama, Comedy
\nWarner Bros. | R \u2013 125 min. \u2013 $19.98 | November 6, 2012<\/p>\n

MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/span>Directed by: <\/b>Brian De Palma
\nWriter(s): <\/b>Tom Wolfe (novel); Michael Cristofer (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/b>Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Morgan Freeman, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, John Hancock, Kevin Dunn<\/p>\n

Theatrical Release Date: <\/b>December 21, 1990<\/p>\n

DISC INFO:
\n<\/span>Features: <\/b>Theatrical Trailer
\nNumber of Discs: <\/b>1<\/p>\n

Audio: <\/b>English (DTS-HD MA 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0)
\nVideo: <\/b>1080p\/Widescreen 1.78
\nSubtitles: <\/b>English SDH, French, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/b>21.1 GB
\nCodec: <\/b>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/b>A, B, C<\/p>\n

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THE MOVIE<\/strong>
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Plot Outline: <\/b>Sherman McCoy (TOM HANKS) was Wall Street\u2019s Master of the Universe \u2013 and everything in his life was right. Then one night he took a wrong turn at the wrong place with the wrong woman (MELANIE GRIFFITH). And nothing has gone right since.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 0.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Only feature on the disc is the theatrical trailer (2:17; SD)<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 3.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Warner Brothers releases The Bonfire of the Vanities<\/i><\/b> with an average looking 1080p high-definition transfer. Presented with a 1.78 widescreen aspect ratio, the movie has a decent amount of noise but it looks a bit, for the lack of a better word, dirty. The detail level on this picture is OK though hardly noteworthy. It\u2019s also, albeit perhaps intended, on the dark side so it\u2019s not something that pops off the screen.
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AUDIO \u2013 3.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The DTS-HD Master Audio stereo track actually isn\u2019t too bad and given there\u2019s mostly dialogue in the film, it\u2019s perfectly functional though the action elements do tend to top out but it\u2019s few and far between. Given the film\u2019s age, and minimal work done by the studio, it\u2019s not surprising that we get a 2 channel lossless track.<\/p>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 2.25\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall, The Bonfire of the Vanities<\/i><\/b> was a critical and financial flop when it was released back in 1990 and considering its cast with Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, it should have been better. For me, I don\u2019t think it was that bad though I\u2019ve never read the novel it was based upon so taking at face value, it\u2019s at least an average, and biting, satirical drama-comedy. The Blu-ray isn\u2019t the best with average video and audio transfers and basically no features.<\/p>\n

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Published: <\/b>11\/04\/2012<\/p>\n

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The Bonfire of the Vanities was a critical and financial flop when it was released back in 1990 and considering its cast with Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, it should have been better. For me, I don\u2019t think it was that bad though I\u2019ve never read the novel it was based upon so taking at … Continue reading “The Bonfire of the Vanities Blu-ray Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[1813,757,116,1315,389,1814,295,8],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-bonfire-of-the-vanities","tag-brian-de-palma","tag-bruce-willis","tag-kevin-dunn","tag-kim-cattrall","tag-melanie-griffith","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26341,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/26341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}