Salvador

Thank you Shout! Select for your Oliver Stone film collection! This 4k/UHD version of ‘Salvador’ is top notch! Looks absolutely beautiful! New special features for this classic Stone film are always a welcome treat! Okay so now Shout! Select has released Salvador, Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Alexander Revisited, World Trade Center, Savages & Snowden (releasing next month). Now all we need are 4k versions of The Hand, Seizure, Wall Street 1 & 2, Talk Radio, The Doors, W.,Heaven & Earth, Nixon, U-Turn & Any Given Sunday, to complete the Oliver Stone feature film collection. Don’t let us down! A+++

Even today this film is so relevant, plus great acting from James Woods.

Only three great movies were ever made about the plight of the south and central indiginous....and the greed and evilness that keeps them so.......MEN WITH GUNS.....one with gene hackman as a reporter...and SALVADOR.....ive lived and worked around theses countries for years...and these flics tell it like it is.....grim, bloody,and difficult to watch.....in salvador director stone makes his supurb usual effort....the scenery spectacular,the acting job he pulls frim the cast,is a treat to watch...and the film.leaves yu wrung out...the last scenes unexpected, but..hey yu might have known....do not miss this one....but have a scotch and soda nearby.

Blu-Ray looks & sounds amazing. •Gripping political thriller. ● Item is exactly as described & arrived on time ●

Favorite actor James Woods delivers in this based on true events drama. Focuses on James Woods character getting back into shooting pictures of horrible war acts in El Salvador back in the early 80s during civil war. Lots of great talent in this movie and shows some bloody and sensitive content ( hyper sensitive people advised) sad ending and no extras unfortunately. But film is so good I own two copies on Blu ray. My second copy does have extras and more

NOT AS GOOD AS I EXPECTED IT TO BE.

Watch it. It's not only a great movie but a faithful portrayal of a disastrous time in that country.

This review concerns the condition of the so called new DVD media that this MGM release, Salvador is on, rather than the content of the movie itself. I ordered several movies at one time from Amazon a few months ago, and did not get to view them all during the return window. I did test most of them by just seeing if they would load and start to play, and even spot checked a few chapters, but did not play them clear through because I didn't have the time or desire to watch that many movies in a month. This movie was an MGM DVD, which (along with Paramount and Columbia/Sony) is a brand I've previously had relatively little difficulty with on defects, though I read in reviews that others have had difficulty. (I've experienced some DVDs from some other studios not reliably playing, but won't mention them here.) Unfortunately, when I recently tried to play the Salvador movie, it froze in several places and several parts of the DVD would not play, so it was impossible to watch the whole movie. Inspection of the DVD disk itself revealed that, even though the protective plastic over the data layer (e.g. the bottom side of the disk) was clean and clear, the data layer itself was defective. Viewed from the bottom side, about 80 percent of the data layer has the shiny and metallic look of a normal commercial DVD, except that it has a slight yellow cast when compared to some other DVDs. The problem is in the other 10-20 percent of the data layer, where some of it appears to be a dull flat gray, even having the appearance of oxidized aluminum sheet metal in places. The low rating is because a movie you pay for and can't watch obviously isn't worth what was paid for it. What is worrisome about the oxidization defect is that it could potentially occur at a later time on other DVDs. This could be a problem, since there doesn't seem to be a way to replace bad disks from some studios. (A suggestion is that studios lighten up on the idea of making backups, especially if they won't replace movies on defective media. A backup could at least salvage what is still readable on a DVD before the whole disk goes bad.) Some movies even become unavailable after a while. A case in point for a movie going off the market is the "Song of Norway" movie, which is a completely different genre. Concerning the parts of the "Salvador" movie I could see, I thought that the movies "Romero" and "Innocent Voices" were better movies about what went on in El Salvador. I could not find a way to contact MGM about defective DVDs at their web site, so this is to alert other buyers to be wary of defective disks (regardless of the studio), and to play them CLEAR THROUGH during the retailer's return window whether you want to view the movie that soon or not. This tends to make it impractical to order many DVDs at once from any seller having a relatively limited return window. Spot checking didn't uncover the defects. While I was looking into this matter, I found that the sites for some other brands of DVDs (Universal and Disney) DID have an easily accessible way to contact them about replacement of defective DVDs. I haven't discovered any defective DVDs from either of these studios yet, so I can't comment on how satisfactory their process is, but at least they appear to have a process in place that customers can find. I hope this helps potential DVD buyers. Again, this is not about the content of the movie Salvador, but is instead about defects I found in the media it was distributed on. If a solution is found and there is a way to post an update, I'll try to add an update later.

Inutile parlare del film , chi non l'ha ancora visto si perde un capolavoro, inoltre può imparare quanto la Cia e i militari, ossessionati dal "comunismo dilagante", si sono resi colpevoli di colpi di stato, massacri di cittadini inermi, in prima persona o appoggiando governi fantoccio, criminali e assassini. In sudamerica gira una battuta: "Perchè nel territorio degli USA non c'e mai stato un golpe? Perchè non ci sono le ambasciate statunitensi spesso usate dai suddetti soggetti per organizzare i golpe e ospitare i criminali di guerra fascisti sudamericani, Tecnicamente il Bray è ottimo, le immagini sono buone con poca compressione. IMPORTANTE: L'AUDIO E' IN 5.1 E 2.0 IN INGLESE, SOTTOTITOLI IN INGLESE, MEGLIO COSI', CONSIDERATO CHE L'EDIZIONE IN LINGUA ITALIANA ERA SOLO IN UN ORRIDO DVD E IL DOPPIAGGIO VOMITEVOLE.

I first saw this at the Edinburgh Metro and independent cinema as it was denied a national release in both the UK and USA because of pressure from the American Government. That only serves to illustrate how true and accurate the content of this movie is. Isn’t it amazing that a country dedicated to free speech goes out of its way to silence anyone who disagrees with the government version of things. Salvador is a remarkable and terrifying piece of art. There’s never been a harder hitting political thriller in the history of the movies Hence the ban. It’s never too late for the truth to come out. But. Does anybody care anymore? I certainly do Thanks Oliver Stone for Salvador and thanks for having the courage to make this movie.

Im Gegensatz zu Oliver Stones bekannteren Werken wie PLATOON, WALL STREET oder JFK lohnt es sich, den 1986 entstandenen SALVADOR neu zu entdecken. Die auf Tatsachen beruhende Geschichte, erzählt aus der Sicht des engagierten Fotoreporters Richard Boyle, hat an Aktualität nichts verloren, betrachtet man die Situation in manchen lateinamerikanischen Staaten heutzutage. James Woods liefert die jede Sekunde fesselnde Darstellung eines zunächst unsympathischen, ungehobelt wirkenden Charakters, der nur den schnellen Dollar und billigen Sex in San Salavador zu suchen scheint. Durch die Liebe zur Einheimischen Maria wird er schließlich tiefer in die revolutionären Ereignisse verwickelt, als es ihm und seinem besten Freund Dr. Rock - ebenfalls fantastisch aufspielend: James Belushi - lieb sein kann. Die Umsetzung des mehr als 20jährigen Streifens ist durchweg gelungen. Naturgemäß darf man nicht das High-Def-Feeling aktueller Produktionen erwarten, was aufgrund des dokumentarischen Stils (und damit unvermeidbar: Filmkörnung) allerdings auch gar nicht notwendig ist. Vielmehr punktet der Transfer durch das saubere, von Verunreinigungen nahezu vollständig befreite Bild, den mit Abstrichen in wenigen Nachtaufnahmen sehr guten Kontrast und insbesondere bei Nahaufnahmen hervorragende Detailfülle. Die ohnehin schwüle Atmosphäre über die gesamte Laufzeit wird durch die einzeln zählbaren Schweißtropfen bei jedem Protagonisten nochmals verstärkt. Die deutsche Tonspur büßt gegenüber dem Original zwar an Dynamik ein, dennoch ist die saubere, jederzeit klar verständliche Abmischung zu würdigen. Wer nach Ansicht des unbequemen, für permanente Anspannung auf und vor dem Bildschirm sorgenden Filmes noch ausreichend Nerven hat, sich über die wahren Hintergründe sowie die strapaziösen Dreharbeiten zu informieren, findet eine hochinteressante einstündige Doku zum Thema. Fazit: Das Upgrade zur DVD kann uneingeschränkt empfohlen werden, für alle Fans intelligenter, schonungsloser Politthriller ist SALVADOR ohnehin Pflichtprogramm.

Oliver Stone.....What else really needs to be said. Great movie tons of action and stayed pretty much accurate to what happened in that country in the 80's

A superb movie, with a stunning opening sequence. James Woods has never been better and I think it is Oliver Stones best film as a director. Very exciting but also sad and illuminating, based on true events and the extras explain lots about who the real characters were.