Brotherhood Of The Wolf Steelbook 4K UHD
Brotherhood Of The Wolf Steelbook 4K UHD
When a mysterious beast ravages the countryside, two unlikely heroes are called in to fight the evil. The only way they can save the land from this unspeakable terror is to face their greatest fears, unearth a dark power and reveal a deadly secret.
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Muy bueno.
Todo muy bien,tal cual la descripcion.
El envio muy rapido y cuidado.
Lo unico es la calidad de los estuches,son muy debiles y no protegen el Disco al 100%.
I am not going to review the movie itself. It is awesome, I believe Bloodborne borrows some items from it. I have the original DVD version and saw it in the theater when it came out. The DVD looks bad on a 4k screen. Very grainy, noisy, artifacts. The box I got here from amazon came with a 4k blu-ray, blu-ray and 1 special feature disc I think. The Blu-ray quality is better than the dvd but not as good as the 4k Blu-ray. Noise artifacts ,it seems to be in between the DVD and the 4k. The 4k Blu-ray is the least noisy, grain, artifact, best looking of the 3 formats. Also, there is one re-added scene that was delete/ cut from the DVD version. Otherwise, it was the same great movie. I like the English dub, don’t care for subtitles.
Still a classic foreign impo
This is one of my favourite French movies along with B-13. Need a great movie outside North America, this is it.
The transfer picture and sound are perfect, with the only drawback being the special effects looking dated from the transfer. No issue with playback.
Highly recommend for fans of this movie.
Sorprendente película, muy buena
La pelcula lleg a tiempo y en buen estado. Una de mis pelculas favoritas, un gran alenco, adems en esta nueva versin se ve genial. Viene solo hablada en ingls y francs, con subttulos en ingls.
This DVD version of “Brotherhood of the Wolf” (A.K.A. Le pacte des Loups) runs 147 minutes; widescreen; with a choice between English or Franais as the spoken language; with a choice between English or Spanish as the subtitles; with closed captioning for the hearing impaired in English; and was released in January of 2001 (Janvier 2001). The original language of the performance for the film is French (Franais). Est-ce que je parle franais ? Aucun je ne fais pas. I chose English for the spoken language. The film had a $29 million budget (US dollars), and IMHO they got their money’s worth.
There is some theatrical license taken with circa 1765 central France history, but enough culture truisms remain to pique my interest. Some research upon “the Beast of the Gevaudan” might be merited for skeptics. There is strong violence, gore, and a pitchfork is used at one point (as a trident against the beast), along with some bad guy weapons that sort of resemble Wolverine in “X-Men.” There are crossbows, swords, rifles, pistols, martial arts, mysticism, transcendentalism, condescending hubris, poisons & antidotes (drug use), smoking, alcohol, humor, beautiful women, abundant nudity, sex, horror, politics, romance, fantasy, conspiracy on a grand scale, corruption, greed, avarice, lust, wrath, sloth, envy, and gluttony. In other words, what an R-rated movie SHOULD include (not just for violence and language).
The non-fiction book form of this story is “L’Innocence des loups (The Innocence of the Wolves) by Michel Louis, which is based upon historical fact, and a bit of legend thrown in. A screenplay was adapted from the book; which subsequently inspired the writers and director of this movie.
This DVD presentation was partially filmed at Chateau de Roquetaillade, Maeres, Gironde, France; and at Esparros, Hautes-Pyrenees, France. It won awards for costumes; best new actress; best music; best director; best special FX; best supporting actor; best supporting actress; best writing; and best action/adventure/ thriller/fantasy film. If you’re a whining wiener who just isn’t happy until something negative is said, you’ll notice some of the soldiers have muskets with percussion locks, which weren’t patented until roughly a hundred years after the intended time period of this film. The mob toward the end of the movie gets ugly in their contempt for the Marquis d’Apcher; because he was wealthy and had influence. You might recall King Louis XVI was guillotined along with his wife Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution; about 28 years after this film’s intended time period (that isn’t part of this film, nor will it be on the test on Friday). Universal Pictures paid for the rights to “Brotherhood of the Wolf” and it became the second highest grossing French-language film shown in the United States over the last 20 years.
Mark Dacascos portrays an Iroquois Indian with some impressive martial arts skills (in the film; and in real life) and is said to have done the majority of his own stunts himself.
Samuel Le Bihan; Vincent Cassel; Emilie Dequenne; Monica Bellucci; Jeremie Renier; Mark Dacascos; Jean Yanne; Jean-Francois Stevenin; Jacques Perrin; Johan Leysen; Bernard Farcy; Edith Scob; Hans Meyer; Viginie Darmon; and Philippe Nahon are the A-list appearing in this film.
There was some strong resemblance to the 2011 released film “Age of the Dragons” which stars Danny Glover because of the protagonist & sidekick partnership; and romance between the protagonist and heroine similarities. The mystic martial artist side kick in the film about dragon-slayers was a different actor, but I checked.
SPOILER – ALERT !! My only complaint was regarding to the lack of identity for the monster – although it is shown multiple times during the film.
I have watched this movie many many times and every time I still enjoy it.
I just recently bought this newer director’s cut release. It is loaded with extras and bonus scenes replaced into the film that are new and interesting to me.
Brotherhood of the Wolf is one of the first movies to deal with the French legend of the Beast of Gvaudan. Mind you, to people who have studied the Beast this is not an exact portrayal of what people said happened, but it is a very fun and beautiful film overall.
This story takes place in the French countryside during the 1760’s. It has to do with a large creature that is attacking and killing people seemingly at will. This creature is rumored to be a wolf, but no matter how many wolves they hunt, the creature still attacks. Not only that, but the killing seems to be uncharacteristic of a wolf, not to mention the dead show that they were attacked by a much larger creature. Rumors fly and conspiracies mount as the royal taxidermist and naturalist is sent to investigate this beast. Along with his American Indian blood brother Mani, he searches and digs for the truth among rumors and religious fear trying to stop him the entire way. Finally in the end we learn the secrets that the beast carries with it along with the people involved in an attempt to bring down the Catholic Church with their plots.
Overall I love the story. It is complex and fun, somewhat of a stretch of reality, but it holds up well. The movie is a bit strange in that this American Indian Shaman that comes to France has some weird exotic martial arts that come forward in a few kung-fu style fight scenes. It is a bit out of place, but wonderfully directed and choreographed. The real gem of this film are the overall visuals and details. Every scene has such rich backgrounds and skies, along with some beautifully created sets in the forest. All this shadows in the look of the actual beast itself. It takes awhile into the film before you even get your first glance at it, but it is nothing but gnarly looking. Although the beast has no sense of reality in it at all, the looks or it are just down right scary. I do not think that I have seen a freaker/eye-catching baddie in a film lately, except maybe the Baby-Eater in Pan’s Labyrinth.
Overall, this is one of my favorite movies to put on when I am sitting around the house and want to be entertained. It is not for everyone though. Some scenes are a violent and there is a bit of sex and nudity throughout the film, so beware. It is not intended for children. Also, as a warning, the movie is naturally in French but the DVD has an English track if you cannot stand reading subtitles.
Definitely worth the price of the DVD. I would have paid double for it, so I found it to be a steal.
Froggywood blockbuster and camp classic!
One of the biggest box-office smashes in French cinema in 2001-2002, this movie incorporated expensive computer-generated special effects and appeared to be an attempt to challenge Hollywood head-on. The plot is not particularly easy to follow – and this has nothing to do with the fact that it’s in French – it’s just that there’s a lot going on, and the script seems to ricochet from murder mystery to horror movie to political costume drama, and back again, several times. At one point it even morphs into a cowboy movie, for some reason. However, it’s flamboyantly self-confident and distinctly glamorous in a typically French kind of way. Its makers seem to have had pretensions of serious political costume drama, but it’s as if they just couldn’t resist the temptation to go for a big-money set-piece or incestuous love scene every couple of minutes. Perhaps that’s why it’s so watchable.
It has to be said that it is something of a camp classic – once the men have finished their homoerotic male bonding and outrageously anachronistic martial-arts fight scenes, they petulantly toss their glossy, perfectly-coiffured manes of hair in the manner of a rather posh shampoo commercial. Oh, and the main villain swings a bizarre sword-cum-whip weapon that resembles a dinosaur’s backbone on a chain, whilst laced up in a man-corset. This is far from being the only corset on display, however – Monica Bellucci, at the peak of her plump-lipped voluptuousness, guest-stars as a kind of eighteenth-century Vatican superspy prostitute, whose secret weapon is a rather kinky, razor-edged black lace fan. FABULOUS guilty pleasure!
Contains horror, sex and violence. Sometimes all at the same time.