| Raging Bull [Blu-ray] | ![Raging Bull [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CcvTymklL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Studio: MGM
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Cantonese (Subtitled), Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), Turkish (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 129 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: MGMBRM113514
UPC: 883904135142
EAN: 0883904135142
ASIN: B001JQTSG6
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Release Date: February 10, 2009
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/10/2009 Run time: 129 minutes Rating: R
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 THE WHOLE IS NOT EQUAL TO IT'S PARTS... June 25, 2010
Jon (NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every five years or so I give "Raging Bull" another try.
After all, it was directed by Scorsese and stars DeNiro. Who else could have so effectively portrayed the gritty life of a professional boxer?
Yet, some films just can't help but become so shrill and obnoxious that those miserable elements completely obscure the plot and acting, much like Woody Allen's "Interiors" which was made within a few years of "Raging Bull".
I came across the title again in AFI's "100 Greatest Films of all Time" as #4, but I'm sorry - this film just isn't that good.
DeNiro gives it his all and the photography is excellent, but over-all the film felt like two hours of 'Jake LaMotta' berating Joe Pesci's character "Did you **** my wife? Did you **** my wife?" until I just couldn't stand it anymore.
Give it a try once. I actually purchased it new some time ago (ten dollars for a two-disc edition) but loaned it out and never received it back. Honestly, I don't miss it, nor does it's absence from my collection of Martin Scorsese's films on dvd cause me pain.
 Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" is a movie about brute force, anger, and grief May 27, 2010
It is also, like several of Scorsese's other movies, about a man's inability to understand a woman except in terms of the only two roles he knows how to assign her: virgin or whore. There is no room inside the mind of the prizefighter in this movie for the notion that a woman might be a friend, a lover, or a partner. She is only, to begin with, an inaccessible sexual fantasy. And then, after he has possessed her, she becomes tarnished by sex. Insecure in his own manhood, the man becomes obsessed by jealousy -- and releases his jealousy in violence.
It is a vicious circle. Freud called it the "madonna-whore complex." Groucho Marx put it somewhat differently: "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member." It amounts to a man having such low self-esteem that he (a) cannot respect a woman who would sleep with him, and (b) is convinced that, given the choice, she would rather be sleeping with someone else. I'm making a point of the way "Raging Bull" equates sexuality and violence because one of the criticisms of this movie is that we never really get to know the central character. I don't agree with that. I think Scorsese and Robert De Niro do a fearless job of showing us the precise feelings of their central character, the former boxing champion Jake LaMotta.
It is true that the character never tells us what he's feeling, that he is not introspective, that his dialogue is mostly limited to expressions of desire, fear, hatred, and jealousy. But these very limitations -- these stone walls separating the character from the world of ordinary feelings -- tell us all we need to know, especially when they're reflected back at him by the other people in his life. Especially his brother and his wife, Vickie.
"Raging Bull" is based, we are told, on the life of LaMotta, who came out of the slums of the Bronx to become middleweight champion in the 1940s, who made and squandered millions of dollars, who became a pathetic stand-up comedian, and finally spent time in a prison for corrupting the morals of an underage girl. Is this the real LaMotta? We cannot know for sure, though LaMotta was closely involved with the production. What's perhaps more to the point is that Scorsese and his principal collaborators, actor Robert De Niro and screenwriter Paul Schrader, were attracted to this material. All three seem fascinated by the lives of tortured, violent, guilt-ridden characters; their previous three-way collaboration was the movie "Taxi Driver."
Scorsese's very first film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?" (1968), starred Harvey Keitel as a kid from Little Italy who fell in love with a girl but could not handle the facts of her previous sexual experience. In its sequel, "Mean Streets" (1973), the same hang-up was explored, as it was in "Taxi Driver," where the De Niro character's madonna-whore complex tortured him in sick relationships with an inaccessible, icy blonde, and with a young prostitute. Now the filmmakers have returned to the same ground, in a film deliberately intended to strip away everything but the raw surges of guilt, jealousy, and rage coursing through LaMotta's extremely limited imagination.
"Raging Bull" remains close to its three basic elements: a man, a woman, and prizefighting. LaMotta is portrayed as a punk kid, stubborn, strong, and narrow. He gets involved in boxing, and he is good at it. He gets married, but his wife seems almost an afterthought. Then one day he sees a girl at a municipal swimming pool and is transfixed by her. The girl is named Vickie, and she is played by Cathy Moriarty as an intriguing mixture of unstudied teenager, self-reliant survivor, and somewhat calculated slut.
LaMotta wins and marries her. Then he becomes consumed by the conviction she is cheating on him. Scorsese finds a way to visually suggest his jealousy: From LaMotta's point of view, Vickie sometimes floats in slow motion toward another man. The technique fixes the moment in our minds; we share LaMotta's exaggeration of an innocent event. And we share, too, the LaMotta character's limited and tragic hang-ups. This man we see is not, I think, supposed to be any more subtle than he seems. He does not have additional "qualities" to share with us. He is an engine driven by his own rage. The equation between his prizefighting and his sexuality is inescapable, and we see the trap he's in: LaMotta is the victim of base needs and instincts that, in his case, are not accompanied by the insights and maturity necessary for him to cope with them. The raging bull. The poor sap.
"He ain't pretty no more!" May 13, 2010
S. E. Hermo (Sydney, Australia.)
Ahh "Raging Bull". The movie that should have won picture of the year in 1980, but the Academy was probably too shocked and repulsed to award it. So it won for Best Editing and Best Actor. Which is great. Does anyone remember the picture that won for 1980? "Ordinary People". Which by itself is a very good picture. But nothing comes close to "Raging Bull". Few films still do after almost 30 years. That is the power of "Raging Bull". Jake LaMotta is not a nice person. But he could possibly be considered the Mike Tyson of his era. A troubled youth turns his energies to becoming a world class athlete, only to totally self destruct outside the ring. His attributes inside the ring are applauded, outside they lead to his downfall and arrest.
Anyone with a Blu-ray player must have this film in their collection. Now all we need is "Taxi Driver" with the Criterion LD commentary, and all will be right. The opening alone is enough to go buy this film. In fact, there are just a handful of movies where the opening defines the movie. They are:
"Raging Bull"
"Apocalypse Now"
"The Godfather"
"Midnight Cowboy"
"The Graduate"
"The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly"
"For A Few Dollars More"
"A Fistful Of Dollars"
"West Side Story"
Any James Bond Film
There are more, but you know where I'm coming from. In the end, why haven't you bought this Blu-ray?
 Great - But Not The Greatest March 11, 2010
Jim Kames (Fife Scotland)
Raging Bull is undoubtedly one of the great boxing movies, others include Champion, Somebody Up There Likes Me and The Harder They Fall but my favourite is still Body And Soul with the great John Garfield. This blue ray transfer of Raging Bull makes the close up punches even more painful to watch but the film is overlong and it does drag in some scenes.
 Overrated, dull, and unpleasant. February 15, 2010
N8theGr8
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I saw this movie in my film studies class. At first I thought, "Boxing movie? Cool!" but only a few minutes into the film I discovered that it was miles away from exciting. Jake La Motta is an extremely unsympathetic character whose temper and jealousy don't give any motivation for the audience to like him. He alienates everyone close to him and I couldn't bring myself to feel sorry for his eventual fate. Robert De Niro's portrayal of La Motta was well done, but being well-acted doesn't make the film any more watchable. The boxing scenes were the parts I was most looking forward to, but again, I was sorely disappointed. I am well aware that the boxing wasn't the main focus of this film, but a director of Scorsese's caliber should have been able to make it slightly interesting.
The only thing that angers me more than the fact that my time was wasted by this film is the fact that so many hail it as a masterpiece.
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