This mix was never be perfect, and it remains that way on Blu-ray. I imagine this is probably as good as it gets for Raging Bull. Dialogue, in some spots, also remains hard to hear, though it's much better with this release.
Sound design is still a little flat, however. Thanks to DTS-HD encoding, which provides a much higher bitrate, the mix sounds much cleaner and crisper than ever before. Tainted by muffled, inaudible dialogue and messy sound design - on all previous DVD releases the film felt like a somewhat blasted mono mix. While I've always been a fan of how this film looked, I've never been a fan of how it sounded. Score: 9 out of 10 Languages and Audio Audio choices are English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English Dolby Stereo 2.0, French DTS 5.1, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1 with English captions for the hearing impaired. If you want to own the best transfer of this film on home video, this disc's got it. The print is also free of any dust or dirt. The encode itself is clean with very few digital hiccups, though I spotted just a slight hint of artifacting during one or two of the fights. This is a nearly flawless transfer, only marred perhaps by the intentional sheen of grain that envelops the print giving it life and gravity - but that's only if you're not a fan of what grain does to a film.
Whites are perfectly leveled, never too gray, muted or contrasty. Michael Chapman's brilliant cinematography has never looked better than it does here, in this stark, crisp, textured BD release that restores Raging Bull to its original cinematic glory. Score: 10 out of 10 Video and Presentation Raging Bull is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen using the AVC MPEG-4 codec on a dual-layered BD50 disc. CLICK HERE to read the full Raging Bull review by Jeff Otto. From the perspective of a non-pugilist, Scorsese was able to turn La Motta's life story into not just a boxing film, but into a dissection of a complicated and disturbed man, intricately detailing his rise to the top and subsequently meteoric downfall. Scorsese didn't get the sport, and wasn't terribly interested until a few years later when he discovered the proper angle from which he could approach the story. Scorsese was not a fan of the boxing genre when De Niro first came to him with La Motta's novel and thoughts of adapting it into film. So what makes Raging Bull such a classic? It's simple - this is a film where everything went right.
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