Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Drama, Music, History • 2h 27m
Overview
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, Paul Giamatti, R. Marcos Taylor, LaKeith Stanfield, Carra Patterson, Elena Goode, Alexandra Shipp, Tate Ellington, Corey Reynolds, Keith Powers, Orlando Brown, Marlon Yates Jr., Joshua Brockington, Sheldon A. Smith, Cleavon McClendon, Aeriél Miranda, Lisa Renee Pitts, Angela Elayne Gibbs, Bruce Beatty, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Andrew Borba, Natascha Hopkins, Matt Corboy, Larry Sullivan, Deborah Lacey, F. Gary Gray, Allen Maldonado, Demetrius Grosse, Michael 'Compton Menace' Taylor, Ashton Sanders, Joshua Geter, Kofi Siriboe, Matthew Boylan, Chic Daniel, Tim Connolly, Cris D'Annunzio, Dan Wells, Justin Goslee, Alex Wexo, Marcus Callender, Vaughn Wilkinson, Dean Cameron, Mark Thomas Holguin, Sky Soleil, Inny Clemons, Jody Burks, Asia'h Epperson, Scott Endicott, Greg Collins, Mark Sherman, Rob Brownstein, Marcc Rose, Water L, Nigel Lawes, William LaDawn English, Lazarus Guidry, Ariel Rogers, LaFrazia D. Knighten, Ashley Stepteau, Christian Brown, Ebony Randall, John Prosky, Derrick L. McMillon, A. Russell Andrews, Lesean Tarkington, Rob Nagle, Travis Nicholson, Todd Quillen, Matthew Downs, Leo Stallworth, Joy Benedict, David L. Cox, Thomas Q. Jones, Toni Duclottni, Phedra Syndelle, Val Emanuel, Spencer Melville, Michael W. Broomer, Zee James, Simon Rhee, Keion Adams, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Aswad Ali, Diana Atai, Thomas R. Baker, Cassandra Bautista, Dave Bean, Brian Bell, Melissa Bidgoli, Dakota Black, Ashanna Bri, David Anthony Buglione, Charity Caldwell, Tonya T. Cannon, Kadrolsha Ona Carole, Menah Carter, Bryan Casserly, Steve Troublesome Castillo, Rey Castro, Leonel Claude, Anna Clols, David Cohen, Shanae Cole, Shaniece Cole, Callen David, Kelsey Delemar, Julius Denem, David Donah, Greg Duncan, Michael Eauslin, Fernando Edwards, Arturo Encinas, Scott Engrotti, Vi Faulkner, Suzanne Sumner Ferry, Ciera Foster, Americo Galli, Khalid Ghajji, Brian Gilleece, Tekin Girgin, David Greyson, Phillipos Haile, Benicio Hall, Joe P. Harris, Krystal M. Harris, David S. Robinson Hicks, Solange Hordatt, India Howard, Michael L. Howard, Jahmilla Jackson, Precious Jenkins, Dwayne Marion Johnson, Jason Johnson, Jessica Juarez, Steve Kaufmann, Samantha Kelly, David Dustin Kenyon, Slim Khezri, Tiffany Kimbrough, Ina-Alice Kopp, J. Kristopher, Ray Leonard, Jr., Jamaal Lewis, Blu Lindsey, Wilfred Lopez, Ron Lunceford, Mota Maria, Jaron Marquis, Newton Mayenge, Brian Metran, Tsion Mitchell, Lex Montgomery, Lawrence Moran, Phillip O’Riley, David Pearl, Oscar Pereida, Chauntae Pink, Ladell Preston, Sean Quezada, Jamal Quezaire, Diezel Ramos, Xu Razer, Phillip Ristaino, Jana Ritter, Toryan Rogers, Vince Romo, Alex Roth, Kimberly Ryans, Philicia Saunders, Carmina Scarpa, Caileigh Scott, Prince Shah, Rick Silver, Marvin 'Knife' Sotelo, Jimmy Star, Maria Sten, Franklin J. Sterns, Philly Swain, Bogdan Szumilas, Yatoya Toy, Steve Turner, David Ulmer, Lauren Daisy White, Leland White, Sierra Meshele Williams, Tyron Woodley, Mercedes Young, David McClellan
Director: F. Gary Gray
Director: F. Gary Gray
Director: F. Gary Gray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (caveat: theatrical only in 4K)
Director: F. Gary Gray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (caveat: theatrical only in 4K)
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Director: Vincent Ward
Director: Vincent Ward
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Director: Wesley Ruggles
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Jean Renoir
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has marginally better detail and grain structure than ESC 4K Blu-ray
The ESC France 4K Blu-ray is an SDR grade erroneously presented in HDR, but if your player can force the HDR into SDR it looks very good.
Director: Jean Renoir
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has marginally better detail and grain structure than ESC 4K Blu-ray
The ESC France 4K Blu-ray is an SDR grade erroneously presented in HDR, but if your player can force the HDR into SDR it looks very good.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray has excellent master and grade, no DNR and tasteful HDR
Restored original mono mix: Toho Japan 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored original mono: 2014 BFI Blu-ray
BFI 4K Blu-ray has OG Perspecta (in 5.1 container) and a stereo downmix of it; no original mono.
The unrestored track on BFI's earlier release appears to be an almost entirely unmanipulated transfer of the original mix. It suffers from a distracting low-frequency hum. The 4K restoration comes with a restored track, which appears to be the same transfer, but which appears to be cleaned up with a moderate amount of noise reduction and some EQ, nicely opening up the high-end, and which is likely to be preferable to most listeners. All earlier releases sound poor.
Perspecta isn't a discrete surround format, instead only relying on manipulating volume and panning of the mono track across L/C/R channels, based on embedded control tones. As such, even the Perspecta track is technically just the mono mix, though the omission of the proper mono on BFI's 4K is still unfortunate.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray has excellent master and grade, no DNR and tasteful HDR
Restored original mono mix: Toho Japan 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored original mono: 2014 BFI Blu-ray
BFI 4K Blu-ray has OG Perspecta (in 5.1 container) and a stereo downmix of it; no original mono.
The unrestored track on BFI's earlier release appears to be an almost entirely unmanipulated transfer of the original mix. It suffers from a distracting low-frequency hum. The 4K restoration comes with a restored track, which appears to be the same transfer, but which appears to be cleaned up with a moderate amount of noise reduction and some EQ, nicely opening up the high-end, and which is likely to be preferable to most listeners. All earlier releases sound poor.
Perspecta isn't a discrete surround format, instead only relying on manipulating volume and panning of the mono track across L/C/R channels, based on embedded control tones. As such, even the Perspecta track is technically just the mono mix, though the omission of the proper mono on BFI's 4K is still unfortunate.
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray for the US Cut.
International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, is significantly better than the US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (even with FEL Baked in and Dolby Vision), with more grain retention and detail
SDR Comparisons: International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray vs US Paramount 4K Blu-ray: https://slow.pics/c/TEPHtKjl
HDR Comparisons: International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray vs US Paramount 4K Blu-ray: https://slow.pics/c/hIFe11Hx
Comparisons in SDR using L8 Trim from CM v4.0 (both UHDs can use CM v4.0): Remux vs USA UHD: https://slow.pics/c/mkrhVtpl
The International Cut, which contains alternate, more violent shots in the final act, hasn't been released on home video to date.
International Cut contains alternate, more violent shots in the final act.
International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray for the US Cut.
International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, is significantly better than the US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (even with FEL Baked in and Dolby Vision), with more grain retention and detail
SDR Comparisons: International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray vs US Paramount 4K Blu-ray: https://slow.pics/c/TEPHtKjl
HDR Comparisons: International Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray vs US Paramount 4K Blu-ray: https://slow.pics/c/hIFe11Hx
Comparisons in SDR using L8 Trim from CM v4.0 (both UHDs can use CM v4.0): Remux vs USA UHD: https://slow.pics/c/mkrhVtpl
The International Cut, which contains alternate, more violent shots in the final act, hasn't been released on home video to date.
International Cut contains alternate, more violent shots in the final act.
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Kino Lorber 4k resto
The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Kino Lorber 4k resto
The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.
Director: John Woo
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
Director: John Woo
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
Director: John Woo
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
Director: John Woo
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
International Cut: US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray
Original Hong Kong Cut (2 parts): US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or Hong Kong Blu-rays?
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