Pump Up the Volume [DVD]

good quality

Awesome cat & mouse film doesn't disappoint only thing 1 could wish for.....a sequel.

Finally a part of my collection. Awesome flick that I highly recommend. 👍

I can't tell you how many times I've tried to find this on a streaming service to show friends and what not but it's such a good movie, breakfast club level, but it just never got the fame like BC did. It deserves so much recognition

This movie was way to loud. They need to bring it down a level or two.

Warner Archive releases this prescient film from 1990 on Blu-ray, looking quite good in HD, porting over the theatrical trailer, but sadly including no new extras, which is a shame as a commentary and/ or interviews with director Allan Moyle, or stars Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis would have been interesting.Film is about Christian Slater playing a recently transplanted East Coast teenager named Mark Hunter trying to adjust to his new Arizona High School who creates a pirate radio station whose uncensored and rebellious nightly broadcast becomes an influential sensation in ways he never imagined, with both school and then federal authorities determined to shut him down.Dated to its 1990 setting of course, this still resonates today, since those who are like Mark have since gone on to create their own channels and podcasts over various internet outlets, who's own defiant opinions and views have an even bigger audience and influence in both politics and fandoms, some of whom also hide their voices and faces behind masks and secret identities, often with good reason... Well worth a look and re-appraisal today.

arrived as scheduled- this package did not get stolen ! wish I had beed able to stream it but happily would have paid double for the original VHS and player lol. Thanks so much Amazon Bezos !

Christian Slater plays a pirate radio dj, speaking to his fellow classmates via the air waves, preaching to what he believed to be a small audience about the wrong-doings of the administration at the new high school he attends after moving across the country into completely unfamiliar territory. He quickly learns that he has more followers than he anticipated, and that his messages were being heard, and then carried out! It's an intense ride into the minds of teens as they try to discover who they really are, and where they fit into society. The soundtrack adds a lot of zest to the film, featuring underground acts such as: Leonard Cohen, Bad Brains, Pixies, The Descendents, Sonic Youth, Cowboy Junkies, Was Not Was, Urban Dance Squad, Liquid Jesus, Concrete Blonde & The Beastie Boys! The message gets out, loud & clear, as the corruption of the school's principal is exposed, then minds start to change! You find yourself either reminiscing about your teens, or being one yourself, standing up & cheering for them as they struggle to find power within themselves! A definite MUST SEE, if you haven't already, and is nothing short of exceptional in the 80's movies genre! Not to mention, Christian Slater is hot! ;)

Was so happy with this purchase. Great movie!

Nickel

Great film. One first seen in my youth and it’s great to see it’s been given the Blu-ray treatment. Transfer isn’t too bad either.

Talk Hard? Okay.Conformity seems to be the norm and it remains that way. Mentions of being successful seem to be bought rather than earned. You’ve got to be the top dog as some people would say it, emphasis on dog. Well, I’m no dog and I’m no sheep. And what I see around me, people never really seem to get out of high school.I can still see the same packs, blatant liars that got kicked out of high school claiming they did graduate, becoming lawyers, prosecutors, telling the people that, literal quote, “The people need to shut up, because we haven’t studied the law and therefore we don’t know the law.” As if we weren’t allowed to plead the maximum sentence in The Netherlands should be raised.We now see people that attempted murder get away with a single day in prison and 240 hours of community service. That‘s what you get when the pack takes control.Well, guess what… We, the people, came up with the law. It’s called a democracy and we lecture the judges, the prosecutors, and the lawyers on what the law is. That’s the way the law works. That’s the way the democracy works. With these bastards, it never ends.So here I find myself once again, watching this movie, now no longer in high school, but a graduate to society. I never was one of the pack, never one with the pack. I’m me and that’s all I can be. That’s what I stand for. That’s what I quite literally have to fight for with the same people as always, the ones that got kicked out of high school also, attacking us, the people.I’ve read some weird reviews about how the ending of this movie didn’t make sense, because the FCC doesn’t have jurisdiction. They don’t have to have it, when the authorities choose to make use of their services. They weren’t the ones trying to arrest Hard Harry. The way I see it, in terms of the law, due justice should take its course, but an arrest isn’t warranted, so they aren’t allowed to arrest Hard Harry. That’s just the way it is.When I look around me, reading the newspapers, never reporting the actual consequences of people’s actions, but constantly disregarding the gravity of any situation, later on mending the reports as seen fit to accommodate what powers that be, police, law, government, see fit, changing the original words, neutralizing it ever so slightly, we face the subtle menace of Orwellian newspeak.High school may be small-scale, but that’s where it begins and the pack remains the pack. The pack wants us to believe they are in charge, but we’re the majority, not the minority like they mean for us to believe. Now, all grown up, I have a bit more knowledge than before, but the manipulators still are the manipulators, the gang with their trademark cheap polos, all of the same color, sorry SNL, are still the gang… They didn’t get any help, so they never changed.So, yeah, talk hard… We are the people and we will never die, because we stand with truth. Talk Hard. Don’t let anyone shut you up.

One of my favourites, was looking for some time.