The Outsiders

This is a sad story but I want to share.My uncle was burned when he was young and had a rough life afterwards.He recently passed away in early October of 2015 after a battle with substance abuse.A couple of days before he passed I called him and caught up with him (he lived down the road but I never really saw him, busy life, blah blah blah), I could tell he was out of it and not doing well.When we were getting off the phone he said "Stay gold, ponyboy" and I didn't get the reference and he hung up.That was the last thing he ever said to me.After he died, I googled that quote and saw it was from this movie and my grandma told me it was one of his favorites so I ordered it and watched it.When Johnny said "Stay Gold, Ponyboy" to him right before he died from his burns I lost it.I felt such a loss for my uncle I was never really close to. He was my Godfather and uncle but I never really, really knew him, but I did know that my uncle LOVED sunsets just like Ponyboy.I am so happy I watched this movie.

This is a 5 star movie, however, this the re-edited version and it just does not have the same impactful ending the original theatrical version has. The added footage at the end interrupts the dramatic emotional flow the original has. The redo of the beginning credits are also entirely inferior compared to the artistic original. Since its the only version available on BluRay, I suggest viewing the original credits and ending on YouTube and watch the rest of the movie in Bluray. If they ever release the original theatrical version again, I'll be first in line to buy it.

My 8th grader read it for a summer reading assignment and loved it. We watched the movie ahead of time, because there are some outdated and unfamiliar terms that he initially didn't get, so it helped with the context and understanding of the story. He loved both, and actually appreciated the book more because he wanted to know more about the characters after watching the movie.

I purchased this film without literary familiarity because the cast and director appeared promising. The Outsiders depicts high-school angst: the impoverished Greasers cannot compete with the popular Socials, and the two cliques coexist at best under a tense angry truce. The protagonist Ponyboy (no joke, played by C. Thomas Howell) is the sensitive dreamer son of a Greaser family; he and his young greaser buddy Johnny (played by Ralph Macchio) are dissatisfied with their situation but don't know how to improve their lives. Matt Dillon effectively plays tough greaser Dallas, the high-school Greaser clique's leader. The remainder of the cast effectively is window dressing, and the plot IMO is disappointing because the plot offers no concluding destination. I do not consider this great cinema, and IMO a similar story is better depicted in the film The Warriors.

I was in philosophy class and I to get into to it. I was in a on the wild side,so, He gave me this book The Outsiders.I had to write reports on it. I was like Damn I have to read this book! The book was slow at first chapter.Then the book got faster. I read the entire series. Thank you Mister Hakim.The one in Italy. I hope I spelt it correctly. Again thank youCarlos

Got this because of the original music by Carmine Coppola. It's a shame they didn't release the original version on Blu Ray.I was traumatized by that new score and I LOVE Rockabilly and 60's music. I felt a disconnect, It really took away from the emotion.I needed a fix of that original score.

The Outsiders is a 30+ year-old movie, there isn’t a lot of value in reviewing the story, directing, acting, etc. these many years later. Some people will like it, some won’t. I saw it for the first time in early 2017 on one of those obscure old-movie channels on cable and got hooked. So much so that I researched the story and became involved with the restoration project of the Outsider house in Tulsa. And … I bought my own copy of the movie. So this review will focus primarily on my satisfaction (or not) of the physical Blu-Ray copy of the movie, not of the content of the movie itself.To be fair, watching a movie on a classics movie channel is pretty brutal … filled every few minutes with commercials, mediocre video quality and barely intelligible audio quality. The poor audio quality on cable was one of the main reasons I wanted to see the movie again, I missed so much of the dialogue the first time around.Let’s be honest, a movie this old, and one that was made on such a low budget, isn’t he best candidate for Blu-Ray distribution. It’s not like buying a current digitally produced movie on Blu-Ray or even watching an old classic that has been digitally restored frame-by-frame. My hope was that at least it would look better than what I saw on TV and I had high hopes that the audio track would be cleaner and easier to hear. A secondary benefit (now that I have a more vested interest in the whole Outsiders mystique) is that the Blu-Ray version is supposed to contain more of what was in S.E. Hinton’s original book.The movie was shot with a stereo soundtrack so despite the 5.1 designation on the packaging it's not going to be true multi-channel sound. But on my system it does have a satisfying surround effect and ambience. Some of the dialogue is still obscured but there are director's notes indicating that it was recorded that way with some audio purposely overlapping for effect. In any case it was much easier to understand the audio on the Blu-Ray than was the TV broadcast movie (played through the same audio system).It's more challenging to discuss the visual quality, keeping in mind that this movie was shot some 35+ years ago. To add to that this movie was purposely shot with lighting, filtration, lenses and processing to evoke a 1950's era. I can report that watching the Blu-Ray disk was a marked improvement over the broadcast image and that the colors are deep and saturated with a dynamic range well-suited for typical modern TV screens.Bottom line: the Blu-Ray copy doesn’t disappoint. The audio is indeed a huge improvement over the cablecast and while still old, scratchy and dated it is definitely more intelligible. The visual quality to my eyes doesn’t look too much different, I suspect the source for the broadcast movie is the same as they used here.The real treasure is in the added material on the Blu-Ray disk. It is certainly worth the price of buying the disk.

Had studied this film at school and saw the original. wanting to relive my youth a bit i bought this. It has the film but what spoils it is the god awful soundtrack they have put over it! couldn't hear parts of the film because of it and it spoilt the experience. Would not recommend if you are a fan of the original film but ok for what it is.

Very very great film! You can’t beat the oldies with Tom Cruise with his twisted teeth & Patrick Swayze always being the character everyone wants to be. And to top it off the pretty boys Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez & Rob Lowe. Ralph Macchio the karate kid & the forgotten actor C. Thomas Howell stealing the show from the actors who became bigger stars. 10/10

An underrated classic that teams up some of the 80s most well known faces (before their big hits). On the surface this doesn’t seem as Coppola as his other films. But that dialogue bubbles. Some slick hair, lovely soundtrack and heart breaking story.

Not seen for years a good film with great story and fab young stars

Great film great cast loved it reminds me of back when I was a teenager.