John Travolta movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Brian De Palma
S-Tier Criterion 4K. De Palma's best film according to a lot of people. The Criterion reviews have been positive.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Mike Nichols
S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Mike Nichols' 1998 political satire with John Travolta. No relevant collector discussion around the 4K disc.
Shout! Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Quentin Tarantino
S-Tier Deltamac 4K with a 4.5 score. Tarantino's defining film, and the 4K announcement was met with enormous excitement. Someone ordered from Best Buy and received an unsealed copy with no disc inside, which became its own little saga. The steelbook front art was disliked while the back and inside were praised. Tarantino personally approved the transfer.
Deltamac · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Dominic Sena
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. John Woo
A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Travolta and Cage swap faces. Kino got this from Paramount's catalog.
Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Oliver Stone
The announcement generated more debate about the film's quality than excitement about the disc. Oliver Stone hinted that Platoon is getting a proper 4K redo from Shout Factory, which overshadowed Savages entirely in the same news cycle. The film is polarizing but the A-Tier transfer handles the saturated jungle color palette well.
dir. John Badham
Modern audiences expecting Grease get blindsided by how dark this film actually is. It has more in common with Mean Streets than with a musical, and that disconnect drives a lot of the mixed Letterboxd reception. The B-Tier transfer is better than its reputation suggests and this remains the best way to watch it at home. A film that rewards watching in context rather than through a modern lens.
Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Sylvester Stallone
Kino Lorber B-Tier 4K. Stallone-directed Saturday Night Fever sequel. No relevant collector mentions at all, which tells you where this one sits in the priority queue.
dir. Randal Kleiser
C-Tier Paramount 4K. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The C-Tier is expected for a late-70s studio musical. The songs do the work here, not the transfer.
dir. Steven Zaillian
Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.
dir. Adam Shankman
Criterion's June announcement confirmed it, and r/criterion treated it as the last missing piece of the Waters catalogue. The comments went from relief to lobbying for a box set within about an hour. 'Hopefully they put one out eventually with 4K restorations for the others.' Preorder opens with the June slate.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray Special Edition
